Domingo Garcia-Perez-de-Lema

Technical University of Cartagena | UPCT · Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad

The paper draws on the data gathered from a survey on men and women living in Spanish municipalities affected by depopulation. Using factor analysis, it identifies labour profiles among men and women associated with socio-demographic, economic and technological variables. We establish four profiles related to employment status for the men and women...

En esta nueva edición el Informe Pyme 2024 se centra en analizar la gestión del talento que hacen las pymes, ya que se convierte en esencial en las pequeñas empresas especialmente por la escasez de recursos. Aquellas que tengan el equipo adecuado, asegurarán su competitividad y el desempeño mediante la innovación, la productividad y su capacidad de...

El objetivo principal de este estudio es proporcionar una visión clara sobre las características de las pymes de la Región de Murcia, su gobierno corporativo, situación empresarial y, como tema central de este informe, la gestión del talento, destacando las diferencias y similitudes que existen entre las empresas familiares y no familiares.

El Informe de la Pyme España ofrece información de su estructura productiva y pretende ser de utilidad a las empresas y a los distintos agentes económicos y sociales. Su objetivo principal es suministrar información continuada de las estrategias y expectativas de las pymes para facilitar y apoyar la toma de decisiones. La edición de 2024 se enfoca...

Obtener y presentar información útil para tomar decisiones es una tarea relevante para todos; por esa razón, me honra presentar el libro DIG1TALIZACIÓN Y DES4RROLLO SOSTENIBL3 DE LAS MIPYMES EN MÉX1CO, realizado por académicos de 16 prestigiosas universidades mexicanas, quienes, con gran esfuerzo, presentan información actual sobre dos temas de gra...

El Informe Pyme 2023 se centra en esta ocasión en analizar los principales obstáculos a los que se enfrentan las pymes, a la hora de desarrollar su actividad, y elaborar una serie de propuestas que les permitan mejorar su competitividad y hacer frente al actual escenario de incertidumbre económica. El documento pretende ser una herramienta para la...

El informe Estrategias para mejorar la Competitividad de la Pyme Familiar persigue analizar la evolución reciente e identificar las demandas de las pymes familiares de la Región de Murcia. Como par te fija se caracteriza nuestro tejido empresarial en términos de tamaño, sector, antigüedad y dirección; se analiza la situación económica actual y las...

El Informe Pyme 2023 que lleva por título Estrategias para mejorar la competitividad de la pyme, que han elaborado dichas organizaciones y que consiste en un estudio empírico a partir de la información proveniente de una encuesta realizada a directivos de 799 pymes españolas, cuyo objeto es analizar los principales obstáculos a los que se enfrentan...

La cultura financiera en la PYME constituye un novedoso campo de investigación de gran repercusión a nivel académico y profesional, evidenciándose su implicación en aspectos estratégicos, financieros y de rendimiento empresarial. Dado que son muchas las incógnitas que actualmente se encuentran sin resolver, este proyecto de investigación pretende s...

This study proposed the identification of personal values and their role as mediation between human capital and the expression of quality. The relationship between these factors in artisanal food production in small companies is still little explored, so this work has the objective of bringing advances in this theme. For the analysis of the results...

Esta obra es el resultado de una iniciativa del Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Micro, pequeña y mediana empresa (MIPYMES), cuyo objeto principal es suministrar información continuada de las estrategias y expectativas de las empresas para facilitar y apoyar la toma de decisiones, principalmente en el ámbito económico y estratégico. En este proyec...

Immigrant entrepreneurship is a socioeconomic phenomenon that has become of utmost importance since immigrant communities have played an important role in economy. However, in recent decades, it has become a more multifaceted, complex, diverse, and global phenomenon. Thus, a review of the literature becomes essential. This work aims to develop a bi...

