An increasing number of academic institutions provide short-term international study opportunities for their business students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Some institutions even provide such experiences for faculty, to enhance their international background and to facilitate...

This paper is meant to provide the necessary information for a proper alimentation of daydreaming for the ones that had an alternative aspiration and failed to reach it. I dared to present the most fortunate cases of becoming a doctor, a lawyer, a fashion designer or choosing an acting or...

The evolution of information and communication technologies has made possible the use of new ways of teaching and learning. Geographic Information System (GIS), one of these new technologies, allows a visual learning environment, facilitates active learning and spatial thinking, and also...

The document is structured in a way that 3 Sections discuss on a rather general level the interplay of IT with people, change, and the state. After an interlude about IT as a global commodity a more specified Section addresses the interaction of IT with business (the engine powering human...

Because of the various benefits and advantages that computers and the Internet offer, these technologies have become an essential part of our daily life. The dependence on these technologies has been continuously and rapidly increasing. Computers and the Internet use also has become an important...

Mientras la realidad se transforma a gran ritmo, las ideas de ciencia y de conocimiento científico entran en crisis. Esta crisis también se manifiesta en los estudios empresariales: muchos afirman que la Economía de la Empresa no es ciencia, sino un conjunto de conocimientos diversos,...

There is no single definition that encompasses the diverse range of activities that have been described under the heading of interdisciplinary research. The history of science from the time of the earliest scholarship abounds with examples of the integration of knowledge from many research...

The School of Business and the Institute for Research on Economic Sciences of the University of Costa Rica, hereby present the most important results of the first phase of an exploratory work about the conditions affecting the dynamics of the selling of local capital companies to foreign...

Micro-sized Enterprise is the most common path for undertaking a business in Mexico and a fundamental part of the economic structure of the country. Previous studies reported high mortality rates in this kind of business. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the survival behavior of...

This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German-speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany’s largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who...