This research approaches some factors that have been affecting the competitiveness faced by the Algarve citrus culture since the European Single Market came into force and before a more and more global economy. As it is known in a global economy, any competitive strategy should be based on the...

Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this result. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce uncertainty about the environmental impact of...

Biodiversity is now one of the main concerns worldwide. With the increase of people on Earth and activities dangerous to the environment, like habitat destruction and overexploitation, species extinction rates rapidly increased, raising serious concerns for future biological diversity. Fishing...

The cities of today present some requirements that are not similar to the past. There are cities that the industrial and service sectors are in decline; others begin their journey into the technological and industrial sector. In general, politically and socially are restructured in terms of its...

By analysing Annals of Tourism Research subject index, this study aims to draw conclusions about the evolution/trends of tourism research. Because of Annals’s reputation as the leading international scholarly journal in the field, and also because of its consistent and comprehensive subject...

Social Sciences can, on occasions, be similar to the so called “hard” sciences. However, in many cases, neither the object nor the classical methods fit in with the objectives of the work. The object requires methodological and technical adjustments, which are often avoided by means of an...

School leadership has significant effects on the learning, development and academic success of the pupils and on the quality of educational organisations, so, to a large extent, the effectiveness of the school depends upon the way in which leadership is carried out. It is on this basis that we...

Local development processes include a complex social dynamic where, frequently, conflicts has an important role, namely blocking the cooperation modes between social actors or institutions. Mediation can have an important role in local development processes. In this paper we analyse data from...

Notwithstanding the theoretical and empirical support for the human resource managementorganisational performance connection, authors still do not know how this association works. Bowen and Ostroff (2004) introduced the concept of the strength of the human resource system. In such systems,...

We are witnessing the need for a quick and intelligent reaction from organizations to the level and speed of change in business processes. These imperatives are very often associated to the emerging of new information systems and technologies, sometimes bursting change and other times being...