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.

This article constructs measures of multifactor productivity (MFP) for physicians' offices using a variation of the productivity methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for other industries. Two alternatives measures are presented and both yield positive gains in physicians' office MFP over the study period. These increases lie below MFP rates for the general economy ...

Developing circular economy is an important consideration for economic transformation. The resource-exhausted cities should pay more attention to circular economy development. The authors of this paper make a prompt attempt to develop an early warning system of circular economy through the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. In the first instance, the model determines the target value of circular e...

Studies investigating fertility decline in developing countries often adopt measures of determinants of fertility behavior developed based on observations from developed countries, without adapting them to the realities of the study setting. As a result, their findings are usually invalid, anomalous or statistically non-significant. This commentary draws on the research article by Moeeni and co...

Both knowledge economy and sustainable development are considered key dimensions in the policy action lines of many developed and developing countries. In this context, universities and other higher education institutes have a vital role in developing and sustaining wellbeing communities. In this paper, the authors’ aim is to address the links between the concepts of innovation and entrepreneur...

This paper aims at displaying the diversity between modern logistics of different districts and agricultural economy, and uses the Granger Causality Test to analyze the relationship between modern logistics and the local agricultural economy in four provinces in the east of China. The result shows that the agricultural economy of Jiangsu and Zhejiang province is more developed than AnHui and Ji...

This paper applies the infra-marginal analysis, which is a combination of marginal and total cost-benefit analysis, to a model with both constant returns and increasing returns in production and with exogenous and endogenous comparative advantages. It demonstrates that as transaction conditions are improved, the general equilibrium discontinuously jumps from autarky to partial division of labor...