Considerando que las pymes familiares son esenciales para el conjunto de la economía regional, representando el 87% de las sociedades mercantiles, generando el 70% del empleo y el 62% del valor añadido bruto, los resultados del informe Digitalización y Desarrollo Sostenible de la Pyme Familiar en la Región de Murcia se convierten en una herramienta...

In the last decades, the interest in creativity has grown significantly; its importance is related to the impact on the performance of companies since creativity is defined as the root of innovation. Even though research has been quite fruitful in many disciplines, its study in small and medium enterprises has been less explored. This article revie...

El nuevo ambiente de los negocios exige a las empresas adaptar sus estrategias para adecuarlas al nuevo entorno que presenta un mercado cada vez más globalizado y competitivo. En este sentido, la transformación digital surge como un factor clave que debe ser incorporado en la estrategia de la organización, dado que permite mejorar el rendimiento de...

Currently, many institutions and academics are working to establish strategies of economic recovery with the aim of mitigating the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The main aim of this study is to analyze how this crisis has impacted Spanish SMEs, considering their operating, financial, and investment activities. We also analyze...

Open innovation (OI) is a strategy that firms adopt to innovate by incorporating knowledge from both outside and inside their firms, exploiting their knowledge, and exploring the knowledge of their environment. OI is relevant for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) because it allows them to adapt and thrive in increasingly turbulent and dynam...

This work empirically analyzes the competitive factors that help make micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) successful. To do this, an empirical study with a sample of 614 companies in Guanajuato, Mexico, has been carried out. The results of the binary logistic regression analysis show that quality, technology, and innovation are the main va...

The literature has shown the importance of incorporating civil society into the regional innovation system to favor companies’ long-term growth. This research aims to carry out a systematic review on the definition and classification of society in the innovation model based on the contexts that relate to the university, business, and government. Th...

El informe incluye un análisis sobre la evolución y expectativas de crecimiento de empleo y ventas, así como de diferentes indicadores económico-financieros y organizativos. Los resultados pretenden ser de utilidad a los responsables de las empresas familiares y a los distintos agentes económicos y sociales para la toma de decisiones y la planifica...

The purpose of this research is to study whether open innovation practices in SMEs favour technological innovations and the drivers of these. We propose a model of SME open innovation based on human capital (HC) approach and the commitment to learning with an emphasis on the risk taking and the formalization of an innovation strategy. The results,...

Creativity has been recognized as a critical factor in innovation development companies. Small companies find it more difficult to develop creative activities and achieve innovation, thereby affecting their competitiveness significantly. In this study, we examine the barriers to creativity in a sample of 154 manufacturing small and medium enterpris...

Este estudio examina la influencia de los efectos espaciales sobre el crecimiento de la productividad de la Pyme industrial española. Para desarrollar este trabajo usamos una muestra de 35.042 empresas segmentada en función de la tecnología del sector para el periodo 1996-2004. Con el objetivo de analizar la relación espacio-crecimiento utilizamos...

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) innovation and the effect of two mediating variables, debt terms and human capital. Based on a sample of 2,825 Spanish SMEs and applying a Structural Equations Modelling, the results demonstrate that the effect of CS...

Purpose The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of the intellectual capital of SMEs on innovation and organizational performance in the context of an emerging country. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 259 industrial SMEs from the Cordoba, Argentina. The data were analyzed by partial least squares–structural equat...

Drawing on human capital and upper echelons theories, this study analyses how CEO's financial literacy influences a firm's technological innovation and investigates the mediating role of alleviating financial constraints of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the former relationship. We develop and test hypotheses applying a Structural Equ...

Dataset used in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101519. These data were obtained from a questionnaire regarding the relationship between CEO's financial literacy, firm's allevion of financial constraints, and firm's technological innovation outcomes, as well as the firm's financial statements. We controlled for CEO's risk orientation; firm'...

The objective of this chapter is to analyze the effect which entrepreneurial culture has over innovation on products processes and development of micro, small and medium businesses (SMEs). That is why an empirical study has been conducted with over 600 firms from Spain. The data processed through linear regressions by ordinary least squares (OLS) w...

