Business Economics

Development of new economic poles in metropolitan areas: Belgrade example

by Tamara Maricic

Zeković, S., Spasić, N. i Maričić, T. ,
SPATIUM,
2007, Nr. 15-16, pp. 21-27

The diagnosis of bankruptcy risk using score function

by Lecturer Dr. Lidia Mandru

Quotation details:

Mândru Lidia, Khashman Adnan, Cârstea Claudia Georgeta, David Nicoleta, Pătraşcu Lucian, "The Diagnosis of Bankruptcy Risk Using Score Function", 9th WSEAS International ISI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Databases (AIKED'10), University of Cambridge, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Press, United Kingdom, 20-22 February 2010, ISBN 978-960-474-154-0, ISSN 1790-5109

Entrepreneurship performance indicators for employer enterprises in Portugal

by Elsa de Morais Sarmento

Temas Económicos nº 9
Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos
Ministério da Economia, da Inovação e do Desenvolvimento
Abril de 2010
Com Alcina Nunes

Employer enterprise creation in Portugal

by Elsa de Morais Sarmento

Boletim Mensal de Economia Portuguesa
Ministerio da Economia, da Inovação e do Desenvolvimento e Ministério das Finanças e da Administração Pública
Março de 2010

This study provides a description of enterprise birth dynamics in Portugal, using an entrepreneurship dataset... more This study provides a description of enterprise birth dynamics in Portugal, using an entrepreneurship dataset conceived from Quadros de Pessoal based on the Eurostat/OECD methodology ―Manual on Business Demography Statistics‖, for the period 1987 to 2007. The main contribution of this analysis is to provide detailed empirical evidence of the performance of enterprise births by firm dimension, region and main economic sectors. Using this unique matched employer-employee micro dataset, we discuss the prevalence of some of the main stylized facts on firm creation. When relevant, we resort to international data for comparison.

Analysis of the active employer enterprise population in Portugal

by Elsa de Morais Sarmento

Boletim Mensal de Economia Portuguesa
Ministério da Economia, da Inovação e do Desenvolvimento e Ministério das Finanças e da Administração Pública

This study provides a description of the population of active employer enterprises dynamics in Portugal, using an... more This study provides a description of the population of active employer enterprises dynamics in Portugal, using an entrepreneurship dataset conceived from Quadros de Pessoal based on the Eurostat/OECD methodology “Manual on Business Demography Statistics”, for the period 1987 to 2007. The main contribution of this analysis is to provide detailed disaggregated evidence of the employer enterprise population by firm dimension, region and main economic sectors, over a period of more than 20 years.

Entrepreneurship performance indicators for active employer enterprises in Portugal

by Elsa de Morais Sarmento

Temas Económicos nº 9
Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos
Ministerio da Economia, Inovação e do Desenvolvimento
Abril de 2009

TThis work describes the dynamics of active and new employer enterprises in Portugal, using an entrepreneurship... more TThis work describes the dynamics of active and new employer enterprises in Portugal, using an entrepreneurship dataset conceived from Quadros de Pessoal, for a period of around 20 years. We start by describing the dataset and methodology, characterise the employer enterprise population in which this study is based and move on from section 3, to a more disaggregated analysis. Section 3 analysis firm dynamics by size class, section 4 by region and section 5 by sector. Lastly, section 6 sums up.

Business survival in portuguese regions

by Elsa de Morais Sarmento

Working Papers series - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros
(GEMF)Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

This work addresses the post-entry performance of employer enterprises for seven regions in Portugal, at the NUT II... more This work addresses the post-entry performance of employer enterprises for seven regions in Portugal, at the NUT II level, by investigating the structural characteristics of survival, using non-parametric and semi-parametric methods, during the period 1985 to 2007. The last decades of the 20th century were characterized by a period of creative destruction in Portugal. In particular, regions such as Norte, Algarve and Madeira show the highest growth rates in enterprise births, deaths and firm churn. After 2000, firms´ births and deaths get relatively less turbulent. In the non-parametric analysis, we identify statistically significant disparities among regions. Norte has the lowest survival rate and Centro holds the longest surviving firms and the survival gap between the former two regions gets amplified over time. Concerning the semiparametric analysis, firm’s current size dimension is a strong determinant for the probability of survival, particularly in the Norte and Açores. In industries characterized by high entry rates at the moment of a firm’s birth, post-entry survival becomes harder, especially in the south and in the Portuguese archipelagos, the regions with the lowest number of active employer enterprises.
A higher entry rate combined with fast growth rates for any given industry also generates a shorter duration of firms. Manufacturing is the sector where more firms are more likely to abandon the market, particularly in Madeira and Norte. But it is turbulence, given by the sum of firms´ entry and exit rates that exhibits the most significant effect on survival. For every region, except for the Açores, where there is no statistical significance, those that have the highest record of firm turbulence, also display the lowest business survival probabilities. Turbulence decreases severely the survival probabilities of firms located in Madeira and Norte and to a lesser extent in the Algarve.

