This article uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. We argue that increasing knowledge codification made possible by the diffusion of information and communication technologies has made competences less dependent...

El documento analiza las incidencias del pensamiento neoliberal en la formulación de la Constitución Política de Colombia promulgada en 1991, como parte de su fundamento explícito. Así mismo, se revisa su incidencia dentro de las decisiones que en ella se tomaron, y que de una u otra forma,...

Este artículo elabora un recuento de la evolución histórica que ha desarrollado el sector eléctrico en Colombia desde fi nales del siglo XIX hasta inicios del siglo XXI en cuanto a la evolución de las diferentes innovaciones tecnológicas desplegadas en el país, acompañadas a lo largo del...

Las organizaciones hacen uso de diversos canales para la divulgación y revelación de la información de sus negocios, como por ejemplo Internet, canal a través del cual se pueden satisfacer las necesidades de los usuarios con mayor agilidad y brindando mejores condiciones de accesibilidad. La...

This paper addresses the problem of knowledge and the far-reaching implications it bears upon innovation and the functioning of economic systems. It develops a stylised analysis of the micro-dynamics of knowledge generation, exchange and absorption. It discusses the properties of knowledge...

The standard neoclassical approach to economic theorising excludes, by definition, economic emergence and the related phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We explore how the most economic of human behaviours, entrepreneurship, came to be largely excluded from mainstream economic theory. In contrast,...

The first of July 1952, the moped was legislatively excluded from existing restrictions for heavier two-wheeled motorized vehicles. A driver/owner of a “bicycle with auxiliary engine” – this was the original denomination of the vehicle – thus needed no registration, driver’s license or...

This paper approaches innovation as a need and not as a choice, particularly in the case of mature systems, defined as localized systems of production that are deeply specialised in mature industries. Their only strategy to achieve competitiveness is an innovation-driven shake-out combining new...

Traditions of studies dating back to Marshall, Porter and Krugman interpreted Local socio-economic systems (LSS) mainly considering the spatial proximity of the actors. It was the local anchorage that enabled an increase in specific forms of external economies, competitive advantages and...

Industrial agriculture and its technological package (intensive farming, mechanization, use of chemicals) are no longer in position to ensure food security (Altieri et al., 2012). To overcome the strongly negative externalities produced by this model, agroecological transition may be considered...