The objective of this research is to analyse how risk-taking, commitment to learning, and innovation capability — in SMEs — can favour inbound and outbound open innovation practices, and if open innovation practices help their performance. To test the hypotheses simultaneously, partial least squares analysis (PLS-SEM) was used along with the empiri...

Purpose The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of the structural capital of SMEs in the capacity of innovation and organizational performance, in the context of an emerging country. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 259 industrial SMEs from the province of Córdoba Argentina. The data was analyzed by Partial Least...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the internal and external barriers experienced by university students of the Technological Institute of Sonora (ITSON) for the development of entrepreneurship. The study is focused on a sample of 733 students from the areas of engineering, administrative sciences, and social sciences. The field work was car...

El objetivo de este documento es analizar los elementos de política financiera que se deben considerar en el marco del gobierno de la empresa familiar para llevar a cabo una adecuada toma de decisiones, tanto desde el punto de vista de la empresa como de la familia. La política financiera está presente en todo el proceso de la toma de decisiones de...

This paper contributes to the literature on accelerators by filling the gap concerning the criteria used to select venture projects. Seed accelerators develop strict and rated assessment criteria for project selection that grants them objectivity and guarantees program success. This study uses a sample of 309 cases to analyse the criteria applied b...

Editorial. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 17 (2). For more than 40 years, entrepreneurship research is booming. Contributing originally to the exploration and to the quest for fundamentals, the six papers presented in this Special Issue were selected from the 6th ECFED International Workshop, June 14-15, 2018 at the University of Cantabr...

This chapter aims to contribute to evaluate market options for business models to be adopted by industrial agents. To achieve this object, a methodological approach for a critical observation was pursued. First, it was conducted a theoretical review, regarding the business model (BM) concept and related definitions, as its relationship with strateg...

La valoración de empresas es una actividad cada vez más importante en un contexto globalizado, con empresas más dinámicas e internacionalizadas en busca de la creación de valor. La internacionalización afecta cada vez más a los países en desarrollo que se ven impelidos a tratar con operaciones de compra-venta internacionales y demandas de sus partn...

A partir del estudio y análisis del contexto socio-económico sectorial, así como del análisis por parte de los paneles de expertos consultados, se ha elaborado un estudio por sectores de actividad de las actuaciones que deberían considerarse para establecer las líneas estratégicas de contenido económico en la Comarca de Cartagena. Las políticas que...

The entrepreneurial intention in this work is addressed from the Theory of Planned Behavior. On the one hand, how personal abilities, such as creativity, proactivity, risk aversion and internal locus of control affect the multidimensional concept of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the attitude toward entrepreneurship has been studied. Personal ab...

La pequeña y mediana empresa (Pyme) ha sido en los últimos años el centro de atención de numerosos trabajos, debido fundamentalmente a su gran capacidad de generación de empleo, así como al papel primordial que juegan como generadoras de riqueza. Esto ha permitido un mayor conocimiento sobre sus características y sus relaciones con el entorno econó...

Purpose This study aims to empirically identify the relationship between gender diversity and organizational leadership. Design/methodology/approach A multifactor questionnaire, Form 6-S, developed by Bass and Avolio (1992), is used to measure leadership. The results are derived from univariate and multivariate analyses conducted through ordinary...

The main aim of this paper is to study the influence of the business environment on innovation strategy, innovative activity and performance in the SMEs. Business environment has been considered, taking into account its dynamism and its hostility. An empirical study is carried out on a sample composed by 302 Spanish firms. Results show that SMEs re...

Purpose – Innovation is today considered a competitive differential for improving the performance of companies, and technology parks are seen as environments with favorable conditions for such innovation. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for analyzing favorable conditions for innovation in technology parks, the innovations produc...

