This article analyzes the industrial policy implemented in Mexico as a result of the trade liberalization, highlighting its role in the configuration of an industrial specialization pattern that revolved around inbond assembly activities and whose main feature was manufactured goods with low...

Change in the commons remains poorly understood. This essay analyzes a comparative case study of community forestry in Mexico. In a primary case study, corruption in a community-owned logging business legitimates timber smuggling, and this situation contrasts with several forestry communities...

Outsourcing is a business model that reduces operating costs and boosts profit margins while maintaining a high quality of customer service. The model allows companies to adjust their resource allocation. Many companies opt for out-of-country outsourcing, which is divided into two categories:...

This paper examines the changes in policy instruments and public institutions under the New Economic Model (NEM) that have affected Latin American agriculture, with particular attention to Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. In general, production has increased, while acreage and rural employment have...

A holistic approach to schooling in developing countries-considering schooling in conjunction with labor force work, child care, and other household responsibilities-is necessary to construct policies that will encourage greater educational attainment, especially for children and youth in poor...

I develop a model to assess distributive rules observed in field data on 48 Mexican farmer-managed irrigation systems. Households decide whether to contribute maintenance effort, the aggregate amount of which affects the level of output. Distributive rules with congruence between the sharing of...

National policy initiatives require the expenditure of large amounts of resources over several years. It is common for these initiatives to generate large amounts of data that are needed in order to assess their success. Educational policies are an obvious example. Here we concentrate on...

The Type of Innovation as an Innovation Process component, increases the competitive advantage of the firms. The Customer Knowledge Management, influences the Firm´s Process Innovation, based on the sense of information: for, from and about the customers, that increase the market opportunities....

Spanish Abstract: El costo de asegurarnos que el ejercicio del gobierno corresponde con los principios de la democracia liberal debe incluir no sólo el costo de los votos y los partidos, sino también el costo de las instituciones que, en un proceso lento pero continuo, se han ido construyendo...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de la investigación es analizar si la cooperación empresarial puede ser una opción para consolidar las pequeñas empresas metal-mecánicas del sureste del Estado de Coahuila, México. Se diseñó un cuestionario estructurado, considerando tres variables y se...