Karla Soria-Barreto

Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile) · School of Business Management

In this study, a taxonomy characterization of medical schools in Chile is performed by using an approach based on dendrograms and principal components to visualize the observations in a two-dimensional space, with the objective of identifying uniform or atypical groupings. Eleven variables are analyzed, five are associated with students and the oth...

In this study we analyze the economic feasibility of commercial cultivation of Sarcopeltis skottsbergii, a red seaweed endemic in southern Chile with commercial interest as a source of carrageenan. To this end, a dynamic bioeconomic model was built that comprises three submodels, namely, a biological, a technical, and an economic one. The cultivati...

The present study analyses the perception of business management university students in relation to the application of the learning and service methodology in virtual modality within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two instruments are applied to collect perceptions, both online. The first is during the process (open-ended questionnaire) and t...

This study seeks to explore social representations and attitudes of university teachers in relation to sexual diversity. The study has a qualitative approach through content analysis. The research was collected through 62 critical incidents with university professors, with at least one year of experience in undergraduate teaching, in five universit...

The article presents an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to identify, in a Latin American university, the students who are children of entrepreneurial parents and the determinants of their willingness to succeed them. The TPB is used as a basis to analyse the intention to be a successor, and three constructs are added: affective c...

B Corps aim to produce a positive impact on society and the environment while developing the organizational goals through a sustainable agenda. For this purpose, B Corps need innovative employees that contribute to increase their competitiveness, making them more attractive to investors. Based on the social exchange theory, this research proposes a...

In recent years, universities have put enormous efforts to promote the use of online learning among students and lecturers. Despite this, little is known about the intention of students to use online learning. The objective of this research is to study the continuance intention of online learning in the post-COVID-19 period in higher education. The...

La actividad emprendedora es un motor para el desarrollo y crecimiento de las economías dado su aporte en la generación de trabajo, innovación, diversificación de actividad productiva y la movilidad social. Es importante identificar los factores que permiten el surgimiento de emprendedores. El objetivo del estudio es comparar la actividad emprended...

The present study examines work engagement in young employees and women at B corporations. This is a characteristic linked to the distinctive seal of these companies, which stand out for their commitment with the community and the environment. This exploratory research is the first based on first-hand information obtained from young employees and w...

This article analyzes gender parity in the computer science degrees that are registered in the Chilean Single Admission System (SAS). The database analysis is descriptive. The results show that 5,381 (19.2%) female students enrolled in the computer science programs in 2018. There is a 27% female enrollment in 2018 in the civil engineering degrees o...

The study proposes to analyze the students' perception of the transversal competences of critical thinking and teamwork, at the beginning and end of the academic period. The research was carried out with freshmen of the Commercial Engineering degree at the Universidad Católica del Norte-Chile. The results are based on the application of two questio...

The aim of this study is to examine how transformational and transactional leaders, boost the employees’ innovative work behaviour, directly or through work engagement, organizational climate for innovation and absorptive capacity in Latin American firms. A non-random sample of 1429 employees was used who had been working at least one year in the c...

In this study, the determining factors for the decision of students for choosing to study at universities in different cities are analyzed. The study was focused on first-year students of Business Administration from three universities. The method used to infer which are the most relevant attributes to choose the university was the Conjoint Analysi...

This research proposes an optimal medication purchasing policy for the Drugstore of the Department of Health of Vicuña (DESAM) for patients with chronic diseases of higher prevalence. Harris-Wilson’s economic order quantity model was used to find the optimal shopping point that minimizes storage and order costs. Of the 54 medications used for the p...

This study analyses the importance of teaching social entrepreneurship in state universities. A survey was applied to university students to find out if personality traits are related to the characteristics of social entrepreneurship. This was achieved through Alpha Cronbach and Pearson/Spearman correlation analysis. The results show that students...

The objective of this study is to explore the antecedents of the formation of entrepreneurial intention from a linear, causal and asymmetrical perspective. We have combined the Ajzen model applied to entrepreneurship, including two personality variables (self-confidence and creativity). This study involves a structural equation model based on parti...

Según datos del reporte GEM Mujer 2017, el porcentaje de emprendedoras con negocios en fases iniciales es de 19,6%, mientras que en 2005 eran 8%, es decir las mujeres que lideran emprendimientos en etapas iniciales en Chile se duplican en el transcurso de una década. En una senda similar, también se destaca lo que ha ocurrido en la Encuesta Naciona...

Loco abalone (Concholepas concholepas, Bruguière, 1789) represents the most important gastropod fishery from the central coast of Perú down to the southernmost part of Chile. International prices are attractive enough to motivate the development of an important body of research to bring the catch to commercial size under controlled conditions. In t...

The depletion of marine resources, also a global issue, is affecting marine algae in Chile. Currently, the Chilean production of macroalgae is based mainly on the exploitation of natural populations. This study analyzed the potential for a private investor to undertake the culture of macroalgae as a means of addressing this depletion. The analysis...

The aim of this study was to determine if entrepreneurial intention, based on Ajzen’s model of planned behavior(1991), can be predicted by risk propensity, internal locus of control and leadership skills. Six standardizedand reliable instruments were applied to 1493 undergraduate university business students in Latin Americancountries, selected thr...