In this paper we analyze the main criteria that financial institutions consider when granting credit to a MSME, in order to minimize their risk of default. For this purpose, an empirical study was carried out on 73 risk analysts from Peruvian financial institutions. The criteria used by financial institutions are classified into: personality and ex...

For more than two decades, the literature has shown that information and communication technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) are among the best business practices in the development and competitiveness of large corporations. Recently, for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), these elements have represented a challenge and an opportu...

THe objective of this research is to analyze how the management gender affects the development of the organizational culture of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this objective, a quantitative approach is used in which a sample composed of 600 SMEs of Murcia-Spain region is applied; the information is collected from a self-administere...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of performance of businesses created by immigrants. An empirical study is carried out in the Spanish context, based on information obtained from 182 immigrant entrepreneurs. The immigrants come from African, Latin American and European countries. The results show that social capital, human ca...

Este trabajo muestra los resultados de una investigación en Cali – Colombia, que tuvo como propósito determinar empíricamente, cómo la participación del usuario, los factores tecnológicos y la gestión organizacional contribuyen al diseño y desempeño de los controles del sistema de información (SI) de la pequeña y mediana empresa (Pyme). Para ello,...

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This chapter investigates the transformation of the current society from an industry-based economy to a knowledge-management and innovation-based economy. They show that it changes the design and implementation of business strategies and the nature of the competition among organizations which are mainly small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Usi...

El objetivo de este informe es ofrecer infor- mación sobre la Pyme en España y pretende ser de utilidad a las empresas y sus miembros directivos y a los distintos agentes económicos y sociales que trabajan en mejorar el entorno competitivo de la Pyme. Suministra información sobre las expectati- vas de las empresas para facilitar y apoyar la toma de...

Las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) son un factor determinante para el crecimiento en la pequeña y mediana empresa (PyME) y se han vuelto imprescindibles en las actividades cotidianas de las organizaciones, principalmente en las estrategias de gestión del conocimiento (GC). Además, la actual literatura relaciona a estos indicador...

In this article, we analyse through a sample of 112 companies representing the Spanish construction sector, the relationship between the development of strategic planning and the use of management control systems of the company and its performance. The results show that, traditional and advanced control systems, exert a positive influence on compan...

This paper contributes to the literature on accelerators by filling the gap concerning the criteria used to select venture projects. Seed accelerators develop strict and rated assessment criteria for project selection that grants them objectivity and guarantees program success. This study uses a sample of 309 cases to analyse the criteria applied b...

We examine the effect of professional management on inno- vation in family-owned firms. Since professionalism is a crit- ical but controversial issue that can influence the innovative capacity of family businesses, we aim to determine if profes- sional management improves innovation outcomes from a comprehensive perspective. Using a sample of 583 S...

The organizational and individual characteristics of the owners of SME's, small and medium size companies, have an influence generating value for them. In this research, a scale is set out in order to identify which strategies are able to generate value for organizations. Later, a comparison is made between Mexico and the OECD members, according to...

Este trabajo analiza el efecto de la actividad innovadora sobre el crecimiento y el rendimiento de las Mipyme de los países de la Alianza del Pacífico (AP). Para ello se realizó un estudio empírico con una muestra de 386 empresas de Chile, Colombia, México y Perú. Para verificar las relaciones planteadas se utilizan regresiones lineales múltiples p...

La creación de empresas constituye una de las principales fuentes de generación de riqueza de cualquier entorno geográfico; de ahí la importancia de referirnos al tema de la creación de empresas de base tecnológica y en particular a las spin-offs académicas. Las spin-offs académicas son empresas que se basan en el conocimiento científico y tecnológ...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurial skills (such as creativity, proactivity, and risk tolerance) and socio-cultural factors (such as role model and businessman image) affect secondary education students’ propensity towards entrepreneurial options in their future careers. Design/methodology/approach A sample of secondary...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether family influence impacts on the degree of utilization of the management control systems (MCS), and the relationship between the former and performance. To this end, this study was carried out using a sample of 900 Spanish SMEs, both family and non-family businesses. The findings show that family busin...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether family influence impacts on the degree of utilization of the management control systems (MCS), and the relationship between the former and performance. To this end, this study was carried out using a sample of 900 Spanish SMEs, both family and non-family businesses. The findings show that family busin...

