The aim of this paper is analyzing the economic concept of time based on historical and cultural factors. The manuscript presents the historical evolution of the concept of time, highlighting its conceptualization since ancient times until now. Subsequently, the paper…

Aggregate planning can be a tool for coordinating the tactical decisions belonging to some functional areas of a company. This potential has been limited due to methodological and technical reasons, but nowadays it is possible to solve very sophisticated models…

We consider commercial discounts for buying based on rappels. If a uniform type discount is taken, then an unwanted paradox appears: the “buyer trick”. To avoid this paradox, two proposals are presented. Both of them observe the basic principle “to…

The present study analyzes the extent of voluntarily disclosed information about intangible resources, in the annual report of companies from Spain’s capital market, as well as the possibility of there being a correlation between that disclosure and the effective profitability…

Organizational knowledge has always been an important subject, but in the last years this issue has acquired a greater importance, due to factors like the development of information technologies, scientific advances and global competition, among others. Knowledge management goes beyond…

In the last years the meaningful increment and application of knowledge management (KM) in diverse economic, social, cultural, organizational, technological and scientific areas, has given place to the generation of an important amount of models for the application and understanding…

The concept of the business model has been designed for aiding exploitation of the business potential of an innovation. This exploitation inevitably involves new activities in the organisational context and generates a need to select and arrange the resources of…

It has been theorized that low search costs associated with e-commerce imply greater levels of efficiency relative to the conventional retail channels. Multiple empirical studies confirm this hypothesis concerning price level, although the evidence is mixed relative to price dispersion.…

Global Manufacturing Virtual Networks (GMVNs) are dynamically changing organizations formed by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Contract Manufacturers (CMs), turn-key and component suppliers, R+D centres and distributors. These networks establish a new type of vertical and horizontal relations between independent companies…

The Equal Opportunities Spanish Law (from 2007), establishes that those companies with more than 250 workers have to design and implement an equal opportunities plan between women and men. Since the “cost-benefit” relation of equal opportunities has not been yet…