The objective of this book is to give the whole community of the Universidad Santiago de Cali and the general public the results of the most recent research carried out by the directors, teachers and the different programs of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences. The analyses developed are carried out on institutional topics that take into account studies of the education and health sectors; likewise, business topics such as the impact of international trade on industry, the model of business association of a specific sector, professional ethics in the exercise of business functions; and economic topics such as financing, the incidence of the perception of insecurity in student consumers, and factors related to self-employment.