Our modern society relies on an economic system that is mainly based on the mechanism of contracts. Right now our industrial and service society is changing to an even more modern information society. One of the most important indicators that shows this change is the growing digital economy. But without any trust of the economic community in electronic contracts the new economy will not be able...

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...

one of the ways to be informed on the extent of activities in various industries is to measure the rate of nominal protection. this paper tries to calculate the nominal and effective protection in order to examine the exchange rate unification impacts on the protection of pulp and paper industries with the aim of performing the exchange rate unification policy. therefore, nominal protection rat...

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.

Zusammenfassung Armin Meyers Einschätzung der sich aus Ablösung des amerikanischen Militärmonopols im Jahr 1966 ergebenden Folgen betonte die langfristigen Vorteile einer Distanzierung vom früheren Patron. Eine unabhängigere iranische Politik vergrößere mittelfristig Chancen für interne Stabilität in Iran und habe zugleich Falle Rückkehr Instabilität Zukunft den entscheidenden Vorteil, dass ame...