El trabajo muestra claramente los importantes rezagos de las telecomunicaciones en México a nivel mundial. Este rezago resta competitividad al país en los mercados internacionales y constituye un freno importante al desarrollo general de la economía mexicana. Ese fenómeno es preocupante, por...

The Osborne Effect is known as the result of a premature revelation of information about future products of a company and, consequently, the customers stop to buy the current available products. In the case of Osborne Computer Corporation, this effect could be so strong that, besides other...

Clive Sinclair is the archetype of a self-made man thanks to an entrepreneur spirit and his know-how in an emerging consumer electronics industry. Gifted as inventor, he always pursued cheaper and smaller radios, hi-fi devices, calculators, TVs, home computers --where he got his better...

This paper calculates the efficiency of senior residences in Saragossa and province by means of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The study of the efficiency has been divided in two stages: in the first one the efficiency of the productive system of senior residences is calculated and...

Este estudio presenta evidencia empírica sobre los determinantes de la adopción de certificaciones internacionales de calidad (ISO) y sus efectos sobre el desempeño de las empresas argentinas en los años 2006 y 2010. Los resultados indican que las firmas exportadoras, extranjeras y de mayor...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto de la rotación obligatoria de firmas en la calidad de la auditoría. Dos argumentos opuestos han alimentado el debate sobre la conveniencia de esta medida. Sus defensores argumentan que esta medida refuerza la independencia del auditor y, por...

Este trabajo presenta un estudio sobre el proceso de formación de precios en el mercado de carburantes y combustibles de automoción dentro del sector petrolífero español, en el marco de las relaciones verticales entre empresas. La competencia en precios en el mercado verticalmente...

The aim of this paper is to present, in a comparative view, the results of the Survey: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which was carried out by the Department of Economics (FCS-UDELAR) in 2006 to respondents older than 17 years and to private companies in the industry, commerce and...

This paper analyses the dimensions of the adapted EFQM model applied to Agricultural Credit Banks in the Valencia Region in order to study their behaviour, the relationship between these dimensions, and the relationship with results such as progress in trade and business results. It has been...

The substantial changes in the business environment are causing the idea of quality to emerge as one of the most important strategic challenges for companies. Still, however, companies in Castilla-La Mancha, much less worker co-operatives, have not yet discovered quality as a prime competitive...