Sergio Díaz-González, Jesus M. Torres, Eduardo Parra-López and Rosa M. Aguilar
Smart tourist destinations (STDs) make use of new technologies to facilitate and improve the experience of tourists. So why not use these technologies to efficiently manage the…
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Purpose
Smart tourist destinations (STDs) make use of new technologies to facilitate and improve the experience of tourists. So why not use these technologies to efficiently manage the destination? The aim of this work is to define and implement a methodology that provides value to STDs by defining their most important characteristics to monitor and quantify them automatically in real time.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors developed a conceptual framework to the smart tourism approach presented in previous studies, the latest technologies and the application of the smart tourism system (STS). Based on the focus group method with stakeholders from the tourism industry of the Spanish tourist municipality of Puerto de la Cruz, they defined the main KPIs for a municipal STD. Likewise, the authors specified the necessary technologies to obtain, manage and represent the data, and the method for quantifying the quality of the STD by using the AHP method. Lastly, they implemented the framework for the aforementioned municipality.
Findings
The implementation in a real context of the STS proposed for Puerto de la Cruz demonstrates its validity and the possibility of adapting it to any other municipal destination. In addition, the authors corroborate how this STS improves on other versions.
Originality/value
This paper provides a theoretical methodology to improve STD management and implements it. Other studies have focused only on the theoretical aspect. Moreover, automated management tools are emerging for STDs, but they lack the quality provided by the scientific approach employed herein.
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The porpose of this study is to critically consider the use of global reporting initiative (GRI) guidelines in universities’ sustainability reports.. In light of the recent…
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Purpose
The porpose of this study is to critically consider the use of global reporting initiative (GRI) guidelines in universities’ sustainability reports.. In light of the recent literature and Habermas’s thinking, the study advances the research field by considering the process of internal colonisation from steering institutions and makes suggestions regarding the future role of GRI in the higher education (HE) context.
Design/methodology/approach
This study presents a systematic literature review and content analysis for enhancing the critical reading of GRI applications in HE studies. The results are analysed in light of Habermas’s thinking, considering the GRI as a steering institution and its guidelines as steering mechanisms.
Findings
This study updates the literature review on sustainability reporting (SR) at universities and underlines the general trend in the employment of the GRI in this context. The results highlight the need to adapt the GRI to enhance its applicability in the HE context by considering additional dimensions such as research, teaching and operations. In doing so, the framework loses effectiveness and weakens the role of the GRI as a steering institution.
Practical implications
The results suggest that the GRI guidelines should be reframed to enhance comparability among reports and increase its wider employment at universities.
Social implications
Universities need to be guided in their accountability process towards SR by dedicated frameworks. This study suggests the potentially pivotal role that the GRI could play in providing dedicated tools for HE to steer and enhance the development of SRs at universities.
Originality/value
This study presents an updated review of studies on SR at universities and suggests possible paths for the future of the GRI framework applicability to universities’ SR.
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Jesus Juyumaya and Juan Pablo Torres
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on creative performance in managers and the mediation effect of work engagement. The study…
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Purpose
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on creative performance in managers and the mediation effect of work engagement. The study also explores whether manager autonomy is a moderator of the model.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors captured information about transformational leadership, work engagement, creative performance and autonomy, using an experimental design and surveys among a sample of managers. They modeled the first-stage moderated mediation effect using Hayes' PROCESS macro.
Findings
The results confirm that transformational leadership is positively related to creative performance in managers. This mediation effect is partially explained by work engagement. Interestingly, autonomy was a significant moderator of the mediation effect.
Practical implications
The findings suggest that learning to practice transformational leadership will positively move companies to increase managers' work engagement and creative performance. These outcomes have been associated with higher productivity and long-term satisfaction, which are predictors of an organization's effectiveness.
Originality/value
This paper closes a gap between transformational leadership and job demands-resources (JD-R) theory by providing evidence on the effects of transformational leadership, work engagement and autonomy on managers' creative performance. The authors supplement existing empirical tests by adopting an experimental design to eliminate potential alternative explanations.
