This quality management model has been thought for country family-owned enterprises. These families have empirical knowledge, but they have ignorance about management process, quality process and marketing. This model is pretending to give them the advantage of the process systematization;...

The purpose of this research is to study job satisfaction, within an new labor culture environment, which has modified the rigid vertical organizational structure and has challenged new payment modalities, flexible production systems and labor competences-based profiles. This new stage has...

Within the valuation of Science and Technology (S+T) social impact, three dimensions are specially relevant for analysis, in the modern democratic societies: Public perception, citizen participation, and S+T culture. Innovation is an economic and political subject, where the State and private...

Este artículo muestra la relación existente entre las políticas de Ciencia y Tecnología (CyT) y los resultados que éstas han producido a través del gasto en CyT, como indicador de insumo, y de las publicaciones, como indicador producto. El documento describe el proceso histórico que ha...

El artìculo se centra en los impactos sociales de la investigación y en la medición de estos. El estudio del impacto de la actividad investigativa admite distintas secciones: las múltiples definiciones de los sistemas de investigación; la evaluación de impacto de la investigación; el...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a characterization, different from the traditional ones, of developed and developing countries, in terms of science and technology. First, we identify the generating processes of the publication and patent series of the countries. Then we relate the...