This article examines the structure of governance in co-operative business groups in the framework of the growing process of globalisation. Starting with a brief introduction to globalisation and the theories of co-operative degeneration, a specific case is analysed referring to Mondragón...

This paper looks at the question of industrial relocation and its impact on cooperative employment from a theoretical and empirical perspective. In defining and contextualising the relocation phenomenon, the paper starts by analysing its scale, causes and some of its consequences in the context...

One of the main characteristics of French worker cooperatives is the principle of collective entrepreneurship. The aim of this article is to understand how it is applied, and in particular, how the board of directors and the managing director work together. To answer this question, an...

Spanish Abstract: De acuerdo a los procesos globalizadores en el sector financiero se está experimentando grandes transformaciones derivadas de los cambios sociales del consumidor. En estos momentos somos testigos de un desafío mayúsculo desde el punto de vista tecnológico, el cual está...

The aim of this empirical research was to test the influence of some social factors such as social norms, habits and routines, which are actually constraining the entrepreneurial strategy. In order to measure the extent of these influences we have focused on informal arrangements and cooperation...

Spanish Abstract: La decisión de la localización empresarial es un factor clave para la determinación de sus beneficios dado que juega un papel importante en la generación de ventajas competitivas. Este trabajo analiza la influencia que tiene sobre la rentabilidad económica las empresas...

Spanish Abstract: Un problema que enfrenta la floricultura en México, es la baja vinculación entre los sectores gubernamentales responsables de apoyar con recursos a los productores, es por ello, que existen deficiencias en la gestión, divulgación y aplicación de los diversos tipos de...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer la relación entre la satisfacción laboral, el contrato psicológico, el tipo de vinculación y la antigüedad en un grupo de docentes de una universidad privada ubicada en la ciudad de Bogotá. La investigación es de...

A large body of economic literature has established that the primary purpose of business is profit maximization assuming unitary and constant elasticity of substitution of production factors. However, the prevailing operating conditions of micro and small enterprises raise concerns about the...

A large body of economic literature has established that the primary purpose of business is profit maximization assuming unitary and constant elasticity of substitution of production factors. However, the prevailing operating conditions of micro and small enterprises raise concerns about the...