RESUMENLas microempresas son muy importantes para la economía por generar empleo y renta. En este contexto, se tiene como objetivo trazar consideraciones sobre la competitividad de las microempresas en el campo de calzados en Juazeiro do Norte-CE en el año 2006. Para eso, fueron utilizadas...

Book Review to "Perspectives on Strategy from the BCG" by C.W. Stern & G. Stalk Jr. (Wiley, 1998).

Teamwork in the automotive industry varies significantly from plant to plant. This article compares teamwork in four automobile plants in Germany and Britain, and addresses two questions: (1) Do different models of teamwork fit into a bi-polar model of teamwork, being either innovative or...

This paper presents an oligopolistic model of informative advertising, where firms simultaneously choose prices and advertising intensities. For this game there is a dispersed price equilibrium in which the amount of advertising by each firm is socially optimal. The advertising technology...

We work out the efficiency index of the Delhi Airport using monthly data(March 2000 through July 2004) of international and total traffic of aircraft's, passengers & cargo movements . The study compares the Delhi Airport technical efficiency index with the efficiency indexes of some selected...

This paper critiques some of the properties of the so-called "efficient component pricing rule" (ECPR) for access to a bottleneck (monopoly) facility. When an entrant/rival and the bottleneck monopolist both produce a complementary component to the bottleneck service, the ECPR specifies that the...

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world’s scientific literature in physics and mathematics. This...

We present an original modeling tool, which can be used to study the mechanisms by which free/libre and open source software developers’ code-writing efforts are allocated within open source projects. It is first described analytically in a discrete choice framework, and then simulated using...

Cet article présente d’une part, les règles de fonctionnement des entreprises virtuelles et d’autre part, les problèmes auxquels ces nouvelles organisations se heurtent. Nous montrons que les NTIC ne sont que rarement utilisées dans une approche globale et intégrée et que...