9 articles in this issue
José Alfredo Vásquez Paniagua
Basic services privatization policies began to be adopted from the 80s in developed countries (from Europe, North America, and Asia) as well as in developing countries. As a result, changes in policies and norms which govern water managemen... see more
Rodrigo Muñoz Grisales
Based on the catastrophic secondary effects of business management, the author justifies the need for a change in administrative and organizational thought in order to try to conciliate the goals of the enterprises with humanistic and envir... see more
Olga Lucía Garcés Uribe
Wage labor has not been a novelty in the development of Western history. However, this category has become more and more important over the last two centuries, generating contradictory intellectual positions. Embodied in different authors, ... see more
Pablo Cuartas
Although one should not take too seriously the tone of the proposal that gives a title to the present article, it is possible that the transitional image suggested describes appropriately a state of things that has changed. Therefore, the catego... see more
Jaime Baby Moreno, Juan Gonzalo Londoño Jaramillo
This article intends to clarify some misconceptions and misunderstandings in regard to the nature of the marketing variables and their classification, which may have implications both on the praxis and the development of the discipline. It ... see more
Gabriel Jaime Soto Jaramillo, Jaime Alberto Raigosa Bohórquez
This article is based on a research project carried out on big and medium companies in Colombia. The size of the sample was designed following the statistics methodology. Four hundred salespeople in big and medium Colombian companies were i... see more
Jairo Andrés Campuzano Hoyos
This is a brief journey through the life of Juan Gonzalo Restrepo Londoño. Besides having the fortune of growing up within the heart of a traditional family of Antioquia, he became bearer of invaluable knowledge since his youth, which allow... see more
Sandra Milena Muñoz López
The current world context, essentially determined by the financialisation of the economy, the accelerated technical and scientific development and the consequent relevance of knowledge production in every scenario of human activity, demand... see more
Luz Mercedes Pinto Gaviria, Alejandro Leyva Lemarie
The growing importance of operational risk has influenced control systems structures and the regulation of international financial markets. This article assesses the current state of the implementation of the Operational Risk Management System&n... see more