Luis Portales Derbez

• PhD in Social Sciences
• Researcher at Universidad de Monterrey

This chapter explores the relationship between the ethical behaviour of a person as a university student and their conduct in the workplace. It explores what may be considered ethical behaviour in the professional environment, those behaviours that are common to professionally well-done work. It proposes that the construction of a culture of academ...

In this chapter, the authors present a study of mindfulness in Mexican organizations as an effective way to increase individual and organizational well-being. It presents the benefits perceived on a personal and organizational level by employees of two different organizations that have mindfulness programs. The creation of these programs within the...

Ce chapitre analyse l’écosystème organisationnel actuel dans lequel les êtres humains opèrent. Elle place l’être humain au centre de l’action, sous l’hypothèse que s’il travaille dans des conditions de confiance, de liberté d’agir et de pouvoir, il deviendra l’agent de changement dont l’entreprise a besoin pour faire face aux défis d’aujourd’hui. L...

This study aimed to contribute to the establishment of a paradigm for the sustainability of SMEs through a diagnosis of the current sustainability level of Puerto Rican’s SMEs as well as an analysis of the areas that must be strengthened to achieve a high level of sustainability. This exploratory study shows that Puerto Rico has SMEs that seek to i...

La presente obra es resultado de una serie de reflexiones teóricas, conceptuales y metodológicas de los editores en el marco del proyecto de investigación titulado «Consumo de cerveza entre los millennials del área metropolitana de Monterrey: hábitos, motivaciones y efectos en su percepción de bienestar y procesos de socialización», el cual ha sido...

Corruption is a serious problem in Mexico and the available information regarding the levels of academic dishonesty in Mexico is not very encouraging. Academic integrity is essential in any teaching-learning process focussed on achieving the highest standards of excellence and learning. Promoting and experiencing academic integrity within the unive...

La producción y comercialización de cerveza en México se presenta como una de las actividades económicas más relevantes del país, posicionándose como una de las principales bebidas entre la generación millenial. El incremento en su consumo entre jóvenes presenta una paradoja interesante. Por un lado, su consumo en exceso representa una preocupación...

Poverty is the Objective of Sustainable Development number 1, encouraging local governments to create programs aimed at its reduction. However, poverty worldwide and in Mexico has been reduced marginally, making impact assessments more critical. In this article, it is presented the results of the evaluation of the «Un Solo San Pedro» program, aimed...

Sustentabilidad Empresarial en la PYME mexicana. Retos y desafíos para el desarrollo de México. Un abordaje desde el MOPSE, es un documento basado en la experiencia de diferentes empresas y cómo éstas han enfrentado retos y oportunidades en su diario vivir. Es una obra de gran apoyo para las organizaciones, al permitirles consultar y orientarse sob...

The State traditionally addressed social problems through programs to combat poverty, strategies for redistributing benefits or regulations, and institutions that sought to balance the disparities. Given the inability of the State to address these problems, nonprofit organizations implemented programs and initiatives that provided social assistance...

The raison d’etre of any social enterprise is the attention of some social problem through the implementation of an initiative that seeks to address it. They differ from other types of social innovations in the fact that the attention of the social problem is through a business model. This nature makes the definition and implementation of their ope...

Entrepreneurship is a concept from the seventeenth century. Although the concept of not being exclusively related to an economic sphere, its study and operationalization led it to consider it as an essential part of the capitalist system, especially in the framework of neoliberalism. Over time, there have been different meanings to entrepreneurship...

Companies integrate social innovation as part of their management models to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent times. This integration arises from the interest to attend in one way or another to the problems or interests that society faces, as well as to manage the relationships they have with their stakeholders. As a result of these e...

Social innovation within traditional companies and public entities is a phenomenon that occurs more and more frequently. Individuals within companies or organizations usually drive these social innovations, using the structures and resources of the organizations where they work to meet the needs of the society. These individuals, known as social in...

Social innovations have as a primary result social change in a new and intentional way. The achievement of this result is the creation of social value, characterized by reducing or eradicating the barriers of exclusion of a group of society. Given the complexity of the problem they serve and the context, it is necessary that they generate another t...

