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em recursos. ABSTRACT By means of a case study, this paper characterizes a port complex (PC) as a resource for the acquisition of competitive advantage, under the Resource Based View perspective. The results reveal that the PC is a heterogeneous, sustainable and suitable resource. The advantages provided by the resource and its importance for strengthening and integrating the cooperative system in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, are also highlighted. KEYWORDS Competitive advantage,…

general agreement that the business cycle is associated with cyclical fluctuations in aggregate economic activity, there appears to be differences as to the natural and cause(s) of such fluctuations and the type and timeliness of policies applied to address critical economic issues during particular stages of the cycles.’ Critically discuss. INTRODUCTION The economy of a country have a tendency to grow with the…

Financeira. 2.ed. São Paulo: Atlas, 2002. FINK, J., GRULLON, G. , FINK, K. e WESTON, J. Firm Age and Fluctuations in Idiosyncratic Risk. Maio/2004: Disponível em SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=891173 DENNIS, P. e STRICKLAND D. The Determinants of Idiosyncratic Volatility. Disponível em: http://lcb.uoregon.edu/departments/finl/idio.pdf BENNETT, James A. e SIAS, Richard W. Why has Firm – Specific Risk Increased over Time? Disponível em:…

ABSTRACT This work aims to address the issue under the financial management, which is a part of the administration that deals with the company's financial resources, integrating all the work in the obtaining, use and control of financial resources. The financial manager is a professional who plans, directs and coordinates the financial operations of the company. Its main objective is to ensure that sufficient resources for the development of its business and financial means that

70A, 71A and 71B, attached. Power Curves for the RA167E and RA168E are also attached. It is worthwhile to consider the history of Honda engines in other branches of motorsports before describing in detail the Grand Prix engines of 1986 -1988, because of the large impact that they made on high-power engine design. The first Honda Grand Prix motor-cycle racing era, 1959-1967 Soichiro Honda founded his firm to make lightweight motor-cycles in 1948. In 1959 the 1st entry was made in a major…

improvement program * The Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) Lean Six Sigma team developed an in-house training program * The in-house "Black Belt" program not only saves money, but has shown to be more effective * The Lean Six Sigma Competency Office team received a team award from the NJ Federal Executive Board Oct. 6PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J.-- When it comes to teaching the tricks of the trade of business process and product improvement, the Lean…

quantify firms carrying out this process, relating it to company’s existence time and growth rate and profitability. For this, secondary data were collected on strategic planning and small and medium enterprises, these data formed the foundation for the research. The methodology was exploratory, quantitative, having been 2 interviewed 200 SMEs of information technology, selected on a non-random mode, with subsequent analysis of results. The results showed that although most of the…

that each of the following functions are linear, give an economic interpretation of the slope of the function: 8. a. F(q) is the revenue from production q units of output; b. G(x) is the cost of purchasing x units of some commodity; c. H(p) is the amount of the commodity consumed when its price is p; d. C(Y) is the total national consumption when national income is Y; e. S(Y) is the total national savings when national income is Y. Consider the…

Abstract: The stabilization of the economy experienced after a period of high inflation, allowed the companies generally expand in these 14 years of age of the Real, with the emergence of a large number of business conglomerates in all sectors, including retail trade, after two decades, we can see that the sector had strong changes with the emergence of large retail chains, with sales increasing driven by an increase in the number of consumers who ascended to the consumer world. In this context,

nos mercados mundiais. Como esse conhecimento é adquirido e gerenciado é responsabilidade de cada governo. Então, na verdade, as nações não competem, as empresas o fazem. Recentemente foi publicada uma pesquisa internacional de competitividade, a The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-20134 (WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, 2012), realizada com 144 países. Segundo o estudo, o desenvolvimento de qualquer economia - que se traduz no seu nível de competitividade - é fruto dos resultados obtidos…