This paper deals with a marketing strategy of product Pregnium® of Walmark Company from the view of knowledge creation and knowledge sharing for successful introducing of product to the market. Product is a nutritional supplement which is intended for pregnant…

This paper uses longitudinal data from a survey of youth in three areas (Hamilton, Halifax and rural Nova Scotia) to examine the factors that affect young adults' participation in postsecondary education, applying Bourdieu's notions of capital and habitus. Data were…

As British Columbia's economy is increasingly shaped by post-industrial circumstances, it becomes necessary for that province, like others in Canada, to ensure that it has an adequate supply of workers with "new economy" knowledge and skills. How best to prepare…

Due to the nature of the creative sector, which consists of a large number of SMEs and self-employed or part-time employees operating in complex and dynamic environment, the creative enterprises face a number of difficulties and are in need of…

Se presentan los resultados de un proyecto etnobotánico que pretende rescatar el conocimiento vegetal y la etnomedicina entre los indígenas Warao de la Isla de Araguabisi y de Tucupita en el estado Delta Amacuro. El trabajo de campo se realizó…

El diseño de programas de actualización profesional es un proceso complejo en el que se conjugan aspectos instruccionales, estructurales, organizativos y tecnológicos muy particulares. La estructura del programa, los modos de interacción facilitador-participante, la forma y estructura de los contenidos…

This paper offers an explanation of rationally contracts where incompeteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante efficient.

In this paper, we test a version of the conditional CAPM with respect to a local market portfolio, proxied by the Brazilian stock index during the 1976-1992 period. We also test a conditional APT model by using the difference between…

By reporting his satisfaction with his job or any other experience, an individual does not communicate the number of utils that he feels. Instead, he expresses his posterior preference over available alternatives conditional on acquired knowledge of the past. This…

In the last decade, the potential macroeconomic effects of intermittent large adjustments in microeconomic decision variables such as prices, investment, consumption of durables or employment – a behavior which may be justified by the presence of kinked adjustment costs –…