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    Cultural preservation and economic inclusion in small-scale food production: the case of Latino Farms in Ohio
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025) ;
    Sarah Schmidt
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    Small-scale food production is declining worldwide, primarily due to the corporatization of food systems. The lack of economic inclusion, the difficulty in preserving culture, and low social integration are some of the primary barriers this economic activity faces. Based on grounded theory and through in-depth interviews with small-scale farmers and other community stakeholders, these components are analyzed in case studies of immigrant Latin American-owned farms and markets in Ohio, USA. This study analyzes SFSC in Ohio Farms as alternatives to preserve food culture as heritage and combat social inequities. The primary findings show that family traditions and cropping methods are closely related and both are important factors for farmers to preserve their cultural heritage. The common typology of SFSC in the analyzed cases is the farmers’ market type. By prioritizing cultural preservation, farmers sacrifice the use of technology, crop fashionable or market-demand food, and therefore forego potential economic benefits. This prioritization creates restrictions to economic inclusion that escalate when coupled with the lack of institutional support. ©The authors ©Springer.
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    Critical Social Participatory Action Research for Conscientization: Pedagogies and Findings from Xochimilco
    (Sage Publications, 2024)
    Schmidt, Sarah
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    The Small Scale Food Production for Cultural Preservation and Economic Inclusion project is a critical social participatory action research project that utilizes critical pedagogies to facilitate spaces of learning and research where power differentials are both recognized and dismantled. The process of consciousness raising those results is an example of applied conscientization. The key pedagogical strategies explained in this article include co-constructed knowledge, critical praxis, a relational design rooted in dialogue and ongoing project partnership. Copyright © 2024 by The Kerala State Higher Education Council
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    Understanding Inequality Throughout Production and Financial Activities
    (Centre of Sociological Research, NGO, 2025)
    The relationships between inequality and economic activities with a financial system as a financing source is analyzed. An endogenous growth model with human, physical, and financial capitals, diminishing returns, constant scale effects, and heterogeneous agents is outlined. Heterogeneity comes from capital endowments in agents, allowing to introduce a financial system into the economy. Macroeconomic equilibrium, distributional dynamics, and long-run shocks due to the interaction between economic growth, inequality, and financial system are characterized. An empirical study is conducted to test the theoretical findings using LS Panel Data techniques with fixed and random effects estimations. The econometric model is fed with information drawn from the Penn World Table for 81 countries during 1970 – 2019. Main results are: a) in the absence of a financial system, poor households will allocate less time to leisure if they want to consume more, increase human capital or both; b) physical and human capital ratio of the economy relies only in one sector when there is none financial system. Consequently, economic growth rate is lower since only one sector performs production activities; c) increases in output lead to increases in inequality; d) inequality decreases when human capital goes up; e) physical capital generates small and positive changes in inequality; f) financial capital causes positive impacts on inequality; g) inequality decreases if total factor productivity increases; h) empirical evidence verifies theoretical findings. ©The author © Montenegrin Journal of Economics.
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    Sustainable Gardening for Economic Inclusion, Poverty Reduction, and Culture Preservation
    (2022) ;
    Schmidt, Sarah
    Sustainable gardening activities can be the basis to reduce poverty while preserving culture. By generating economic inclusion, gardening can provide the entry point into society for vulnerable communities. Community stakeholders in Mexico City and Northeast Ohio were studied to analyze whether sustainable gardening can generate economic inclusion while preserving culture. Through in-depth interviews, the relationship between these three components is analyzed. In particular, topics such as gardening experience, family traditions, institutional support, economic barriers, use of technology, cropping methods, and social integration were explored. From conception to implementation and analysis, the goal of agency building reinforced social sustainability. In addition to interpretive qualitative interviews, experiential research was conducted through a “working-with” model where the communities in reference contributed intellectual resources to the project-based research design. Primary results fall into three primary categories including gardening methods, cultural preservation, and economic factors. In each analyzed case, implications of cultural preservation emerge as a foundational motivation to maintain the particular agricultural practice. Despite significant economic barriers, including high poverty rates, the cases in reference nonetheless maintain traditions, thus highlighting the importance of culture. Negative economic implications suggest an absence of institutional support, which contribute to issues of poverty and low quality of life. Social implications indicate a level of marginalization that contributes to the aforementioned economic and institutional barriers. © 2022 by the authors.
