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Do ambient conditions (Air quality, noise level and temperature) and image congruity matter for boosting customer approach behaviors in the fsc sector?
(MDPI, 2020-12) Han, Heesup; Lho, Linda Heejung; Ariza-Montes, Antonio; Lee, Kyung-Sik; Baek, Hyungshin; Araya-Castillo, Luis
The present research presented a conceptual framework by uncovering the apparent role of ambient condition quality (in-flight air, noise level, and temperature), image congruity, love, respect, and perceived ticket price in increasing customer approach behaviors in the full service carrier (FSC) industry. A quantitative method was used. The evaluation of the measurement model verified the quality of construct measures. Findings from statistical analyses demonstrated the significant associations among research variables, and identified the mediating nature of FSC love and FSC respect. In addition, the important moderating effect of perceived FSC ticket price was found. A prominent role of ambient condition quality in eliciting approach behaviors was also explored. Overall, our theoretical framework contained a prediction power for approach behaviors. The research findings thus assist FSC researchers and practitioners to better understand the process of generating the customer decision-making process and behaviors that are positive for full service carriers. This research hence successfully fulfilled its objective to discover the influences of the customer approach behaviors in the full service carrier (FSC) industry. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Bibliometric Mapping of School Garden Studies: A Thematic Trends Analysis
(MDPI, 2023-03) Castillo, Dante; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Torres-Alcayaga, Mario
This paper analyzes the thematic trends in school garden studies over the past few decades, using a relational bibliometric methodology on a corpus of 392 articles and review articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. The paper seeks to understand how researchers have studied the concept over the last few decades in various disciplines, spanning approximately eighty Web of Science categories. The results show that there is a critical mass of scientific research studying school gardens. The analysis shows the thematic trends in discussion journals, discussion terminology, and consolidates classic papers and some novel authors and papers. The studies and their theoretical trends lead to refocusing the analysis on the effects of school gardens beyond the educational, thanks to the contribution of authors from more than fifty countries engaged in the study of these activities. This work constitutes new challenges for this line of research, raising interdisciplinary research challenges between horticultural, environmental, technological, educational, social, food, nutritional, and health sciences. © 2023 by the authors.
The effects of whole-body muscle stimulation on body composition and strength parameters: A PRISMA systematic review and meta-analysis
(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2023-02) Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz; Hugo, Louro; Pérez-Gómez, Jorge; Hernández-Mocholí, Miguel A.; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge; Saldaña-Cortés, Pilar; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Adsuar, José C.
Background: This systematic review and meta-analysis set out to determine the efficacy of whole-body muscle electrostimulation on body composition, strength, and muscle power in active and non-active adults (aged ≥18 years). Method: This review was reported in accordance with the Protocol Statement of Preferred Reporting Element Guidelines for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis included controlled trials; whole-body electromyostimulation trials with at least 1 exercise and control group; participants >18 years old. Outcome measures were defined as standardized mean differences for muscle mass, body fat mass, strength, and power. Studies were searched in the following electronic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, SPORTDiscus, and EMBASE for all articles published up to July 30, 2021. The risk of bias was assessed by 2 independent researchers using the Physiotherapy Evidence Database scale and Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations approach. Analyses were performed using the metafor package of the statistical software R (version 4.0.3; R Core Team, 2020). Random effects models, forest, and funnel plots to quantify the asymmetry associated with publication bias were fitted using the metafor library in R. Statistical heterogeneity was assessed using I2 statistics. Results: In total, 26 studies representing 1183 participants were included (WB-electromyostimulation: n = 586 and control group: n = 597). The mean age of the participants ranged from a minimum of 20.4 to a maximum of 77.4 years old. Interventions lasted a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 54 weeks. Standardized mean difference was 0.36 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.16-0.57) for muscle mass, -0.38 (95% CI: -0.62-0.15) for body fat, 0.54 (95% CI: 0.35-0.72) for strength, and 0.36 (95% CI: 0.02-0.71) for power with significant differences between groups (all P <.04). I2 revealed low heterogeneity of muscle mass (15%) and power (0%) between trials and medium heterogeneity of body fat (45%) and strength (55%). Conclusion: We concluded that WB-electromyostimulation has significant positive effects on muscle mass, body fat, strength, and power. Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
Human management by competencies in competitive and complex scenarios: A reflective theoretical approach
(Elsevier, 2003) Ramírez, R.; Monsalve, L.; Villalobos, J.; Lay, N.; Severino-González, P.; Báez, D.
