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This article examines the company Montalt, a Ford-España car dealer. It questions what different resources and idiosyncratic relations allowed Montalt to obtain competitive advantage in the subsector of the brand, in spite of the product, technology, publicity and prices being fixed by Ford. In this research, we found that entrepreneurial behavior at Montalt and its capacity to promote idiosyncratic blends of human resources are the key factors underlying its capacity and competitive differentiation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Corporate Social Responsibility is a relatively new term that arose as a result of the changes taking place in the economic environment. The concept is not new, however, as this approach has long been a feature of cooperative societies. As the European Commission (2002) stated: "Cooperatives […] have a long tradition in combining economic viability with social responsibility. They ensure this through stakeholder dialogue and participative management and thus can provide an important reference to other organisations". The aim of this paper is to examine 'E-Corporate Social Responsibility' in Andalusian agricultural cooperatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At present, the environment is very changeable, so firms have to base their competitive advantages on intangible resources, and one of them human resources. As a result of this, training is receiving special attention on the part of the firms and, nowadays, many firms attach great importance to this practice within human resources management. The training must be planned to address the lack of skills of employees and the training plan must answer "who, when, where and how". In the present paper, we will analyze, in a qualitative and quantitative way, how the above mentioned training process is developed within the firms. With this purpose in mind we have used a data base of 572 companies from Castilla-La Mancha with at least 50 employees, from which we obtained 118 valid questionnaires (20,6%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]