El documento trata de los métodos de retribución variable que se han generalizado en los últimos tiempos. Pone de manifiesto el papel que han jugado en los escándalos financieros y en la gestación de la crisis y analiza la propuesta de John Roberts de incentivos débiles, fundamentándola...

Obesity has risen dramatically at the same time as globalization has surged, which poses the question of whether the two are related. In this paper we document the association between type of globalization (economic, political or social) and obesity using data from 15 up to 23 different...

On April 16, 2012 the Argentine federal government decreed the intervention of YPF. The share price of YPF fell 29% the next day. Two weeks later (May 3), the Argentine Parliament approved the expropriation of 51% of the YPF shares owned by Repsol. Repsol had a 57.4% stake in YPF. YPF was the...

Irving Fisher fue uno de los más importantes economistas norteamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Hizo aportaciones muy relevantes sobre la teoría monetaria, los ciclos económicos y las políticas estabilizadoras. En este artículo se resumen su vida, sus ideas y sus propuestas de...

This paper addresses the problem of skills mismatch for the 16-24 age cohort in Spain. Our research objective is to survey managers of companies that operate in Spain and reveal their perception of the mismatch phenomenon. We hypothesize that "cherry-picking" the most talented workers and...

La ética no es un añadido para directivos concienciados en empresas con éxito, sino una necesidad, porque forma parte de la tarea misma de dirigir. Este artículo parte de qué es la ética, qué es una empresa y qué es dirigir una organización para mostrar por qué la ética es necesaria:...

This paper intends to analyze the foundations of trust in a context of bounded rationality. Building on previous work, we show how bounded rationality provides a rationale for the concept of trust that goes beyond the common calculative notion. We show that there are four types of trust, and...

As successful families in business grow in family size and number of shareholders, they commonly develop a particular kind of family organization, often referred to as the family council. This family organization usually becomes the family's central governing body. Although family councils are...

Company valuation using discounted cash flows is based on the valuation of government bonds: it consists of applying the procedure used to value government bonds to the debt and shares of a company. This is easy to understand (sections 1, 2 and 3). But company valuations are often complicated by...

Although virtue ethics has gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one the chief virtues in the business world. This is probably due to an incomplete or incorrectly focused view of what it means to be a humble person, why a good...