The Colombian SMEs, like those of Latin America, confront a series of barriers for the export associated to the deficiency of resources and organizational and directive capacities, which cause that their permanence in the international markets is questionable. When not overcoming such barriers...

In spite of the recent efforts made by the Spanish governmental institutions to promote hem, there are just a few export consortia really successful in Spain as compared to those being projected that never reach their formal constitution or simply fail to survive. Also, there are very few...

In this paper, 27 studies from the last decade which deal more or less explicitly with the International New Venture, global start-up or born-global phenomenon are first identified, and then fully examined and critically assessed as a basis for obtaining an adequate view of the state-of-the-art...

El apoyo y el fomento a la creación de nuevas empresas se ha convertido en las últimas décadas en objetivo principal de las administraciones públicas, justificado principalmente por la incidencia positiva que tienen las mismas tanto en la generación de puestos de trabajo como en el...

In this paper, a theoretical framework for analyzing the selection of governance structures for implementing collaboration agreements between firms and Technological Centers is presented and empirically discussed. This framework includes Transaction Costs and Property Rights’ theoretical...

Markowitz portfolio theory (1952) has induced research into the efficiency of portfolio management. This paper studies existing nonparametric efficiency measurement approaches for single period portfolio selection from a theoretical perspective and generalises currently used efficiency measures...

A theory of network-entrepreneurs or ‘spin-off system’ is presented in this paper for the creation of firms based on the community’s social governance. It is argued that firm’s capacity for accumulation depends on the presence of employees belonging to the same social/ethnic group with...

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...

A principios de los años 80 se implantó en España un sistema de regulación para el sector eléctrico conocido como Marco Legal Estable, y que pretendía dar una solución a la situación de precariedad económica y financiera por la que atravesaba esta industria en esos momentos. Este marco...

From 2005 onwards, consolidated financial statements of listed European companies will have to comply with IFRS (IAS). Many German companies began adopting those standards in the 1990s, on a voluntary basis, because of their need to access international capital funding. Spanish companies, by...