Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Participatory planning, constitutionally established in Ecuador, to manage local development from the active participation of the citizen, is the key to strengthening the competencies, especially of decentralized autonomous governments, and is an opportunity to promote citizen empowerment and awareness of their own needs and possible solutions to them, integrating them into the decision-making of local governments. The objective of this research is to analyze the development of participatory planning and its effects on the integral development of the canton of Chone, with a quantitative and qualitative-descriptive approach, through documentary and field analysis of the study variables and the contrast of the results with the budget execution of the Gouvernement Municipal of Chone. It is concluded that, in the Organic Plan for Territorial Development, citizen participation with the representativeness of the neighborhoods and communities of Chone, was not adequate, the planned projects and programs were overestimated concerning the economic reality of the institution, which once evaluated do not reflect significant progress at the general level, which ultimately affected local development with the participation of the community.

This document presents an analytical approach to the relationship between the digital currency system (cryptocurrencies) and the digital economy in Ecuador. It is about demonstrating the importance of a relationship between the elements, which would eventually allow Ecuador to achieve a commercial and economic opening to an increasingly digitalized market. The history of currency is reviewed as a valid instrument for trade and as the basis of the economy until reaching cryptocurrencies and a brief detail of the development of the digital economy; then it is passed to an analysis and reflection of the author on the relationship of these two variables and the opportunity they have within the Ecuadorian economy, which in the end will support the final conclusions of the work. We work under a model of documentary, analytical and reflective research, selecting reference sources that allow us to channel scientific articles and relevant reports and specialized websites on the subject matter, which in turn allow us to observe not only the local reality, but also identify particularities. of what happened in other latitudes in this regard.

Industrialization, the means of production and the technological boom are strategies that have increased worldwide, promoting the growth of organizations in all their processes and procedures of production and industrialization, which are having an impact on the environment in which they operate. In this sense, the practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) appear, the same ones that are born from the need to repay the environment where they develop the organizational economic activities within the environmental, social, labor, community, and cultural dimensions. Increasing these practices in organizations, since they are a business strategy that generates institutional added value. Therefore, the objective of this research was to identify the dimensions and applications of corporate social responsibility in organizations of the Ecuadorian real estate sector and to describe a model based on the identification of stakeholders, to define a practical guide to be used when implementing CSR practices. For this, a descriptive study was conducted, under a quantitative, cross-sectional, and exploratory approach, diagnosing the current state of CSR practices in the real estate sector. The results showed that at the level of organizations in the real estate sector, only 44.67% apply CSR practices and that these are mostly large companies with 44.06%, where the focus has been on the environment. This study determines the need for organizations to start promoting CSR practices based on their corporate philosophy as a business strategy that allows them to gain a sustainable corporate image. 

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the Citizen Attention Unit of the Education District 13D06 Junín-Bolivar to identify existing shortcomings. Two instruments were applied: on the one hand, an interview was applied to the analyst responsible for this district unit to find out what services they offer to citizens, and, on the other hand, to find out the level of user satisfaction, a survey based on in the methodological guide for the measurement and evaluation of the perception of the quality of public services. The results show that in this district unit there are several drawbacks such as: a considerable rate of dissatisfaction in some users due to lack of clarity of information provided; discomfort because the requirements or doubts for which the user attends this district unit are not fully attended to or in some cases take a long time. All the shortcomings found can serve for this district unit to analyze the processes that are not being carried out efficiently, and thus improve the efficiency and effectiveness that as public servants they have the obligation to offer to the citizenry.

The real estate sector in the province of Tungurahua has maintained a minimum investment margin in the advertising factor during the 2019-2021 period, in relation to the development of social commerce in digital media. The objective is to analyze the financial effect on sales compared to the investment in operating costs and advertising expenses, through a financial analysis that allowed determining the effects on the variables. The participating companies were 6 selected according to the non-probabilistic sampling for convenience, since financial information published by the Superintendence of Companies was used under criteria related to sales and costs. The results determined that this sector does not develop a constant investment in advertising media and development of digital platforms that boost commercial activity. It was concluded that the inclusion of digital tools to promote goods and services would allow the strengthening of communication between bidders and applicants by generating a competitive advantage.

During the COVID-19 health emergency, all commercial spheres were affected, including the agricultural sector of Tungurahua. Given this situation, the different sectors had to implement alternative ways to market their products, especially the use of social networks. Therefore, this research focused on a post-crisis analysis of the methods used by farmers in this province to deal with the situation. For this, a 30-item survey was applied to 189 representatives of associations in the province of Tungurahua, structured by dichotomous questions and questions with a Likert scale. For statistical analysis, the SPPS tool and logistic regression analysis with the study variables were used. The results show that farmers in the province do not have commercial skills in social networks. This triggered losses in the sector, shortages, communication problems with merchants, suppliers, and final consumers. In addition, it was identified that social networks such as Facebook and WhatsApp are not 100% used despite their popularity, revealing the need for producers to update themselves in digital marketing methods, to optimally face future crises.

The companies in the commercial sector of the city of Ambato, Ecuador, due to the effects of the pandemic, were affected in terms of marketing, economics, and production, among others. However, the companies chose to design different strategies to overcome this precarious situation. The objective of this research is to determine the strategies that influenced consumer behavior applied by companies in the commercial sector in times of pandemic. The methodological approach follows an exploratory, descriptive and non-experimental research with a quantitative approach, with the collection of numerical and statistical data, which were compiled and interpreted based on the criteria of 25 commercial SMEs in the city of Ambato. The main results show that commercial companies applied evolution strategies and intrinsic motivation, personality and perception were identified as the main factors influencing the change in consumer behavior.

The interaction between the organizational culture and the work environment is based specifically on the policies, mission, values ​​that are managed within the company, that is, culture affects behavior, these issues are important in the entities to demonstrate the behavior of human talent and what it contributes positively or negatively to the results and ownership of companies. The objective of this research was focused on analyzing the incidence of organizational culture in the work environment of the Ayacucho Intercantonal Transport Cooperative, province of Manabí. A quantitative methodological approach was applied insofar as it tried to understand frequencies, patterns to be followed by the personnel that work in the company; The techniques used for the present investigation were the survey applied to the personnel and the direct observation in the organization under study. The results derived from this research show that the organizational culture and work environment of the Cooperative are based on qualities, principles and ideals governed by its internal regulations. It can be concluded by mentioning that although it is true that within the In the institution, there is a good organizational culture and a good work environment. Processes that help achieve the proposed objectives should be improved.

This approach has turned its gaze to the need to find a new possible scenario of what ubiquitous education is, making it part of that model to integrate cognitive systems, to orient an environment much more adjusted to the needs of the beneficiaries (students and teachers). It begins by analyzing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic system, while considering the true fact that technology has been present in this area for a long time, but the conditions presented since the first quarter of 2020, has made this a topic of increasing relevance. The problem is summarized in the conflict that university students have, in terms of carrying out academic proceedings in an online environment, as they do not have a technological model that provides them with skills for the development of activities taking into account their existing needs. also considering the autonomy of choice of time and place to meet their responsibilities in a much more efficient and effective way for the system. From there follows the developed documentary review and the approach of an approach of solution, possibly viable.

This essay attempts to identify the plural forms of discourse in the Preamble to Edgar Morin's book Self-Criticism; relating it to the perspectives of the semi-sphere, cultural symbolism, the forms of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge production; the noosphere and linguistic proposals: structuralism, generativist and textual linguistics.