Work integration social enterprises (WISE) are under pressure in two different regards. On the one hand, they have to participate in the market and compete with other firms, ensuring that they are sustainable in terms of prices, costs and quality. On the other hand, they endeavour to offer a...

In the presence of positive transaction costs, institutions and the architecture of organizations take on fundamental importance. This paper measures costs of opening firms in the Brazilian garment industry. The measure of costs to start up a new business in the garment industry in Brazil shows...

Economic literature had shown the existence of the interrelationship between the financial decisions of the firms and their competitive decisions; either by convenience or by data availability, most of empiric papers addressed separately the influence of both kinds of decisions over firm...

Taking as a reference a simple oligopoly model with differentiated products, in which there are three firms, the purpose of this paper is to complement the existing literature on mergers by proving that the traditional merger paradox can be avoided by assuming that, after the merger, the merging...

En tiempos modernos la competitividad es un desafío y oportunidad para las organizaciones. La globalización de los mercados y la introducción de las nuevas tecnologías en los nuevos modelos de negocios, las grandes empresas, y más las Pymes, requieren de estrategias que las impulsen...

The European Commission, Communication from the Commission on 2.7.2002, defined CSR as the voluntary integration, by enterprises, social and environmental concerns in their operations and relationships with partners. The EU commitment to ethical management as a way to integrate the culture of...

Economic literature had shown the existence of the interrelationship between the financial decisions of the firms and their competitive decisions; either by convenience or by data availability, most of empiric papers addressed separately the influence of both kinds of decisions over firm...

The European Commission, Communication from the Commission on 2.7.2002, defined CSR as the voluntary integration, by enterprises, social and environmental concerns in their operations and relationships with partners. The EU commitment to ethical management as a way to integrate the culture of...

Spanish Abstract: Partiendo de un modelo sencillo de oligopolio con diferenciación de producto, en el que hay tres empresas, el objeto de este trabajo es el de complementar la literatura existente sobre las fusiones horizontales de empresas probando que la tradicional paradoja de las fusiones...

Spanish Abstract: Los efectos del COVID-19 han alcanzado límites insospechados en la salud pública y la economía. La destrucción de empleos y cierres comerciales ha generado una pérdida de capacidades adquiridas en las empresas (como organizaciones) y sus empleados. Este documento presenta...