The proliferation and impunity of organized crime groups involved in drug trafficking in recent years is one of the most pressing public concerns in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. While the vast majority of this violence remains concentrated within Mexico, it has raised very serious...

A structure for analysing narrative data is suggested, one that distinguishes three parts in sequence: context (a heuristic to identify what knowledge is relevant given a kind of situation), scope (what is possible within that situation) and narrative elements (the detailed conditional and...

Dynamism of economic activity and changes in the regulations which it governs, cause sometimes substantial deviations between actual and expected financial situation of enterprises. One comes to a situation where enterprises provide a result in the profit and loss statement, drawn and conform to...