Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier
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Who are we receiving at the university? The impact of COVID-19 on mathematics and reading learning in high school

2024 , Claudia Fabiola Ortega-Barba , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier , Santiago Méndez-Padilla Andrade

We researched how the transition to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the development of mathematical thinking and reading comprehension skills of high school students based on the analysis of the results of a standardized test for higher education admission. The total number of participants was N = 17,942, out of which N1 = 10,611 were pre-pandemic applicants and N2 = 7,331 were post-pandemic applicants. The pre-pandemic group took into consideration the exam results from September 2016 to June 2020. The post-pandemic group took into consideration the exam results from September 2020 up to May 2023. We conclude that emergency remote teaching decreased the average mathematical competence of incoming university students by 12.8%. Similarly, emergency remote teaching decreased the average reading achievement of students entering university by 8%. Therefore, the impact of emergency remote teaching was greater on mathematics skills than on reading achievements.

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Principals and student achievement: a comparative study of eight countries

2021 , Marshall Perry, S. , Sealy, Karen M. , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier , DeNicola, Thomas C. , Cohen, Yair

Connections between principal leadership activities, school context, and student achievement are examined within this paper. Data for this quantitative study are from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the 2012 Programmefor International Student Assessment ( PISA). The eight countries of examination participated in both the TALIS and PISA and the researchers merged datasets, yielding a study sample of 1,301 schools. This paper supports a context-specific view of instructional leadership. When looking across countries, the researchers found different practices were more strongly associated with the academic achievement of students, and suggest that school leaders have a meaningful overall relationship with academic achievement, both directly and indirectly. This study therefore supports prior research about the direct and indirect effects of instructional leadership. Further study, which accounts for differences in family academic resources and school-level opportunities to learn, will better illuminate the connection between instructional leadership practices and academic achievement. © 2021, IGI Global.

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Virtue Ethics: A Contribution to Family Firms

2020 , Scalzo, Germán , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier

This chapter is an exploratory study of business ethics as it relates to family firms; it primarily aims to explore virtue ethics as an alternative proposal for the ethical concerns that family firms face in their management, thus overcoming the limitations of relevant business ethics approaches and integrating them into an overarching paradigm. Ethics can be classified into three main streams: (1) deontology, (2) utilitarianism, and (3) virtue ethics. The former two approaches have been widely used in the realm of business and family firms for many years and they tend to instrumentalize ethics for business purposes. Yet, they are mostly powerless to explain and promote the ethical concerns surrounding the family firm’s culture. Virtue ethics regained philosophical interest in the second half of the twentieth century, shifting the focus of morality from “the right thing to do” to the “best way to live.” By bringing together two consolidated research fields, family firms and virtue ethics, this chapter contributes a rich perspective to current research in both fields and opens up new ways of answering many of the cultural questions that family firms bring to the table. © 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Household Expenditure in Health in Mexico, 2016

2019 , Rodríguez Aguilar, Román , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier

The aim of this research is to evaluate the financial protection of public health insurance by analyzing the percentage of households with catastrophic expenditure in health (HCEH) in Mexico and its relationship with the condition of poverty, the state, the condition of insurance, and the items of health expenditure. A special emphasis was placed on the poorest households (income quintile I). Method: The National Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002–2016 was used to estimate the percentage of HCEH. The analysis was carried out with Stata-SE 12. Results: in 2016 there was 2.13% of HCEH (1.82–2.34%, N = 657,474). Conclusions: the percentage of HCEH decreased in recent years, although in 2016 it increased slightly, improving financial protection in health. This decrease seems to have stagnated, maintaining inequities in access to health services, especially in the rural population without affiliation to any health institution. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Effects of training method and age on employability skills of mexican youth entrepreneurs

2015 , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier , Smith, Ann Marie E. , Franco-López, Jorge E. , Román-Maqueira, Juana , Morote, Elsa-Sofia

This study examined the effects of two age groups of Mexican youths (18-25 years, n = 44, and 26-35 years, n = 48), within two types of entrepreneurial training programs (coached, n = 26 and laissez-faire, n = 66) on employability skills (communication, teamwork and organizing effectively). Participants completed a survey after participating in at least 1-year of entrepreneurial activity. A 2 X 2 ANOVA evaluated the effects of age group and entrepreneurial training on employability skills. The results showed that entrepreneurs from 26-35 years have higher communication and organizing skills than entrepreneurs from 18-25 years regardless of the training program. Additionally, young adult entrepreneurs (26-35), that participated in the coached training program increased their communication and teamwork skills. These findings support the recommendation of age appropriate training.© Journal of Entrepreneurship Education

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Digital consumer behavior and medical tourism: A regional analysis in Mexico

2023 , Arrioja Castrejón, Edmundo , López-Fernández, Andreé Marie , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier , Dávila-Aragón, Griselda

Medical tourism has increasingly become an important alternative to receive healthcare services given medical systems’ limitations such as: treatment availability, access, and price. The industry has significantly grown with the availability of internet services and digital platforms which enable consumers to connect with service providers as well as other stakeholders around the world. And, considering medical tourism profiles related to travel frequency, expenditure, place, and degree of digital platform use, the question is how does digital platform use impact medical tourism consumer behavior related to the type of destination? Cluster analysis and georeferencing analytics were utilized to study the correlation between digital platform use and the preferred type of destination for medical tourism. The study shows a clear positive correlation between the variables compared.

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Measuring familiness in private family firms : a bayesian network model

2018 , Dávila-Aragón, Griselda , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier , Rivas Aceves, Salvador

The objective of this analysis was to identify the causality among variables that originate the highest level of familiness in private family firms. The Bayesian Networks (BN) theory was applied to measure the effectiveness of resources and capabilities provided by the family members within a family business to understand causal relations among variables by using probabilistic reasoning throughout a graphic. Re­sults showed that if salary of family members was higher than salary of employees in the same position, if family members shared information among themselves, and if family firms presented family-employee bonds, there was an 83%, 70%, and 79% of probability of having a high level familiness, respectively. The limitation of the study is that any modification in the BN might show different outcomes. These findings expand the knowledge on family business discipline and suggest a path for family business’ leaders to increase familiness. If family firms want to strengthen their competitive advantage, the main variables they should focus, among all the resources and capabilities that represent familiness, are salaries of family members, sharing information, and family-employee bonds.

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Survival Likelihood of Micro and Small Businesses Facing a Catastrophe

2021 , Dávila-Aragón, Griselda , Rivas Aceves, Salvador , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier

This chapter proposes a measurement methodology throughout a Bayesian Network to quantify the survival probability of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) facing a catastrophic event, and to assess if a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a unique alternative to prevent companies from bankruptcy. Empirical evidence for a developing country shows the majority of companies are MSEs and without enough knowledge about a BCP; therefore, the likelihood of businesses’ survival will depend on BCP and several other elements that should be taken into account for owners when making decisions towards negative effects of catastrophic events. Results showed that for MSEs businesses with high face-to-face customer interaction, a BCP might be useful as well as the experience in crisis of the management team, but not as the only variable.

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Innovation and internationalization : Grupo Lorsa : A family firm that found innovation from within

2018 , Ramírez Pérez, Héctor Xavier , Jimenez-Castillo, Luis , Rivas Aceves, Salvador

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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