Amador Durán-Sánchez

Sustainability and Quality of Life in Smart Cities: Analysis of Scientific Production

Economic, social, and environmental sustainability of cities stands out from other important challenges that come from constant urban development at the global level. This fact attracts many researchers from different areas of knowledge that pretend to carry out the way cities will be managed in future. A study on the smart cities analyzes a tendency to settle urban centers and their adaptation for increasing the population growth following six central concepts that influence on a city’s behavior: Economy, mobility, governance, people, living, and environment. This way, the aim of the authors is to describe an actual stage of scientific researches on the smart cities focused on sustainability and life quality. Following this purpose, a comparative bibliometric study on publications indexed in WoS and Scopus databases has been done, analyzing correlations between growths, coverage, overlapping, dispersion, and concentration of articles. This way, a search strategy has been established with the aim to get a representative subset of documents to gather them in an ad doc database used afterwards to extract the results. Taking into account these final results, we can conclude that although WoS and Scopus databases differ in terms of range, data volume, and coverage policies, the documents and their analysis are similar in several aspects, Scopus database being the one that covers better our area of study, having a higher number of journals, articles, and authors.

Systematic bibliometric analysis on Kaizen in scientific journals

Purpose Since Masaaki Imai coined the term Kaizen in the mid-1980s, it has been seen as a key element for the competitiveness of Japanese companies, and it is currently a widely discussed philosophy and is applied in a wide range of organizations throughout the world. The purpose of this paper is to serve as guidance for researchers who are developing their studies in the field of the Kaizen philosophy, in order to improve their knowledge on the most relevant articles, the most productive authors or the key scientific journals that make up this subject. Design/methodology/approach In order to fulfill the proposed objective, a descriptive bibliometric study was carried out with the analysis of citations from 138 articles included in the multidisciplinary database Scopus (Elsevier) until 2016. For the search of documents, a tracking strategy was chosen that allowed for the development of the ad hoc database required to analyze each of the basic variables of the bibliometric indicators. Findings The results obtained show a growing interest of the scientific community in its study in the last decade, as shown by the significant increase in citations received by articles, despite the reduction in the number of papers published in the last two years. Research limitations/implications The main limitations are derived from the choice of a specific database, as well as the specific search equation. Originality/value The study presents an in-depth analysis of the current state of research regarding the Kaizen philosophy through its bibliometric study, providing useful information for academics and professionals by providing a series of significant indicators to measure the bibliographic material.

Economia Colaborativa: Análise da Produção Científica em Revistas Acadêmicas

Resumo Propiciada pelas novas tecnologias e internet e acrescida pela crise surge a Economia Colaborativa, um movimento que permite a individuos utilizar e trocar servicos ou bens objetivando uma compensacao acordada entre as partes. O objetivo deste estudo e mostrar o estado atual da investigacao cientifica sobre Economia Colaborativa. A metodologia utilizada e uma analise bibliometrica de caracter descritivo e exploratorio dos artigos publicados em revistas indexadas a base de dados Scopus (Elsevier). Mediante uma procura avancada de termos foram identificados e analizados 165 documentos. Os resultados obtidos demonstram o crescente interesse da comunidade cientifica, principalmente nos paises anglo-saxoes (Estados Unidos e Reino Unido) pelo tema nos ultimos cinco anos, motivado por seu rapido crescimento e seus efeitos sobre diversos aspectos do modelo de vida atual. Encontrou-se um maior numero de publicacoes nas areas de ciencias sociais, informatica e empresa, administracao e contabilidade.

Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation for Sustainability. Bibliometric Analysis

The economic crisis has called the current economic models into question, emerging new ways of understanding the role that companies play in society. As the proliferation of academic articles shows, social innovation and entrepreneurship are currently playing a relevant role as an instrument for satisfying social needs from the business field, adding social utility to the technical and financial viability of companies. Due to the increasing interest in the social economy, the main objective of this chapter was to conduct a study of the scientific production related to innovation and social entrepreneurship, using for this purpose bibliometric techniques and the longitudinal statistical analysis of articles published in journals indexed in the multidisciplinary database Scopus (Elsevier) up to the year 2016. Thus, through an advanced search for terms, more than 1400 documents were obtained, of which 791 articles were selected to make up the ad-hoc database, which the analysis is based on. As a result, it is concluded that since 2006, there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies that address the social economy from different areas of knowledge, standing out from the rest Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, studies which are published in a limited number of specialized journals by authors from countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Spain or Canada.

LA VINCULACIÓN DESDE LAS INSTITUCIONES DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR COMO APOYO AL DESARROLLO DEL TURISMO COMUNITARIO Y LA CONSERVACIÓN DEL MANGLAR EN LA ISLA COSTA RICA, EL ORO, ECUADOR.

