This paper looks at various approaches to the attitude of organizations towards social responsibility and its economic and social implications. The article studies the aspects and determining factors that define the implementation and measurement of corporate social responsibility in different...

Government plays a necessary role in keeping markets working efficiently and fairly. Market failures –situations in which the invisible hand does not make everyone better off– are among the oldest and most universally accepted justifications for regulation. However, incidents of market...

The goal of this study is to get a premium calculation principle, for the life insurance business, based on a coherent risk measure (Wang, 1995) in the form of power, called \Proportional Hazards (PH) Transforms" to justify the recommendation of Solvency II to reduce the effect of the mortality...

El objetivo de este trabajo es describir mecanismos incorporados en los contratos de construcción de obras que sirven para disminuir los costos de transacción. Se analizan las soluciones a los problemas contractuales propios de esta actividad, en particular a aquellos originados en la...

This paper analyzes the potential of written assignments for the learning process of MBA students. Some of the challenges faced by MBA programs are discussed, and a contrast is made between the "passive" and "active" learning approaches. The paper details some of the difficulties students have...

The levels of competitiveness of the countries of Latin America are in a process of slow development to reach those companies located in more modern economies, because they have difficulties in some fundamental pillars of competitiveness such as the levels of technological innovation based on...

The goal of this research is to obtain a premium calculation principle, for the life business, based on a coherent risk measure, distorted probabilities with the Wang distortion function in the form of power, called 'Proportional Hazards (PH) Transforms'. It justifies the recommendation of...

The purpose of this paper is to describe mechanism included in construction contracts that have the purpose of reducing transaction costs. Contractual solutions are analyzed focusing, in particular, on asset specificity and bounded rationality. A public works contract case is used as empirical...

The goal of this research is to obtain a premium calculation principle, for the life business, based on a coherent risk measure, distorted probabilities with the Wang distortion function in the form of power, called “Proportional Hazards (PH) Transforms”. It justifies the recommendation of...