Real Estate Sector Efficiency Analysis

This research an analysis of the efficiency of the real estate sector of the city of Cartagena - Colombia is developed. For the 46 companies registered as real estate agencies in the city, the techniques of principal components, data envelopment analysis and logistic regression were articulated. The results show an average efficiency of the sector of 42.33%, considering 8 companies as efficient. Five hypotheses were raised about the incidence of each financial item in the efficiency result, evidenced through the logistic regression model how the variable Operational Income is the only significant one (Value-p = 0.028). It was evidenced as an efficient real estate company should not have high values in the items of heritage and plants, property and equipment.

Gente, cambio e innovación: Condiciones para la perdurabilidad empresarial

Este articulo documenta los factores que inciden en la perdurabilidad empresarial. Corresponde a un estudio exploratorio con un enfoque cualitativo en el procesamiento de la información. Resultados: Se encontró que las condiciones que contribuyen a la perdurabilidad de las empresas estudiadas son, la gente, como factor en el logro de los objetivos; el cambio como motor de adaptación; y la innovación en la búsqueda de oportunidades de negocio.

Variables y parámetros del modelo Kano aplicado al turismo de salud.

El sector de turismo en salud en Colombia ha venido incrementando su reconocimiento a nivel internacional, principalmente por factores determinantes de calidad y costos, es así como se convierte en un factor significativo para la economía medido a través del PIB. En esta perspectiva, el modelo Kano puede permitir la identificación de las necesidades y requerimientos de los usuarios, con la finalidad de mejorar los estándares y coberturas ofrecidos actualmente por dicho sector.

Entrepreneurial attitude and success in the Colombian auto parts sector

The growth, transformation and development of new economic sectors of a country can be determined from the entrepreneurship. This entrepreneurial attitude manifests itself from different approaches, not only by the emergence of new companies, but also by decision-making and entrepreneurial activity, in certain situations. Business success can be attributed to the different influences, changes and pressures caused by the environment, or to special characteristics of entrepreneurs, personal aspects and environment. This article aims to analyze intra-entrepreneurship as a business renewal strategy, exploring the auto parts sector, through a qualitative study in a sample of companies in the auto parts sector in Colombia. The results conclude that despite the fact that intra-entrepreneurship is considered a strategic scenario for business renewal, Colombian auto parts companies do not promote their strategic development.

Intrapreneurship and expectations restrictions

This article develops arguments about the factors that promote intrapreneurship in relation to role theory. These are based on contributions from interactional and structural sociology. Fixed theoretical tools for intrapreneurship are not enough. So, the structural and interactionist perspective of sociology is necessary to understand the concept of intrapreneurship. The above approaches depend on individuals, organizations or environments to encourage potential employees to be intrapreneurs. Thus, Expectations can be a cornerstone for intrapreneurship because intrapreneurs learn from their roles.

Gestión de la felicidad, bienestar subjetivo y satisfacción laboral

Este artículo tiene como objetivo establecer la percepción de la felicidad laboral. Se diseño y validó el instrumento de investigación a través del análisis factorial confirmatorio, el análisis de fiabilidad por medio del coeficiente de homogeneidad, a su vez, se realizó el KMO (Kaiser-Mayer-Olikin). En el estudio de caso se concluye que la variable que explica mejor la felicidad laboral es el bienestar subjetivo. Igualmente, se encontraron diferencias significativas entre los grupos estudiados en las variables bienestar subjetivo y satisfacción laboral, se halló además que el nivel jerárquico operativo percibe mayor felicidad laboral comparado con los otros niveles estudiados y que la variable de mayor impacto en el indicador multifactorial de felicidad es el bienestar subjetivo.

World Economic Forum: present and future

Editorial presenting the summary of what was developed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Internationalization process of Spanish firms of the service sector

The objective of this research is responding to two important questions that have been analyzed in the literature on international management, the “where” and the “how”. With this purpose both descriptive and comparison of means analysis are applied. The resulting analysis indicates that Spanish multinationals in the service sector have a semi global focus in their international operations and are located principally in Europe and Latin America. Furthermore, we found that Spanish service multinationals exert high levels of subsidiary control and that do not present significant differences in the levels of control they have over subsidiaries in relation to the type of service.

Mexican Stock Exchange Performance after the Crisis of 2008: Application of Data Mining

Different prediction models are explored to analyze the performance of the Mexican Stock Exchange (PQI) after the 2008 crisis. These models have demonstrated a good prognostic capacity for both multivariable and univariable approaches given their non-parametric characteristics. The selected variables were: Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA), CPI, International Reserves (IR), CETES28, USDMX exchange rate, (M1) and the sovereign default risk of Mexico (MRDS). The models were evaluated with MAPE and compared with linear regression models (LR) and neural networks (NN). The results show that the models have a similar performance according to the percentages of error they presented.

Propuesta para la definición de la arquitectura empresarial

La Arquitectura Empresarial (AE) es uno de los elementos que más importancia está tomando dentro de las organizaciones, al considerarlo un mecanismo estratégico que impulsa a las empresas a lograr los objetivos estratégicos propuestos por la alta gerencia, mediante la alineación de la estrategia empresarial con sus componentes organizacionales básicos: personas, procesos, tecnología y aplicaciones. En el presente artículo se realiza una investigación acerca de la AE, presentando su definición, el Estado del Arte, componentes, metodologías, herramientas de la AE, los marcos de referencia, entre otros; siendo la metodología utilizada la que se basa en el análisis documental y revisión de la literatura, como técnica de estudio. Finalmente, se establece una propuesta de definición de la AE considerando lo investigado en la literatura, y se presentan algunas conclusiones relevantes del estudio.