Modelo alternativo para la sostenibilidad empresarial

nearby 11.000 entrerprises were eliminated, country-wide in the first four years of the decade of 1990. this article seeks to establish, through a qualitative study that uses method of case that there are alternatives to companies emerging from the liquidation or restructuring process. this would be the self-management model. also we describe a case showing the main cultural, administrative and management characteristics, which the self-managed organizations have. from this diagnosis of the essential elements of these companies, several cases of study were characterized: cales y derivados de la sierra s.a. caldesa; laminados y derivados, layder, (whose case is presented in the article); minera las brisas; cooperativa los guaduales, in antioquia; artgrancol and calzado la corona, in bogota. the creation of the companies, self-managed by the workers, constitutes an opportunity for the conservation of productive units, which contribute to improve the quality of life of the workers and their families.