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In this edition, you are going to find papers involving digital divide, simulation in business games, dignity in organizations, leadership style, human values, disclosure on the Internet, power of Internet, and real estate market. The first article, "Digital divide of small and medium-sized enterprises: an analysis of influencing factors using the TOE theory", prepared by Cesar Alexandre de Souza, Érica Souza Siqueira, and Nicolau Reinhard, addresses the second-order digital divide, related to the effective use of ICTs by companies. The study was carried out based on a sample of 3,231 companies participating in the "TIC Empresas" survey of 2014 (published in 2015). Using structural equations, an index was created to measure the intensity of the ICTs use in organizations and factors that affect it were verified through linear regressions. Adonai José Lacruz presents "Simulation and learning dynamics in business games", in which he examines the self-statements of 90 undergraduate management students of four Brazilian institutions of higher education and analyzed through multiple linear regression model six variables linked simulation dynamics (professor, manual, team, complexity, debriefing, and duration). The findings of this study contribute to elaborate lesson plans with business games, describing the influence of factors linked simulation dynamics, many of them under the professor control.