The dynamic environment and the globalization of the tourism sector accelerate the necessity to improve sustainable supply chain management. In tourism sector the supply chain is composed by a diversity of firms with higher heterogeneity and in general without trade alliances. These...

The elimination of poverty and the fight against social exclusion became one of the main challenges of the development and human rights since the end of 20th century and continues in the 21st. In the last decades we have observed how development has brought new social events to the world,...

Considering the European Union definition for Small and Medium Enterprises and their importance in EU economy we refer the most relevant matters of this kind of companies in the European development. Next step broaches the importance of Portuguese SME for the domestic economy, referring their...