In recent years, Brazilian medium-sized cities have been considered as attractive poles for both internal migration flows, and for new corporate investments in industry, trades, services and real estate, emerging new ...

The article is part of contemporary discussions that challenge economic sociology and the sociology of work to reflect on a new socioeconomic phenomenon: The arrival of trade unionists in the financial market, through ...

This paper describes an integrated decision analysis method to support the managing board to define a restructuring plan for a small oil refinery in south Brazil. The refinery is facing an extreme crisis situation due to ...

Although there is such a thing as a world economy, the major theoretical schools in the field of economics take into consideration only the restricted national space. When the international economy is referenced, both ...

The productive restructuring process, carried out since 1980s and 1990s, had has a profound effect on a global scalefor both the countries of central capitalism and those of peripheral capitalism, such as Brazil. In Brazil's ...