{"title":"Factores que influyen en la compra de alimentos orgánicos en México. Un análisis mixto","authors":"Gloria Lety Lopez Salazar","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.210","url":null,"abstract":"El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es analizar la demanda de alimentos orgánicos y determinar los factores que influyen en la disposición a pagar un sobreprecio por alimentos orgánicos en el mercado mexicano. Se diseñó y validó un cuestionario para estudiar el comportamiento de compra de 270 consumidores de la ciudad de Celaya, Guanajauto, quienes pertenecen a uno de los tres niveles socioecónomicos más privilegiados del país; así mismo, para profundizar en el tema se llevaron a cabo sesiones de grupo. Los resultados muestran que la conciencia de beneficios de los productos orgánicos, la edad del consumidor y la disponibilidad del producto son factores que influyen la disposición a pagar un sobreprecio por alimentos orgánicos.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126615154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Bueno Campos, Cecilia Murcia Rivera, Carlos Merino Moreno
{"title":"Resilient organizational capabilities in NTBFs. Concept and variables as dynamic and adaptive capabilities","authors":"Eduardo Bueno Campos, Cecilia Murcia Rivera, Carlos Merino Moreno","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.196","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose the concepts and variables that characterize resilient organizational capabilities (onwards ROC that can be viewed as dynamic capabilities. The concept of resilience highlights the ability to overcome trauma and the power to emerge more reinforced, considering the concept of “lessons learned” as the basis for its development. There are two key factors: attitudes and culture that can be transformed into a concept of resilience. In this work, the concept and characteristics of the ROC or “adaptive capabilities” generating innovation in the field of SMEs are presented. Also, the role of dynamic capabilities and intellectual capital that has been playing to date will be explained. In this research a methodological triangulation and a qualitative analysis to data on a Case Studies in new technology based firms (NTBFs) of the Scientific Park of Madrid and Colombian SMEs are realized. And will be completed with a quantitative analysis through the survey of these same two groups. The results of the comparative study show differences in analysed ROC, explained by cultural or economic themes, or by the sectors or sizes to which the companies of the reference groups belong, which is the basis for a future line of research.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131178666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Diego Sánchez Sánchez, Luz Chacón León, Edgar Hernandez Vasquez
{"title":"Modelo de medición de riesgo empresarial para la gestión de MIPYMEs en Costa Rica: Un análisis exploratorio","authors":"Juan Diego Sánchez Sánchez, Luz Chacón León, Edgar Hernandez Vasquez","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.191","url":null,"abstract":"La presente investigación contempla la conceptualización y estructuración de un modelo de definición y medición del riesgo en la gestión de las MIPYMEs, denotándose cuatro tipos de riesgo de relevancia: Financiero, Legal y Operativo, áreas que definen la gestión en las empresas; al abordar esta metodología desde una perspectiva aplicada, es decir, por medio de un estudio pre exploratorio, en el cual se aplica la herramienta desarrollada a cinco empresas de naturaleza MIPYMEs, donde se establece la definición estructural de la composición del riesgo, así como la evaluación de este factor en el giro de negocio de cada institución analizada; los datos que son presentados de igual forma en términos correlacionados y ordenados, permitiendo probar la efectividad de la herramienta desarrollada para una eventual gestión gerencial.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130526882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Víctor Manuel Castillo Girón, Manuel Machuca Martínez, Suhey Ayala Ramírez
{"title":"Impacto laboral de Wal-Mart en la productividad laboral. Un análisis por municipio en México","authors":"Víctor Manuel Castillo Girón, Manuel Machuca Martínez, Suhey Ayala Ramírez","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I2.208","url":null,"abstract":"Si bien antes de los años 1990 ya había participación de grandes empresas minoristas en México, la llegada de empresas transnacionales, como Wal-Mart, generó una reconfiguración en la distribución de alimentos y, con ello, una expectativa del impacto directo sobre algunas variables del sector. Nuestro objetivo es determinar si la presencia de Wal-Mart implica una mayor productividad por trabajador. Para ello se construyó un modelo de probabilidad logística ordinal cuyos resultados a nivel municipal muestran una relación positiva y estadísticamente significativa, es decir, la probabilidad de encontrar un mayor nivel de productividad aumenta con una mayor presencia de dicha empresa.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"445 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116719407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alfonso A. Rojo-Ramírez, César Augusto Palomino Rubio, Domingo García Pérez de Lema, José Domingo González Benítez, José Zacarías Mayorga Sánchez, Miguel Antonio Alba Suárez
