The socioeconomic development requires technical and scientific development and consequently, innovations. As innovations only happen within companies, they need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay on the market. However, this process of novelty seeking is increasingly complex and firms end up choosing to interact with an external source of knowledge, including universities.…

The university-industry interaction is one of the key tools to stimulate social and economic development of a country. On one side, the possibility of interaction depends, in the first instance, on the offer of scientific and technological knowledge existing in the context of the relationship. On the other hand, to really have interaction, is not…

The final value of the goods in the twenty-first century does not always reflect the value of raw material, manpower and technology added in each step of the value chain. That is, the producer gets little and the buyer pays too much. Fair trade research focus on this work comes as an alternative to end…

Although the importance of innovation and sustainability for industries is evident, apparently in the food sector those concepts are being considered separately. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines eco-innovation as “the development of products, processes, marketing methods, organizational structure, and new or improved institutional arrangements, which, intentionally or not, contribute to a…

The central thematic of this thesis consists on the evaluation of which are the activities, within the production chain of the farming sector, that intervene directly with the formation of the product value perceived for the customer. For such, it is based in theory on the method of Activity Based Costing (ABC), for the decomposition…

Due to particularities in the primary sector, in respect to management, few studies have been conducted in the administrative field aiming at the application of managerial techniques in it. The present research has as its objective the validation of the activity-based-costing (ABC) accounting method for the agrarian production.This work constructs formal procedures for implanting the…

A firm is a complex economic agent. This agent has been studied through different theories of the firm. While, some works underlined its technological nature, other works emphasized its transactional nature. However, the nature of the firm covers both dimensions. These two dimensions could be studied through two essential capabilities: the technological one and the…

When two or more markets, previously separated, start showing a price convergence, it is possible to say that they are integrated. Usually, the researchers have focused the integration study between external and internal market (spatial integration) or between the different links of a productive chain (vertical integration), but just of an unique product. After an…

Cooperation agreements are a new type of industrial organization which have been largely used in the last decades. The cooperation agreements strategy can be explained through the Transaction Costs Theory. In the automotive industry the cooperation agreements strategy is considered the most suitable, due to the production chain characteristics that demands an efficient supply and…

Startups are created to commercially explore an ideia with innovative potential. To do so, they need a set of technical and business capabilities, efficiently allocating resources to obtain a product with market value. They need, in such an understanding, to become firms and execute a business model. While searching for such a business model, a…