This paper presents a model designed to evaluate the competitiveness potential of the Latin American countries and to compare the resulting rankings with the four more widely used assessment measures of a country's competitiveness, which will in turn influence its market attractiveness for...

Given the essential role co-ops play in the Canadian economy, the primary purpose of this paper is to develop methods to forecast their likelihood of insolvency. However, investor-owner firms form the basic unit of analysis of most popular bankruptcy predictors used in Canada. The question is...