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...

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...

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 dynamic nano is a new market where different actors interact: the technoscientific practice, the government, the investors and the users. This work use the literature on market design to analyse the specific market of “nanocarriers”.

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...

This quality management model has been thought for country family-owned enterprises. These families have empirical knowledge, but they have ignorance about management process, quality process and marketing. This model is pretending to give them the advantage of the process systematization;...

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...

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...

Due to the growth in markets, social economy enterprises are seeking a competitive advantage through economies of scale. In this regard, these enterprises should pursue the coordinated implementation of shared quality management strategies within groups. Accordingly, quality benchmarking through...