Part 1: Strategy and Enterpreneurship -- Chapter 1. Long Term Capacity Planning: The Comparison Between the Net Present Value, Return on Investment and Unitary Cost for Scale Analysis -- Chapter 2. Investigating the Impact of Process Innovation over Profitability and Productivity: A Food Sector Application -- Chapter 3. The Importance of Using Alternative Energy Sources within a New Global Perspective -- Chapter 4. Strategies Adopted by Social Enterprises to Overcome Operations Resources Constraints: the Case of Vintage for a Cause -- Chapter 5. Developing a Scale to Measure Quality in Public Services Transport -- Chapter 6. A Model and a Methodology for the Systematization of Continuous Improvement of Logistics Processes in World-Class Companies -- Part 2: OR, Modelling and Simulation -- Chapter 7. Mapping the Perception of Users as the Usability of Smartphones: Benchmarking Features Through the Borda Count Method -- Chapter 8. Quality of Life in Latin America and Asia: An Economic Complexity Approach Between 2010 and 2014 -- Chapter 9. The Efficiency of Public Expenditures on Education: a Data Envelopment Analysis of Brazilian Federative Units Between 2011 to 2014 -- Chapter 10. Using Simulated Annealing to Solve the Daily Drayage Problem with Hard Time Windows -- Chapter 11. State of the Art on Arduino and RFID -- Chapter 12. Identifying the Main Uncertainties in the Agri-food Supply Chain -- Chapter 13. Environmental and Financial Improvements Due to the use of Ecodesign - In one Furniture Industry -- Part 3: Quality and Product Management -- Chapter 1 4. Competitive Priorities in the Hotel Sector of Sinop - Located in Northern Mato Grosso - Brazil -- Chapter 15. Motivators and Barriers for Using Design Thinking in NPD -- Chapter 16. Implantation of Total Productive Maintenance: A Case Study in the Manufacturing Industry -- Chapter 17. Analysis of Water Consumption in Cosmetic Factories in Brazil -- Chapter 18. Analysis of the Results of Lean Manufacturing Implementation in a Metal-Mechanical Company from Panambi - Rio Grande do Sul - BRAZIL -- Part 4: Knowledge and Project Management -- Chapter 19. Design of a Model for the Analysis of Hidden Costs in International Projects. Application to the Energy Sector -- Chapter 20. The Portfolio Management and Influence in Projects of Decisions -- Chapter 21. USA, Europe and Pharmerging Countries: a Panorama of Pharmaceutical Innovation.