El declive organizacional, que podría considerarse un proceso involutivo, se ha analizado principalmente desde una perspectiva del ciclo de vida y, más recientemente, desde una perspectiva biológica. Esta investigación introduce el concepto de metástasis en la empresa familiar (EMF), que describe cómo se propagan las prácticas perjudiciales y las culturas organizacionales negativas dentro de una empresa. Los hallazgos sugieren que la EMF debilita significativamente la cultura laboral, disminuye la productividad y aumenta la rotación de personal, lo que incrementa considerablemente la probabilidad de fracaso de la empresa familiar. Entre los factores clave que contribuyen a la EMF se encuentran el liderazgo inadecuado, la falta de responsabilidad e innovación, y la comunicación deficiente.

This case study examines how a Japanese company uses CSR and ESG activities to incorporate a new global expansion strategy and strengthen its stakeholders’ relations in different locations around the world. The author uses a case study method with a single setting, and multiple units of analysis and pattern matching among 39 regions and countries, divided into home and host countries. The host countries are additionally divided into ‘developed’, ‘emerging’, and ‘least developed’. This study contributes to the extant literature by showing that both developed and emerging markets create strategic assets for the company. It also proved MNE’s stakeholders in emerging and developed markets determined the CSR practices because many developed countries need CSR activities to support vulnerable groups within their societies. This study explores the under-researched area of MNEs’ CSR activities regarding poverty and development in least-developed countries.

Sustainability is a topic that has experienced a growing interest in recent years within the academic world, and at the same time, it manifests itself as a particular inconsistency of the business sector, who use it as a means to improve their image, setting aside its vision of great significance. In order to achieve the fundamental purpose of sustainability, the corporate governance model has been an evolving subject in recent years. This is due to the fact that even though the mechanism still endures, it has little to do with the balance of social and environmental benefits. In Mexico, cattle ranchers have faced several problems, such as the difficulty of marketing with intermediaries. In response, this quantitative study has been carried out in order to identify a possible relationship between sustainability and corporate governance, through the testing of six hypotheses. The findings show a positive correlation between corporate governance mechanisms (formal and efficiency) and sustainability dimensions (economic, social, and environmental). This provides further evidence of the complexity of sustainability and corporate governance issues.

The existence of multiple directorships is the case when a board member is serving on two or more boards or a number of other external appointments. This study aims to examine the impact of multiple directorships on a firm’s economic values among Saudi listed companies using the busyness hypothesis. As for the methodology, this study collected secondary data from the annual reports of the listed companies that include corporate governance and firm-specific characteristics. In addition, this study reviewed the extant research related to the multiple directorships and firms’ economic values. Using a sample of 140 Energy and Petrochemical companies for the period 2012-2019, the Ordinary-Least Square (OLS) results show that busy directors negatively influence the firm’s economic value, measured as ROA and ROE. The findings of this study have theoretical implications in a manner that gives support to the busyness hypothesis in the Saudi context, which is considered a different setting from other studies conducted in other developed and developing countries in terms of politics, economic factors, and culture. This study adds additional empirical evidence in the unique setting of Saudi Arabia. In addition, the findings of this study could have practical implications to policymakers, shareholders, management, auditors, and other stakeholders in gaining a deeper understanding of how multiple directorships negatively influence the firm’s economic value.

Existen distintas maneras en las cuales las empresas y las marcas de moda logran entrar y posicionarse en nuevos mercados internacionales con el fin de alcanzar el éxito. El propósito de este artículo es analizar la reputación como elemento fundamental del posicionamiento internacional de las marcas mexicanas de moda. Los datos recaudados para esta investigación se generaron con una metodología cualitativa, a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas a especialistas del sector, tanto del ámbito empresarial como académico. Los resultados muestran que la reputación tiene gran relevancia y peso para determinar el posicionamiento comercial de una marca en el mercado internacional.

We are exposed to a constant stream of messages many of which originate from unreliable or untrustworthy sources. Moreover, it is not possible to control the messages before they are published and allow the dissemination of the verified ones only. Growing a critical mind can be a practical way to prevent the accumulation of incorrect or inaccurate information in our brains. The current study tried to see whether or not university students hold a critical view of social media messages. First, in a qualitative study, hundreds of messages shared on social media were observed, 12 of which were chosen based on the popularity of their central themes. Many of the messages contained an extraordinary claim such as the existence of mermaids, human-like complex emotions in animals, etc. Then, in a survey, the chosen messages were shown to 379 university students. The respondents were asked to express their opinions about the messages. For each of the 12 messages, between 36 to 94 percent of the respondents just assumed the messages to be true. The analysis of the responses revealed weak critical thinking among the students.

Amid economic pressure and inclination for independent financing, universities tend to commercialize knowledge, a growing trend emerging as an entry gate for the privatization of scientific advancements and the development and transfer of technology from universities. Numerous studies have been conducted on the commercialization of knowledge. This article aims to integrate previous studies and develop a comprehensive model out of the factors cited in those studies. Therefore, 57 relevant articles were analyzed to identify the indices of knowledge commercialization within the framework of a systematic review literature guideline. In addition to guideline validate criteria, three university professors were interviewed for conceptual model include the subjects (contextual, individual, organizational, institutional, and environmental), and components.

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, inicia en Colombia un escenario de postconflicto, caracterizado por una serie de desafíos y la necesidad del aporte de diversos actores, entre ellos el del sector empresarial. El objetivo del presente artículo es explorar y analizar las prácticas y acciones que pueden realizar las empresas para contribuir a la construcción de paz. Para ello se realizó una investigación exploratoria con un diseño documental dividido en dos fases, por una parte, una revisión de la literatura sobre prácticas empresariales de construcción de paz y, por otra parte, un análisis documental sobre guías y propuestas de construcción de paz de organismos nacionales e internacionales. Los resultados sugieren que las empresas apoyan la construcción de paz principalmente desde prácticas de RSE y valor compartido orientadas al desarrollo económico. Ello corresponde con las guías de organismos nacionales e internacionales que se orientan a la generación de empleos y proyectos de emprendimiento.

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 de la Iniciativa de Reporte Global (GRI, Global Reporting Initiative) durante el periodo 2012-2016. Por medio del uso del modelo de datos de panel, en el que se consideraron treinta y una empresas, se obtuvo evidencia empírica de que en el contexto colombiano las empresas que implementan prácticas de RSC y las divulgan a través de sus reportes corporativos cuentan con un menor costo de capital. Adicionalmente, se muestra que la extensión del reporte y su independencia aportan a la reducción del costo del patrimonio.

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. Through this systematic literature review we detected research opportunities in Latin-America, as well as in the categories of Strategizing such as practices and practitioners. In the first category, we suggest trust as a suitable concept for research on the social nature of practices. And in the second category, customers claim further attention as relevant actors in the creating-delivering-capturing value cycle of the business level strategy.