This article goal is to analyse firms and manages behaviour on a Portuguese region on construction and industry businesses. The results are based on 251 questionnaires. Usually managers present a low level of school education (changing recently). On what regards management issues it was realized...

The role played by SMEs in any society is undoubtedly important, for instance, in Portugal around 98% of the industrial fabric is composed by SMEs. Nowadays, entrepreneurship and firm creation is mostly related to small and micro firms, which lead us to look at them as an important development...

Nowadays, before starting any goods or service production process, one tries to learn something about their quality. This is an issue the customers segment is confronted with when choosing from the supply at one’s disposal. The quality movement’s main idea is that all goods and services must...

This paper begins with a conceptual approach to the third sector, followed by a review of the relationship between investment and growth. The empirical component focuses on Portuguese NUT III Douro and Alto Trás-os-Montes regions, which are said to be less developed, and have been the...

Cet article propose une analyse de l’intégration économique locale des entreprises et des territoires ruraux, en s’appuyant sur des données d’enquêtes réalisées auprès d’entreprises non agricoles localisées dans 12 zones d’études françaises et portugaises composées d’un...

Is there a relation between entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship and local sustainability? The studied region (Vale do Sousa North of Portugal) presents very low levels of entrepreneurship but the results for local sustainability are very interesting. Results are based on a questionnaire presented...

Objetivo. Explicar o impacto do desequilíbrio espacial português e o seu impacto na acessibilidade aos cuidados de saúde, desenvolvimento e qualidade de vida. Métodos. inquiriram-se 1021 indivíduos, com tratamento estatístico através de análise inferencial, fatorial e de regressão....

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse patterns of innovations in Agricultural and agro-based industries (like agricultural products, food products, textiles, leather, paper, publishing and printing), Mineral based industries (like chemicals, rubber and plastic products, basic metals,...

This paper begins with a conceptual approach to the third sector, followed by a review of the relationship between investment and growth. The empirical component focuses on Portuguese NUT III Douro and Alto Tras-os-Montes regions, which are said to be less developed, and have been the recipients...

El objetivo de este trabajo es discutir el papel que juega la inversión como condicionante en el proceso de crecimiento de las regiones menos desarrolladas. Las teorías del crecimiento hablan de distintos motores e se basan en modelos que permiten diferentes interpretaciones sobre la...