%0 Journal Article %T POTENCIALIDAD DE ASOCIATIVIDAD DE RESTAURANTES DEL CENTRO HIST¨®RICO DE LA CIUDAD DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS- COLOMBIA %A VERGARA SCHMALBACH %A JUAN CARLOS %A MAZA ¨¢VILA %A FRANCISCO %A FONTALVO HERRERA %A TOM¨¢S JOS¨¦ %J Revista Facultad de Ciencias Econ¨®micas: Investigaci¨®n y Reflexi¨®n %D 2010 %I Universidad Militar Nueva Granada %X enterprise association is a strategy to face globalized markets and increasing competency from other national and foreign enterprises. the main objective of this article is to measure the potential of association for a group of 15 restaurants located at the historic center of cartagena de indias city (colombia), through the implementation of mactor method and supported by a structured survey made to potential associates, in order to infer common objectives which will be the base of enterprise association. thanks to this method, it was able to determine a level of association potentiality of 86%, recommending to enterprises to emphasize their efforts towards joint development of operational, financial, service strategies and human talent enforcement. %K associations %K associative %K competitiveness %K cooperation %K mactor method. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-68052010000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en