SMBs are the Bastion of Global Employment

Small and Medium Businesses are responsible for around 50% of global employment, and, also, they are the first that suffer with economic crises.

Business Brazil 2013

There are a couple of years that I don’t write here but regarding last events in Brazil, I believe that a small description of the current environment (politics and economics) may help who intends to invest in Brazil.

Doing Business in Brazil – Part 4

Just a quick update about some figure recently published. The Brazilian GDP Growth Rate of the second quarter reached 1.9%, removing Brazil from the "pseudo-recession" and returned to the same level of the first quarter of 2008, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

Globalization Strategy Focused on Small Businesses

This post is for Portuguese language readers and it is about a project - book - that we finished couple years ago and decided to publish it. It is a different vision of globalization and with a sistemic and transdisciplinary approach. It is not a "recipe" or a "magic plan" to develop internationalization of small and medium companies.

Why businesses fail?

Businesses fail because of people, period.

Understanding Ethical Behaviour and International Business

First we need to have a clear concept of what it is Ethics and the difference between the actions and processes of business development related with cultural aspects and Ethics.

Doing Business in Brazil and the Current Scenario

I was reading some posts and news about the current crisis and diverse opinions about possible turnarounds, about the consequences in developing countries, some trends and forecasts, different perspectives and evaluations and the usually wizards’ visions of future, some with the Armageddon perspective and others with an optimistic vision of short-time crisis.

Entrepreneurial Society

The book traces the progression in the United Sates and Europe from the managed economy of the Cold War era through globalization, arriving at the current state Audretsch terms "the entrepreneurial society."

To Lead or not To Lead

A common sentence that we hear often is that leadership is given not taken, is it truth? Another common sentence is that you born a leader, that it is a natural gift. In some aspects it is. But, there are some attitudes that can be taken to change that perception.

What is Strategy?

To manage a business, we need to have a knowledge framework of some basic concepts and practices, and even if we know them, it is always interesting to revise them. Here, we will talk about Strategy, and in the next posts we will go through other fundamental concepts. To read more....