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja – Ecuador E-mail: cpmaldonado1@utpl.edu.ec ABSTRACT The present is a study on the connection that the institutions of Higher Education have with the community, and the obligation as an academy to contribute to the development of vulnerable zones. Here we analyze the existing resources on the Costa Rica Island, which is located in the Jambelí Archipelago, in the Santa Rosa canton, El Oro province. In this area there are approximately 520 ha. of mangrove, whose custody was delivered by the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador in 2000 to the Costa Rica Association; a methodology based on a theoretical exploratory analysis has been used in which data from primary and secondary sources was obtained to determine the biodiversity existing in the area, mainly in the mangrove, while the second phase consisted in the application of the methodology of survey and hierarchy of tourist attractions established by the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador, composed of four points that are: survey, registration, weighting and ranking. The link that has been achieved through this study, results in the discovery of the tourist vocation of the island, since tourism as an activity contributes to the revaluation of the area and to enhance the initiatives of the comuneros, besides, consolidate the presence of the UTPL, as a pioneer in the development of social responsibility projects with impact on the community.

Sport Management Analysis of Scientific Production in Academic Journals

At present, physical activity and sport have acquired extraordinary social and economic importance, being considered an important driver of development by involving, directly and indirectly, a large number of activities belonging to different economic sectors. Precisely because of its transversal nature, it is necessary to use appropriate management methods, which are understood as the set of activities and means necessary to achieve an optimal level of operation and quality in the sporting activity, using the resources available in a rational way to obtain the maximum results. Thus, the objective of this chapter has been to perform an analysis of the scientific production related to sport management through the development of a bibliometric study and a longitudinal statistical analysis of the articles published in journals indexed in the multidisciplinary database Scopus (Elsevier) until 2015. The analysis of the 393 documents obtained shows that although the first articles appeared in the early 1980s, it was not until 2008 when interest in this discipline experienced rapid growth, especially in countries such as the United States, Spain, and Australia. The studies are within the areas of Business and International Management, Strategy and Management, and Marketing and are published in specialized journals of the sport management sector: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, Journal of Sport Management, and Sport Management Review.

State of the Art of Research on Quality Management and Sport

At present, intensified competition together with the need to adapt to customer demands contributes to sports organizations aiming to achieve the highest quality in the services they provide. In this way, quality has become an unavoidable aspect of sports management and an element of strategic differentiation, as it is one of the main factors influencing competitiveness. The aim of this chapter is to provide a current picture of the scientific literature relating to quality management in the sports field in order to know who, what, where, how, and how much has been researched and the main lines of research followed in this field. The work methodology consists of the collection and analysis of indexed documents in the multidisciplinary database Scopus (Elsevier), by using an advanced search of terms. Eighty-six publications were analyzed and it was observed that it was not until 2009 when there was a real increase in scientific production on quality management in the sports field.

Economía Colaborativa: Análisis de la Producción Científica en Revistas Académicas

Resumo Propiciada pelas novas tecnologias e internet e acrescida pela crise surge a Economia Colaborativa, um movimento que permite a individuos utilizar e trocar servicos ou bens objetivando uma compensacao acordada entre as partes. O objetivo deste estudo e mostrar o estado atual da investigacao cientifica sobre Economia Colaborativa. A metodologia utilizada e uma analise bibliometrica de caracter descritivo e exploratorio dos artigos publicados em revistas indexadas a base de dados Scopus (Elsevier). Mediante uma procura avancada de termos foram identificados e analizados 165 documentos. Os resultados obtidos demonstram o crescente interesse da comunidade cientifica, principalmente nos paises anglo-saxoes (Estados Unidos e Reino Unido) pelo tema nos ultimos cinco anos, motivado por seu rapido crescimento e seus efeitos sobre diversos aspectos do modelo de vida atual. Encontrou-se um maior numero de publicacoes nas areas de ciencias sociais, informatica e empresa, administracao e contabilidade.

Literature Review of Wine Tourism Research: Bibliometric Analysis (1984–2014)

Economy of different regions of our planet is based on constantly developing touristic industry, and enotourism has been recently added to its supply. Enotourism, or wine tourism, combines wine industry and tourism. The aim of this study is to show an actual situation of written articles and studies about wine tourism, to know this way the status of the issue, and to find out who, what, where and how has studied about this topic. A bibliometric analysis of articles forming part of the Scopus database has been carried out. This database belongs to the Elsevier editorial group that provides a general view of the world scientific production. As a result, 166 articles, papers and chapters that speak about the importance of enotourism were found. The first article was published in 1984, but only at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century the studies on enotourism started to be important in the academic literature. As a conclusion, we can say that about one half of all existing literature on enotourism was written in Australia or the USA, and that a tool used for its spreading was a touristic review. However, due to the multidisciplinary nature of the industry, there are articles about enotourism in different kinds of scientific journals.