David Kimber Camussetti

University of the Andes (Chile) | UANDES · Faculty of Economics and Business

The present study assesses the impact of a number of individual attributes on the service performance of employees working for a MNC. Drawing on a sample of 128 employees working at a worldwide service company operating in Latin America, we tested the effect of ethnocentrism, cultural and emotional intelligence on employees’ individual performance...

This paper examines the relationship between intercultural competencies and performance in “international locals”, defined as employees who, albeit not formally appointed to any international position, are regularly exposed to different types of intercultural interactions. From a sample of 258 employees of a multinational company, we selected a sub...

Some influential authors have hardly criticized the traditional marketing consumer-responses models because these approaches would be hypothetical. To test these consumer-responses models, we surveyed 539 Chilean post-millennials, asking them about their prime motivations at the time of clicking on digital ads on their mobile devices (phones, lapto...

There is a lot of evidence about gender bias in the media, but not clear evidence about its causes. In this article, we study the influence of journalist’s gender and editor’s gender on gender bias in Chilean press through time. Based on content analysis of 2,645 news articles from Chilean leading newspapers and logistics regression, results confir...

This study examines if gender bias affects the recruitment process for top managerial positions in Chile. Using conjoint analysis, we evaluate how recruiters, a sample of 114 business postgraduate students, ranked a set of multi-attribute profiles, showing their preferences among profiles and the trade-off among attributes they are willing to do.

The present study explores the relationship of a number of individual attributes on service performance. Drawing on a sample of employees working within a multinational service company operating in Latin America, we tested the effects of cultural and emotional intelligence on employees’ individual performance. The regression models show that higher...

The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect that three positive attributes have on work performance among a sample of international locals. We measured the influence of self-efficacy, optimism and curiosity on performance in intercultural interactions. We argue that these traits contribute to performance when having intercultural inte...

The TV industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation due to the disruptive nature of technological innovations derived from the digitalization and convergence of the medium with the Internet. The traditional linear television model has evolved into a connected, multiscreen, interactive and personalized television, radically transforming th...

The aim of this article is to trace new audiovisual consumption habits, analyzing which screens are preferred by people in Spain when watching different types of content online. In addition, we study the use of second screens, an increasingly common phenomenon. The main sources of data for this empirical study are two original surveys carried out o...

What is the role of personality traits in the preferences of the young adult TV audience? To answer this research question, a survey was conducted among almost a hundred college students in Santiago of Chile, who exposed their TV choices and individual characteristics. The personality traits were measured using The Extended Disc system, a questionn...

This article presents the genesis/development of the construction of a quality index for open television in Chile and the main findings of its application in the year 2006. A theoretical analysis of the concept of quality in the mass media industry, and a qualitative study that shed light on the concept from the viewpoint of the industry, TV audien...

En el presente trabajo, se muestra la génesis de la construcción de un índice de calidad para la televisión abierta chilena, los principales resultados de su aplicación en el año 2007 y la comparación de ellos con los resultados obtenidos el 2006. Luego de un análisis teórico del concepto de calidad en las empresas de comunicación y de un estudio c...

Una mirada breve a los factores que pueden afectar la capacidad de predicción de una encuesta política.