Environmental proactivity and firms' performance: Mediation effect of competitive advantages in Spanish wineries

The main aim of this paper is to show the extent to which environmental proactivity is able to generate competitive advantages in a firm in order to improve their economic-financial performance by introducing the role of managerial perception into the analysis. This study focuses on Spanish wineries and their environmental practices and covers a total of 4598 wineries with a sample of 142 valid responses during the month of November 2015. The results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, there is positive environmental proactivity in terms of obtaining both cost-based and differentiation-based competitive advantages. Likewise, this proactivity has a positive impact on the manager’s perception of performance. Secondly, obtaining differentiation-based competitive advantages has a positive impact on the manager’s perception of performance although a negative impact on performance itself. There is, however, no significant evidence of the impact of cost-based competitive advantages on financial performance nor on the perception of performance itself, nor the impact of environmental proactivity on financial performance

Efectos del apoyo emocional de las redes cercanas al emprendedor indígena sobre el éxito de la nueva empresa ecoturística en la mitad sur de México

The present work aims to study the impact derived from the emotional support provided from the closest networks they offer to the entrepreneur, in order to determine if this networks constitute a relevant influential resource during the entrepreneurial process. The context chosen has been Mexico and the results obtained indicate that emotional support is vital for the culmination of this process. Furthermore, the creation of ecotourism companies by indigenous communities allows for compatible economic progression and conservation of the environment in zones which were habited, reducing its social and economical marginalisation level.El presente trabajo pretende estudiar el impacto que el apoyo emocional proveniente de las redes cercanas ejerce en el emprendedor, a fin de determinar si estas redes constituyen un recurso de influencia relevante durante el proceso emprendedor. El contexto elegido ha sido México y los resultados obtenidos indican que el apoyo emocional resulta vital para la culminación de este proceso. Además, la creación de empresas ecoturísticas por parte de comunidades indígenas permite compatibilizar progreso económico y conservación del medio ambiente en las zonas que habitan, reduciendo su nivel de marginación social y económica

Social Entrepreneurship in Mexico

The main objective of this chapter is to show how social entrepreneurship favors endogenous development of indigenous communities to improve their quality of life, while contributing to the preservation of their cultural heritage and also promoting environmental protection and sustainable development. In this context and based on the approaches of the Theory of Entrepreneurship, it discusses what is meant by social entrepreneurship and the impact of social capital in the creation of such enterprises

Cambios en el modelo de desarrollo económico y creación de empresas : el emprendedor como factor clave del proceso de cambio

El presente trabajo se centra en analizar el papel de la creación de empresas en los cambios producidos en el modelo económico de desarrollo regional. Este objetivo resulta de gran interés si consideramos que durante los últimos años, en el entorno de la UE, hemos asistido a un proceso de cambio desde un modelo económico en el que predominaban los factores de capital y trabajo no cualificado como fuentes de ventajas competitivas, a otro en donde surgen nuevos recursos competitivos como el capital emprendedor. En este contexto, la figura del emprendedor resulta clave para entender el éxito en este proceso de reestructuración y en la configuración de las nuevas empresas como generadoras de riqueza y [email protected]

Monetising the social value of inclusive entrepreneurship: the case of the Abono Café social economy enterprise

The fact that so many people with disabilities are unemployed is a cause for concern among those responsible for employment and creating social policies, and also for families and stakeholders themselves. Self-employment, which is understood as the creation of businesses, could be a means to mitigate this problem. The market evaluation of this type of company should consider not only its economic, but also its social results in terms of both cost savings for various public administrations and the generation of social value. This includes taking advantage of the talent of an important part of the population or increasing the wellbeing of people with disabilities, thus making decent employment possible as regards all that is sought by Sustainable Development Objective (SDA) 8 of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030. The objective of this work is, therefore, to monetise the social value of this type of undertaking through the use of a case study: that of the Abono Café company. The results show that the non-market value of this company greatly exceeds its market value, thus confirming its potential to generate social value for its stakeholders. The multiplying effect of the funds that Public Administrations allocate to the promotion of this type of initiative among people with disabilities makes them a useful tool and represents a change in the design of public policies, both on a social and employment level

