Many people believe that we are now in a period of business changes as significant as those in the industrial revolution. This presentation suggested some provocative ideas about what some of these changes will be. For example, the talk described the possibilities of an “e-lance economy” where electronically connected free-lancers, joining together in temporary teams, will perform many of the t...

Purpose Due to the political, economic and infrastructure barriers risks that international entrepreneurs (IEs) face when researching an emerging economy's agrifood sector, this research aims identify major barriers, analyse their relationships, quantify importance, classify rank them. Thus, IEs will gain a better understanding vision of decision-making processes in era. Design/methodology/appr...

abstract: iran passed wide range of events over her controversies history. it has great special geopolitics position, natural resources and cultural values. iran is in asia and connects asia to europe. iran as relational bridge has an important role so that it could be an important center during first and second world war for enemies' forces in spite of explicit neuter declaration from ira...

The paper analyses how the area of production and operations management (POM) in Brazil should change/adapt in order to remain relevant in the so called “new economy”. Drawing from insights coming from both the relevant literature and a survey, a preliminary research and teaching agenda is proposed.

Objective:Privatization is considered as one of the most important components of new public management with its pros and cons. However, privatization has been accepted and implemented as a policy in the whole political and economic system of Iran, but the barriers and dysfunctions of privatization policy implementation has reduced its effectiveness and efficiency in solving the problems of the ...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...