Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.18845/te.v17i1.6474
Dayana Delgado-Sánchez
{"title":"Evolution of occupational illness in Spain during 2009-2020: Territorial and industrial trends","authors":"Dayana Delgado-Sánchez","doi":"10.18845/te.v17i1.6474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v17i1.6474","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes the temporal evolution of occupational illnesses and their causing agents in Spain during the period 2009-2020, paying close attention to territorial and industrial trends. Similar to the case of work accidents, results suggest a positive association between the state of the economic cycle and the incidence rate of occupational illnesses. The reported increase in occupational illnesses between 2009 and 2020 should not be interpreted as bad news. Regulatory changes underwent by Spain’s government introduced a logical harmonization in illnesses’ notification criteria, which led to a temporal convergence of occupational illnesses with and without work leave days. Also, legal reforms facilitated the updating of the list of occupational illnesses and their causing agents, which constitutes a sign that the level of protection of Spanish workers improved, in terms of occupational health and safety at the workplace","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798734","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2022-04-27DOI: 10.18845/te.v16i2.6187
Ricardo Castano, Diana Escandón-Barbosa
{"title":"Measuring the credibility of consumer-generated media (CGM): a scale to test credibility in the field of tourism","authors":"Ricardo Castano, Diana Escandón-Barbosa","doi":"10.18845/te.v16i2.6187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v16i2.6187","url":null,"abstract":"This research proposes a scale to measure the credibility of consumer-generated media (CGM). Two studies were carried out: first, a qualitative study based on eleven in-depth interviews with experts in tourism decisions; and second, we ran a quantitative analysis on a sample of 300 frequent users of tourism CGM platforms. The resulting scale, which consists of 4 dimensions and 12 items, is used to measure the credibility of information published in the tourism CGM platforms. The scale was tested for its dimensionality, reliability, and validity; and the results corroborate its accuracy and value as a source of information for travel decision-making. Finally, future lines of research are presented","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80892454","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.18845/te.v16i2.6168
Alfredo Elías Alfaro-Ramos, J. Ferreras-Méndez
{"title":"Knowledge management and intellectual capital in the business model innovation of Costa Rican manufacturing firms","authors":"Alfredo Elías Alfaro-Ramos, J. Ferreras-Méndez","doi":"10.18845/te.v16i2.6168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v16i2.6168","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of knowledge management and intellectual capital on the ability of companies to generate business model innovation. To evaluate the proposed hypotheses, we surveyed a final sample of 100 Costa Rican manufacturing companies and analyzed the data using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results show that knowledge management positively contributes to the development of business model innovations. Similarly, intellectual capital has a direct positive influence on business model innovation. However, the direct contribution intellectual capital depends on the adoption of practices that encourage knowledge management in companies","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"340 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79684833","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":"Financial resources, eco-innovation and sustainability performance in automotive industry","authors":"Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzmán, Sandra Yesenia Pinzón-Castro","doi":"10.18845/te.v16i2.6169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v16i2.6169","url":null,"abstract":"Eco-innovation is considered in the literature as one of the most important constructs that substantially improve the environmental sustainability of manufacturing companies. However, it has been shown that companies alone cannot adequately develop eco-innovation activities, to achieve not only a higher level of eco-innovation activities, but also a significant improvement in the level of sustainable performance of manufacturing firms. In addition, little is known about the relationship between financial resources, eco-innovation and sustainable performance fill this gap in the literature and explore the relationship between these three main constructs through an extensive review of the literature. Likewise, a self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 460 through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation models. The results obtained suggest that financial resources have significant positive effects on eco-innovation, and eco-innovation has significant positive effects on the sustainable performance of firms in the automotive industry","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"362 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74955008","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.18845/te.v16i1.5926
