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...

Bearing in mind the specific nature of co-operative societies, the Accounting and Auditing Institute (ICAC) has drawn up Draft Rules on co-operative accounting. After briefly running through the main new aspects these show versus National Accounting Plan (PGC) regulations we analyse the fiscal...

Los concursos de acreedores son procesos para proceder a la solución de situaciones de insolvencia, tanto en casos en los que se produce la continuidad futura de la empresa como en aquellos en los que su situación económico financiera aconseje su disolución. El procedimiento concursal está...

El principal objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los factores que desde la óptica del marketing y del entrepreneurship pueden favorecer el crecimiento internacional de las nuevas empresas internacionales. Concretamente, se plantea analizar cómo afecta la velocidad de internacionalización y...

Hierarchical aggregation/disaggregation of time series in order to make forecasts is a frequent challenge in business and econometric scenarios. This work presents a novel approach for selecting an adequate time series disaggregation level as a starting point for making forecasts. The...

The aim of this presentation is to develop a composite indicator, which should be consistent and reliable, to evaluate the physiological conditions of a group of patients on dialysis therapy. The composite indicators are developed based on key performance indicators. They have the advantage of...

The levels of competitiveness that globalization imposes on companies, requires them to use tools to continuously improve the levels of productivity and efficiency in their production processes. Within the classification of waste that affect productivity, highlights the time as one of the most...

Sustainable development is the theme that has remained in the interest for more than three decades, as the result of which various solutions have been developed that seek to implement and control sustainability development in companies. The hydropower sector seeks to address its environmental...

Business decision making is a critical factor to the viability of companies. In the current more dynamic, global and competitive scenario, this critical factor opens space to wider requirements. Modeling and simulation have traditionally formed a substantial part of the toolkit used to support...

This article is a supplement to the stock technical analysis and its main objective is to classify 88 companies belonging to the Mexican Stock Exchange. Using principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA), the input hypothesis is to group companies according to their...