TEC Empresarial

2017 - 2025

Current editor(s): Juan Carlos Leiva

From School of Business, Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR)
Cartago; Costa Rica, TEC Empresarial ISSN: 1659-3359.
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Volume 16, issue 3, 2022

Allocation of entrepreneurial and innovative talent: An economic model based on institutionally-driven relative rewards pp. 1-15

Yancy Vaillant

Overconfidence, fear of failure, risk-taking and entrepreneurial intention: The behavior of undergraduate students pp. 16-33

Eduart Villanueva and Izaias Martins

Location, market orientation, and firm performance: An analysis of the Colombian healthcare industry pp. 34-54

Juan C. Amézquita, Francisco Puig and Marcelo Royo-Vela

Innovation capabilities and export performance in manufacturing SMEs pp. 55-71

Joaquin Alegre, José Luis Ferreras-Méndez, Anabel Fernández-Mesa and Roger Strange

Risk perception and crisis communication during the Covid-19 pandemic: Analysis based on Twitter hashtags pp. 72-91

Orly Carvache-Franco, Ana Gabriela Víquez-Paniagua, Mauricio Carvache-Franco, Allan Pérez-Orozco and Wilmer Carvache-Franco

Volume 16, issue 2, 2022

Disentangling the relationship between prior knowledge and entrepreneurial orientation: a bibliometric study pp. 1-17

Diana Espinoza-Torres and Marival Segarra-Oña

Knowledge management and intellectual capital in the business model innovation of Costa Rican manufacturing firms pp. 18-33

Alfredo Elías Alfaro-Ramos and José Luis Ferreras-Méndez

Financial resources, eco-innovation and sustainability performance in automotive industry pp. 34-54

Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzmán and Sandra Yesenia Pinzón-Castro

What drives project management success in developing countries? The case of Ghana pp. 55-78

Armstrong Amoah, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent and Frederic Marimon

Measuring the credibility of consumer-generated media (CGM): a scale to test credibility in the field of tourism pp. 79-93

Ricardo Castano and Diana Escandon-Barbosa

Volume 16, issue 1, 2022

A note on the configuration of the digital ecosystem in Latin America pp. 1-19

Zoltan Acs, Esteban Lafuente and László Szerb

Perceived new venture creation speed: The relevance of the university’s context and entrepreneurial experience pp. 20-43

Paola Lafuente-González and Juan Carlos Leiva

Transitioning towards sustainability: The ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the integration of sustainable practices into business models pp. 44-86

Ines Diez-Martinez and Angel Peiro-Signes

Strategic Futures Studies and Entrepreneurial Resiliency: A Focus on Digital Technology Trends and Emerging Markets pp. 87-100

Leo Dana, Aidin Salamzadeh, Samira Mortazavi, Morteza Hadizadeh and Mahnaz Zolfaghari

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Goals: a bibliometric analysis pp. 101-122

Elba Patricia Benavides-Sánchez, Ismael Moya-Clemente and Gabriela Ribes-Giner

Volume 15, issue 3, 2021

Innovative education management: an empirical study pp. 2-17

Guillermo Mateu

What drives researchers to engage in R&D contracts? pp. 18-36

Erika Sofía Olaya-Escobar, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent and Oscar Germán Duarte-Velasco

Entrepreneurial orientation and innovative performance in SMEs: the role of organizational learning pp. 37-62

Manrique Hernández-Ramírez, Ronald Mora-Esquivel and Juan Carlos Leiva

How do socially responsible universities perform? the case of Spanish universities pp. 63-82

María Belén Arias-Valle, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent and Frederic Marimon-Viadiu

Adoption and use of digital marketing applications among Costa Rican exporting SMEs: a qualitative analysis pp. 83-95

José Martínez-Villavicencio, Allan Pérez-Orozco and Ileana Montoya

Volume 15, issue 2, 2021

Financial performance and socio-emotional wealth in small and medium-sized family and non-family enterprises pp. 2-16

José Luis Esparza-Aguilar, Argentina Soto-Maciel, María Isabel de la Garza-Ramos and Juan Manuel San Martín-Reyna

Efficiency analysis of Catalonia’s construction industry pre- and post-financial crisis: a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach pp. 18-32

Claudette Procel

Influence of absorption capacity on response capacity in small Mexican manufacturing companies pp. 34-49

María del Rosario Demuner-Flores, María García and Manuel Alejandro Ibarra-Cisneros

Expectations and beliefs of Mexican entrepreneurs, from a gender perspective pp. 50-66

Alfredo Pérez-Paredes, Pablo Palacios-Duarte and Amado Torralba-Flores

Design and validation of an instrument for measuring socio-cultural and demographic factors that impact the adoption of an innovative financial service pp. 68-98

Oscar Andrés Acuña-Muñoz

Volume 15, issue 1, 2021

Trade finance constrains as a barrier for Chilean services internationalization pp. 2-19

Dorotea López and Felipe Muñoz

Innovation and technology transfer in enterprise sectors of Mexico pp. 20-35

Omar Alejandro Pérez-Cruz

Tensions and challenges evaluating the impact of entrepreneurship policies pp. 36-55

