Virtualization is one of the foundations of cloud computing as it allows better utilization of computing resources in a data center. There are different virtualization approaches that offer similar functionality, but with ...

Sustainable development raises at present days a number of challenges to manufacturing, precisely in order to make production more sustainable, equating economic and financial issues with environmental and social issues. ...

Machine manufacturers and operations between the integrated solut ions of products and services that meet the needs of customers. This sector is important for national sustainable economic development. However, there is ...

There are many studies in the literature that have shown the relationship between stock levels and financial performance, through profitability indicators, mostly to US manufacturing firms. However, the influence of the ...

The production strategy has been considered important to obtain advantages over competitors. Its content is made up of competitive priorities and decision categories (or areas) that should develop such priorities. Among ...

The self-management practiced in the current cooperatives lost the grandeur of their origin, when it was treated as government system where the people would be sovereign and the decisions would flow from the bottom up. The ...

The main objective of this research is to propose a Cleaner Production (CP) management methodology for small companies. CP can be understood as continual application of a preventive environmental strategy integrated to ...

The Brazilian industry has become in recent decades, which created an intense debate about a possible process of deindustrialization faced by the Brazilian economy. Some authors believe that the country has faced ...

Logistics has been a differentiator more and more important among automakers, since quality, price and technical characteristics have been moving towards a common ground. In order to seek for additional differentiation, ...

The imperfect capital market is related to asymmetry of information. The investment decisions of companies are sensitive due to the availability of internal resources. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze the influence ...