Rafael Perez-Uribe

Organizational Management Sustainability in VUCA Contexts is an insightful and comprehensive book that delves into the complex interplay between sustainability and the...

The situation that humanity lives in the face of environmental variables presents a scenario of uncertainty for organizations and their management models (MM). This reality...

The Republic of Colombia is in the top five countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world, with more than 50,000 registered species. The climatic conditions and the...

In recent times, there have been many changes to global work environments that have highlighted the importance of prioritizing an inclusive, equitable, and diverse organizational...

The purpose of this chapter is to identify the labor inclusion practices of Colombian micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Building a more fair and equal society requires an...

Corruption is a phenomenon as old as civilization itself within the history of humanity, and it has presented itself in society with different intensities and various nuances....

This chapter will explain, in light of the methodology network of trustfulness (MNT), the existence of a series of factors that explain a higher percentage of organizational...

Colombia is an emerging country and has reflected in the last decades a significant advance for the strategic positioning of both its private organizations at the national and...

The purpose of this book chapter is to inform on the perception of anti-bribe practices in Colombian companies, on some aspects of bribe in Colombia, on the relationship between...

This chapter describes the concepts and methodology necessary to apply the IMOS (innovation model for organizational sustainability), and shows to entrepreneurs, academics...

Between 2017 and 2021, the RISE model (route of innovation and business sustainability) structured by the authors of this chapter and Ean University colleagues, has been applied...

This chapter aims to show some concepts related to the importance of planning and strategic direction as a fundamental tool for the sustainability of Colombian SMEs for a new...

Based on the hypothesis that human resources management directly depends on a set of organizational components that are the core for SMEs sustainability, this chapter expands...

The strategic organizational direction must deal with the causes that give rise to changes in the organizations in each of their levels. The strategy is affected by the...

The Baby Boomers were a pivotal generation (1946 – 1964) for the Third Industrial Revolution (1945 – 2010), but with ages raging from 55 to 76, many are retirees and/or have...

Between 2017 and 2021, the RISE model (route of innovation and sustainability for enterprises) has been applied in 106 organizations of different sizes and economic sectors in...

International businesses struggle to be competitive and influential at the global market level. With the new ideas in the management and leadership disciplines, hard skills are...

This work aims to present the results of the application of the RISE model (innovation and business sustainability route) in 25 global purpose-driven micro, small, and...

Faced with chaotic environments, it is not possible to make totally efficient forecasts, especially when it is necessary to analyze events with multiple variables and micro...

COVID-19 has placed the MSMEs of the world and Latin America in a difficult situation. With the region's economies in the middle of the march, many of them have been...

Between 2017 and 2020, the RISE model (Route for Innovative and Sustainable Enterprises) has been applied in 86 Colombian organizations of different sizes and belonging to...

Innovation is a process, where the interpersonal relationships of employees are key to the creation of ideas that will contribute to the generation of value for organizations in...

During the last years, universities have been developing the concept of creation of technology-based enterprises (TBE – spin off) as an answer to a global culture of development...

Countries have been competing against each other in order to attract financial investment and human capital for decades. However, emerging economies have a long way to go before...

Project management tools can be used as an alternative to improve and strengthen a company’s position in the market. However, the management of projects has been in constant...

The purpose of the chapter is to present the experience of the evaluation based on competences, through an institutional evaluation program that verifies the quality of the...

Innovation trends in human management are key factors that have a major influence in a company's competitiveness and its business sustainability. Therefore, an innovation...

This chapter explains one of the hypotheses of the results of a basic research of the Ramírez-Garzón doctoral thesis entitled, “Organizational components that explain the...

The strategic organizational direction must deal with the causes that give rise to changes in the organizations in each of their levels. The strategy is affected by the...

Based on the hypothesis that human resources management directly depends on a set of organizational components that are the core for SMEs sustainability, this chapter expands...

The purpose of this chapter is to describe and study the dimensions that establish trustfulness between management and employees in medium-sized companies in Bogotá DC as a key...

In this chapter, some key factors of the companies were analyzed, which during the development of their activities marked positively or negatively their passage through different...

This research demonstrates how the orientation to organizational learning affects the innovation and performance of the Colombian micro, small, and medium (MSMEs) enterprises...

The open collaborative innovation model based on a triple helix proposes a way by which collaborative processes and innovation networks create value. It contains seven...

Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. Understanding the inner workings of small businesses offers benefits to the...

This chapter is based on a work of approximately twelve years implementing the MMOM (Model of Modernization for Organizational Management) in about 310 Small and Medium...

The purpose of this chapter is to determine the amount of knowledge that students who worked in SMEs (in this case, subject matter experts) of the specialization in project...

The chapter proposes a simple—in light of previous evaluations of the instrument used in Excel in the MMGO model—methodology for each of the stages, giving particularly...

Open innovation is a way that allows the incorporation of external knowledge into a company (Chesbrough, 2003). Open collaborative innovation allows to add an external point of...

Micro and SMEs represent 96% of the companies legally constituted and registered at the Chambers of Commerce in Colombia, and between 70% and 90% are mainly family owned...