Human management is interpreted by competencies in competitive and complex scenarios. According to the documentary review of disciplinary, classic and current research; with a reflective theoretical approach using hermeneutics. The findings show the reinvention of the human being, adapting to turbulent changes in the environment, where the skills of talent get in the way to take on global challenges, associated with sustainability, in the face of the era of the new normal, where everything seems to be stable, but the dynamics of life manifests the detriment of resources and capacities of the world, limiting the living being, responding and challenging market requirements.
Innovation systems in industry 5.0: theoretical and methodological bases
(Elsevier, 2024) Ramírez, R.; Santamaria, M.; Ramírez, R.; Ramírez, R. J.; Lay, N.; Severino-González, P.
The research identifies current innovation systems according to their theoretical and methodological bases. The method used in this work is guided by the review of the literature, interpreted from the foundations of hermeneutics. The results show that the theoretical bases of innovation systems have evolved over time, according to schools of thought, epoch and emerging models co-created by the new era of empirical knowledge, and technology has been responsible for the volatile changes it has had to face, while methodologies are subscribed by innovation in human talent, and adoption of technology, which has sometimes generated barriers to its appropriation for its proper use. The reported findings allow us to conclude that innovation systems favor a sustainable approach to organizations to achieve an economy of scale with emphasis on the implementation of technologies and communication, based on optimization, systematization in the use of resources, elements, and capabilities.
People Management model from a sustainable approach: theories and reflections
(Elsevier, 2022) Ramírez, R.; Sukier, H.; Monsalve, L.; Lay, N.
The research describes the people management models from a sustainable approach. Implementing hermeneutics as a methodology, through the study of theories, allowing conceptual analysis, generating reflections and contributions, around the variable of study. The results show the association of innovative, green models, competitive talent with qualities or aptitudes to relearn and that favorably impact the global environment. It is concluded that the impact caused by sustainable factors affect the life of the living being and its environment, influencing new businesses in the market.
Business strategies in agricultural units to incorporate value chains in new national and international markets: a case study of Colombia
(Elsevier, 2024) Ramírez, R.; Vergara, L.; Rodríguez, L.; Lay, N.; Severino-González, P.; Villalobos, J.; Santamaria, M.
The research recommends business strategies that allow agricultural units to incorporate value chains to reach new national and international markets. Positivist, quantitative, descriptive and transversal methodology, with a population (56) agricultural production units of the department of Atlántico, Caribbean region of Colombia, according to the most recent National Agricultural Census (CNA) prepared by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE, 2014), data analysis was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics V.22 program. It is concluded that the strategies are of quality, differentiation and efficiency, establishing a vertical and hydroponic agriculture, with competitiveness, quality, organization, capacity development, cooperation, innovation, dimensioned by technological, social, and environmental aspects. The findings show the adoption of new emerging technologies, processes and practices for total product quality, with sustainable emerging trends and knowledge cells to make the constantly evolving agricultural market profitable, providing a differentiating factor.
Types of competencies of human talent supported by ICT: definitions, elements, and contributions
(Elsevier, 2022) Santamaria, M.; Ramírez, R.; Antequera, R.; Lay, N.
The recent turbulent global changes have highlighted the advancement of generic and technical skills, as responses to the comprehensive challenges of the environment. This is how in the present investigation constructionism and hermeneutics are used as a methodology to achieve contributions of scientific rigor, conceptualizing the variables; with a positivist approach, using literary study, to generate theoretical reflections based on contemporary and disciplinary foundations, and thus understand literature, build concepts, and generate reflections. The findings show that ICT-focused skills condition the employability of human talent and its effect on resources, elements, and capabilities in generating value. It is concluded that the generic and specific skills of people currently prevail as indicators of achievement, resulting in the actions performed and sustainability.
Generic and technical skills of human talent supported by ICT: systematization, scope, and reflections
(Elsevier, 2022) Antequera, R.; Ramírez, R.; Santamaria, M.; Lay, N.
