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El impacto de la innovación tecnológica en el desempeño financiero de las empresas: un análisis logit
No full textObjective: To identify how technological innovation contributes to the financial performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), offering a comprehensive perspective that underscores the importance of adopting this approach to enhance competitiveness in today’s markets. This paper also seeks to examine how sector, firm age, and workforce size relate to increases in sales and assets.Design/Methodology: The study followed a quantitative approach with an explanatory, correlational, cross-sectional, and descriptive scope, focusing on SMEs located in Sinaloa, Mexico. Data were collected through surveys administered to 149 companies. Pearson’s correlation analysis and a logit model were applied to analyze the data and identify the relationships between variables and their influence on financial performance.Findings: The results show that the companies under study attach significant importance to technology, as evidenced by their continuous adoption of technological innovations. It was also found that their employees possess technological knowledge and skills, which is positively associated with financial performance. Additionally, firms with a larger workforce tend to exhibit higher levels of technological competence.Conclusions: SMEs acknowledge the relevance of technology for their growth and financial outcomes. This awareness stems from the social and economic changes brought about by globalization and the digital age, which together drive the use of emerging technologies that strengthen business management.Originality: This study provides empirical evidence that technological knowledge and skills, as well as a positive perception of technological innovation, are key factors contributing to strong financial performance, as reflected in higher income and asset growth.Objetivo: identificar cómo la innovación tecnológica contribuye al desempeño financiero de las pymes, al ofrecer una perspectiva integral que resalta la importancia de adoptar estas herramientas para fortalecer su capacidad de competir en el mercado actual, además conocer cómo se correlaciona el sector, la antigüedad y el número de trabajadores con el incremento en ventas y en activos.Diseño/metodología: el estudio tuvo un enfoque cuantitativo, con un alcance explicativo, correlacional, transversal y descriptivo y se centró en las pymes de Sinaloa, México. La información fue recabada mediante encuestas aplicadas a 149 empresas; para el tratamiento de los datos se emplearon análisis de correlación de Pearson y un modelo logit, con el objetivo de identificar relaciones y explicar la influencia de las variables en el desempeño financiero.Resultados: los hallazgos indican que las empresas le otorgan importancia a la tecnología, lo que se refleja en su adopción constante en innovación tecnológica. Asimismo, se identificó que los empleados poseen habilidades y conocimientos tecnológicos y ello se relaciona positivamente con su desempeño financiero. Finalmente, un número mayor de trabajadores se asocia con mayores habilidades tecnológicas.Conclusiones: las pymes reconocen la importancia que merece la tecnología para su crecimiento y su desempeño financiero. Esta percepción responde a los cambios sociales y económicos derivados del proceso de globalización y el surgimiento de la era digital, lo cual impulsa el uso de tecnologías emergentes que fortalezcan la gestión empresarial.Originalidad: el estudio aporta evidencia de que los conocimientos, las habilidades y la valoración positiva sobre la innovación tecnológica son factores que contribuyen a un correcto desempeño financiero que se manifiesta en un aumento en ingresos y activos
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Relationship between absorptive capacity and innovation capacity in firms: An empirical analysis using PLS-SEM
Full text linkSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute a fundamental part of any country\u27s economic structure, representing self-employment initiatives that generate jobs and contribute significantly to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, due to the high level of competition they face, they experience limited growth and a low adoption rate of innovations, which in many cases leads to their short-term demise. Hence the importance of their capacity to absorb external knowledge, which allows them to adapt to changes in the environment and create innovations that enable them to compete in today\u27s turbulent economic and financial market. In this context, the present study focuses on analyzing the relationship between the absorptive capacity and the innovation capacity of SMEs in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. The method applied was PLS-SEM structural equation modeling, with a statistical sample of 151 companies. The results suggest that SMEs prioritize the assimilation and transformation of knowledge to foster innovation, particularly in their innovative performance, innovation culture, process innovation, and service innovation. The study\u27s contributions include the theory of dynamic capabilities for organizations, as well as sufficient empirical evidence to demonstrate the correlation between absorption and innovation that streamlines the design of business strategies
Informes de sostenibilidad: Un estudio de empresas que cotizan en la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
No full textLos Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) son un marco de referencia para que las organizaciones orienten sus estrategias hacia la sostenibilidad económica, social y ambiental. Para las empresas inversoras, adoptar estrategias de desarrollo sostenible no solo representa una estrategia competitiva, sino una creciente demanda de parte de los inversionistas, quienes cada vez más buscan organizaciones que promuevan buenas prácticas que fortalezcan su reputación. En este contexto, cobra relevancia la emisión de reportes financieros que detallan el desempeño económico de las organizaciones, y agregar a dicha información reportes no financieros que abordan las prácticas responsables orientadas con el cuidado ambiental, social y de gobernanza. El presente estudio explora a través de un modelo de regresión lineal múltiple los factores que inciden a que las empresas que cotizan en la bolsa mexicana de valores (BMV) emitan reportes de sostenibilidad. Los resultados sugieren que el precio de la acción actúa como variable exógena que influye en la publicación de estos reportes en las empresas. Se concibe la sostenibilidad como un elemento esencial que proporciona a las organizaciones ventajas competitivas a través de su incidencia de forma directa e indirecta en el comportamiento económico-financiero
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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