One of the questions associated with facilitated problem structuring is how the micro level of actors' multimodal communications, contributes to the emergence of a macro level, framing the possibilities for action in a workshop. This paper shows a way to study this macro level, building the visualization of the conversations' structure starting from a boundary games theory micro analysis of the interactions. Our empirical evidence comes from following a group of academic consultants working to define a value proposition for their activity. We focus on analyzing two out of nine workshops that were felt diametrically opposite in terms of facilitation and achievements. Moving from the micro towards an upward level, three configurations building the structure are identified-shifting, branching and converging. The work carried out allows us to: (1) visualize the structure of conversations in a problem structuring context, (2) highlight the role of multimodal communications in building the conversations and (3) construct an interpretation bridging the micro and macro readings of a workshop. This knowledge is useful for facilitators guiding the dynamic of a workshop and for researchers looking forward to understanding how micro level interactions build higher levels of the social phenomenon of intervention.

<p>Este artículo revisa investigaciones de la actividad política corporativa (CPA), publicadas entre 2004 y 2015 en diferentes <em>journals</em>. Un hallazgo sorprendente son las pocas investigaciones que se ocupan de la CPA en casos latinoamericanos. Para promover la investigación sobre la CPA en estos contextos se presenta un programa de investigación de tres fases: preguntas básicas, combinación de tópicos y otras temáticas de interés. Esta agenda puede trazar un camino para la investigación de la CPA que no solo apoye la práctica con conocimiento administrativo contextualizado sino que visibilice las acciones políticas de las empresas y desde ahí se propicie el control de comportamientos indebidos.</p>

La materialización de sinergias es un reto para la administración de empresas multinegocios. En este texto se  presenta el estado del conocimiento sobre las sinergias en el subcampo de la estrategia corporativa. Para ello se estudian artículos publicados entre 2003 y 2015 en revistas académicas, reconocidas por el Institute for Scientific Información  ISI Web of Science y por Scimago. Esta revisión de tema diferencia las investigaciones que abordan las sinergias como resultado en la etapa de adquisición y se centra en la de integración, donde la práctica administrativa toma mayor relevancia. Por lo tanto, se propone estudiarlas sinergias a partir de criterios de clasificación identificados en la literatura: origen, resultados y beneficiarios. De esta forma, reconocer la diversidad de sinergias abre un camino para enfrentar el reto de la administración multinegocios.

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Businesses and not multibusiness firms are the ones that compete. While each business needs its own competi- tive strategy, multibusiness firms require corporate management for capturing synergies. The competitive view has triggered the emergence of multiple businesses within a single firm. Despite this, it is common to find managers who are unaware of the benefits that joint management brings to the performance of a multibusiness company. Managing multibusiness firms implies facing a paradox: leveraging business uniqueness while creating joint value for the multi- business company. This paper characterizes the multibusiness phenomenon from the existence of ownership ties and coordinated actions, by qualitatively researching 21 Colombian multibusiness firms. It contributes to the managerial knowledge of these types of firms in two different ways: by identifying the multibusiness phenomenon in a variety of companies, and by highlighting the benefits of the joint management of a multibusiness firm.