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“Industrialización Del Sur De Tamaulipas”, Ramiro Esqueda-Walle Jan 2004

“Industrialización Del Sur De Tamaulipas”, Ramiro Esqueda-Walle

Ramiro Esqueda-Walle

El trabajo analiza las características socioeconómicas de la Zona Conurbada del Sur de Tamaulipas, sin embargo, se analiza con mayor profundidad la dimensión regional que presenta Altamira, ya que este municipio sin duda es el que mayor proyección económica tiene por la vocación portuaria e industrial que va adquiriendo paulatinamente.


The Key To Risk Management: Management, Adrian E. Tschoegl Jan 2004

The Key To Risk Management: Management, Adrian E. Tschoegl

Adrian E Tschoegl

The Barings, Daiwa Bank and Sumitomo Corp. financial debacles in the mid-1990s suggest that management failures rather than misfortune, errors, or complexity are a major source of the risk of financial debacles. These errors are systematic and are a concommittant of the structure of trading and of human nature. Risk management systems must take these facts into account. Two years after this chapter first appeared in the first edition, John Rusnak, a trader at Allied Irish Bank’s US subsidiary lost US$691m in unauthorized trading.


A Logic For Entrepreneurial Discovery., Patrick J. Murphy Dec 2003

A Logic For Entrepreneurial Discovery., Patrick J. Murphy

Patrick J. Murphy

This dissertation employs an epistemological approach to integrate several branches of social science (i.e., economics, marketing, sociology, psychology) that have contributed to the scholarly field of entrepreneurship. The integration yielded a novel theoretic framework with empirical implications for the study of the entrepreneurial opportunity recognition phenomenon. Empirical assessment of the framework revealed support for models of knowledge-based indicators as forecasters of three different forms of opportunity recognition identified in previous research and theory (i.e., idea-first, business-first, simultaneous). Marginal support was found for the same models as forecasters of the establishment of new business ventures. Ultimately, no support was found for …