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The paper introduces the Active and Permanent Information System Management Model (MGSI-AP). It results from an investigation that discussed concepts and perspectives about Information Management, positioning it as a transversal and applied area within Information Science, focused on info communicational flow, in a complex institutional context the Portuguese public University and related information services. The University is assumed in a complex and systemic double facet, between the formal organized system and the loosely coupled combinatory system. Here is presented one of the operationalization axes of the performed research and model. It highlights the close connection between Information Management and the area of studies of Information Production, framed by a theoretical-methodological proposal and operational modeling, which converge to an Information Management definition and the design of a Matrix of Components and Variables under analysis.

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A literatura dos indicadores culturais  reconhece-os como o membro mais novo da família dos indicadores. Na perspectiva de entender como ocorre a sua conceituação e aplicação na realidade social, procura-se compreender  a sua história à luz das escolas e movimentos em torno do tema. Para tanto, problematiza-se esse percurso a partir de agentes, instituições, temporalidades e intencionalidades na definição e uso dos indicadores. Conclui-se com a apresentação dos resultados da pesquisa exploratória realizada, envolvendo o levantamento bibliográfico e documental,  nomeadamente um <em>framework</em> das linhas de atuação e os expoentes de investigação e uso dos indicadores culturais.

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This paper investigates who wins and who loses when firms depart from a mass advertising/uniform pricing strategy (bench-mark model) to a targeted advertising/price discrimination one. Considering a duopoly market in which firms simultaneously compete in prices and advertising decisions, we examine the competitive and welfare effects of personalized pricing with targeted advertising by comparing equilibrium outcomes under customized advertising/ pricing decisions to the results arising under mass advertising and uniform pricing. We show that, when both firms compete in both market segments, all segment consumers are expected to pay higher average prices under the personalized advertising/pricing strategy. We also show that, in the context of our simultaneous game, targeted advertising with price discrimination might boost firms' profits in comparison to the case of mass advertising and uniform prices. The overall welfare effects of the personalized strategy are ambiguous. However, even when the personalized strategy boosts overall welfare, consumers might all be worse-off. Thus the paper gives support to concerns that have been raised re-garding the firms' ability to adopt personalized strategies to boost profits at the expense of consumers.

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This paper provides a thorough second-best welfare analysis of the standard two-stage model of R&D/product market competition with R&D spillovers. The planner's solution is compared to the standard non-cooperative scenario, the R&D cartel, and the cartelized research joint venture (or joint lab). We introduce the notion of a social joint lab, as a way for the planner to avoid wasteful R&D duplication. With no spillovers, the non-cooperative scenario, the joint lab, and the second-best planner's solutions coincide. However, with spillovers, all three scenarios yield R&D investments that fall short of the socially optimal level. To shed light on the role of the spillover level on these comparisons, we observe that the gaps between the market outcomes and the planners solutions widen as the spillover parameter increases. Finally, we establish that a social planner and a social joint lab solutions may be achieved starting from any of the three scenarios by offering firms respective suitably weighted quadratic R&D subsidization schedules.