Apresentação

Abstract

Dear readers, This issue of Revista de Administração Mackenzie (RAM) is totally published in the English language, a landmark we need to register in its history. We hope this could be the increased process of carrying the knowledge associated with the articles beyond the borders of Brazilian academic researchers. The first article by Hilka Pelizza Vier Machado, Sebastião Gazola, Joiceli dos Santos Fabrício, and Miguel Eduardo Moreno Anez, "Women entrepreneurs: reasons and difficulties for starting in business", is intended to describe the main reasons and difficulties for women to establish businesses and to identify possible differences between those that go into industry and those that establish commerce or service businesses. Results revealed that the two groups assigned the same level of importance to the reasons for business establishment: improvement difficulty in the previous job; desire to financially help offspring; re-entry into the labor market; earning lot of money. The analysis showed no significant difference in importance level assigned to eight difficulties for the establishment of business. Vanessa Amaral Prestes, Carmem Ligia Iochins Grisci, and Aline Mendonça Fraga elaborated the article "Lifestyles of workers in the expatriation context". The objective was to highlight and analyze lifestyles of expatriate workers. Data collection was carried out by a focus group with managers of the same company who shared similar expatriation experiences. The transcribed material was submitted to content analysis. The ways of moving around the city, the routine and the leisure activities, the sightseeing trips, the expatriation valuation and the abnegation as a way of life were observed according to control-stimulation perception. "Balancing work, study, and home: a research with master's students in a Brazilian university" is the article elaborated by