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Gabriela Citlalli Lopez-Torres, Salomón Montejano-García, Francisco Javier Alvarez-Torres and Marcelo de Jesus Perez-Ramos
This paper aims to present a systematic review of the literature on sustainability for the competitiveness of firms to identify the state of the art, significant discussions and…
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Purpose
This paper aims to present a systematic review of the literature on sustainability for the competitiveness of firms to identify the state of the art, significant discussions and new research directions. Recently, due to the negative impacts that traditional and unsustainable practices of companies have caused the Planet (e.g. climate change, sanitary crisis), national and international research urgently calls for the assessment of sustainable practices in firms. However, progress seems slow due to a poor understanding of the necessary changes that companies must make in their specific reality. Competitiveness has remained as firms’ primary strategy to endure. Some have associated sustainability with an increment of costs, sometimes with a negative impact on its competitiveness. Sometimes generating oppositions from stakeholder and institutions regulations, it is important to explore how these behaviors and dynamics of this relationship between sustainability and competitiveness affect the pursued transition to sustainability.
Design/methodology/approach
A systematic review of the literature, which is a scientific tool, is used in this research. It allows reliably and accurately analyzing and constructing conclusions from a broad database. The search was leaked over the 10 years, from 2010 to 2019. As a basis, 182 scientific articles were identified and revised based on methodology selection criteria and 51 articles were revised in detail.
Findings
This paper identifies critical variables analyzed in the selected articles, sustainability strategies for competitiveness, strategies for sustainability, organizational aspects for sustainability and competitiveness, measurement of sustainability, models, moderating factors for sustainability and new future research directions.
Originality/value
This paper presents state of art about sustainability for competitiveness and identifying key themes and future research directions.
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José Ernesto Amorós, Marcelo Leporati and Alfonso Jesús Torres-Marín
The main objective of this research is to exploratorily analyse different factors that influence the decision of the senior population (+50 years) to engage in entrepreneurship…
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The main objective of this research is to exploratorily analyse different factors that influence the decision of the senior population (+50 years) to engage in entrepreneurship activities in a group of Latin American countries. This study considers the motivations for entrepreneurship (opportunity and necessity) and the level of development of the countries.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors used data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) with a sample of 22,139 observations of senior individuals in seven Latin American countries surveyed between 2013 and 2017. The authors also used the Human Development Index to capture the relevance of the level of development. The authors employed a multilevel logistic regression model to test the study hypotheses.
Findings
The study results show that individual factors such as personal income, education and occupation have a significant influence on the probability of entrepreneurship of senior individuals. Related to contextual factors, the level of human development of a country has a negative influence mainly on opportunity-based entrepreneurs.
Originality/value
Because of the rapidly ageing population in Latin America, understanding senior entrepreneurs and their motivations is very relevant not only in terms of theoretical development but also for policy and practical implications, primarily those related to labour markets and social protection.
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Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, Juana María Rivera-Lirio, Elena Escrig-Olmedo and María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo
This study aims to empirically analyze a sound commitment and a consistent integration of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the corporate reporting and management systems of…
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Purpose
This study aims to empirically analyze a sound commitment and a consistent integration of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the corporate reporting and management systems of companies that have a leading position in sustainability.
Design/methodology/approach
The study applies a content analysis procedure based on a proposed analytical framework to codify the commitment and the SDG integration. In order to analyze the consistency of the integration, this study has provided a “SDG integration” score based on fuzzy inference systems methods. The companies in the sample have been identified as benchmarks in terms of sustainability in a specific region of Spain.
Findings
The findings show a lack of formality regarding the SDG commitment at the highest decision-making level and a low level of SDG integration in the reporting and management systems. These results are mainly explained because the most companies do not prioritize according to the materiality analysis and those SDGs more reported have not been deployed along targets and KPIs in a consistent way.
Research limitations/implications
The results provide practical implications that help to overcome the limitations in terms of comparison and consistency of the SDGs-reported information. It also illustrates how the leading sustainable companies are doing the SDG reporting and suggests which elements could be improved to promote a consistent integration of the SDGs in the management systems.
Originality/value
This study provides new work lines in the promotion of an effective SDG-business reporting based on a robust management structure that allows an alignment among the SDG-business decisions based on a normative, strategic and operational approach.
