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For the time being, organizations throughout the world are in an environment that is constantly changing in various aspects including technological developments, customers’ preferences, emerging markets, and globalization. In this environment, the concept of agility, especially workforce agility, is...
RESUMEN Con la firma del Acuerdo de Paz entre el Gobierno nacional de Colombia y las entonces Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) en el 2016, se inicia en Colombia un escenario de postconflicto, caracterizado por una serie de desafíos y la necesidad del aporte...
This study aims to find a relationship between board of directors’ characteristics and the likelihood that a company receives a modified audit opinion (as a measure of the external reporting of companies) in Malaysia. To test our hypotheses, we use the pooled cross-sectional logistic regression anal...
RESUMEN Las investigaciones sobre prácticas ambientales han recibido una atención creciente en el área de turismo. Sin embargo, hace falta una revisión bibliográfica que explore las prácticas de consumo sustentable en el sector turístico. Con ese fin, a partir del uso del software ATLAS.ti 9, se rea...
This study attempts to investigate the role of knowledge management (KM) in commercial companies. To this end, a literature review was made and relevant components were extracted to conceptualize KM and organizational performance (OP), and the relationship between KM and OP was presented in a theore...
RESUMEN En el presente artículo se analiza la relación causal que existe entre el sentido de pertenencia, las relaciones intraorganizacionales y la participación activa en el desarrollo de la comunidad. Se trata de una investigación de alcance explicativo. El instrumento de análisis consta de diecis...
RESUMEN A través de este estudio se busca identificar el efecto de las prácticas de responsabilidad social corporativa (RSC) en el costo de patrimonio de las empresas colombianas que cotizan en la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC), y que han reportado informes de sostenibilidad bajo la metodología...
RESUMEN La administración del riesgo estratégico es un proceso continuo en el cual se identifican los eventos que tienen un impacto en la capacidad de la organización para crear valor y que pueden impedir el logro de sus objetivos estratégicos. Este proceso requiere de un marco que defina una estruc...
Despite almost four decades of introducing the Cause-Related Marketing (CRM) concept into business and marketing literature, there is still no general agreement as to the definition, content, and scope of marketing, in particular, in countries such as Iran. In this regard, while this article will ex...
RESUMEN El artículo plantea una comparación entre países con alto nivel de desarrollo (Australia, Reino Unido, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Suecia y Finlandia), y los cuatro países que conforman la Alianza del Pacífico (Colombia, México, Perú y Chile). El objetivo es encontrar posibles relaciones entre l...
Most innovation research has been primarily focused on developed countries, creating a gap in the literature related to innovation processes in emerging markets, such as Latin America. Even as some studies aim at this region, their approach is usually conducted from the standpoint of a R+D funding p...
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is key in strengthening resilience and achievement of sustainable development. The private sector is co-responsible for DRR: it is a generator of risks, and a subject exposed to risks. There are competing narratives in the literature regarding the relationship between b...
The purpose of this document is to analyze the effect of adopting the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), which is a compulsorily requirement to be complied with as of 2015, for companies listed on the Colombian Stock Exchange (BVC by its acronym in Spanish). For the purposes of this...
RESUMEN La incapacidad del Estado para atender problemáticas sociales como la pobreza en todas sus gamas, el desempleo, y el difícil acceso a la educación y a los servicios de salud, por mencionar solo algunas, ha llevado a la institucionalización del sector social en México, lo que implica un incre...
RESUMEN El síndrome de burnout es un término que se escucha con mayor frecuencia en las empresas, pues llega a causar graves problemas de salud en la vida de los empleados, así como en la calidad de los resultados económicos de las organizaciones. El objetivo de la investigación consiste en identifi...
RESUMEN Este artículo especifica las competencias profesionales (genéricas y específicas) requeridas por el mercado laboral colombiano para los administradores de empresas. Para ello se realizó una investigación cuantitativa, longitudinal, descriptiva y empírica, que hace uso de técnicas como el aná...
Strategizing is a research field devoid of epistemological, theoretical and methodological unity. Instead of seeing it as a disadvantage, we show how this plurality boosts the convergence of different points of view in the practice turn of strategy that challenges its conventional perspective. Throu...
This paper analyzes the relationship between networking capabilities and the motives behind SMEs taking part in collaborative relationships with firms within the same sector. Specifically, we analyzed inter-firm collaborations for new product development and the decision(s) to outsource. The main co...
This article uses the game theory, more specifically multiple prisoner’s dilemma game, to analyze why Iranians refused to give up on receiving public subsidies in April 2014, in spite of frequent requests of the government. Sample of study consists of two main groups: the ones who were not dependent...
The present paper addresses the need for a quantitative model for media entrepreneurship. In a framework of social media entrepreneurship that is presented by Khajeheian (2013), 23 factors are introduced and categorized in five groups. Four groups of enterprise, resources, strategy and product are c...
The interchangeable use of some terms that imply on specific concepts and constructs has been a challenge for the students and novice researchers. In particular, terms such as framework, model, pattern and the verbs such as design, identify, present, propose have been used in several cases in the di...
Brand imitation is an approach for new brands to be successful in the market; on the other hand, it can be destructive for developed brands by incurring heavy financial losses. Many studies have investigated imitation and its effective factors. The present paper studies effective factors of imitatio...
In the age of Web 3.0 and abundance of user generated content, large media organizations are faced with the challenge of creativity. Their internal sources of creativity are limited and they face with many innovative ideas that are presented in social media freely and widely. For this reason, use of...
This paper sheds light on specific aspect of Media Convergence which is not only about convergence and similarity, but about divergence in different aspects and opportunities which bring up for entrepreneurial activities. Problem area of this study is to understand how media convergence provides new...
Social media plays important role in many aspects of organizational life, and have become increasingly important in recruitment decisions. The purpose of this study is to understand the key issues in the use of digital footprint in recruitment, by using theme analysis as the research method, 10 mana...