Z. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, László Szerb
{"title":"A note on the configuration of the digital ecosystem in Latin America","authors":"Z. Acs, Esteban Lafuente, László Szerb","doi":"10.18845/te.v16i1.5926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v16i1.5926","url":null,"abstract":"We evaluate the main characteristics of the digital ecosystem of North American (USA and Canada) and 16 Latin American economies for 2019. By employing the ‘benefit of the doubt’ model rooted in non-parametric techniques to scrutinize a composite indicator designed to assess the digital ecosystem (i.e., the Digital Platform Economy (DPE) index), the analysis allows the computation of endogenous (country-specific) weights that can be used for developing more informed policy making. The results show that countries prioritize different aspects of their digital ecosystem which confirms that, contrary to homogeneous prescription, tailor-made policy is a more desirable approach if the objective is to optimize the resources deployed to enhance the countries’ digital ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84943857","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.18845/te.v14i3.5266
S. Araya-Pizarro, Luperfina E. Rojas-Escobar, Enrique Ruiz-Vega
{"title":"Importancia del envase en las preferencias de vino: hallazgos en una región vitivinícola de Chile","authors":"S. Araya-Pizarro, Luperfina E. Rojas-Escobar, Enrique Ruiz-Vega","doi":"10.18845/te.v14i3.5266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v14i3.5266","url":null,"abstract":"El mercado de vino en Chile se caracteriza por el bajo consumo interno, la alta concentración espacial de la producción (centro-sur del país) y la fuerte rivalidad sectorial, aspectos que acentúan la importancia de diseñar estrategias comerciales efectivas, basadas en aquellos atributos que explican las preferencias del consumidor, especialmente, en el punto de venta. Por medio de la aplicación de una encuesta a 388 sujetos de la región de Coquimbo (zona vitivinícola del norte Chile) y la estimación de un modelo multivariante, se analizó la influencia de cuatro atributos de valor en la decisión de compra del consumidor. Los resultados muestran que la importancia relativa del envase es de 28% (botella: 9% y tapa: 19%); del precio, 29%, y de la cepa, 43%. En particular, se prefieren los vinos encorchados con base cóncava, cepa Cabernet Sauvignon y precio alto. Se revela que el consumidor posee un comportamiento de compra enfocado en la calidad (precio como señal de calidad) y que no manifiesta una zona de producción predilecta. Además, se determinó que la importancia del envase se relaciona inversamente con la edad y directamente con el ingreso del consumidor. Se espera que los hallazgos permitan a los vitivinicultores locales mejorar el posicionamiento de sus vinos en el mercado.","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80545571","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2019-11-04DOI: 10.18845/te.v13i3.4473
J. Berbegal‐Mirabent, Dolors Gil-Doménech, R. D. L. Torre
{"title":"Dealing with heterogeneity: An analysis of Spanish universities","authors":"J. Berbegal‐Mirabent, Dolors Gil-Doménech, R. D. L. Torre","doi":"10.18845/te.v13i3.4473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v13i3.4473","url":null,"abstract":"Universities are highly dependent on regulatory frameworks, the geographical setting as well as on requirements for the creation of the different outputs they pursue. As a result, universities are heterogeneous organizations. This study analyses universities’ heterogeneity in Spain. By using a dataset from the Spanish higher education system, we model the objective function of universities and investigate which factors help explain universities’ performance, in terms of the three missions that they mostly perform (teaching, research and technology transfer). Also, a cluster analysis is performed to categorise Spanish universities. The findings contribute to better understand the different behaviours shown by universities. The findings underline the heterogeneity of Spanish universities: while some universities focus more on formation (teaching) goals, other universities excel at disseminating knowledge through different scientific outputs. The study concludes with a detailed inter- and intra- group analysis.","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79382431","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2019-11-04DOI: 10.18845/te.v13i3.4597
S. Alonso, J. Leiva
