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Resumen: La gestión del conocimiento representa una capacidad esencial para la Industria Española de Defensa. Su evolución ha venido marcada por el avance de los sistemas de información y las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) que facilitan la gestión estratégica en las organizaciones. La determinación de las capacidades militares en la actualidad está sujeta a los procesos de innovación y ecosistemas empresariales, donde se puede compartir el conocimiento utilizando acuerdos de cooperación y alianzas estratégicas, con importantes beneficios para el crecimiento de la industria y resultados para la transferencia desde la Defensa. Sistemas Interempresas, herramientas e-business y TIC colaborativas, mejoran la inteligencia competitiva, proporcionando valor a las empresas de la industria. El conocimiento en Defensa ha recorrido un largo camino, proporcionando el crecimiento de la empresarialidad y el desarrollo en I+D+i de la Defensa en colaboración con Administración e Industria. En la actualidad inteligencia artificial, Industria 4.0, innovación abierta y dualidad tecnológica, constituyen la cuarta revolución y deja atrás a los procesos de externalización y subcontratación que supusieron un avance hace ya una década para la modernización y profesionalización del Ministerio de Defensa.

The article summarizes the actions for the institutional strengthening and research projects for the training and research of the agribusiness capacities in Costa Rica and the Region of Murcia. The training of teachers, graduates and students; the knowledge of agribusiness and rural tourism companies, social economy and the development of agribusiness, the creation of spin-off, logistics and the operations of horticultural companies are some of the main objectives of academic cooperation projects for the development of the Central American countries and the European Union. These aspects of the research will lead to a better understanding of rural areas and agricultural activities to encourage the consolidation in the regions. ; El artículo resume las acciones de fortalecimiento institucional y proyectos de investigación para la formación e investigación de las capacidades de agronegocios en Costa Rica y la Región de Murcia.La formación del profesorado, egresados y estudiantes; el conocimiento de las agro empresas y la emprendimientos en turismo rural, la economía social y el desarrollo de los agronegocios, la creación de spin-off, la logística y las operaciones de empresas hortofrutícolas, son algunos de los objetivos principales de estos proyectos de cooperación académica para el desarrollo de los países de Centroamérica y la Unión Europea.Estos aspectos de la investigación llevarán a un mejor conocimiento de las zonas rurales y de las actividades agropecuarias para impulsar la consolidación en las regiones.

AbstractThe objective of this article is to explore the combined effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR), green transformational leadership and knowledge transfer on responsible green innovation and to analyse their impact on agribusiness business performance in the context of a developing country. There is no research that integrates joint effects on responsible innovation with a focus on process inputs and increased greening capabilities in agricultural units. Moreover, we have integrated transformational green leadership to better explain this impact as a differentiator. Results show both knowledge transfer and green transformational leadership have positive relationships with responsible green innovation, and the latter has a positive impact on environmental, economic and strategic performance dimensions. Overall, our results establish that CSR is an external driver that reinforces knowledge transfer with an emphasis on collaboration. CSR also reinforces green leadership functions through synergies in conjunction with green human resource management practices.

AbstractIn this paper, a model of structural equations is proposed to analyze the relationship between the actions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its influence on innovation and cooperation in agribusiness sector located in Murcia, Spain. These companies have always been characterized by an innovative and cooperative spirit to meet the demands of their customers. The proposed model shows the relationship between cooperation and innovation and their influence on economic performance. Moreover, the model suggests, first that innovation partially mediates the relationship between cooperation and performance and second that cooperation partially mediates the relationship between CSR and innovation. Insiders (employees, partners, and managers) and external agents (suppliers and society) and its association with the strategy of innovation and cooperation and the various measures and economic outcomes associated with CSR are also studied. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

AbstractIn this paper, a structural equation model is presented to study the adoption of a strategy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the Spanish technological industry sector, and how this strategy may influence its performance, competitiveness, and sustainability. For that reason, a survey was submitted to technology companies located in Spanish Science and Technology parks. The study shows that a CSR‐oriented strategy contributes significantly to the performance of the organisation. Moreover, CSR influences the competitiveness of technology companies, and particularly their sustainability. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