This research is based on the responses to a questionnaire applied to 351 students of business management in Chile and Colombia. Through the analysis of structural equations on Ajzen’s model, we found that entrepreneurial education, the University environment, and the prior entrepreneurial exposure are mediated by the factors of the Ajzen`s model t...

This article shows the results of the study whose objective was to determine those factors that favor the development of good practices of higher education teachers in two management careers of a Chilean university. The type of research is qualitative and the techniques used to motivate the reflection of the two participating agents (teachers and s...

The research extends the application of TBP model including gender and SLE as moderator and mediator, respectively, and see if the prior results in developing countries are coincident with those of this research. In sum, the results could strength the contribution of TBP model including SLE as mediator and gender as moderator through EI. The resear...

This study analyses the determinants of entrepreneurial intention in business students of a Chilean university. In line with other classic studies of entrepreneurial intention, explanatory factors such as self-efficacy and the locus of internal control were used. The degree of student's risk aversion was also used as an explanatory variable. A stru...

Las tasas de criminalidad en Chile son preocupantes, especialmente si se observan los datos de robos, y con tendencia creciente para los próximos años. Es por ello, que este hecho se ha convertido en un problema primordial desde el punto de vista social, que no ha sido todavía muy estudiado para este país. En este estudio se analizaron los determin...

The effect that a university course about the study of experiences in entrepreneurship on Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) of the students was analyzed. Entrepreneurial Intention is considered a prerequisite for the decision to start a business. The increasing number of studies on EI reflects the importance assigned to this subject. The participants...

This study discusses the results of implementing an active teaching methodology called Team Based Learning (TBL) in a subject of the Business Administration Career, in a Chilean traditional university. A data collection instrument was applied to two groups of students during a semester. The traditional lecture class-based methodology was used in a...

Resumen En este estudio se calcula un Índice Global de Emprendimiento y Desarrollo (GEDI), un índice que mide las diferencias en la creación de empresas, las actitudes emprendedoras y el rendimiento de las nuevas empresas a través de las regiones. Este índice reconoce que la mayor parte de las facetas del emprendimiento se ven influidas por el cont...

El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido investigar la existencia de relaciones estadísticas entre la activi- dad emprendedora y la creación de empleo en las principales comunas de la Patagonia Chilena (Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Coyhaique y Punta Arenas). Para esto se utilizan datos del periodo 2009 al 2012. Como resultado, se encuentra evidencia...

The goal of this work is to research the existence of statistical relations between entrepreneurial activity and the creation of employment at the main communes in Chilean Patagonia (Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Coyhaique and Punta Arenas). Data from the 2009-2012 period were used. As a result, evidence was found indicating that only in the peri...

In this study some determining aspects of the academic success of university students are analyzed. In this study the measure of success is the graduation of a student while student's removal, transfer or dropout from the university is considered failure. To compare students' success/failure rates, a database of 564 university students was used. Th...

The study includes an introduction, in which the model and basic suppositions are defined. Based upon them, a series of results is obtained which are applicable in assessing companies, with implications in the evaluation of projects. the work concludes with a numerical illustration. the authors maintain that the results in the theory of optimal str...

In this study the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is estimated for the Chilean fisheries-aquacultural sector, which is an essential tool for investors' decision making. For this purpose a group of companies that are representative of the sector is considered. For them, both the cost of each source of capital (debt and equity) and the capita...

En el presente estudio se estima una tasa de costo promedio ponderado de capital (WACC) para el sector pesquero-acuícola chileno, un parámetro esencial para la toma de decisiones de inversión en dicho sector. Para ello se estima la estructura de capital promedio de un grupo de empresas representativas del sector, su costo de deuda promedio y el cos...

En este trabajo estimamos empíricamente la estructura temporal de las tasas de interés (ETTI) en Chile a través de la especificación no lineal parsimoniosa de Nelson y Siegel 1987. Para esto trabajamos con los rendimientos diarios de los bonos cupón cero del Estado transados en la Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago desde 1994 a 1997. Debido a que, en ge...

- Este trabajo explora el comportamiento y estabilidad de los betas accionarios chilenos durante el período 1982-1991, buscando obtener evidencia acerca de la importancia y validez de su utilización práctica de los mismos como una medida de riesgo. - Usando datos de la Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago se estudian inicialmente las presencias bursátiles...

La hipótesis de fractalidad (HF) de la naturaleza (Mandelbrot, 1982) implica "auto-similaridad", en el sentido de que las partes replican en una escala menor al total. La fractalidad podrá ser determinística (tal como el triángulo de Sierpinski y el copo de nieve de Koch 2) o estocástica (por ejemplo las ramas de arboles, las que crecen de acuerdo...

En la búsqueda de predictores eficientes del comportamiento del producto nacional chileno, las variables que contienen mayor información son la tasa de interés de plazo medio, el diferencial entre la tasa de interés de largo plazo y la tasa de interés de corto plazo (el spread) y el mercado accionario, en ese orden. Además, a diferencia del caso de...