Do we need Regional Organizations in our global company? The answer is normally, yes. But there seem to be only a few state-of-the-art patterns for their implementation. Some trends for regional organization schemes are currently emerging among international companies. Not all regions have the same importance for the parent company. Therefore, reasons driving regionalization may vary amongst regions. South America is an example to show how companies manage a ‘smaller’ region, and which criteria should be taken into account to be successful.

In recent years, the large number of corporate scandals around the world involving global companies that used to enjoy spotless reputations, like Enron, Worldcom, Siemens, ABB, Parmalat, and many pharmaceutical firms, have brought about many harsh outcomes. This article offers leading academic stances on business ethics and describes the key traits of suitable ethic systems.

Las compañías con actividades en varios países de América latina buscan bajar gastos y mejorar la calidad de los servicios de su back offi ce a través de Shared Services Centres (SSC). Muchas veces esto es la consecuencia del reordenaminento de las subsidiarias en la región como parte de en una reorganización de la compañía. La idea de fondo es simple: juntando actividades de soporte como contabilidad, Management Information Systems (MIS), nómina, etc en un SSC para la región se gana escala, los costos bajan y el mayor volumen permite el empleo de recursos más califi cados aumentando la calidad.