Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar si las diferencias en el desempeño empresarial de pequeñas y medianas empresas, concretamente entre cooperativas de trabajo asociado (CTA) y sociedades comerciales (SCIAL), se deben a diferencias en la estructura de propiedad del capital...

Spanish Abstract: Las redes interorganizacionales son un tipo de cooperación entre empresas y una estrategia que permite obtener ventajas de diversos tipos. En este contexto, se ha puesto de manifiesto que la efectividad es un concepto problemático. Mediante el presente artículo, se busca...

The peer-to-peer economy has unraveled thousands of years of codal and jurisprudential safeguards that were put in place to protect travelers and other patrons of public accommodations. Several large companies have generated billions of dollars in revenue from property rental without owning any...

This paper examines corporate governance and Climate Change risk management of transport industry in Hong Kong. This exploratory case study aims to investigate how the board of directors of an organization in the transport sector is addressing Climate Change risks through governance practices....

This Article is the first to make the business case for firms to promote and prioritize lawyer well-being. For more than three decades, quantitative research has demonstrated that lawyers suffer from depression, anxiety, and addiction far in excess of the general population. Since that time,...

Generosity is supposed to be a related deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, are distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner universe of cultural meanings and values...

The content of this study comprises pluri /inter/ trans /co /cross-disciplinarily challenge and approaches and a consequent open invitation addressed to the worldwide scientific community to receive all these associable nuclei of knowledge (as entitled), to meditate/analyze, and to decide if the...

This study discusses how social movements can influence economic systems. Employing a political-cultural approach to markets, it purports that ‘compromise movements’ can help change existing institutions by proposing new ones. This study argues in favor of the role of social movements in...

The global economic recession from which we are just emerging, much as previous recessions, has highlighted failures in governance and failures in regulation. Indeed some have argued that the regulators are more guilty even than the perpetrators and should be sanctioned accordingly. There is of...

The purpose of this handbook is to provide a series of chapter concerning the practice of governance and of social responsibility which have been written by experts from all over the world. In doing so it is our intention to both highlight examples of practice, good and bad, and to show...