This study delves into the intricate world of risk management at YPF S.A., Argentina's premier energy company, spanning the period from 2007 to 2019. We begin by examining the dynamic landscape of the Argentine oil market and YPF's pivotal role within it. Subsequently, we dissect YPF's initial...

In this paper we analyze the production process of the performing arts (opera, dance and drama) and its relationship with the General Theory of Cost. In a first analysis refers to the Economy of Culture as a new discipline, as well as major contributions of the same. Subsequently conducted a...

This article is about Cultural Organizations Management, more specifically, in Museums Management, and it is framework in Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton 1992, 1996, 2001a, 2001b). The work focuses on one of the perspectives, known as the customer perspective, which is divided into two...

Distinguimos entre educación para la calidad y entrenamiento para la calidad. A través de la educación, aprendemos la ‘filosofía’ de la calidad; a través del entrenamiento, aprendemos sus herramientas. Así, el aprendizaje es un concepto central de este artículo. Pero no es el único....

La cultura es la suma de los comportamientos atribuidos al ser humano más los objetos materiales que forman parte integral de estos comportamientos. Si limitamos el concepto al mundo de las empresas, hablamos hoy de la “cultura corporativa”, es decir, del dominio del “cómo hacemos las...

Describimos y fundamentamos la tendencia creciente a utilizar medidas no financieras para la medición del rendimiento empresarial (business performance measurement), así como una axonomía de estas medidas y el impacto del movimiento de la calidad total en las prácticas de medición. Las...

Control charts are widely used to monitor the quality of industrial processes. It is quite common to assume that the random variable associated to the quality characteristic has a Normal distribution, and the control limits are defined so that the probability of obtaining a false alarm is...

The theory of restrictions (TOC) is a philosophy of continuous improvement, which focuses on the weakest link in the chain, to improve the performance of the production system. The purpose of the research was to determine the quantities to be made of each product and its production sequence in a...

Shrimp sector in Ecuador is nowadays one of the fastest-growing non-oil sectors towards the international market. In despite of this growth, to our knowledge most of the little producers of shrimps in Ecuador take important operational decisions based upon empirical knowledge, without...

The agricultural co-operative system in the Valencian Community is a consolidated economic reality and a basic referent at a national level. Nowadays, the agricultural co-operative system in general, and the fruits and vegetables co-ops in particular, become a main element either in the market...