The positive impact of intangible assets on several measures of economic performance is well documented in the literature. Less clear is what leads firms to invest in intangible assets in the first place. The latter is particularly important since, at least for the Italian manufacturing sector,...

The discussion about employee representation on supervisory boards has received much attention from scholars and politicians around the world. We provide new insights to this ongoing debate by employing power indices from game theory to examine the real power of employees on boards and its...

ResumenEn este estudio se pretende identificar el actual comportamiento de los factores para el éxito y los amenazantes que inciden sobre la continuidad de una cuenta, una relación y por tanto del negocio desde la percepción de las agencias de publicidad, medios, eventos y relaciones...

This paper investigates firm survival in professional football, arguing that the relegation and promotion system in football leagues is very similar to firm exits and entries in traditional goods and service markets. Empirically, we use a dataset containing information on how long football teams...

For many types of risk affecting the economic existence of firms, risk of competition is among the most important, both in terms of the gravity and intensity and the spread in space and time. In the context of the global economic crisis, - economical, financial, social, image problems etc....

Members of management boards as well as supervisory boards often attract public criticism when they are simultaneously active in several other boards. We use a panel data set of the biggest German corporations for the period from 1996-2006 to estimate the impact of multiple board memberships of...

We study the impact of transparency in a commodity market on the decision problem of a competitive firm under price uncertainty and hedging opportunities. Market transparency is modeled by means of the informational content of publicly observable signals which are correlated with the random...

This article concerns strategic moves developed by the Danone group since its creation. The proposed analysis shows that the group has considerably evolved, both at the levels of strategic business units and geographic markets. Changes have been conducted according to the strategic objective of...

In international economic relations, credit is an indispensable element, being viewed by most specialists as the engine of a national economy, due to the role of the driving investments and based on them, the employment, the increase in the production, etc., the use and typology according to the...

Este documento muestra cómo bajo un sólido planteamiento estratégico y un adecuado despliegue táctico se puede superar condiciones desfavorables de una organización que ha estado deficientemente gestionada y que se debe desenvolver en un entorno fuertemente regulado por el estado y grupos...