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Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions.

Within the past 20 years, the health care industry Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), experimented an exponential growth; driven by the high revenue obtained from the high fees to health insurance companies and the new payment system created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as “Obamacare.” The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the article Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital … Continue reading Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Coronavirus y la tentación autoritaria

A nadie sorprende la dureza de las acciones de gobiernos autoritarios como el chino o el paquistaní para castigar a los infractores de la cuarentena provocada por la pandemia de coronavirus, los pueblos de éstas naciones ya están acostumbrados a que la policía ejercite la violencia a discreción para hacer cumplir las órdenes superiores; la censura y la violación a los derechos fundamentales son práctica … Continue reading Coronavirus y la tentación autoritaria

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Amazon’s E-Commerce Ethics

The Technological Revolution brought E-Commerce and created new ethical challenges, like financial reporting, intellectual property, identity, and privacy policies. Governments and International Organizations are behind the technological innovations and are still not capable of delimiting the boundaries of companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, or Amazon, from using customers’ data. The purpose of this paper is to review the concept of business ethics, how this concept … Continue reading Amazon’s E-Commerce Ethics

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Optimizing Supply Chain Management for Online Businesses

The e-commerce is not limited to creating a website and selling products online; an efficient e-commerce business must cover product configuration, adequate infrastructure, logistics, secure payment, and supply chain management. Supply Chain Management is a new discipline that combines traditional managing techniques with a novel system like e-Commerce, e-Procurement, and e-Collaboration. Efficient supply chains must accelerate e-commerce processes to meet customer requirements This paper aims … Continue reading Optimizing Supply Chain Management for Online Businesses

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Coronavirus crisis will lead to an e-commerce boom

Coronavirus crisis is changing retail market; many companies has been experimenting an exponential increase on their online orders; big chains and small business are rapidly adapting to a new reality that involves medical emergency and fearful markets. Millions of persons are in the process of changing their consumer habits from physical stores to online purchases, especially in sectors traditionally dominated by brick and mortar stores, … Continue reading Coronavirus crisis will lead to an e-commerce boom

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E-Commerce issues: a comparative study

In the past three decades, the approaches and issues on E-commerce have been radically changed, not only because of the technology disruption in the way to do business but for the new challenges for companies, governments, and international organizations to meet the consumer’s habits and necessities. This essay aims to compare and contrast four articles, two of them, E-Commerce: Impacts and Policy Challenges  (Coppel, 2000) … Continue reading E-Commerce issues: a comparative study

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U.S.-Mexico Paid Border Crossing Checkpoints: A P3 Binational Project

One million people every day legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border for work, study, tourism, and/or business purposes; security concerns over illegal substances and human trafficking make the check-in process slower; due to the shortage in personnel and equipment that can make the task difficult; it is not infrequent to wait in line approximately four hours to cross the border (BWT, 2020), and the lost labor-hour … Continue reading U.S.-Mexico Paid Border Crossing Checkpoints: A P3 Binational Project

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Código de Proveedores Modelo

Introducción             La sofisticación de los mercados obliga a las empresas a asegurar su sustentabilidad no sólo en lo financiero y lo legal sino en el ámbito de la responsabilidad social, entendida ésta como la práctica empresarial de transparencia y buen gobierno, manejo de riesgos operativos, inversión ética, compromiso con los trabajadores, visión comunitaria y compromiso con la preservación del medio ambiente. Para el CERES … Continue reading Código de Proveedores Modelo

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The South Korean’s KIKOS Crisis

Financial crises are not the consequence of only one cause, always many factors combined to create the worst-case scenario, and after too many Capitalist crises, not academics, governments, or businesses can predict one. As stated by Shin (2013) crisis have an origin in the greed to earn quick money and the fear to lose the opportunity that others already exploit; in this context, the Korean … Continue reading The South Korean’s KIKOS Crisis

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