One of the most important factors of future regional development is the establishment of companies. There are, however, certain sectors wherein entrepreneurship might reveal itself to be strategic. This is the example of Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) as leading vehicles for...

As políticas públicas são formas de actuação dos governos e traduzem-se em instrumentos reguladores do comportamento do agente económico. São utilizadas pelo Estado para regular, mas também para intervir e incentivar. Visam a construção de uma sociedade mais justa, mais humana, mais...

Organizational and business ethics research has played a fundamental role in stimulating the awareness of the need for a paradigm change. This change is based on the anachronistic nature of already existing paradigms. These are instrumental to thwart economic agents making them unable to respond...

O sector público desempenha importantes tarefas de afectação e de redistribuição de recursos na sociedade. Mas, a promoção da eficiência, da equidade e do estímulo ao crescimento e à estabilidade, são as suas grandes linhas gerais de orientação, as quais orientam-se para a...

Contemporary organizations are seeing an increase in their competitiveness due to the fundamental role work ethic is performing. Normal work ethic guiding principles should be applied in the quotidian life in organizations through consistency and integrity. Nonetheless, at times failures are...

In this research one reflects upon about growth and development factors in a knowledge based economy. In this kind of society man is seen globally and his learning is a continuous personal and social enrichment process of the intellectual capital. Therefore, the identification and...

In knowledge based economy, soft skills format pro-active and entrepreneurial behaviors. Once they provide answers to complex company questions, the academic curriculum should highlight a diversity of skills in graduates to build an open and flexible mind to uncertain and volatile market...

The models and variables leveraging productivity and the performance of corporate collaborators have been highly discussed in academic, economic and corporate fields. This paper is written according to this same spirit and aims at casting a critical view over the role played by meta-competences...

Efficient measures are often not implemented because of their potentially damaging effects on distribution, yet these distributional effects are scarcely studied in economics because of the idea that they are case specific. In this paper we show that when we can separate the effect on efficiency...

In this Paper, we analyse the implications of price setting restrictions for the conduct of cyclical fiscal and monetary policy. We consider an environment with monopolistic competitive firms, a shopping time technology, prices set one period in advance, and government expenditures that must be...