Social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon that has gained strength in recent years. Its rapid positioning has led organizations from different sectors to promote its implementation and development with the intention that it can address the main social and environmental problems facing the world. Given its nature, it shares characteristics like those...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept that has evolved in its understanding, leading to a not consensual definition. Despite this lack of consensus, in general terms, CSR can be understood as the way in which the company establishes a link with the society, beyond its commercial interests. The implementation of CSR programs has two com...

Social innovation seeks the transformation of society through the implementation of innovative actions (solutions) that satisfy needs more efficiently, while create and generate capabilities and relations within society, allowing it to act and filled its future needs. Social innovations can come from many sectors of society and any actor, opening t...

Social entrepreneurship is the process by which social enterprises seek to address a social problem innovatively and sustainably changing the social and economic structures that gave rise to it. However, to achieve it is necessary to have an agent of change, aware of this problem and with the interest of carrying out an action that transforms the c...

Social innovations seek the transformation of society through innovative solutions. These solutions not only pursue the generation of social value but also operate under criteria of economic sustainability, making a tension in their management models and resulting in the creation of social enterprises, hybrid organizations, Social Purpose Business...

Social innovation positions itself in the last decades within the agendas and programs of actors from different sectors of society (public, private, social, educational, among others). This positioning obeys to the capacity that this type of innovations must solve social, economic, environmental, and institutional problems through a transformation...

Social innovation has the challenge of transforming society through the implementation of innovative solutions to some of the problems facing the world. The complexity of some of these solutions usually requires a high economic investment for their implementation. Due to their capacity to transform and reach markets or populations that traditionall...

Social entrepreneurship and social innovation both seek to improve the world through social change. Whereas social entrepreneurship revolves around the business side of change, social innovation focuses on the processes through which that change is generated. This textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of both topics, covering all the character...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the way in which three indigenous social enterprises from Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, solve the paradox of simultaneously producing social and economic value, which creates organizational tensions. Design/methodology/approach: This research follows a qualitative method based on a case study research strategy. Thr...

La Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) es considerada como una práctica funcionalista que genera ventajas competitivas para las empresas. El marketing social es un programa que se encuentran bajo esta perspectiva, y que tiene como interés el minimizar o eliminar cualquier efecto destructivo, y maximizar cualquier beneficio en la sociedad, por...

The aim of this article is to explore the mechanisms by which indigenous social enterprises contribute to a rural community’s sustainable development and improves the quality of life of its inhabitants. The work follows a qualitative methodology and uses the case study as a research technique. The research suggests that social enterprise uses four...

Territory is a concept that has been approached from different scopes of social sciences. As a result of its study, currently is understand as a multidimensional and complex form, where not only take into consideration the geographical aspect and availability of resources, but also includes a relational and dynamic aspect. Consequence of this view...

El emprendimiento social es visualizado como alternativa para responder a las consecuencias que ha generado el neoliberalismo a nivel mundial. La revisión del concepto, desde una perspectiva axiológica y pragmática, por parte de algunos autores, han demostrado que el emprendimiento social, lejos de ser una alternativa al neoliberalismo es una conti...

Key words: enterprise integration, inter-sectorial partnerships, social actors, social innovation, territory.JEL: O35, O10, M10Abstract. Territory is a concept that has been approached from different scopes of social sciences. As a result of its study, currently is understand as a multidimensional and complex form, where not only take into consider...

SLO refers to the level of social acceptance granted by communities and other stakeholders to a certain enterprise. The SLO is important to maintain local economic development; therefore, companies have to implement community-based development and maintain good relationships with communities to achieve their goals. Some experiences show how communi...

SLO refers to the level of social acceptance granted by communities and other stakeholders on a certain enterprise. The SLO is important in order to maintain local economic development; therefore, companies have to implement community-based development and maintain good relationships with communities in order to achieve their goals. Some experience...

In recent decades, social capital has been a key element within academic discourses and social policy programs. However, the operationalization of the concept varies from one place to another, thus generating debates regarding its likely contributions-both theoretical and empirical-. The paper argues that a contextual definition of the term contrib...

Este trabajo utiliza el rombo filosófico de Bédard para hacer un análisis de la dimensión ontológica, epistemológica, axiológica y praxiológica de la gestión humanista, permitiendo observar la complejidad que representa su estudio e implementación. Resultado del análisis es la identificación de los retos a los que se enfrenta la gestión humanista,...

