Los grupos de interés y la presión medioambiental

[ES] Uno de los motivos de mayor peso que inducen a las organizaciones a la implantación de sistemas de gestión medioambiental es la presión ejercida por los grupos de interés. La investigación aporta resultados sobre cuál es la influencia de los grupos de interés sobre la gestión medioambiental. Con este fin hemos analizado 142 centros de negocio españoles, poseedores de los certificados ISO 14000 y/o EMAS, estableciendo la relación de los grupos de interés y su influencia con el modo en que se realiza en dichas organizaciones la gestión medioambiental.

Morals in business organizations: an approach based on strategic value and strength for business management

[EN] In the last decades, the topic of business ethics has attracted great interest at the academic and professional levels. Nowadays business ethics is being increasingly implemented as a necessary discipline in universities’ study plans on business management. Moreover, its importance is also evident according to the worldwide increase of organizations and/or institutions that have implemented ethics systems. However, some approaches thoroughly do not consider the importance and the need of an ethical behaviour and are still guiding the actions and the way of thinking of many academics and professionals led to consider that the only responsibility of business is limited just to profit maximization.

Study on the activation mechanism of BCL-2 related ovarian killer (BOK)

BCL-2 family proteins are key regulators of the mitochondrial apoptotic machinery, controlling the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) permeabilization (MOMP). BCL-2 related Ovarian Killer (BOK) is a poorly understood pro-apoptotic member of this protein family. It has been reported that BOK localizes predominantly (although not exclusively) at membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum and of the Golgi apparatus. However, it is unclear whether BOK also operates at the MOM to promote apoptosis, as other pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family members do. Basing on the fact that the other two BAX-like pro-apoptotic members have been reported to oligomerize in order to induce MOMP, site-directed mutagenesis was used to generate two point mutations that predictably eliminated BOK’s oligomerization capacity. Then, the effect of such mutations on BOK’s membrane activity was examined using fluorescence spectroscopy.