When talking about economic development in emerging countries, it is generally stressed the role of micro and small enterpri-ses (MSE), both for its ability to generate employment and for being the manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit of its mana-gers. For them is clearing the way and create practical options to maximize the results of their work. It is with this philosophy that this document raises the importance of the corporate franchises system as a mean to optimize the performance of MSE. And how can we have evidence of such optimization? There can be many ways, but the concept that is becoming more important is how to make tangible the corporate work, which means how to make «touchable» the entrepreneurial spirit, the very critical resource for managing the MSE. This is the message: the franchises make tangible the entrepreneurship spirit of the MSE.

Teniendo en cuenta que entre los diversos instrumentos didácticos el más usado en la enseñanza de la administración de empresas es el método de casos, este libro contiene un conjunto de casos referidos al fortalecimiento institucional administrativo de las instituciones financieras de desarrollo de América Latina —cuya problemática es tan común a estos países y tan disímil respecto a los industrializados—, así como a proyectos de desarrollo de la mediana y pequeña industria y a proyectos en el sector de la minería. Su objetivo es actualizar e incrementar el material de casos latinoamericanos y aportar algunas ideas y experiencias de profesionales conocedores de la problemática de la administración de instituciones financieras de desarrollo. Sus seis capítulos están estructurados de acuerdo con las principales funciones de estas instituciones: administración y organi...

Pomalca is one of the oldest sugars producing companies in Peru located on the North coast of the Department of Lambayeque which in the last decades has gone through a long period of crisis. The present study makes an economic and financial evaluation of the possibilities of re-floating and of its convenience as a business opportunity for a private investor.With this purpose it presents a technical diagnosis of the company to the year 2000: it establishes the amounts of losses and obligations it summarizes the process of transfer of actions occurred in the framework of the privatization promoted by the government performs an analysis of the productive indicators and of the accounting parameters and projects a financial plan which estimates the investment and borrowing needs. It concludes that if the proposed plan is executed the project is viable so that "it can be as it was". 

When talking about economic development in emerging countries, it is generally stressed the role of micro and small enterprises (MSE), both for its ability to generate employment and for being the manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit of its managers. For them is clearing the way and create practical options to maximize the results of their work. It is with this philosophy that this document raises the importance of the corporate franchises system as a mean to optimize the performance of MSE. And how can we have evidence of such optimization? There can be many ways, but the concept that is becoming more important is how to make tangible the corporate work, which means how to make «touchable» the entrepreneurial spirit, the very critical resource for managing the MSE. This is the message: the franchises make tangible the entrepreneurship spirit of the MSE.