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This study focuses on the factors that may influence Spanish family owned businesses to decide to export and move towards internationalization, posing their level of debt as a possible determining factor. To do so, a review of publications on the subject has been carried out, as well as an empirical study using a sample of 1,846 businesses, which include both family and non-family firms. The results seem to show that the debt level of businesses whose propriety and management are handled by a family differs from that of those that do not fit this characteristic, especially where the decision whether or not to export products abroad is concerned.

This paper aims to determine whether the traditional consideration by the scientific literature of the negative influence of the age of the micro-entrepreneur on the innovation performances of the business, can become positive when using information and communication technology (ICT) and developing strategies of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and diversification. The study was conducted using a sample of 148 micro Spanish companies. The results have been contrasted by two models, one without interactions to test the main effects of each of the variables under study; and a second model that includes interactions of the variable age with these moderator variables. The results show that the use of ICTs and the development of CSR activities by micro-entrepreneurs moderate the negative effect of the variable age over the innovation performance of the micro-enterprise. In contrast, the diversification decision enhances this negative effect. T. Priede-Bergamini et al.

<p>Ante la preocupación generalizada de la sociedad acerca de las carencias de los jóvenes en cuanto a la expresión escrita, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar si esta competencia se desarrolla y se evalúa en la Universidad. La comunidad académica no puede permanecer ajena a este problema, por lo que es importante que incluya dentro de sus planes de estudio la mejora de esta competencia. El desarrollo de la expresión escrita se incluye entre las competencias generales instrumentales para el aprendizaje y la formación. Se considera, por tanto, una competencia necesaria para cualquier tipo de estudio y cualquier perfil profesional. En particular, en los estudios de ADE, la adquisición de la expresión escrita no se circunscribe a ninguna asignatura en concreto, sino que puede desarrollarse en varias de ellas a lo largo de la titulación. No obstante, el Trabajo de Fin de Grado es una de las asignaturas en la que mejor puede enmarcarse la consecución de esta habilidad. Por este motivo, se realiza un análisis sobre el diseño, la organización, el contenido y la evaluación del Trabajo de Fin de Grado en todas las universidades de la Comunidad de Madrid, tanto públicas como privadas, en las que se imparte el Grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas. El estudio se ha elaborado a partir de la información de los planes de estudio y de las guías docentes de la asignatura, disponibles en las páginas web de las universidades.</p><p> </p>

In this paper the authors study the relationship between the use of external advice and the size of a Spanish family business, focusing especially on the advice on legal matters and human resources, due to the importance of these particular issues for family firms. To fulfill this objective, an in-depth review of the literature has been performed, as well as an empirical study. The results show that a family nature of business has a positive impact in the use of human resources management external advice. Nevertheless, for legal advice no relationship can be found. Finally, in line with the literature and the results of the analysis, no positive relationship has been found between family business size and the use of external advice, in comparison to the results for companies in general. The scarcity of published work about the issue and the results obtained, especially those related to the use of legal advice for family business managers, make this paper useful for researchers and businesses managers.