Dans cet article, nous prendrons appui sur l'etude des particularites de la gestion des entreprises bresiliennes que nous avons qualifie de feodal, afin de donner quelques indications sur ce que pourrait etre un prototype du dirigeant feodale. Nous reviendrons ensuite sur notre terrain afin...

When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...

There exist two approaches in the literature concerning the multinational firm's mode choice for foreign production between an owned subsidiary and a licensing contract. One approach considers environments where the firm is transferring primarily knowledge-based assets. An important assumption...

The article formulates the information theory of firm, introduces the concept of firm as an operating system, which controls the firm’s operation by the means of the information resources processing, in an analogy with the operating system at a microprocessor in the computing devices,...

Este artículo pretende analizar, a la luz de la teoría del poder, el cambio organizacional, las capacidades organizacionales y los cambios generados en la forma de gobierno de la Universidad del Rosario entre 1974 y 1995. Partiendo del hecho que dicha forma de gobierno permaneció intacta...

Self-leadership is theoretically assumed to be the key management approach in modern knowledge work because it strengthens the employees’ commitment. This study examines the relationship between self-leadership and affective organizational commitment empirically. An underlying assumption in...

We explore the implications of altruism in family firms for the allocation of decision-making rights. Our results suggest that centralization occurs in a broader range of circumstances in family than in nonfamily firms, consistent with empirical evidence. We show that an agent might remain in a...

La discusión acerca de la problemática empresarial y particularmente la delestudio de la innovación estratégica está vigente alrededor de la incapacidadde muchas de las aproximaciones tradicionales para abordar de una maneracientífi ca y concreta la comprensión del problema en un contexto...

We model the determinants of who makes decisions, the principal or an agent, when there are multiple decisions. Decision making takes effort and time; and, once implemented, the expected loss from a particular decision (or project) increases with the length of time since the last decision was...