Competencies in the management of human talent are defined by authors as the grouping of knowledge, skills, abilities, and performance, which allow the development of efficient actions, propitiated from general to specific functions. The systematization, scope and reflections determine that in the future the competencies and their management model will be even more essential due to the emerging business structures, global dynamics, economic, social, environmental factors and the importance of information and communication technology causing human talent to self-train, identify their knowledge gaps, generate dynamic capabilities and achieve better employability based on their new skills, this is how the new era of knowledge towards the future draws a trend in the demand for technical skills and generic, for sustainability.
Trends in the knowledge area of organizations in Industry 5.0: perspectives and theoretical references
(Elsevier, 2024) Ramírez, R.; Antequera, R.; Lay, N.; Severino-González, P.
The field of organizational studies has undergone significant transformations in the 21st century, initially focused on business structure and management to maximize effectiveness and performance. Currently there is talk of Industry 5.0, which seeks to integrate technologies such as the collective network of connected devices, cognitive computing, nanotechnology, robotization, artificial intelligence and digitization of human processes. This research seeks to analyze the trends in knowledge of organizations, through a post-positivist approach based on empirical observation and experimentation to assess the study variable, select contemporary scientific literature, and review legal foundations, using databases of high impact and scientific rigor. The results are oriented by the strategic management of knowledge and intellectual assets, innovation and creativity, technology, and information. It is concluded that these are influenced by the requirements of the environment with a sustainable and sustainable approach, it is imperative to adapt to these trends to maintain a holistic perspective to ensure the permanence in time of organizations in the face of dynamic market changes.
Segregation of high‐skilled workers and the productivity of cities
(Wiley, 2021-10) Diaz, R.; Garrido, N.; Vargas, M.
The goal of this research is to conduct an empirical study on the effects of the segregation of high‐skilled workers—workers with a university degree—on cities' labour productivity. Using data for US metropolitan areas, we find evidence of a positive impact. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find that clusters of high‐skilled workers produce positive spillovers on high‐skilled workers' productivity that more than compensate for the low‐skilled workers' loss in productivity due to their exclusion. The latter is particularly valid in cities specialized in industries where the complementarity between these two kinds of workers in the city's production function is low, like technology or science. We use panel data and an IV approach as identification strategies. Results are robust to different specifications.
Conceptual Model for Retail Distribution in Nanostores: The case of the Southwest of Barranquilla, Colombia
(Elsevier, 2024) López-Gómez, L.; Marriaga-Chamorro, S.; Pirabán-Ramírez, A.; Manosalva-Sandoval, J.; Gonzalez-Holgado, A.; Gatica, G.
This article designs a conceptual model for the procurement and distribution processes in nanostores in the southwest of Barran-quilla, Colombia considering 256 nanostores. The data collection involved identifying the nanostores through a visit to the area and creating a data collection instrument with specific questions covering various variables. As a result of the model, the procurement process comprises stages such as ordering, order processing, preparation and dispatch, distribution, payment, return, and after-sales. The findings show that nanostores primarily use indirect distribution channels, establishing relationships with suppliers and placing orders directly or through sales agents. Based on the research findings, the article suggests implementing digital marketing platforms to facilitate order placement and delivery for nanostore owners, reducing their transportation costs and improving the condition of products received. This study contributes to understanding procurement and distribution dynamics in nanostores, providing valuable insights for nanostore owners, policymakers, and researchers, improving the operations and competitiveness of nanostores, benefiting both the local economy and the broader retail sector.
Recruitment and selection devices in financial services companies: Exploring organizational re-production and legitimacy in Chile and the United Kingdom
(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2017) Hernández Aracena, Javier; Espinosa Cristia, Juan Felipe
The article deals with the problem of the role of ‘social’ devices at the time of producing and reproducing organizational behavior, taking the case of recruitment and selection processes in financial services organizations in Chile and the UK. Based on 42 in-depth interviews in Santiago, London and Edinburgh, and building on science and technology studies and the concept of device the article aims to understand how recruitment and election mechanisms are adopted and legitimated in organizations. Analysis suggests that recruitment and selection mechanisms connect technical and moral elements, allowing managers to deal with uncertainty and carry out organizational reproduction. However, devices in Chile and the UK differ in the modes that connect technical and moral elements. © 2017, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. All rights reserved.
