Editorial

ID: 37661

Authors: Eliane Salete Filippim.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 5-6, January-June, 2008. 2 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Evaluation of residential properties´ attributes: an application of canonical correlation models in low income localities

ID: 37662

Authors: Luiz Paulo Lopes Fávero.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 7-26, January-June, 2008. 20 page(s).

Keyword: Canonical correlation , Factor analysis , Hedonic modeling , Low income , Real estate market

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This work intends to research about the residential launchings of the real estate market in the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo, using hedonic models. It’s based on the approach to Theory of Attributes, proposed by Lancaster, and on the hedonic models proposed by Rosen and Palmquist, that make possible the analysis of the relative importance of the attributes for a group, previously defined by the factor analysis statistical technique, that used social and demographic variables related to each locality. Initially, explicative and dependent hedonic variables were defined and are to be included in the canonical correlation models, under the perspective of demand and supply. The proposed method allows the evaluation of the representative attributes to the composition of the residential launchings commercial conditions, making possible to verify the existence of eventual gaps between the demand and supply behaviors and allowing the comparison of the relative importance of each variable.

Potencial use of Balance scorecard combined with organizational learning in the strategic management of health in small population towns

ID: 37663

Authors: Reginalda Shizue Chonan, Ruth Terezinha Kehrig.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 27-38, January-June, 2008. 12 page(s).

Keyword: Balanced scorecard , Health management , Organizational learning , Strategic maps

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article embraces the management of health public services towards the difficulties which small population towns go through while reaching the doctrinaire and organizational principles of the Brazilian public health system. The aim of the present study is to develop and to establish a health strategic management system at the City Health Council of Frei Rogério town, in Santa Catarina state. By suggesting the integrated usage of both balanced scorecard – BSC (Kaplan e Norton, 1997 e 2000), which stands out as one of the strategies supported by a group of balanced index, and, the organizational learning (Senge, 1990), well understood as a management strategy supported by innovative learning techniques taking in consideration the current situation of organizations. Qualitative methodology is used in the project by act-research in its development process. The individuals embraced by the research are cooperators of all levels including from health services serves to city health counselors. The preliminary results over the sketch and implantation of BSC, leaded by organizational learning have been stated in the project. Finally, the research is likely to be a contribution to the public health management.

Entrepreneurship: Some reflections as for the characteristics

ID: 37664

Authors: Augusto Fischer, Tânia Maria dos Santos Nodari, Jose Elmar Feger.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 39-52, January-June, 2008. 14 page(s).

Keyword: Currents of entrepreneurship thought , Enterprise behavior , Entrepreneurship

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The objective of this article is to develop reflections as for the characteristics of the entrepreneurship, with the purpose of including new dimensions that could contribute to the understanding of the same thing, besides the already used approaches. It is classified as for the objectives, like exploratory and descriptive inquiry, and for proceedings that used the techniques of the bibliographical and documentary inquiry. Entrepreneurship is currently an important form of integration of those in social, economical and political environment. The society prestige those who perform and undertake, and this makes entrepreneurship, a topic of current interest of studies in business environments, social, political, and academics, among others. The enterprising action had always been considered as a condition of all the transformations and changes that provided the development in several areas of the knowledge. The discussion about entrepreneurship is broad, currently relying on studies and publications that show how attitudes entrepreneurs, those undertaken by people who stand out, mainly on their own initiative, persistence and optimism, or behavioural variables of enterprising individuals. The growing interest in the subject is associated mainly on the fact that this has been considered an important practice for the development of some countries. Doing business is seen as becoming a major social actor able to break the bonds of dependency, believing in their ability to build their own future through cooperation and synergy among the most diverse community political and social contexts. But take is much more than having a dream and develop their own business; means dare to take initiatives, be persistent, see opportunities in problems, establish partnerships, be able to see beyond the possibilities apparent.

The Worlds-Systems and the Globalization

ID: 37665

Authors: Caio Graco Valle Cobério.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 53-70, January-June, 2008. 18 page(s).

Keyword: Capitalism , Continuity , Cycles , Rupture , Transition

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The present article intends to show through the organization of what constitutes the theories of Worlds-Systems; the debates on historical capitalism, in another words, debates on the affirmation of the capitalist world system from a long time perspective. This theory is basically the initial contribution of three authors – a historian and two social scientists: Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein and Giovanni Arrighi. The similarities and differences amongst the three authors allow the conception of the capitalist system with certain distinctions that can, in turn, result on problematics and various possibilities in understanding the globalization seen as a unique moment in the historical process, at the same time singular and standardized. The present moment can be comprehended through an analysis quite different of those that propose taking a superficial look into globalization as a mere continuation and improvement of Capitalism in the end of the 20th century. The equilibrium of the system and the ascension of new focuses are important factors in this new analysis. The goal is the understanding of the meaning of historical capitalism through knowledge of its accumulation cycles and through the repetitions regarding these cycles – in which there are established patterns - to interpret the nature of Globalization as a part of the historical development of the capitalist system. The analytical methods derived from the long duration to particular models of continuity in the Kondratieff’s cycles or rupture in the systemical accumulation cycles. The discussion lies in the fields of Historical Macrosociology.

How is the employee Mead Class in Brazil?

ID: 37666

Authors: Rinaldo Aparecido Galete.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 71-86, January-June, 2008. 16 page(s).

Keyword: Brazil , Employee Mean Class , Formal Labor Market

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There ar, in present moment, in Brazil, a disput, no ostentatin by midia and, at once, have knowledge of general people, about the circunstance and perspectives of people group denominete Mean Class. The objective in this present article will be to investigate since years 90, in specialty, after of Plano Real, how are the proportion of employee Mean Class in formal labor market and the perspectives indicate by RAIS – Report Year of Social Information, principaly in decorrency of strutural changes observed in 90´ decade. Is posible to afirmate what the Mens Class, in last times, will go to extinction?

The alimentary “crisis” and the biofuel: an opportunity for revision of the paper of the Institutions for the wanted development

ID: 37667

Authors: Silvio Santos Junior, Paulo Dabdab Waquil.

Source: RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 7, n. 1, p. 87-106, January-June, 2008. 20 page(s).

Keyword: Biofuel , Food , NEI , Theorical essay

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The present article is a theoretical essay that has as study object the dispute of production of food and/or biofuel. Considering that “the market” doesn’t give bill of setting out the problem, it discusses the theme in the optics of the New Institutional Economy (NEI), in their two analytical slopes, micro and macro-economical, giving emphasis to the last. Concludes proposing an analytical framework, in which the insert of two new restrictions is been considered essential for improving of the theory: a new natural “restriction” (that considers the capacity of the planet Earth) and the reinforcement of the Ethical “restrictions” (that treats of the question of the distribution of the wealth and of the property right)