Presentamos los conceptos centrales de la gestión de proyectos, una actividad orientada a aumentar la probabilidad de obtener resultados organizacionales favorables con la aplicación de conocimientos, habilidades, herramientas y técnicas selectas de la administración, dentro de un marco...

Cada vez adquiere mayor importancia la gestión de las relaciones con los grupos de interés. La inclusión activa de los grupos de interés da legitimidad a la empresa, generando credibilidad y confianza. Las empresas que buscan la sostenibilidad en sus actividades deben conocer a los grupos de...

Este trabajo es una introducción práctica al uso de la gestión hoshin en empresas pequeñas y medianas (pymes). En particular, refleja nuestra experiencia de su aplicación en Asc. Telesí, una firma de mantenimiento y venta de ascensores, con sede en Buenos Aires. Presentamos los conceptos...

Esta comunicacion investiga la manipulacion de resultados en las pymes espanolas en el periodo 2000-2008. Se trabaja con dos muestras de empresas (solventes e insolventes) y el proceso seguido ha consistido en recoger datos contables de los cinco anos previos antes del concurso de acreedores y...

In this article we tried to synthesize the existing literature on organizational legitimacy, showing its importance for business development. The article's central argument suggests the existence of certain organizational actions whose development address legitimacy to organizations. At the same...

This paper aims to analyse the Basque Country companies' view about the financial valuation of intangibles relevance and its influence on business performance. To achieve this objective, a field study has been done with 440 telephone calls to Basque Country companies' financial managers. Then,...

This study attempts to pinpoint the factors that play a decisive role in the decision process of Balearic hotel chains when choosing a growth strategy for expansion into the Caribbean in order to ascertain whether principles associated with the transaction-cost, agency and the strategic theories...

The aim of this research is to develop an explanatory model of the competitiveness of the firm from its internal factors. The most important factors of competitiveness and the variables featuring them are empirically identified in the case of the Basque manufactures through qualitative...

The preoccupation to consider the heterogeneity in firm behavior within an activity sector has been one of the main reasons for the search and identification of strategic groups, generating an inexhaustible debate in the scope of the strategic management. Nevertheless, this preoccupation has not...

The study of the effectiveness of boards of directors is a tremendously interesting area of investigation, heightened by the many financial scandals of the recent past. Research efforts have suffered from several deficiencies like the inconsistency of many of the results achieved (Daily, Dalton...