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Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is one of the instruments aiming regulatory quality improvement. Research has shown limitations in RIA diffusion process, particularly in developing countries, due to political forces at work in domestic contexts or to the available organizational capacities. This paper evaluates how contextual variables, speciically political and organizational ones, inluence RIA diffusion in Brazil. The paper is based on ield research consisting of semi-structured interviews with the stakeholders of the Brazilian regulatory framework, which analyzed RIA concept familiarity among stakeholders, available organizational capacities, bureaucratic context, policy process, and pivotal stakeholders' standpoint in adopting RIA. This research reveals the relevance of organizational capacities, as well as the inluence of political variables in RIA diffusion process. Political variables explain the resistance toward oversight regulatory bodies, necessaries for implementing RIA [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, based on the Actor-Network Theory, intends to analyze the dynamics of implementation of a Health Information System (HIS) in a Brazilian public hospital by following the actors involved in controversies occurred throughout the project trajectory. The changes observed over the course of the system implementation reveal that the concept of success was jointly developed via negotiation of devices ofinteressement introduced during the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary slavery is embedded in market relations between global organizations and their suppliers, and involves people management practices that injure human rights such as curtailing freedom, degrading conditions of work and exhausting journey. The article analyzes the slave labor in Brazil and provides empirical support for a theory of contemporary slavery as a practice management. Two main aspects justify this contribution. First, the debate draws attention to the dynamics of social responsibility and the social impact of business activities in emerging countries. Secondly, it puts in evidence the discussion of poverty and its interrelations with the global system of production and consumption. The paper suggests that the field does not have the understanding of the fundamentals of poverty and how management is implicated in its reproduction and relief. The research agenda emphasizes the unsustainability aspects of the globalized production and consumption, and prioritizes the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]