SummaryThe availability of high-quality transport and logistics services (TLS) is of paramount importance for the growth and competitiveness of an economy. The objective of this paper is to describe how European companies in this industry use information and communication technology (ICT) for conducting business and to assess the impact of this development for firms and the industry as a whole. A comparison with some important Asia Pacific economies is also presented, indicating that some of these countries (Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea) boast very good transport infrastructure compared with the most developed European economies.Using the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) model and the bi-directional relationships of its elements, the paper identifies the links between ICT adoption and market structure, innovation dynamics, and firm performance. A set of recommendations on how to further improve the actual scenario of e-business in the TLS industry is also presented. The model could also be implemented in Asian countries.

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords:Current studies on Digital Rights Management (DRM) have focused on controlling access to and copies Digital rights 0 f contents, centered exclusively on the end of the valué chain (end users). This focus has been oriented Platform towards security and encryption as a means of solving the issue of ¡Ilegal copying by purchasers. In this paper, we propose End-to-End Digital Rights Management (E2E DRM) that involves the protection of the content throughout the entire valué chain. This concept is given form in the new technologies for representing intellectual property (IP) which, in a secure and unequivocal manner, identify the content at each point in the valué chain: from the author to the end user, the content is identifiable in any of the transactions and statuses through which it passes. The key concept which E2E DRM must provide is not only the governability of access and copying, but also that of all the processes associated with the content business. We establish an E2E DRM model and architecture, and propose the R&D management of its design and implementation that makes it possible to protect content from content creator to purchaser. Finally, the paper also analyzes their impact from a global perspective.

Tomando en consideración que la motivación en el trabajo puede mejorarse no solamente por el incremento de los niveles de responsabilidad, significado y retroalimentación que están incorporados en el trabajo (motivación intrínseca) sino también por el mejoramiento de las relaciones entre los trabajadores, las condiciones de trabajo y los incentivos (motivación extrínseca), se han desarrollado cuatro grupos de motivadores concretos los cuales conforman nuestro modelo motivacional. Para estos cuatro grupos de motivadores concretos se han derivado una cierta cantidad de dimensiones esenciales las cuales se han medido y evaluado, lo que nos brinda la posibilidad para el establecimiento, en términos de indicadores, de la relación entre la tecnología instalada y la motivación que inspira. Se realizaron dos aplicaciones del modelo propuesto: una primera en una universidad cubana y una segunda en varias instituciones mexicanas. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la validez del modelo para la determinación de la calidad motivadora de los ambientes de trabajo.