Brand Love: Role of Online Customer Experience, Value Co-creation, and Relationship Quality
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022) Mustafa, Khurram; Ahmad, Farooq; Qaisar, Muhammad Nawaz; Zada, Shagufta; Jamil, Saqib; Anwer, Naveed; Khawaja, Kausar Fiaz; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Hamid, Syed Ali Raza; Mariam, Shahida
Customer experience is a source of retailers’ long-term competitive advantage. This study has examined the relationship between online customer experience and brand love through the mechanism of relationship quality in the context of online shopping in Pakistan. The moderating effect of value co-creation on the relationship of online customer experience with relationship quality and brand love has also been examined. Data were collected from a purposive sampling of 189 online customers in an online survey. Results showed that online customer experience significantly impacts customer relationship quality, which leads to brand love. The relationship between online customer experience and relationship quality is found more robust at high levels of value co-creation. However, we observed a significant negative moderating effect of value co-creation on the direct relationship between online customer experience and brand love. It suggests that including customers in the value co-creation process and affording them a pleasurable online shopping experience may be an excellent way to enhance customer relationship quality and brand love. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. Copyright © 2022 Mustafa, Ahmad, Qaisar, Zada, Jamil, Anwer, Khawaja, Vega-Muñoz, Contreras-Barraza, Hamid and Mariam.
Scientometric Analysis of Socioemotional Wealth, Innovation, and Family Businesses: Dynamics of Their Interrelationship
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-06) Flen Rossi, Florencia; Rojas-Vallejos, Jorge
This study presents a scientometric analysis of the interrelationship between socioemotional wealth, innovation, and family businesses, based on 298 articles published between 1975 and 2022. Grounded in the theory of socioemotional wealth, it investigates how emotional and social resources within family businesses influence innovation and, consequently, business success. The methodology includes statistical and graphical analysis to identify publication trends, collaboration networks, and key themes. Results reveal a significant increase in recent academic production, highlighting the growing relevance of these concepts. Four thematic clusters are identified, emphasizing the importance of socioemotional wealth and innovation in the management of family businesses, providing a solid foundation for future research and business practices.
Gender heterophily and equality: a contribution to gender equality in the Chilean scientific sector
(Frontiers Media SA, 2023) Espinosa-Cristia, Juan Felipe; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Cerda-Suarez, Luis Manuel; Leyton-Johns, Luis;
Women’s insertion or consolidation in science has been thoroughly researched. Such discussion could be particularly relevant concerning sustainable development goal five (SDG 5) on Gender Equality advancement. However, the debate is focused on women percentages inserted into scientific labor, leaving the issue of symbolic experience for women in research unaddressed and with little empirical support. The data come from a survey developed under a FONDECYT project, which studied knowledge production in Chile. Researchers obtained contacts through invitations on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and databases containing scientists’ emails working in Chile. The non-probabilistic sample collected 583 cases, with participants residing in 15 of the 16 country regions. As a result, this document presents the findings of a study on symbolic experience using an instrument to determine whether there are any homophily patterns. It aims to determine if scientists tend to cite others as referents only when they encounter a situation like their own. The findings reveal a clear way scientists estimate the effect of others in terms of their gender homophily. This intervening factor could be crucial in reproducing the disparities and asymmetries that characterize Chile’s scientific field. Copyright © 2023 Espinosa-Cristia, Vega-Muñoz, Cerda-Suarez and Leyton-Johns.
