The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and organizational performance in Spanish firms from a financial and non-financial perspective (subjective). The empirical study was conducted with a sample of 102 firms in the region of...

Sobre la base de la metodología de investigación del estudio de casos, este artículo analiza las principales características que condicionan la supervivencia empresarial de cuatro incubadoras de empresas en Colombia (Bucaramanga, Créame, ParqueSoft y Gestando). Para ello se utiliza como...

Small economies, such as the Peruvian and Chilean, are immersed in the global arena of emergent economies, so evaluating them from a home based point of view (Porter, 1990) would be limited and of little use. This fact turns Porter’s national diamond framework insufficient for that purpose...

The literature pays little attention to non-linear models, especially regarding dimensions such as organizational culture. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to test the role of hierarchical distance in the relationship between HRM practices and social processes. With a sample of 102...

Spanish Abstract: Las pequeñas economías, como la peruana y chilena, se encuentran inmersas en la arena global de las economías emergentes, por lo que evaluarlas desde un punto de vista puramente local (homed based; Porter1990) sería un enfoque bastante limitado y poco útil. Este hecho hace...

Purpose - The aim of this work is to study the reorientation that the export industrial sectors in Costa Rica have experienced during the last 20 years.Research design, data, methodology - The study employs the Cluster Analysis with the export data (20 years of cut-off period) from Costa Rica to...

This article evaluates the factors determining of the international competitiveness of small and medium multinational enterprises (SMEs) located in developing countries. This took place with a sample of 103 SMEs from a Latin American developing country, Peru. In accordance with Partial Least...

Many researchers and economists have argued that competitiveness studies conducted by WEF and IMD, show limitations in small-economies, even more when they have different characteristics. The objective of this research is to study the competitiveness of three small-economies: Puerto Rico, Costa...