El mundo del trabajo en las organizaciones argentinas a principios del Siglo XX estaba influenciado por las consecuencias de la Primera y la Segunda Revolución Industrial y del sistema capitalista cuyo objetivo de maximizar beneficios, sumado al Scientific Management desarrollado por Taylor para la misma época, propició el estudio a fondo de las características físicas del ser humano con el fin de llevar al máximo el rendimiento de las personas. 

The essay provides support to the hypothesis that financing of provincial public spending through national transferences leads to overspending. We rest on persuasive economic and politicoinstitutional arguments. Fiscal illusion and the Leviathan model help to explain the overspending. And cartelization of tax collection helps to explain why governors are so reluctant to decentralize this task. We conclude that a fiscal organization closer to that of a confederation would be desirable. Two ways of organizing fiscal relations between the Nation and the provinces are considered.

Se reseña en este documento de trabajo el proceso de rediseño de una planta manufacturera de ollas a presión y productos de menaje. El rediseño tuvo por objetivo transformar una planta de tipo taller a otra que asegura el flujo suave de sus productos a lo largo del proceso productivo. El nuevo layout, que ya está implementado y funcionando, forma parte de un proceso integral de modernización de Marmicoc Argentina S.A.

This document is the paper-format version of the keynote address delivered by its author on August 2, 2009, to the opening session of the Latin American section (AMILAT) of the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It attempts to understand the long-term shift towards the worse of IsraeliLatin American relations, which started with an almost unqualified support for the establishment of the State of Israel on the side of both Latin American right-wing governments and left-wing parties and popular organizations, but have been deteriorating ever since.

La RSE ha alcanzado una difusión importante y hoy forma parte de la agenda de casi todas las corporaciones. Pero no queda claro si la misma puede ser equiparada con la ética en los negocios. Es decir, si sería válido afirmar que una empresa socialmente responsable es una empresa que tiene un comportamiento ético. O si tener un comportamiento ético equivale a ser socialmente responsable. El tema es analizado relacionándolo con la pirámide de la Responsabilidad Social Empresaria basada en los componentes o caras de la RSE. Se analiza el caso de un conjunto de empresas de la Argentina.

The agricultural sector of many countries shows increasing farm size with corresponding decrease in farm numbers. Despite abundant research, the determinants of changes in firm numbers and size have not been clearly identified. This paper attempts to explain small firm survival in Argentine agriculture in the 1988 – 2002 period. The evidence suggests that labor market considerations, as well changing optimal size in response to production specialization are important factors affecting small-firm disappearance.

This research paper sets forth that an alternative for managing the internal investment fund of any company, lies on separation portfolios. Firstly, the company’s internal investment portfolio is built up within the context of the incremental cash-flow model. Next, separation portfolios are introduced and consequential features for this paper are predicated upon them: firstly, they provide an easier framework for risk-management; secondly, their risk-return profile bring about a down-to-earth performance benchmark.

In Hume’s epistemology, induction leads to discovery in matters of fact. However, because of the poor data Hume analyzes the balance of trade with a thought experiment, doing what Mill makes explicit afterwards: reason from assumptions, to reach conclusions which are true in the abstract. Hume’s potential explanation, what Peirce later calls abduction, is backed by a case study, the price revolution of the 16th century, which supports half his abductive inference, when money supply is multiplied fivefold.

El presente trabajo analiza y describe un modo de realizar mediciones y monitorear el consumo eléctrico mediante la aplicación de la Transformada de Fourier de Tiempo Discreto (DTFT), implementada en un programa de computadora.