{"title":"Competitividad Empresarial en Costa Rica: un enfoque multidimensional","authors":"S. Alonso, J. Leiva","doi":"10.18845/te.v13i3.4597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v13i3.4597","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo evalúa la eficiencia competitiva de sesenta y siete pequeñas y medianas empresas costarricenses para el 2017. A partir de las bases teóricas del Enfoque Basado en Recursos, se aborda metodológicamente la medición de la competitividad empresarial del grupo de empresas en estudio a través de un índice compuesto por diez pilares, según lo propuesto por Lafuente, Leiva, Moreno y Szerb (2019b). Estos pilares se encuentran interconectados y configuran la competitividad empresarial de las pymes. Para estimar su eficiencia, se realiza un modelo de análisis envolvente de datos (DEA por sus siglas en inglés), con especificación de un input y un output. Los resultados de la investigación indican que las empresas agrupadas en los sectores de manufactura y servicios muestran los índices de competitividad y eficiencia mayores, lo que es explicado por los pilares de innovación de productos y redes de negocios; mientras que los pilares menos priorizados son internacionalización, mercado interno y recursos humanos. Se concluye que el índice de competitividad es una herramienta que favorecería la toma de decisiones empresariales, pues contribuiría con en el diseño de estrategias empresariales orientadas hacia una configuración más homogénea en la asignación de recursos y capacidades.","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86546248","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2019-11-04DOI: 10.18845/te.v13i3.4208
L. Francisco, J. Prada
{"title":"Autogestión, el emprendimiento e innovación Social: un análisis de contenidos publicados en Twitter","authors":"L. Francisco, J. Prada","doi":"10.18845/te.v13i3.4208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v13i3.4208","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo se analizan mensajes publicados en Twitter obtenidos mediante minería de datos que aparecen vinculados a los hashtags “#Autogestión”, “#EmprendimientoSocial” e “#InnovaciónSocial” recolectados durante dos años, y que fueron filtrados y evaluados mediante análisis temático de contenidos. El propósito es analizar prácticas sociales con relación a nuevos paradigmas de organización y gestión que, desde una perspectiva social innovadora, desarrollan iniciativas orientadas a resolver necesidades de forma autónoma, y que hoy se reconfiguran en los escenarios de habla hispana y en el uso de entornos digitales como alternativas a las formas tradicionales de gestionar y formar organizaciones. Los corpus de mensajes analizados muestran cómo se usan los entornos digitales para emprender iniciativas diversas, realizadas mediante gestión autónoma para construir redes de apoyo, tanto para obtener recursos como información mediante asociacionismo, solidaridad y ayuda mutua. Estos elementos resultan clave para resignificar la gestión en las organizaciones contemporáneas.","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80959143","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}
Tec EmpresarialPub Date : 2019-11-04DOI: 10.18845/te.v13i3.4599
Manuel Araya Solano
{"title":"Eficiencia competitiva de los cantones en Costa Rica: Análisis del índice de competitividad cantonal basado en modelos frontera no-paramétricos","authors":"Manuel Araya Solano","doi":"10.18845/te.v13i3.4599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v13i3.4599","url":null,"abstract":"Este estudio emplea un modelo de Análisis Envolvente de Datos (DEA) con un único input constante para analizar la eficiencia competitiva de los cantones costarricenses para el año 2016. Los resultados de eficiencia, como frutos del análisis de las siete dimensiones (pilares) del Índice de Competitividad Cantonal (ICC) como outputs de la función de producción no-paramétrica propuesta en este trabajo, indican que, en promedio, los cantones costarricenses pueden mejorar su eficiencia competitiva un 56,84%. Además, los resultados sugieren que la configuración de pilares competitivos tiene importantes implicaciones para la evaluación de eficiencia. En provincias relativamente más desarrolladas, que presentan aglomeraciones urbanas, los pilares competitivos relacionados con las infraestructuras, el empleo, la calidad de vida y la innovación, son las principales prioridades en el diseño de políticas de apoyo que explican el resultado de la eficiencia competitiva; mientras que los indicadores de empleo y calidad de vida son los principales pilares que explican la eficiencia competitiva en las provincias menos desarrolladas. El ICC es un instrumento valioso para monitorear el desempeño competitivo de los cantones, mientras que el enfoque analítico propuesto basado en un modelo DEA puede ofrecer información útil a los observadores de políticas de apoyo que permita identificar qué acciones estratégicas pueden ayudar a optimizar las políticas de asignación de recursos y, como resultado, la competitividad de los cantones.","PeriodicalId":42185,"journal":{"name":"Tec Empresarial","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87900920","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}