In recent years, increasing numbers of luxury groups have adopted sustainable practices in their supply chains (sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, servicing, waste and recycling). However, the report from Greenpeace International organization (2014) indicates that some luxury brands/companies did not actively conduct sustainable practices to produce items, which is likely attribu...

This study identifies the potential and limitations of contracting to improve health care management, accountability and quality, and expand the participation of teaching hospitals in the health service network in the context of the Restructuring Program of Teaching Hospitals in the Brazilian Unified Health System. It is a case study of four teaching hospitals and their contracting State Health...

purpose: knowledge management is the process by which its application leads to the growth in creativity, innovation and human resource development. universities, like other organizations, need to clarify the role of knowledge in their development. the aim of this study is to investigate the human resource practices and the implementation of knowledge management relationship in the six organizat...

Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus limit learning about the profitability of alternative firm sizes. The model shows how lack of informatio...

Qualitative research using a dialectics view; the objective is to analyze the demands and the expectations from the setting of managerial practices in view of the Pedagogical Project and the strategies which may or may not favor the transforming praxis. It involves 11 students, 12 professors, and 12 service nurses who are the participants in the teaching-learning process of managerial knowledge...

Managerial competencies and performance appraisal practices are often ignored when considering the of Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Yet, these fundamental for survival SMEs. SMEs critical economic growth job creation in many economies. The current study sought to establish whether managerial correlate with SMEs’ South Africa. Firm was measured using two variables: innovation return on inv...