The paper analyses the family firm through the set of companies under the control of a family, instead of limiting the research to the listed companies, as commonly done in literature. The paper describes 103 family business groups belonging to the IEF, Instituto de la Empresa Familiar. Firstly,...

Paper's objectives: The paper aims to explore the negative impacts of social relationships (SR) on business activity. As a research context, the video game industry (VGI) and the video game developers' (VGDs) relationships are analyzed. Design/methods: 17 semistructured in-depth interviews and 1...

This is an analysis on management skills and capabilities that should be taken into account in the family business internationalising procedure. Also the importance of IT is studied in facilitating such a procedure. Family business problimatics is also mentioned, as well as its...

This paper investigates causalities between small businesses and the shadow economy in ten New Member States of the European Union in the years 2000–2005. The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with deregulation and privatization of economic activities, has yielded new...

The article analyze the strategy of the international multi-location production of the Mondragon Corporation during the period 1999-2009, as a case of cooperative innovation towards a people-centred globalization. This seeks to protect the employment and competitiveness in the parent...

It is widely recognized that the economic recovery largely depends on the improvement of the SME sector. In the order to determine the opportunities and to analyze the challenges faced by Romanian SMEs in (post)crises period, the paper presents first a short review of the national economy and...

In Brazil, studies, research and activities directed to understanding the forces that drive the future is quite recent. The first initiatives known date back to the seventies. This article presents the evolution and development of the prospective activities (foresight), future studies and...

The paper considers the current challenges that organizations have to cope with in managing people and knowledge at the present time, moved by turbulent contexts and crisis at a social and at an organizational level. It begins with a question around the possibility of a dialogue between the two...

In this article we intend to present a comparative approach between three recognized international methodologies for risk management: RISKMAN, Project Management Institute Methodology-PMBoK and Project Risk Analysis and Management Guide (produced by Association for Project Management).