The approximation of G/G/s models from Markov models M/M/s has been studied in the literature. The study of a queue model is detailed in the present article, using times of arrivals and time service distributed by Weibull whose estimation of parameters was performed with the Bayesian method...

This study presents the competition beyond a single product market where a multi-product firm competes with monoproduct rivals through the use of different bundling strategies that impact the firms' incentives to make quality improvements in different ways. The pure bundling strategy can make...

The need to align the strategies of the organization with the new information technologies had been imposed by the development of these last. One of the approaches that makes it possible such alienation is the Enterprise Architecture Approach (AE). To implement an AE project, it is necessary to...

The paper explains, through a quantitative model, how dedications to teaching and research are fixed in universities governed by interest groups, such as Argentines’ public universities. To that end, utility functions of professors and a political cost function assumed by the Academic Council...

Shrimp sector in Ecuador is nowadays one of the fastest-growing non-oil sectors towards the international market. In despite of this growth, to our knowledge most of the little producers of shrimps in Ecuador take important operational decisions based upon empirical knowledge, without...

The research aims to develop and validate an instrument to characterize the impact level, in the healthcare institutions, of the application of the four essential dimensions of the Radar of innovation: the offers of the institution (what?), the clients (who?), the processes (how?) and the points...

The main goal of a scientific journal is to diffuse new knowledge. The number of citations received by a journal can be considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in which the journals are involved. In order to...

In the present article, social capital is analyzed as entrepreneurship factor across OECD countries. The databases of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the World Values Survey (WVS) are used. Entrepreneurship variable is obtained from GEM, and social capital variables are obtained from...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the default probabilities in infrastructure projects. For that, we analyze the exposure of the lenders to a state of default. This application is made by assuming the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) dynamic itself and the payment profile determined by...