Business Economics 1A

by Tahir Rashid

Achieved a 1st grade

INTEGRAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL vs. INTEGRAÇÃO DOMÉSTICA: Competitividade ao longo da cadeia produtiva e estudos de caso para a indústria automobilística e calçadista no Brasil (1989-1999)

by Silverio Zebral

Trabalho originalmente produzido no âmbito do Convênio FGV/IBRE –SPO/Ministério da Fazenda. Versão disponível com introdução suprimida em razão de circulação restrita entre as partes contratantes. Elaborado em co-autoria com André Lages Lima, Aléxis Toríbio Dantas, Larry Carris Cardoso e Maristela Domingues.

O presente trabalho avalia as transformações ocorridas na estrutura industrial da economia brasileira durante o ajuste... more O presente trabalho avalia as transformações ocorridas na estrutura industrial da economia brasileira durante o ajuste decorrente da abertura comercial do início dos anos 90. Discute as principais alterações no padrão de concorrência e na competitividade ao longo da cadeia de setores selecionados, de modo a justificar a adoção de estratégias de integração internacional de etapas da cadeia produtiva em detrimento da integração doméstica. Organiza o instrumental analítico comumente utilizado para cálculo de índices de competitividade, de modo a subsidiar os estudos
de caso desenvolvidos posteriormente. Apresenta estudos de caso acerca da competitividade indústria automobilística e da indústria calçadista no período pré e pós-ajuste (1989-1999). Analisa as estratégias de integração produtiva adotadas em cada setor, com especial atenção para os resultados relacionados ao incremento da produtividade do trabalho e da desindustrialização. Por fim, apresenta um breve rol de políticas públicas ligadas à manutenção e incremento dos atuais níveis de competitividade da indústria nacional.

Empowering geoscientists with entrepreneurial skills – bring back the ‘economics’ in economic geology course

by Emmanuel Igonor

Igonor E.E. and Oden, M.I.

Unemployment is on a steady increase and the probability of getting a job is on a steady decline. This unemployment... more Unemployment is on a steady increase and the probability of getting a job is on a steady decline. This unemployment has caused serious economic and financial crisis, which is not restricted to the poor or developing nations of the world but has also affected the developed nations. Global trends report of 2011 shows that the global unemployment-to-population ratio declined from 61.7 in 2007 to 61.1 in 2010. Also the number of countries with falling employment-to-population ratio was still twice the number that had rising ratios. The youths are the worst hit by this, as the global youth unemployment rate stood at 12.6% in 2010, an increase from 11.8% in 2007. The geosciences sector is not exempted from this global crisis. The pending retirement of professionals and the uncertainty regarding the adequacy of this replacement with respect to quantity and quality is a major concern. This work looks at the possibility of empowering geoscientists with entrepreneurship skills to combat unemployment. Research results show that entrepreneurial skills and training is so much needed today to empower geoscientists. And the easiest means is when the ‘economics’ in ‘economic geology’ is brought back. The policy makers and geoscientists/geosciences students must all work together to see that the true elements of economics – business, trade, money, and industry is re-introduced fully into the teaching of economic geology course, as this is the fastest way to generate interest and alertness to the whole geosciences education and ensure the production of qualitative and quantitative geoscientists to replace the ageing and retiring ones. In other words, the geosciences education needs to be ‘monetized’. So the ‘economics’ of economic geology course must be brought back.

Corporate Sustainability Survey 2011

by Dhiman Chowdhury

Sustainability paradox has become a debate of our time; adding to this predicament is sometimes the questionable... more Sustainability paradox has become a debate of our time; adding to this predicament is sometimes the questionable behaviors of the corporations. This detrimental demeanor is counterproductive, as it for the entity so do for our common goods. The issue of sustainability is a dilemma of our which many scholars pondered over last decades, yet despite their efforts, the message is somewhat convoluted through a plethora of conflicting strategies, definitions, mandates and regulatory measures. The obfuscation has created deviation in the discourse of “sustainability” measures without addressing systemic discord with sustainability challenges at organizational and societal level, and societal and ecological level. This survey examines presence and absence of a particular behavioral dimension in global corporations and corollary effect of it. In addition, this global survey unveils previously unknown data depicting correlation between certain behavioral dimension at workplace and other corporate level factors including profitability, innovation and market leadership. This global survey serves as the basis for further research to find a common ground that brings institutional integration to sustainability conjectures.