The purposes of this study are to examine the relationship between absorptive capacity and relational capital and to identify a potential stock of technology knowledge (T‐knowledge) that can act as a catalyst for these relationships. We also examine the relative importance and significance of 'intentional unlearning' as a bridge between 'relational capital' and 'T‐knowledge' and the existence and enhancement of relational capital. These relationships are examined through an empirical investigation of 125 Portuguese companies.Portugal is facing an extremely difficult economic situation and thousands of jobs have been lost. As a result, the ability for organisations to create, transfer, assemble, integrate and use relational capital as leverage is fundamental to achieving a competitive advantage or, indeed, survival. Associação Empresarial da Região do Algarve (NERA) is a non‐profit organisation of an inter‐sectoral nature associated with the Portuguese Industrial Association representing the Algarve.Analysis of the data indicates that if the organisation considers the establishment of a stock of T‐knowledge as a prior step to the enhancement of unlearning, then unlearning has a positive influence on the conditions that stimulate the enhancement of relational capital. Our main conclusion is that creation of relational capital by NERA members will depend to a significant extent on how managers acquire, analyse, interpret, and understand new external knowledge. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This article tries to explain the contents and results of all operations in two research projects of the Spanish Agency for International Development (here in after AECID). Those acade- mic achievements have produced concrete results at the level of small producers, the preparation of teachers of both universities and the training of stu- dents. By collecting this information makes clear that the new opportunities offered by PCI-AECID projects give a boost to the rural areas, impor- tant spaces of socio-economic and organizational development to increase their levels of economic participation, social, cultural and political and conse- quently, their standard of living. ; Este artículo pretende explicar los contenidos y resultados del conjunto de acciones desarrolladas en dos proyectos de investigación de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (en adelante AECID). Se recopilan tam- bién aquellos logros académicos que han generado resultados concretos tanto a nivel de pequeños productores, la preparación del profesorado de ambas universidades y la formación de estudiantes. Mediante la recopilación de esta información se pretende dejar claro que las nuevas oportunidades que brindan los proyectos PCI-AECID dan un auge a la ruralidad, espacios importantes de desarrollo socioeconómico y de organización para aumentar sus niveles de participación económica, social, cutu- ral y política, y consecuentemente, su nivel de vida.

[ESP] El gobierno corporativo de las entidades de la Economía Social (en adelante, EES) mejora la eficiencia y el crecimiento de estas organizaciones con o sin ánimo de lucro a través de medidas de carácter estratégico. La incidencia de este modelo de buen gobierno es básica en las EES y a través de los stakeholders o grupo de interés sirve de integración para los diferentes agentes que participan en sus relaciones socioeconómicas. En este sentido, las teorías y enfoques tradicionales de gestión empresarial señalan las EES como aquellas que aportan a sus instituciones y actores, carácter innovador en pro del mejor desarrollo territorial y socioeconómico de los pueblos donde se asientan. Para ello, el buen gobierno corporativo en estas EES, sobrepasa algunos de los indicadores económicos relativos a la creación de valor y los consecuentes resultados de las compañías exclusivamente de capital, dotando a las EES con cierta diferencia sobre las estrictamente mercantilistas. [ENG] The corporate governance of Social economy entities (hereinafter, EES) improves the efficiency and growth of these organizations with or without profit through strategic measures. The incidence of this model of governance is basic in the EES and through stakeholders or interest group provides integration for the different actors involved in socio-economic relations. In this sense, theories and traditional approaches to business management point out the EES such as those that contribute to its institutions and actors, innovative nature for the best territorial and socio-economic development of the peoples where settle. To do this, good corporate governance in these EES, exceeds some of the economic indicators relating to the creation of value and the consequential results of companies exclusively capital, giving the EES with some difference on the strictly mercantilists.

PurposeRural community tourism (RCT) represents an experience of community-based tourism where local population retains control over the process and the bulk of benefits. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the study of successful RCT experiences in Nicaragua to enlarge the literature of tourism sustainability.Design/methodology/approachApplying the resource-based theory of the firm to tourism, the paper defines a theoretical framework where local resources and capabilities combined through organization and strategic actions result in competitive advantages at the community level reinforcing its sustainable dimension. The model is tested empirically through Structural Equation Modelling-Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) modelling for Nicaraguan RCT experiences.FindingsMain findings show a good performance of empirical results, with the community dimension representing the cornerstone of the RCT project. Results remark how the presence of community tangible and intangible resources and capabilities are combined and exploited in tourism initiatives through strategies that put the preservation of the community as the central objective. This process leads to the emergence of competitive advantages that promote the sustainability of the community lifestyle, ensuring a durable approach of the rural tourism initiatives. Other interesting findings show how this type of RCT projects also promote the integration of weak rural collectives, like women and young people, or the pivotal cooperation emerging between public and private actors.Originality/valueThe paper provides a novel framework to better understand some of the key pieces ensuring the sustainability of tourism initiatives. This theoretical setting has been applied to the case of rural areas at developing countries but could be enlarged to other contexts at developed countries having to deal with mass tourism and important related negative impacts of these activities. In sum, the main value of the paper is to provide a framework helping to identify the context that is needed to implement successful sustainable tourism experiences.