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    Predictive Factors of Academic Integrity in Business Students: A Quantitative Analysis
    Academic integrity among university students is a high priority. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to address the inclination toward dishonest behaviour related to academic integrity in undergraduate students. The study focused on two specific objectives. First, it measured the intent to commit academically dishonest acts and, second, it raised awareness among the student community regarding acts that violate academic integrity as defined by the institution’s regulations. To achieve the above, a pre-experimental approach was chosen with a pretest-posttest design involving a single group based on a non-probability convenience sample with a student body of 1304 undergraduate business students, where an instrument was applied before the intervention to establish a baseline. Participants’ response to the interaction was measured with the same instrument at a later time. The findings report that, following the intervention, participants displayed a lower inclination to commit academically dishonest acts, suggesting an improvement in the perception of academic integrity. © The authors ©
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    The K-shape Economic Recovery and a New Company Classification
    (2022) ;
    Maawad Morales, Mauricio
    One of the main consequences the pandemic has brought is the economic recession since economic activities have been affected and, as a final result, companies have gone bankrupt and unemployment has increased. Specific negative impacts occur according to the economic activity type a company carries out, mainly due to face-to-face interaction intensity with economic agents. Companies that were able to innovate their production and distribution processes not only endured the pandemic but also grew. Companies that were not able to innovate stopped growing or, even worse, shrunk or went bankrupt. The research objective is to show that both economic recession and recovery alike are creating a broader two-sector classification based on the physical interaction intensity among economic activities. In order to do so, the link between economic recovery and business bankruptcy is performed by considering the economy sectors for European and North American regions; in particular, 14 European countries, Canada, the United States and Mexico were the studied economies. Findings show that face-to-face interaction is a main factor for some economic activities to decline; hence, business bankruptcy is related to that interaction so the K-shape economic recovery is created. Consequently, the pandemic has brought a new classification for companies. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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    The Future of Companies in the Face of a New Reality : Impact and Development in Latin America
    This book analyzes the changes brought on to economic and business activities in Latin America due to the new scenarios, environments and social dynamics the world is facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, at both micro- and macroeconomic levels. Recent changes to working environments has brought discussions on work-life balance to the forefront, and creating support mechanisms to attract and retain the next generation of workers has become a primary focus for talent managers. At an industry level, there are expectations that once the crisis passes, there will be massive capital inflows toward ESG investments in emerging markets driving the transformation of companies. Consequently, ESG business models will have a cascading effect in the whole supply chain (upstream, midstream and downstream) and will generate greater value for all stakeholders. At the same time, technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, such as Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, have gradually been adopted by companies leading the charge in ESG business models. The financial sector has taken the lead in these two technologies, but the challenge generated by the COVID-19 pandemic forced other sectors to innovate rapidly in order to remain afloat. Using empirical and theoretical frameworks, the contributors in this book identify the most attractive alternatives to benefit consumers in an adverse environment like the one the world is facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which while posing a significant challenge for most industries, has also created new opportunities for innovation and ingenuity, analyzing case studies from the coffee and medical tourism sectors in particular. © Springer Nature
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    Intersection of Banking, Social Welfare, and Digital Transformation: The Mexican Case, a Latin American Perspective
    (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025) ;
    González-Rossano, Carlos
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    The banking system has been instrumental in developing economies throughout history, as it has effectively directed the funds collected from their clients’ savings and investments into productive activities of individuals and enterprises, financed consumer goods and current expenditures, housing and infrastructure projects, and provided market liquidity. However, in Latin America and amid digital transformation, banks face the dual challenge of modernizing operations while addressing socio-economic disparities. This study shows that fluctuations in operational measurements of top Mexican banks significantly affect changes in the widely used global measure of social welfare, the Human Development Index. We evaluated findings by using a machine learning prediction model and a panel data estimation, and underline how digital transformation in banking using emerging technologies to increase public access to financial services, especially credit loans for marginalized populations, can improve customer experience and financial inclusion to exploit this correlation. This approach provides a framework for understanding the potential of digital technologies to drive competitive advantages and social benefits across Latin America. ©The authors ©Springer.
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    Teoría económica: un panorama contemporáneo
    (Universidad Panamericana, 2014) ;
    Castillo Ramírez, Claudia Estrella 
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    SALVADOR RIVAS ACEVES;168147
    En este magistral trabajo editorial de los académicos Salvador Rivas, Claudia E. Castillo y Francisco Venegas plasman su gran conocimiento y dominio de los temas actuales inherentes a la Teoría Económica y sus repercusiones en el ámbito de la vida diaria, gracias a estas aptitudes fue posible conjugar de manera tan armoniosa los trabajos de los distinguidos investigadores: Ignacio Perrotini, Germán de la Reza, Jorge Ludlow, Josefina León, Francisco López, Cesar Gurrola, Francisco Venegas, Leonardo Gatica, Harvey Sánchez, Pablo Pérez, Raúl Montalvo, Clemente Hernández, Miguel Gil, José Navarro, América Zamora, Christian Bucio, Edgar Ortiz, Alejandra Cabello, Leticia Armenta, Rocío Durán, Arturo Lorenzo, José Carlos Trejo, Miguel Martínez, Raúl de Jesús Gutiérrez, Manuel da Rocha, Guillermo Sierra, Antonio Ruíz, Ambrosio Ortiz y Yazmín Soriano y del mismo Francisco Vengas.
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    Innovation and internationalization : Grupo Lorsa : A family firm that found innovation from within
    In 2015, Mexico and Brazil had been the countries with the highest growth rates, reaching a gross domestic product (GDP) of USD$1.21 and US$2.3 trillion respectively, versus other countries such as Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During the first forty years, the main business in Lorsa consisted of selling equipment for laundries and dry-cleaners. The first attempt of the company started in 1953 in Guadalajara by its founder Luis Ousset, an entrepreneur who had worked as an employee and independent advisor in the dry-cleaning sector in Guadalajara and Mexico City for eleven years before starting his own business. He got married in 1951, and had seven children. The children were involved in the company since a young age. Even though all four sons were working in the company, it seemed that the first successor was going to be Luis Jr. He was in charge of key accounts for Lorsa and was the most important sales agent. © 2019 Taylor & Francis.
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