THE EMPIRICAL INVESTMENT literature is full of disappointments. From time to time waves of new ideas challenge the aggregate investment equation, but these challenges are rarely successful, and progress is, at best, ...

Owing to the complex nature information system investment decisions, the present study presents an interpretative framework for addressing the postponement of decisions to invest in this kind of technology. An instrumental ...

Electrical energy management is a basic necessity for a country development, currently becoming theme of discussion by Government and Regulatory Agencies that looks for best practices on energy efficiency. For Brazil, the ...

This article analyzes the global and local factors that shaped foreign direct investment (FDI) in Argentina and the strategies of foreign multinationals to adapt to challenging circumstances and to exogenous shocks from ...

Economists define investment as the act of incurring immediate costs with the expectation of future returns. An investment project, as every asset has a value. For successfully investing in and managing these assets is ...

Summary The purpose of this report is to analyse the factors that have determined the flow of investments in mining operations in Latin America and to evaluate the extent of such investments in the 1990s. This period is ...

"The Social License to Operate (SLO) is a non-legal term which has been widely conceptualised as meaning a particular set of interactions between investors and affected communities. Within the international investment law ...