{"title":"La tasa de descuento en el proceso de valoración de empresas: un estudio empírico en Colombia","authors":"Alfonso A. Rojo-Ramírez, César Augusto Palomino Rubio, Domingo García Pérez de Lema, José Domingo González Benítez, José Zacarías Mayorga Sánchez, Miguel Antonio Alba Suárez","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I1.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I1.145","url":null,"abstract":"La valoración de empresas es una actividad cada vez más importante en un contexto globalizado, con empresas más dinámicas e internacionalizadas en busca de la creación de valor. La internacionalización afecta cada vez más a los países en desarrollo que se ven impelidos a tratar con operaciones de compra-venta internacionales y demandas de sus partners cada vez más especializadas, como es el caso de Colombia. Normalmente el método utilizado en la valoración es el descuento de los flujos de efectivo, lo que precisa el uso de tasas de actualización ad-hoc. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo principal analizar la aplicación de la tasa de descuento en la actividad de valoración de empresas en Colombia. Para ello se lleva a cabo un estudio exploratorio de carácter empírico, sobre una encuesta realizada a 32 expertos colombianos en valoración de empresas. Nuestras principales conclusiones revelan que los valoradores colombianos siguen pautas comunes a los valoradores internacionales, aunque se observa una gran dispersión a la hora de estimar la tasa de descuento. De esta forma el trabajo realizado puede ser de interés no solo para los profesionales de la valoración, sino también para los académicos y empresarios que estén inmersos en este proceso, ya que ofrece información sobre la realidad colombiana en un contexto internacional","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133937672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prácticas de recursos humanos y rendimiento empresarial: Explorando el modelo AMO en las PYME españolas","authors":"Gabriel Lozano-Reina, Gregorio Sánchez Marín","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I1.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I1.175","url":null,"abstract":"La gestión de recursos humanos ha sido tradicionalmente estudiada en el ámbito de las grandes empresas. Sin embargo, en los últimos años hay un gran interés en caracterizar a las microempresas, pequeñas y medianas empresas (pyme), en analizar cómo las prácticas de recursos humanos son implementadas en ellas, y en verificar cuál es el impacto de dichas prácticas en los resultados de la empresa. En este sentido, a partir de una muestra de 1136 pyme españolas, nuestro objetivo es verificar cómo es la implementación de prácticas de recursos humanos en este contexto y, en particular, explorar la orientación de dichas políticas hacia el modelo AMO (habilidad, motivación, oportunidad). Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que los factores contingentes que mayor impacto tienen en el desarrollo de las prácticas de recursos humanos son la antigüedad de la empresa, la naturaleza de su control empresarial y la formación del gerente. Además, se evidencia que las empresas tienen mayor rendimiento cuando sus prácticas de recursos humanos se orientan hacia el modelo AMO","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133607203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaime Cadena Echeverría, Mercedes Eugenia Aguilar, Pedro Enrique Buitron
{"title":"Competitividad en las pequeñas y medianas empresas del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito","authors":"Jaime Cadena Echeverría, Mercedes Eugenia Aguilar, Pedro Enrique Buitron","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V2I2.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V2I2.102","url":null,"abstract":"Basado en el modelo de competitividad planteado por el World Economic Forum (WEF) se pretende analizar, conocer y comparar el nivel de competitividad en las PYMES de los sectores priorizados: Turismo, Alimentos, Textil, Farmacéutico, Metalmecánico, Confección y Calzado en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, de manera descriptiva y no experimental; La información se obtuvo a través del análisis documental y encuestas. Para determinar el nivel de competitividad y conocer la realidad de las PYMES se realizó la caracterización de los sectores, determinando la importancia de éstos para la transformación de la matriz productiva. El índice de competitividad se obtiene con el cálculo de tres subíndices, que están formados por doce pilares, cada uno de ellos compuesto por variables establecidas según el sector analizado. Se plantea estrategias para mejorar la competitividad, alineadas al cambio de la matriz productiva, encaminadas hacia la transformación de materias primas a producto final que podría ser exportado y, de esta manera, agregar valor en beneficio del sector industrial del Ecuador. Existe la posibilidad de realizar el estudio al resto de sectores priorizados y en todas las provincias del país.