A Cross-Sectional Study about the Associations between Physical Activity Level, Self-Perceived Health Perception and Mental Health in Informal Caregivers of Elderly or People with Chronic Conditions in Spain
(MDPI, 2022-05-01) Denche-Zamorano, Ángel; Muñoz-Bermejo, Laura; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge; Mendoza-Muñoz, María; Franco-García, Juan Manuel; Rojo-Ramos, Jorge; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Barrios-Fernandez, Sabina
Providing informal care for older people, or people with chronic conditions, is associated with poorer physical and mental health and reduced quality of life. This task, in many cases, often relies on the women in the immediate family. Physical activity (PA) is a tool to enhance caregivers’ physical and mental health and their quality of life. Thus, this study aimed to analyse the associations between the physical activity level (PAL), self-perceived health (SPH) and mental health (SM) and its factors (positive coping, self-esteem, and stress) by conducting a cross-sectional study by using data from in the National Health Survey 2017 (ENSE 2017), the last one before the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample included 2225 caregivers (866 men and 1361 women). Descriptive analysis and non-parametric statistical tests, including chi-square, the Kruskal–Wallis test, the Mann–Whitney U test, and the Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient, were used. Dependence relationships were found between PAL and SPH and MH and their factors. The population groups that performed moderate or vigorous PA showed better results in both SPH and MH. Women scored worse than men in all the variables analysed. Hence, intense, or moderate PA practice may improve SPH and MH in Spanish informal caregivers, requiring the implementation of policies and programs considering the differences found between men and women in PAL, SPH, and MH. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Effects of maternity on labor outcomes and employment quality for women in Chile
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023) Eberhard, Juan Pedro; Fernandez, Javier; Lauer, Catalina
Parenthood have a significant impact on engagement in the labor force. Parents may decide to look for jobs with specific characteristics, and in some cases, they may decide to not participate in the labor market. Using survey data from Chile, we use a propensity score matching estimation to compare various labor outcomes of women and men with and without children. We found that maternity has an impact on several dimensions of labor engagement. To study how these multidimensional effects are compounded at the individual level, we use a quality of employment (QoE) index to estimate the drop in job quality post-childbirth. We found a drop in quality only for mothers. Moreover, for less educated women, the drop in QoE is equivalent to no longer being hired under contract. For single mothers, the drop is equivalent to a reduction in wages that would make the family fall below the poverty line. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Health Benefits of Airborne Terpenoids and Aeroanions: Insights from Thematic Review of Chinese-Language Research on Forest Sensory Experiences
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-04-04) Buckley, Ralf; Zhong, Linsheng; Yu, Hu; Zhu, Dongfang; Cooper, Mary-Ann
Most research on air chemistry and human health has focused on negative consequences of air pollution from cities, rural dust, mining, or industrial sites. Research on nature tourism and nature therapy, in contrast, focuses on positive benefits of air quality for physical and mental health, e.g., via “clean air clean water” holidays. Aeroanions and terpenoids in forests have received particular attention, especially in China, Japan, and Korea. We review and analyse several hundred articles published in English and Chinese. With a few recent exceptions, English-language research has tested indoor negative ion generators, and concluded that they have no measurable health benefit. It has tested terpenoids in indoor aroma marketing. Chinese-language research, in contrast, has analysed fine-scale components of outdoor environments that affect concentrations of aeroanions and terpenoids: ecosystem, latitude, altitude, temperature, proximity to water, and individual plant species. Historically, health outcomes have been taken for granted, with little rigorous testing. Air quality research has shown that aeroanions can become attached to fine water droplets, e.g., after rain in forests, or in mists produced locally by waterfalls. We hypothesise that the health benefits of aeroanions in natural environments may arise through the scavenging of airborne particulates by negatively charged mists, creating especially clean, dust-free air. We propose that this particularly clean-tasting air, contrasting strongly with polluted urban air, creates positive effects on human mental health and perhaps, also on pulmonary physical health. Mechanisms and outcomes remain to be tested. We also propose testing psychological health effects of airborne terpenoid scents from forest trees.
Impact of Techno-Creators and Techno-Inhibitors on Techno-Stress Manifestations in Chilean Kindergarten Directors in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Teleworking
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-05-31) Estrada-Muñoz, Carla; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Boada-Grau, Joan; Castillo, Dante; Müller-Pérez, Sheyla; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolas
The research objective was to predict the impact of techno-creators and techno-inhibitors on the different manifestations of technostress in kindergarten directors in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and telework. The participants were INTEGRA Foundation kindergarten directors, from a sample of 567 kindergartens in Chile. To measure the technostress manifestations, the RED-TIC questionnaire was used as an instrument, and concerning techno-creators and techno-inhibitors, those established in previous research were considered. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) methodology was used, and the model estimation was performed using SmartPLS version 3.0 software. It was obtained that techno-creators correlate positively and significantly with the technostress manifestations. A negative correlation was found between techno-inhibitors and technostress manifestations and techno-creators, but not significant for skepticism and inefficacy manifestations. Therefore, it is concluded that techno-creators lead to technostress manifestations, however, techno-inhibitors did not show a significant effect in reducing these manifestations in the sample studied. Copyright © 2022 Estrada-Muñoz, Vega-Muñoz, Boada-Grau, Castillo, Müller-Pérez and Contreras-Barraza.

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