Administration

This is a case study of the financial situation of an enterprise in the food sector which has cash flow difficulties resulting from its fast growth and from hastening decisions, such as the acquisition of a competitor, which generated new levels of production and commercialization and consequently the need for more working capital. Faced with the urgency to obtain resources to overcome the immediate cash difficulties, alternatives are presented for evaluation by students in order to choose the best option. The learning emphasis is on the calculation of the effective cost of capital for different proposals of raising resources and their consequences for the enterprise's cash flow during the period analyzed. The case can be used in undergraduate and graduate programs, in courses aiming to stimulate discussions about the decision-making process of financial alternatives.

The human knowledge is created and expanded through social interaction between the tacit and the explicit knowledge, what is called knowledge conversion. This way, there are four kinds of knowledge conversion: the socialization, the externalization, the combination and the internalization. The present study tries to investigate how the process of knowledge conversion is configurated, in institutions of superior education. Characterized as a qualitative study, studying the case of ACAFE, with descriptive type analysis level, supported by secondary data investigation, using semi-structured interviews added to the intentional sample and analyzed by the technique of content analysis. It’s been noticed that ACAFE is in an advanced stage in the management of this knowledge, just needing to strengthen the knowledge gotten outside ACAFE, considered in the elaboration of strategies, beyond the security and protection of the developed and/or acquired knowledge.

Este artigo tem como objetivo destacar a importância que a estratégia tecnológica pos-sui para o sucesso e permanência de empresas que se encontrem em seus estágios iniciais de formação. As organizações atuais são afetadas pelas mudanças do mercado consumidor e pelo surgimento de novas tecnologias, que exigem das empresas novas estratégias tecnológicas que as permitam sobreviver e permanecer no mercado. Estas mudanças são ainda mais sentidas pelos empreendimentos que se encontram em seus estágios iniciais de vida, e este artigo chama a atenção dos executivos e corpo dirigen-te das empresas para a importância da elaboração de uma estratégia tecnológica. Co-mo novidade, o artigo propõe um avanço ao ciclo adaptativo do negócio ao contexto, estendendo as análises para o campo da estratégia tecnológica.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the experience of a professors team on implementing an entrepreneurship qualification project to create a base for local development in a region of extreme poverty. This study is an interpretive, descriptive, based on the phenomenology and interpretative case study. Data were collected through field notes, participant observation and documents and were analyzed in a comprehensive-interpretive hermeneutic. Main results indicate the need for greater awareness in communities in areas of extreme poverty about the opportunity to improve the quality of life and employment and income generation through education and entrepreneurship with practical
results and the medium and long-term. In the culture of region noted low levels of innovation and entrepreneurship. The
local culture is heavily dependent on assistance programs from the federal government. The study reports difficulties in
implementing an entrepreneurship qualification project in areas of extreme poverty. Demonstrates the need for changing
the status quo of a region in extreme poverty, describing the importance of breaking the vicious cycle of poverty through
entrepreneurship qualification to generate income and employment.

In Brazil, the neoplasies took the second place in the period of 1996 to 2001. In relation to morbidity indicators, they express the emergence of chronic and degenerative diseases, caused by the fast aging of the population, an acute phenomenon explained more strongly by the reducing rates of infant mortality and the reduction in birth rates, presenting a situation for which the health systems are not prepared. In Brazil, it is confirmed a global tendency: the longer survival of women than men, and the depression as a major cause of morbidity. Brazilian society is going through intensive process of transformation, where young adults are increasingly fewer, imposing the question: who will take care of our elderly in the XXI century? The structuring of networks of attention to the elderly person is urgent, covering primary care, including the care with housing: Healthy Housing, and ensuring access to secondary and tertiary levels of care, providing early diagnosis and fast access to treatment. This article reports a case study experience: the restructuring of a shelter for elderly indigents, with 500 elderly in Rio de Janeiro, where it was held a broad process of humanization, with strong physical restructuring of the buildings from 1930.