The purpose of this paper is to study how different university–firm governance styles impact SMEs' innovation and performance. In this sense, we differentiate between relational governance – based on interpersonal links of trust – and contractual governance — based on codified scientific and technological knowledge. The empirical analysis is based...

This book presents the current state-of-the-art in all major and upcoming areas of entrepreneurship research. Thousands of scholars around the world are currently working to broaden our understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon. The disciplines involved are numerous, as are the topics of interest, with substantial efforts to enhance the exist...

The analysis of modern capitalism is an analysis of economic, occupational and social dynamics, which are inherent to capitalism and which give color and contribute to the speed of economic development. New terms and semantics diffuse into our vocabulary, such as economy 5.0, 2.0 world, iConomy, or cloud working, which transport ideas of economic a...

Innovation is considered an important factor and key variable to improve both the use and adoption of information and communication technologies as well as to achieve better business performance levels in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). At the same time, an appropriate alignment of innovation activities with the use of information techno...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the determinants of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) financing constraints and their impacts on investments in innovation. To explicate these factors, the authors use a general definition of innovation, distinguishing between product and process innovations, and highl...

El objeto de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre la estrategia que utiliza la empresa para competir en el mercado y su rendimiento, considerando dos momentos de tiempo diferentes, antes de la situación de crisis económica y en tiempo de crisis. Para medir la estrategia se utiliza la tipología de Milles y Snow (1978) y para medir el rendimien...

For more than two decades, knowledge management (KM) has been examined in the literature and considered a basic factor in business management. The purpose of this article is to explore the ability of knowledge management to achieve small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation and business performance. Data analysis procedures of PLS-SEM was u...

En este artículo, se analizan los factores asociados al éxito competitivo de las mipymes peruanas, con una muestra de 94 empresas, con más de cinco trabajadores. Los factores de éxito competitivo se estudian desde la perspectiva de la teoría de los recursos y capacidades de las empresas. Los resultados muestran que, conforme las mipymes tengan impl...

This study analyses how the implementation of accounting and financial information and management control systems affect the performance of family and non-family micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the hospitality sector in Quintana Roo State (Mexico). The authors carried out a cross-sectional study with a sample of 122 family and...

El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar empíricamente la relación entre el género del gerente/propietario de la pyme y las características de la cultura intraemprendedora. Se realiza un estudio empírico con una muestra de 600 pymes de la Región de Murcia (España). La cultura intraemprendedora se analiza considerando la clasificación de Gál...

El presente artículo expone los resultados de una investigación exploratoria que tuvo como objetivo determinar las características de las Spin-off académicas en tres de las universidades públicas costarricenses: Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR) y Universidad Nacional (UNA). Basado en el método del caso (Yi...

The aim of this study was to answer the question of how the economic cycle affects the stability and efficiency of business failure prediction models, using bootstrap replacement method for validation. We analyse 2228 Spanish small and medium-sized enterprises for the period 2001–2009, and divide it into three different phases of the economic cycle...

The decision to go public on a stock exchange is one of the funding opportunities that family businesses have. However, the capital market has traditionally been restricted to large family businesses by the high costs of access and information requirements. In this sense, the emergence of an alternative stock market is very recent in Spain, since 2...

Con la entrada en funcionamiento del Mercado Alternativo Bursátil en España, las empresas familiares de menor capitalización tienen la posibilidad de cotizar en un mercado bursátil diseñado para pymes. Actualmente, con una profunda crisis de origen financiero, el MAB gana una especial relevancia como estrategia alternativa para conseguir financiaci...

El estudio de los sistemas de información es un aspecto relevante en la literatura de los factores competitivos