Increasing the productivity of an economy requires improvements in the productivity of its companies, and therefore greater business success. It should be noted that a company on the road to success is more productive. The objective of this paper is to analyse how internal and external factors...

This paper makes an economic and financial analysis of car dealerships in Spain, using data from SABI database. Moreover, it analyses the economic and financial characteristics of firms that determinate that, in the same crisis context, some firms manage to have positive profit, while other ones...

Business decision making is a critical factor to the viability of companies. In the current more dynamic, global and competitive scenario, this critical factor opens space to wider requirements. Modeling and simulation have traditionally formed a substantial part of the toolkit used to support...

A large body of economic literature has established that the primary purpose of business is profit maximization assuming unitary and constant elasticity of substitution of production factors. However, the prevailing operating conditions of micro and small enterprises raise concerns about the...

The objective of the research is to identify the variables that affect short-term financial decisions, determinants of cash flow in MSMEs. A mixed investigation is carried out, based on a survey applied to 278 managers of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Colombia. The data were...

Using the same model that Caballero-Urdiales {\it et al.} (2012) and Brito-Gaona and Iglesias (2017) applied to Latin-American countries, we extend their analysis to the European Union (EU) in order to analyze the determinants of private investment. Results show consistent evidence with three...

The export commitment is often a key to explain why some firms export more than other business aspect. This article discusses the determinants of export commitment in Colombian SMEs from the behavioral and attitudinal viewpoint using a neural network model estimated on a sample of 306 exporting...

El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar si las operaciones de comercio internacional, despachadas por las aduanas marítimas de México, presentan características fractales con memoria de largo plazo. Para estimar el exponente de Hurst (H), se empleó el método de rango escalado (R/S)...