English Abstract: This study takes part of the project Women and entrepreneurship from a competence perspective and aims to investigate the role of skills and abilities in explaining the women entrepreneurship. In this sense, it works on the idea that women entrepreneurs have specific...

English Abstract: This paper, the result of a broader research on female entrepreneurship, aims to analyze the competence dimension of knowledge on women entrepreneurs. The method used is qualitative, comparatively analyzing the speech and enterprising entrepreneurs develop knowledge about and...

Spanish Abstract: El presente estudio tiene como objetivo valorar el aprendizaje organizacional en tres niveles: individual, grupal y organizacional y buscar la relación que existe entre ellos así como determinar si existen diferencias significativas entre los niveles y los datos...

Spanish Abstract: La prevención de riesgos laborales y la responsabilidad social empresarial son disciplinas que están directamente relacionadas, ya que dentro de sus objetivos se encuentra garantizar el bienestar, la seguridad y salud de los trabajadores en calidad de grupo de interés...

The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of Paraguayan cooperativism, its current situation, the legal framework in which it is developed, its geographic distribution and the role of production co-operative societies. At present, the co-operative sector accomplishes an outstanding task in...

The establishment of co-operatives has its origin in a holistic approach to the productive process. Consequently, the quality of the democratic system in a co-operative depends on its previous psychosocial and economic situation. Among the internal and external factors conditioning the form,...

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 differences that exist inside the labor Ecuadorian market, in the different branches of activity, demonstrate the training levels that the workers must have to avoid negative effects. However, in this study, the role played by individual, jobs and residence characteristics are analyzed on...

Access to information on competencies demanded by companies may be performed by a prospective study of job offers posted by employers. But, these include a large amount of quantitative and qualitative but mainly textual data, so an appropriate approach should be chosen in order to obtain a...