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Jesús Claudio Pérez Gálvez, Pablo Torres-Matovelle, Gina Molina-Molina and Francisco González Santa Cruz
Gastronomy is currently becoming a predominant factor for understanding and taking part in the cultural heritage of a destination. The enjoyment of culinary pleasures has become a…
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Purpose
Gastronomy is currently becoming a predominant factor for understanding and taking part in the cultural heritage of a destination. The enjoyment of culinary pleasures has become a primary motivating factor when choosing a travel destination. Gastronomy is, therefore, a fundamental part of the satisfaction that the traveller experiences when visiting a location.
Design/methodology/approach
Data collection for the research was based on the completion of fieldwork with a sample of tourists who visited the Ecuadorian province of Manabí. Based on this understanding and completed fieldwork, the study analyses the gastronomic experiences of tourists visiting the province of Manabí (Ecuador).
Findings
study shows the existence of three types of tourists, based on their higher or lower interest in the local gastronomy when travelling: survivors, enjoyers and experiencers. The results also reveal that there are different levels of satisfaction regarding local gastronomy in terms of interest and the previous cultural motivation of the tourist.
Practical implications
The characterisation of the different tourist segments identified and the assessments that these dictate regarding the destination’s gastronomy allow tourist managers to develop and offer tourist products adapted to the wishes and needs of tourists.
Originality/value
Research involves the innovation in the use of segmentation models for culinary tourism widely considered in Europe but applied in this case to developing countries in Latin America.
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Susana Martinez-Meyers, Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero and María Jesús Muñoz-Torres
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the sustainable financial disclosure regulation (SFDR) on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and risk…
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Purpose
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the sustainable financial disclosure regulation (SFDR) on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and risk scores of sustainable funds (SFs) from a multi-regional perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
This research involves conducting a comparative study between self-labeled SFs and conventional funds of the same mutual fund company matched using a five-step process. Using the SFDR publication as a natural study, this study uses panel data methodology on a portfolio ESG score database before SFDR implementation and three to six months post-SFDR Level 1 requirement to measure the impact.
Findings
The findings provide evidence of a clear reduction in ESG risk and an improvement in ESG performance across all samples and ESG dimensions following the SFDR regulation. In addition, the results reveal a positive spillover effect of the regulation on conventional funds following its implementation.
Research limitations/implications
The study can be helpful for fund managers, investors and regulators as it provides insights into the impact of mandatory ESG disclosure regulation on the global fund investment market. The study is limited by data availability due to the restrictive matching approach used, which starts with fund pairs from the same fund management company.
Practical implications
The study can be helpful for fund managers, investors and regulators as it provides insights into the impact of mandatory ESG disclosure regulation on the global fund investment market.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is a lack of research papers that analyze the impact of the SFDR mandatory regulation as a driving force on the ESG scores of the fund market using the same fund management matched pair approach. This paper tests the importance of the investment area through a multi-regional approach to study potential “spillover” effects.
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Carlos Enrique Torres-Aguilar, Pedro Moreno-Bernal, Jesús Xamán, Ivett Zavala Guillen and Irving Osiris Hernández-López
This paper aims to present an evolutionary algorithm (EA) to accelerate the convergence for the radiative transfer equation (RTE) numerical solution using high-order and…
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Purpose
This paper aims to present an evolutionary algorithm (EA) to accelerate the convergence for the radiative transfer equation (RTE) numerical solution using high-order and high-resolution schemes by the relaxation coefficients optimization.
Design methodology/approach
The objective function minimizes the residual value difference between iterations in each control volume until its difference is lower than the convergence criterion. The EA approach is evaluated in two configurations, a two-dimensional cavity with scattering media and absorbing media.
Findings
Experimental results show the capacity to obtain the numerical solution for both cases on all interpolation schemes tested by the EA approach. The EA approach reduces CPU time for the RTE numerical solution using SUPERBEE, SWEBY and MUSCL schemes until 97% and 135% in scattering and absorbing media cases, respectively. The relaxation coefficients optimized every two numerical solution iterations achieve a significant reduction of the CPU time compared to the deferred correction procedure with fixed relaxation coefficients.
Originality/value
The proposed EA approach for the RTE numerical solution effectively reduces the CPU time compared to the DC procedure with fixed relaxation coefficients.