This research deals with universities in Spain in the last decades of the twentieth century, after which there was a democratization of access to these studies and an increase in female enrollment. Obviously, there was a link between the university and the family income of students, although it...

Because the interests of the manager and the organization are not necessarily coincident, the principal-agent problem arises in the process of recruitment. The standard of employment and the motive in the manager's mind may influence the result of recruitment. The present paper analyzes a game...

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of human resource practices on business results. This study will follow the universalist and contingency approaches propounded in the literature (Delery and Doty, 1996; McMahan, Virick and Wright, 1999) in order to confirm their validity in the...

The aim of the work presented here is to show how the problems of organisation and power represent a serious hindrance on the business development of agricultural co-operatives. It should be pointed out that this work is based on a field study which focuses on studying cooperativism in firms...

This paper presents the results of research into the situation and tendencies of the social economy in Rio Grande do Sul, analysing fundamentally its contribution to the construction of new community spaces and local development. We study the diverse associative and co-operative experiences...

This work aims to analyse the possibilities and effects of applying different components of information technology in cooperatives, with regard to both enterprises in general (learning, value creation and organisational culture) and the design of new specific technologies for cooperatives to...

In this study we endeavour to expose the falseness of a certain sense of underlying inferiority in the company model advocated by the social economy. We will do so by describing and analysing certain “recent” management trends whose origins run from the end of the Second World War to the...

Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management have always existed amongst leading business organisations. Information technologies greatly facilitate these factors and constitute a clear opportunity for growth in efficiency and effectiveness. This paper gives a systematic overview of...

The agricultural co-operatives of Río Grande del Sur, in Brasil, have played an important role in improving the business position of farmers in the region. However, in the last decade, many of these co-operatives have had to face significant problems in their business development from the...

The widespread implementation of the Internet, with its various methods of distributing news and promoting and generating debate, has led to very fast growth in systems for participating in decision-making processes for all sorts of people in all sorts of organisations. The handling of...