Juan Francisco Núñez

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Bishop's University

Players in the automotive industry have been adopting different strategies to remain competitive, including product and process innovation, Lean Manufacturing, and, more recently, Green Manufacturing. In this paper, we seek to explore the integration of Lean and Green manufacturing activities from the perspective of Operations Management and Operat...

Building on Hobfoll’s conservation of resources model, we examine the interaction of different dimensions of supervisor’s support and work-family conflict on employee’s burnout. Data was gathered via self-administered questionnaires from a sample of human resource management professionals in Canada, and the hypotheses were verified using structural...

Following on the 2009 financial crisis in Spain, the way financial products are traditionally sold has been questioned, especially considering cases of fraud or deceit. Using the consolidated model of financial predation CMFP and the Delphi method, we analyze the commercialization of preferred shares in Spain during 2009. Results suggest no evident...

Fair trade (FT) is a widely recognized and accepted model of exchange for goods and services, which has matured over several decades of evolution. Although Fair Trade products are increasingly important in many markets, research has neither provided a comprehensive framework to analyze this evolution nor provided a rationale that explains why this...

The lack of balance between work and family roles is known as work-family conflict. We analyze social support as a mitigating factor of the conflict. Trying to elucidate the way in which multiple forms and sources of social support contribute to work-family articulation, we conceived two quantitative models, in which we administered a self-assessme...

Consumption of fair trade products have greatly increased in the last few years. We use the Theory of Consumption Values to analyze the evolution of fair trade consumption and propose that fair trade has evolved through four different stages that can be explained by a corresponding evolution in the values sought by the consumers. The paper makes a...

The market niche created by Fair Trade (FT), based on principles of solidarity and cooperation, has been partially occupied by large multinational corporations. These companies deploy certification programmes and labels as means of insertion into the FT market. This paper provides an analysis and critique of six independent FT certification program...

Le commerce équitable (CÉ) est en pleine croissance. À cet effet, le Canada est devenu le sixième marché mondial des produits équitables certifiés (Krier, 2007). Plusieurs acteurs ayant différents intérêts et poursuivant différents objectifs sont impliqués dans ce type de commerce. Cette multiplicité accentue par ailleurs les problèmes de coordinat...

Núñez, J. F. (2011). Review of [Commerce équitable. Les défis de la solidarité dans les échanges internationaux, Jean-Frédéric Lemay, Louis Favreau et Christophe Maldidier (2010), Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 170 p.] Économie et Solidarités, 41(1-2), 128–131. https://doi.org/10.7202/1008825ar

A substantial percentage of domestic tourists in Mexico reach their destinations via road transportation. However, highways in Mexico lack of many infrastructural features, among them an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) architecture. This paper unfolds in three parts. First, it presents an overview of road tourism in Mexico. Second, it del...