En este trabajo procedemos a caracterizar las empresas que colaboran con Centros Tecnológicos. Las investigaciones empíricas de Cassiman & Veugelers (1998b) y Bayona (2000), junto a los enfoques teóricos del cambio tecnológico y de las motivaciones para colaborar tecnológicamente, serán...

This book explores the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm over the past 35 years. Despite rapid progress in the field, new developments in the microeconomic and industrial organization literature have been relatively scant. This book attempts to redress the balance by providing...

We assemble a new data on dual-class firms in Latin America and analyze the relationship between the largest shareholder characteristics and its decision to leverage voting rights. First, we describe who are the largest shareholders in Latin American firms. Second, we find that both the type and...

This paper analyzes the characteristics of firms that declare board directors as independents, although the directors are not strictly independent, and examines the consequences in terms of performance and corporate governance outcomes. Based on publicly available information, eight criteria of...

In this paper, we analyze how the diversification pattern of business groups is affected by the structure of the families behind them. To address this question, we construct a data set of family relationships among board members of firms that integrate into family business groups (FBG) that...