%0 Journal Article %T Modelo alternativo para la sostenibilidad empresarial %A Maussa P¨¦rez %A Fausto O. %J Cuadernos de Administraci¨®n (Universidad del Valle) %D 2010 %I Universidad del Valle %X 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. %K personnel management %K corporate culture %K social responsibility %K economic development. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-46452010000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en