En este trabajo se analizan los conflictos entre, de un lado, la dirección-gestión en la empresa cooperativa, y de otro lado, la capacidad de tomar decisiones de los miembros de la misma en tanto que socios, aún cuando no ocupen puestos directivo-gerenciales; puestos, estos últimos, que, por...

A participation company is a company in which one acquires the condition of shareholder, whether formally or informally, to play a leading role in the process which characterises any company - the production and distribution process. This type of company “embodies” the restitution of...

The information revolution and the destruction of the environment are leading to changes in society, economy and politics which can be included in the overall concept of globalization. This article analyses the influence of the two factors which are changing our civilisation in a specific area:...

The widespread implementation of the Internet, with its various methods of distributing news and promoting and generating debate, has led to very fast growth in systems for participating in decision-making processes for all sorts of people in all sorts of organisations. The handling of...

La crisis económica está teniendo una importante repercusión en el tejido empresarial español, de tal forma que cada vez son menos el número de nuevas empresas que se constituyen, y más aquellas, que ya encontrándose operativas en el mercado, se ven abocadas al cierre, y a su disolución....

Advances in IT, changes in the organizational structures of companies, the growth of the services sector, and new forms of organising work are factors that have contributed to the growth of self-employment. In Spain individual entrepreneurs with no salaried workers account for most of the...

We analyse committees of voters who take a decision between two options as a two- stage process. In a discussion stage, voters share non-verifiable information about a private signal concerning what is the best option. In a voting stage, votes are cast and one of the options is implemented. We...

We analyze the effects of the financial crisis in credit valuation adjustments (CVA's). Following the arbitrage-free valuation framework presented in Brigo et al. (2009), we consider a model with stochastic Gaussian interest rates and CIR++ default intensities. Departing from previous...

The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI (2013) Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI). The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of “Business –...

In an endogenous growth model with public consumption and public investment, we explore the time-consistent optimal choice for two policy instruments: an income tax rate and the split of government spending between consumption and investment. We show that under the time-consistent, Markov...