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This article proposes a classification of causes of mergers by theoretical currents and assesses their applicability in the Colombian case of the Davivienda - Bansuperior - Bancafé merger. Guided by the three theoretical currents (economies of scale and scope, transaction costs, and the resource and capability-based approach), the theoretical context discusses 17 typologies of causes of mergers. The method used was a case study and information was gathered from diverse secondary sources and in-depth interviews with top management. The Likert scale was applied to classify attitudes. This case helped verify some of the reasons presented in the literature on the topic. It also confirmed that one reason for the horizontal merger of a company belonging to a business group is to acquire benefits for the other companies in the group, through savings in transaction costs derived from the vertical ties generated between the merged company and the other group companies. An inviting line of future research is the specific weight of the vertical causes of a horizontal merger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Colombian health system illustrates evidence of the market power of health insurance entities (EPS) with respect to hospital institutions (IPS). The study illustrates this hypothesis with empiric evidence and shows that the concentration of EPS entities is higher than that of IPS entities. Hospitals try to defend themselves, building concentration "islands" in select specialties. However, this concentration of specialties does not reach the level of concentration of the insurance entities. This lack of balance in the degree of concentration explains the market power executed by EPS entities in respect with IPS entities. The market power functions as one of the causes that explain the difficult financial situation of IPSs. It is recommended to find measures to correct this situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is an attempt to study innovation in the biotechnology sector in Colombia. A study is made of the effects of transaction costs and incomplete contracts in the organizational structures, and in innovation processes. Based on a survey applied to 19 biotechnology organizations, transverse-section econometric models were constructed to test the hypothesis. Results indicate that innovation takes place in vertically integrated companies; that subcontracting works well only if it is accompanied by economies of scale, or where the product or service subcontracted is simple; and that the barrier to development in biotechnology in Colombia is not of the scarcity of resources or on qualified people, but of institutions, which should create incentives for people to develop their capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores which are the criteria that the agents uses for the determination of the governance forms of the interchange of health services between insurers and providers of in the in Bogotá. The study is done based upon poisoning perspective of strategic management, the transaction costs economics, the contingency theory and the institutional theory. The results showed that the criteria more relevant in the decision making about the governance forms of the economic interchange are those related with transaction costs, that expresses in the need of reduction of conflict between the agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombia is reforming its health care system (SGSSS). The 052 project of bill appears like a possible winner. The 052 project allows to understand the philosophy of the reform, first of all, the financing mechanism of the SGSSS. The project 052 does not change the complex architecture of the SGSSS. There are four circuits of resources within the SGSSS, which is an obstacle to carry out the public health policy and improve the health of the population. Every one circuits has its own mixture of the market and the regulation, which makes difficult the governance of the SGSSS. The 052 project does not improve the competition between the actors of the system, and introduces more restrictions on the market logic, not always theoretically sound. The reform will increase the global budget of the SGSSS, which allows to give health care protection to more poor people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to study the limits and the relations between insurers and providers of health services in the contribution-based health care system in Bogotá, as well as to link the ways in which the exchange of health services is set up with the results perceived by providers. The research is rooted theoretically in transaction cost economics. Seventeen (17) health service providers were included in the empirical component of the study. We have found three basic forms of economic exchange: Market cooperation, hierarchical market, and potential cooperation. The hierarchical market shows inferior results compared to potential cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]