Hugo Kantis, Juan Federico and María Salomé Girandola

New venture creation: a systematic review of associated literature pp. 56-79

Colin Donaldson and Guillermo Mateu

Association of business entrepreneurship with social development in the cantons of Costa Rica in the year 2017 pp. 80-99

Agustín Gómez-Meléndez, José Eduardo Gutiérrez-Duran, Katherine Bermúdez and Ligia Jeannette Bermúdez-Mesén

Volume 14, issue 3, 2020

Importance of packaging in wine preferences: findings in a Chilean wine zone pp. 2-15

Sebastián Araya-Pizarro, Luperfina Rojas-Escobar and Enrique Ruiz-Vega

University student̕ s entrepreneurial journey obstacles in Costa Rica pp. 16-33

Juan Antonio Aguirre-González

From absorption capacity to in-company knowledge generation: key aspects’ identification pp. 34-49

Glenda Ponce-Espinosa, Marival Segarra-Oña and Angel Peiró-Signes

Improving performance by innovating and exporting: evidence in Argentine industrial firms pp. 50-71

Lizzie Marcel and Natacha Liseras

The transformative effect of investments in territorial capital on poverty reduction: evidence from rural México pp. 72-91

Pablo Aguilera and Manoj Chandra Bayon

Volume 14, issue 2, 2020

To recommend or to regret the choice? Factors explaining student loyalty: evidence from the Catalan university system pp. 2-17

Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Josep Llach, Frederic Marimon and Marta Mas-Machuca

Personal and organizational background of corporate entrepreneurs: new technology-based firm evidence pp. 18-31

Georgiana Alexandra Badoiu, Mercedes Segarra-Ciprés and Ana Belén Escrig-Tena

A look at the evolution of the academic spin-offs creation in Iberoamerican countries: the cases of Spain and Colombia pp. 32-46

Silvia Teresa Morales-Gualdrón

Scale validation to identify the generic strategy and organizational culture of Costa Rican SME companies pp. 48-63

Susan Arce-Gutiérrez, José Martínez-Villavicencio, Mario Acuña-Sánchez, Bernal Martínez-Gutiérrez and Rony Rodríguez-Barquero

Costa Rican university entrepreneurial ecosystem and its link with the entrepreneurial intention: an exploratory study pp. 64-83

Daniela Herrera-Valverde, Ronald Mora-Esquivel and Juan Carlos Leiva

Volume 14, issue 1, 2020

Financial bootstrapping among Costa Rican small businesses: an exploratory study pp. 2-11

Marco Alvarado and Ronald Mora-Esquivel

Human resources practices and intrapreneurial behavior: the influence of gender in this relationship pp. 12-25

María Teresa Canet Giner, Ana Redondo Cano, Naiara Escribá Carda, Francisco Balbastre Benavent, Lorenzo Revuelto Taboada and María del Carmen Saorín Iborra

Work inspections as a control mechanism for mitigating work accidents in Europe pp. 26-37

Esteban Lafuente and Viviana Daza

Reasons for the internationalisation and performance of technology-based firms: building an institutional support agenda pp. 38-53

Antonia Mercedes García Cabrera and María Gracia García Soto

Analysis of the role of financial and operational diversification on the economic performance of Catalan construction businesses (2005-2016) pp. 54-70

Sabrina Álvarez Cuccia

Volume 13, issue 3, 2019

Managerial turnover and performance in outside boards: Ownership makes the difference pp. 2-27

Esteban Lafuente and Miguel Angel García-Cestona

Business competitiveness in Costa Rica: a multidimensional approach pp. 28-41

Suyen Alonso and Juan Carlos Leiva

Self-management, social entrepreneurship and social innovation: a content analysis of messages in Twitter pp. 42-57

Laura Rojas-de Francisco and John Fernando Macías-Prada

Dealing with heterogeneity: An analysis of Spanish universities pp. 58-77

Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Dolors Gil-Doménech and Rocío de la Torre

Efficiency assessment of Costa Rica’s counties: A non-parametric analysis of the county competitiveness index pp. 78-92

Manuel Araya

Volume 13, issue 2, 2019

Role of the disposition to technology in the evaluation of tangible and non-tangible elements of after sales services pp. 3-18

Rony Castillo

University collaboration and individual factors of the professor: the case of public universities in Costa Rica pp. 19-32

Ronald Alvarado-Cordero and Paula Arzadun

Technology-based entrepreneurship: A challenge to meet pp. 33-44

María Eugenia Gómez-Zuluaga

Practices of corporate social responsibility developed by Mexican family businesses and their impact on competitive success and innovation pp. 45-57

José Luis Esparza-Aguilar and Teodoro Reyes-Fong

Volume 13, issue 1, 2019

A semiformality of micro-enterprises. The case of Brunca Region, Costa Rica pp. 3-18

Geovanny Abarca-Jiménez

Critical factors of success in the digital trade of the Costa Rican exporting SMES pp. 19-34

Ivonne Vásquez Esquivel

A methodological proposal for establishing materiality levels in response to the risks of material errors in the financial statements pp. 35-52

Eduardo Sosa Mora

Prediction of oil price variations with ARIMA optimization model, innovating with gross operating force pp. 53-70

Antonino Parisi-Fernández, Luis Améstica-Rivas and Óscar Chileno-Trujillo