The aim of this work is to explore the patterns of corporate governance in agricultural co-operative firms, where the suppliers are also the company owners. We raise the question of how they control management and what are the factors which limit managers’ actions to achieve the objectives of...

From a compared institutional analysis, the institutional characteristics and problems of agency are defined in different types of firms. There follows an examination of the interdependence and circularity of the problem of agency in labour managed firms, and the problems of control which occur...

Ante la cuestión de cómo podría Colombia hacer parte de la Socioeconomía del Conocimiento, es decir, ser capaz de competir globalmente, en red y con énfasis en productos y servicios intensivos en conocimiento, surge la necesidad de impulsar la solicitud de patentes y su posterior...