During the global crisis, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has withdrawn from developed economies and has substantially increased in emerging and transitional economies. In this scenario, Mexican MNEs have been spreading during the last four years, after starting their internationalization two...

El objetivo de este artículo es verificar si el patrón geográfico de comercio exterior de las empresas extranjeras en Brasil se diferencia del de las empresas nacionales, y si entre las empresas extranjeras la región de origen de su capital constituye un factor importante para determinar ese...

This paper aims to show a theoretical description of the integrative enterprises under resources-based view. The limitations of micro, small and medium enterprises is analyzed, and how integrative enterprises contribute to increased competitiveness through capacity development and integration of...

Increasing the productivity of an economy requires improvements in the productivity of its companies, and therefore greater business success. It should be noted that a company on the road to success is more productive. The objective of this paper is to analyse how internal and external factors...

This paper makes an economic and financial analysis of car dealerships in Spain, using data from SABI database. Moreover, it analyses the economic and financial characteristics of firms that determinate that, in the same crisis context, some firms manage to have positive profit, while other ones...

Electricity prices have seen a consistent upward trend since the implementation of Mexico's electricity market reform (EMR). This has been interpreted by some as a failure of the EMR. In this paper we study the determinants of such price increases. We calculate the generation cost curve of the...

Business decision making is a critical factor to the viability of companies. In the current more dynamic, global and competitive scenario, this critical factor opens space to wider requirements. Modeling and simulation have traditionally formed a substantial part of the toolkit used to support...

A large body of economic literature has established that the primary purpose of business is profit maximization assuming unitary and constant elasticity of substitution of production factors. However, the prevailing operating conditions of micro and small enterprises raise concerns about the...

We study cartel stability in a differentiated price-setting duopoly with returns to scale. We show that a cartel may be equally stable in the presence of lower differentiation, provided that the decreasing returns parameter is high. In addition we demonstrate that for a given factor of discount,...

The objective of the research is to identify the variables that affect short-term financial decisions, determinants of cash flow in MSMEs. A mixed investigation is carried out, based on a survey applied to 278 managers of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Colombia. The data were...