Environmental proactivity and firms' performance: Mediation effect of competitive advantages in Spanish wineries

The main aim of this paper is to show the extent to which environmental proactivity is able to generate competitive advantages in a firm in order to improve their economic-financial performance by introducing the role of managerial perception into the analysis. This study focuses on Spanish wineries and their environmental practices and covers a total of 4598 wineries with a sample of 142 valid responses during the month of November 2015. The results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, there is positive environmental proactivity in terms of obtaining both cost-based and differentiation-based competitive advantages. Likewise, this proactivity has a positive impact on the manager’s perception of performance. Secondly, obtaining differentiation-based competitive advantages has a positive impact on the manager’s perception of performance although a negative impact on performance itself. There is, however, no significant evidence of the impact of cost-based competitive advantages on financial performance nor on the perception of performance itself, nor the impact of environmental proactivity on financial performance

Editorial: Emotional and social value of organizations

This study was supported by the University of the Basque Country under Grant US20/11, the Consejeria de Educacion, Cultura y Deportes (JCCM), and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under Grant SBPLY/21/180501/000192

Labour Inclusion of People with Disabilities: What Role Do the Social and Solidarity Economy Entities Play?

Economic theory presupposes that the Entities of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) should exhibit a greater sensitivity in the labour insertion of groups in danger of social exclusion than should the Capitalist Companies (CC). Therefore, it is expected that the SSE will employ a greater number of people with socio-labour characteristics among its workers against whom the ordinary labour market discriminates negatively. In this context, the objective of this research is focused on the analysis of socio-labour characteristics, salary differences and the degree of inequality in the distribution of salary income of the group of workers with disabilities in the SSE compared to CCs in Spain during the Great Recession (2007–2013) and the beginning of the current economic recovery (2013–2016). Using the data from the Continuous Sample of Working Histories (MCVL, in Spanish), our results show a greater sensitivity from the SSE compared to the CC in labour inclusion of workers with disabilities as well as for most socio-labour characteristics against which the ordinary labour market discriminates negatively. A second conclusion of the results is that the SSE provides a more equitable distribution of salary income for workers with disabilities than the CC, although the wages are comparatively lower

Aproximación al valor social de un colegio rural agrupado: el caso del CRA “Sierra de Alcaraz”

La medición del valor social, más allá del valor económico generado por las organizaciones, despierta un interés creciente en todo tipo de entidades y, en especial, en aquellas organizaciones en las que el valor social que generan es su principal razón de ser. Sin embargo, su supervivencia se vincula a cumplir una serie de ratios numéricos relacionados con el coste que suponen mantener en activo estas organizaciones, que nada tiene que ver con el valor social que generan, difícilmente medible en términos cuantitativos. Este es el caso de los Colegios Rurales Agrupados (CRA), cuya existencia, además de otros beneficios, fomenta el arraigo al territorio, previniendo lo que se ha dado en denominar la España despoblada. En este contexto, se sitúa el presente trabajo, cuya primera contribución es aproximarnos al valor social generado por el CRA Sierra de Alcaraz (Albacete). La metodología que se sigue es el estudio del caso y el proceso de análisis se sustenta en el método SPOLY, especialmente indicado para organizaciones de no mercado, como es el caso de las instituciones educativas públicas. Así, en el trabajo se identifican los grupos de interés del CRA Sierra de Alcaraz y, por medio de una serie de entrevistas a los mismos, se definen las variables de valor orientadas a indicadores, cuya cuantificación permite aproximarnos al valor social generado por el CRA Sierra de Alcaraz y realizar un análisis de su eficiencia económica en términos sociales. Como resultado del trabajo, se obtiene que el valor social integrado casi duplica el valor socio-económico directo generado por esta entidad