The aim of this paper is to explain the relevance of the theory of indirect communication strategy and negotiating conflict. Based on Thomas Schelling illustrates indirect communication cases: bribery and threats. It shows that both bribery and threats are rational preference mechanisms, whose...

This article evaluates Herbert A. Simon’s contribution to organization theory, placing special emphasis on the criterion of bounded rationality. Simon’s criticism of the orthodox version of organizational bureaucracy is interpreted and his analysis is extended to institutional economics. One...

Sustainable development is the theme that has remained in the interest for more than three decades, as the result of which various solutions have been developed that seek to implement and control sustainability development in companies. The hydropower sector seeks to address its environmental...

This paper analyzes the possible effects of asymmetries in the leniency programs on anti-competitive behavior of agents in multi-market context. In particular, this paper analyzes the Colombian leniency program and compares it with the United States program to identify possible differences...

Este documento explora el concepto de capital social. Se investiga los aspectosque motivan el desarrollo de la literatura sobre capital social y losesfuerzos por estructurar el concepto de capital social, implementados en lateoría económica. Se argumenta que mientras la literatura de capital...

This paper shows the relevance of Popper's Rationality Principle (RP) for the appraisal of the impressive mass work emerging, in recent years, in the fields of rationality, learning, evolutionary games and behavioral economic theory. In contradistinction to the well-known rigid criteria of the...

Este artículo analiza los aspectos centrales de la obra de Herbert A. Simon, en especial el orientado al análisis de la economía de las organizaciones con énfasis en el criterio de racionalidad limitada. Se interpreta la crítica de Simon a la versión ortodoxa de la burocracia...

Human groups may be analysed as organisations of networks of relationships between their members. This article proposes an exercise in theoretic speculation about participation and democracy based on the analytic tools of a relational-informational theory the bases of which come from...

Spanish Abstract: A partir de los resultados del “Programa para el mejoramiento de la competitividad de un colectivo horizontal de empresas rectificadoras de motores en Bogotá”, este trabajo propone un método para formar cadenas productivas por medio de ejercicios de dirección...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo estudia el desarrollo del componente racional que domina la teoría económica en la actualidad y el surgimiento de una corriente alternativa: la economía del comportamiento basada en el sistema dual de toma de decisiones que todos los agentes económicos poseen....