In recent decades, social capital has been a key element within academic discourses and social policy programs. However, the operationalization of the concept varies from one place to another, thus generating debates regarding its likely contributions - both theoretical and empirical-. The paper argues that a contextual definition of the term contr...

One way to promote workplace spirituality is through corporate chaplains, who seek to address the spiritual, personal, organizational, and social needs of workers. The aim of this research was to test the dependence between the perceptions of the employees on their spiritual state, among others, and the accompaniment of the chaplain. Mixed methodol...

One way to promote workplace spirituality is through corporate chaplains, who seek to address the spiritual, personal, organizational, and social needs of workers. The aim of this research was to test the dependence between the perceptions of the employees on their spiritual state, among others, and the accompaniment of the chaplain. Mixed methodol...

L'entrepreneuriat social et l'entreprise sociale se sont rapidement positionnés dans la littérature et les pratiques managériales pour leur capacité à intégrer la génération de valeur sociale. Cela apparaît dans l'attention portée aux problèmes sociaux et/ou environnementaux, et à la valeur économique, qui résulte de la production de biens et servi...

Resumen. El territorio es un concepto que ha sido abordado desde diferentes ramas de las ciencias sociales, sin embargo, y como resultado de su estudio, actualmente es visualizado de una forma multidimensional y compleja, en donde no solamente se toman en consideración su aspecto geográfico y la disposición de recursos, sino que también se incluye...

Abstract. Territory is a concept that has been approached from different scopes of social sciences. As a result of its study, currently is understand as a multidimensional and complex form, where not only take into consideration the geographical aspect and availability of resources, but also includes a relational and dynamic aspect. Consequence of...

The Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, despite having higher development indicators than most of the cities in Mexico, presents households in poverty conditions similar to those observed in the poorest regions of the country. In this context, this study presents the relationship between the households' social capital located in a neighborhood with hig...

The Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, despite having higher development indicators than most of the cities in Mexico, presents households in poverty conditions similar to those observed in the poorest regions of the country. In this context, this study presents the relationship between the households' social capital located in a neighborhood with hig...

In 2010, one out of five human beings is living in poverty. These poverty conditions are exacerbated in rural areas, which concentrate 70 % of population in extreme poverty globally. One of the main causes of this form of poverty is the socio-economic exclusion in which these people live. Local development aims to address this issue of extreme excl...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the mechanisms by which an indigenous social enterprise contributes to a rural community’s sustainable development and improves the quality of life of its inhabitants. The work follows a qualitative methodology and uses the case study as a research technique. The theoretical framework deployed to identify the nat...

Resumen El concepto de exclusión social se fundamenta en la idea de que existen individuos que, por diversos motivos, no logran tener los mismos derechos que la mayor parte de los pobladores de una determinada sociedad. Los pobres, al no acceder a mercados laborales formales, sistemas de protección social ni contar con la garantía de sus derechos s...

The traditional management paradigm is experiencing attrition and crisis (Pirson, 2012). The basis on which it has been constructed, centers on the understanding that social actors’ actions are based on the principle of rationality and seek to maximize their assets and resources, regardless of the quest for well-being (Dabat, 2009; Pirson et al., 2...

Resumen El capital social es un concepto que si bien no cuenta con un consenso sobre su conceptualización o medición, si presenta como una de sus principales características su aspecto funcional, es decir, en todas sus aproximaciones se pone de manifiesto la potencialidad que brinda a los actores que hacen uso de él para acceder a determinados recu...

Spanish Abstract: En los estudios organizacionales, en especial en aquellos realizados al mundo empresarial, son pocos los investigadores que se han interesado en el acoso laboral, la dimensión oculta de la vida humana en la vida laboral, aquella relacionada con las interacciones entre los seres humanos en el trabajo y sus consecuencias. Nosotros e...

Este artículo presenta el proceso de acción colectiva que siguieron los habitantes de la colonia Fernando Amilpa en el Área Metropolitana de Monterrey (amm) para lograr el acceso a diferentes tipos de infraestructura social básica. A través del testimonio de los colonos y líderes comunitarios, se muestra cómo los procesos de acción colectiva se han...

On recent years, researchers in management and strategic management have developed a common interest in social capital, and social network, as a possibility for the organizations to enhance their performance. The strategic network perspective avers that the embeddedness of firms in networks of external relationships with other organizations holds s...