The coordination efficiency of Supply Chain Management is determined by two opposite poles: benefit from improved planning results and associated coordination cost. The centralization grade, applied coordination mechanisms and IT support have influence on both categories. Therefore three...

Market efficiency is analysed for the Iberian Power Futures Market and other European Power Markets, as well as other fuel markets through evaluation of ex-post Forward Risk Premium. The equilibrium price from compulsory call auctions for distribution companies within the framework of the...

The evolution of organizations that work in multinational environments has considerably altered their production strategies. One of the consequences has been the appearance of Horizontal Inter-firm Collaborations (HICs), which include all kinds of enterprises and production centres and establish...

In this paper we examine how business cycles in the home country affect outward flows of FDI (OFDI). We employ a panel data set of OFDI flows for a representative sample of countries from 1970 to 2011. The findings of the regression models that we have used are consistent with the hypothesis...

In this paper, we approach empirically the influence of trade union (TU) bargaining power on delocalization strategies by analyzing the determinants of processing trade data as a proxy for delocalization and using an index that measures TU bargaining power as the main explanatory variable. Trade...

En Colombia, la función de interventoría resulta ser indispensable dentro de la contratación estatal debido a la necesidad de garantizar la calidad, cantidad costos y cronograma de los productos contratados. No obstante, la escaza formación en este aspecto, ha generado que la Interventoría...