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121543166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delimitation of the experience factor in the decision to select international markets by Spanish SMEs: The influence of psychic distance","authors":"Pedro María Martínez Villar","doi":"10.26784/sbir.v5i2.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/sbir.v5i2.368","url":null,"abstract":"The internationalization of SMEs is generally characterized by a progressive multi-stage process, in which organizations gradually acquire knowledge and skills that strengthen their commitment to the outside world. International experience – a form of autonomous accumulation of know-how that allows the understanding of potential markets – influences the decision-making process for selecting export markets. Although gradual acquisition of international experience allows an increase in export activity in more physically distant markets, this gradualist postulate does not have an indefinite validity. This paper analyzes the limits of this international experience in terms of psychic distance, examining whether those SMEs that have obtained enough international experience to develop markets of greater complexity tend to select more complex, i.e., more psychically distant, countries. The findings generally support the idea that the relationship between international experience and psychically distant markets ceases when SMEs have obtained enough international experience, after which it is the objectives of a strictly business nature which condition the decision to select potential markets. For these reasons, when the organization has obtained enough skills and international experience to develop markets of greater complexity, the managers choose to select more complex i.e., more psychically distant, countries.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134565600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilization of non-financial business support services to aid development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Tanzania","authors":"Francis Lwesya, A. Mwakalobo, Justine Mbukwa","doi":"10.26784/sbir.v5i2.358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/sbir.v5i2.358","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of factors inhibit the development of MSMEs in African countries, which in turn affects entrepreneurship, job creation and economic transformation. Using cross-sectional data from 250 MSMEs in the Dar es Salaam region, we find in most of the examined variables the positive relationship between the use of non-financial business support services (BDS) and the development of MSMEs in the Dar es Salaam region. However, contrary to expectations, building business linkages and mentoring programs recorded negative relationships with MSMEs development. This is related to restricted capacities stemming from the size of MSMEs compared to large companies and deficiencies in the content of mentoring programs. In addition, the discrepancy between BDS demand and supply as well as the low adoption rate of BDS are associated with the inadequate adaptation of BDS to the needs of MSMEs, high service costs and a lack of qualified service providers. Thus, we argue that the provision of BDS to MSMEs should be demand-driven and that institutions should build on the pre-eminent characteristics of MSMEs when designing business support programs. On the other hand, Government efforts to nurture the development of MSMEs through policies and programs should extend to promoting business linkages between MSMEs and large enterprises.","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121304074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Vargas-Hérnandez, E. P. Orozco Quijano, J. Virchez
{"title":"A Critical Analysis of Scenarios for Small and Medium Enterprisee in NAFTA renegotiations","authors":"J. Vargas-Hérnandez, E. P. Orozco Quijano, J. Virchez","doi":"10.26784/SBIR.V3I1.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26784/SBIR.V3I1.151","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to set some scenarios for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from a critical analysis of the provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation, its challenges and opportunities. The critical analysis departs from the questionable position of the withdrawal from NAFTA and their consequences for SMEs of not giving continuity through a process of renegotiation among the three partners. The method used is the critical analysis based mainly in some sources of information, analysis of results of NAFTA, and the strategic examination of its challenges and opportunities for SMEs. Finally, the analysis establish some possible scenarios post-NAFTA renegotiation and some strategic proposals for the SMEs","PeriodicalId":153561,"journal":{"name":"Small Business International Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125202381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}