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    The influence of graduate attributes and humanistic principles on leadership, social responsibility, and performance
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    Higher education institutions (HEIs) offer educational methods inspired by their mission, vision, and philosophy. Graduate attributes are the resulting skills and competencies that students develop during their learning process and then apply in their professional work. This study analyzes whether a HEI’s humanistic philosophy informs graduate attributes and then influences Senior Management alumni’s leadership style and social responsibility. The results of this study suggest that HEIs with strong humanistic components favor the development of a person-centered leadership. And, when graduates occupy management positions, this leadership style correlates with the development of socially responsible companies as well as positive organizational performance. Moreover, the longer graduates occupy leadership positions, the greater the positive effect on the organization. © The authors © Springer.
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    The effectiveness of curriculum standardization in data analysis and tools proficiency for undergraduate education: a case study
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    Introduction: The rapid evolution of technology necessitates the development of advanced computing and data analysis skills in undergraduate education. Standardizing curricula is a strategy to ensure consistent learning outcomes and align educational objectives with industry requirements. This study investigates the impact of a standardized curriculum on students' academic performance and professional certification outcomes. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used to analyze 1,597 students enrolled in a data analysis course before and after implementing a standardized curriculum at a private university in Mexico City. The study assessed course grades and certification exam scores to evaluate the effectiveness of standardization. Parametric and non-parametric tests were applied to ensure robust analysis. Results: Implementing the standardized curriculum resulted in a slight decrease in average course grades but significantly improved certification exam scores, exceeding the threshold for certification. The findings highlight enhanced proficiency in data analysis tools and consistency in achieving educational objectives across groups. Discussion: The results suggest that curriculum standardization effectively addresses teaching methodologies and assessment criteria discrepancies. While increased curriculum difficulty temporarily impacted grades, the improved certification outcomes demonstrate the value of standardization in preparing students for industry demands. These insights provide a foundation for future curriculum development to align academic instruction with the evolving requirements of a technology-driven workforce. ©The authors ©Frontiers Media.
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    Social mobility through technological assets: a regional microsimulation model
    (Social Sciences Research Society, 2025)
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    Access to technology is a significant factor in facilitating upward social mobility by reducing disparities in access to information and fostering educational and employment opportunities. This study develops a microsimulation model for a region in Mexico to estimate the probabilities of households achieving social mobility through a two-year renewable microcredit scheme for acquiring a computer with internet access over a 14-year period. The data utilised include the National Income and Expenses Survey and a regional social mobility survey. The methodology incorporates principal component analysis to construct an Asset Index, ordered logistic regression for asset selection, a Markov Chain for transition probability estimation, and Monte Carlo simulation. The findings reveal that 13.75% of households could progress to a higher wealth quintile while sustaining their ability to repay the microcredit. The study advocates for targeting public programmes aimed at social mobility towards specific sectors rather than implementing universal initiatives. Additionally, it recommends enhancing credit conditions through public-private partnerships to mitigate inequality. ©The authors © (2024), (Social Sciences Research Society). All rights reserved.
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    Unresolved Issues: Quality of Life and Digitalization in Marginalized Communities
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    Digitalization is a catalyst for the development of an information society, transforming how individuals interact with the world. However, its implementation across countries and regions has been uneven, contributing to social polarization and declining social trust. Among the most pressing concerns related to digitalization and inequality are the conditions of marginalized communities and persistent gender disparities. This study examines whether digitalization is associated with quality of life in marginalized areas and whether these effects differ between men and women. Using a quantitative approach, this study applies an ordinal regression model to data from two surveys conducted in 2021 and 2024 in a marginalized community in Mexico City. The results indicate that digitalization is significantly associated with quality of life: households possessing technological assets were 4.17 times more likely to report improvements in quality of life. Moreover, notable gender differences emerged. Although men’s quality of life increased by a factor of 35.7 in relation to digitalization, no statistically significant association was observed for women. The findings suggest a growing and statistically significant association between digitalization and quality of life in marginalized communities, but its benefits are distributed unevenly across genders. ©The authors ©MDPI.
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    How Financial Literacy Factors Influence Households’ Income and Expenses
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    Financial literacy equips individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage money effectively, thereby fostering financial well-being and supporting societal development through the promotion of financial responsibility. This study investigates the key determinants of financial literacy that influence household income and expenditure. The research employs an empirical analysis, utilising data from a biannual National Income and Expenses Survey. Two models were compared using multivariate estimations to examine the cause-and-effect relationships between income, expenditure, and financial literacy variables. The first model applied the least-squares method, while the second utilised a robust least-squares method, which accommodates outliers and mitigates the impact of assumption violations. Findings reveal that certain factors, including savings, education, medical expense insurance, life insurance, and credit card usage, significantly and positively influence household income and expenses over time. Notably, the acquisition of medical expense insurance, life insurance, and credit card usage emerged as the most impactful factors. Although savings and education were statistically significant, their overall influence on household financial outcomes was comparatively limited. This study contributes by identifying and highlighting the most influential factors affecting household income and expenditure, with implications for policy and practice. It is recommended to enhance financial literacy by improving public understanding and practical engagement with medical expense insurance, life insurance, and credit card usage, thereby promoting more sustainable and prosperous financial outcomes for households. © The authors (2024), International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies ©Social Sciences Research Society.
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    Virtue Ethics: A Contribution to Family Firms
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    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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    Effects of training method and age on employability skills of mexican youth entrepreneurs
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    Smith, Ann Marie E.
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    Franco-López, Jorge E.
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    Román-Maqueira, Juana
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    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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    Innovation and internationalization : Grupo Lorsa : A family firm that found innovation from within
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    Jimenez-Castillo, Luis
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    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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    Household Expenditure in Health in Mexico, 2016
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    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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    Digital consumer behavior and medical tourism: A regional analysis in Mexico
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    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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