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Item type:Publication, Effects of the use of digital technologies on the performance of firms in a developing country: Are there differences between creative and manufacturing industries?(SciKA, 2022-01-01)This paper aims to analyse the effects of the use of digital technologies on firms’ net sales and productivity. The technology adoption approach is applied in empirical research using data from the National Enterprise Survey in Peru. Using the OLS method on a sample of 2,970 firms from creative and manufacturing industries in Peru, the effects of digital technologies on net sales and productivity are determined. Findings indicate that there is a positive relationship. However, these relationships can be different depending on the type of digital technology, the size of the firm and the manager’s gender proportion. We found that most of these technologies are more commonly related to creative industries than manufacturing firms. These relationships have greater statistical significance to net sales in large companies within both types of industry. However, SMEs have greater statistical significance with respect to productivity in both types of industries. Lastly, given the positive effect on these relationships, we conclude by highlighting the importance of managers crafting their technology portfolio and digital capabilities properly and the need for further research to determine the performance of companies in the context of developing countries. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A qualitative study on resource barriers facing scaled container-based sanitation service chains(IWA Publishing, 2022-03-01)Container-based sanitation (CBS) is an increasingly recognised form of off-grid sanitation provision appropriate for impoverished urban environments. To ensure a safely managed and sustainable service, a managing organisation must implement a service chain that performs robustly and cost-effectively, even with an expanding customer base. These ‘CBS operators’ adopt varying approaches to achieve this objective. Following research including interviews with representatives from six current CBS operators, this paper presents a generalised diagrammatic model of a CBS service chain and discusses the three broad thematic challenges currently faced by these organisations. Supplying cover material is a universal problem with hidden challenges when taking advantage of freely available resources. There is no universally applicable approach for the efficient collection of faecal waste despite the high labour costs of waste collection. The best strategy depends on the CBS operator's overall expansion strategy and the location of fixed features within the served community. Although CBS is technically well-suited to being turned into new products within the circular economy, in practice, this requires a diverse range of skills from CBS operators and is hampered by slow growth in other organic waste recovery services and unhelpful regulation. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Strategies of Peruvian social entrepreneurs from a cognitive and environmental perspective(Universidad Icesi, 2024-01-01)This research aimed to identify the strategies that social entrepreneurs use to create and grow their businesses through the analysis of cognitive dimensions and environmental facilitators. Multiple case studies were conducted to explore representative social enterprises in Peru. The results showed that business desirability defines the management of the initial years of the business, driven by empathy and moral principles, while feasibility, guided by self-efficacy, enables more sustainable growth. Four strategies, 1) maintaining coherence, 2) balancing passion and reason, 3) self-learning, and 4) active collaboration, facilitate the growth of social enterprises. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Creating social value through problem-based learning: Using podcasts in business education(Springer, 2024-03-13)This chapter presents how utilizing problem-based learning (PBL) enhanced by podcasts-audio files distributed periodically with varying thematic content-as an educational resource aids the development of undergraduate learners' competencies such as critical thinking, ethics, sustainability awareness, and the ability to solve sustainability-related business challenges. To illustrate the functionality and benefits of using podcasts to teach social sustainability in business education, we provide a case example from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in which the podcast "Relatos de gestión" ["Management Stories"], based on a storytelling technique, has proven to connect the learners with social and environmental problems. This podcast series helped to activate learners' emotions since listening to it enabled them to explore true stories from a first-hand perspective and the latter learning experience enhanced their agency to participate in creating sustainable business solutions. Moreover, learners significantly deepened their understanding of creating social and public value for businesses whose mission and strategies contribute to specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This chapter specifically focuses on the podcast episode developed to target SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), in which learners develop empathy with the problem; SDG 5 (Gender Equality), in which learners reflect on new opportunities for women; and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), in which learners analyze the new work conditions of women. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Does container-based sanitation align with sanitation sectoral planning in Lima?(IWA Publishing, 2025-11-01)The paper explores the potential of Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) as an off-grid sanitation option in addressing extreme sanitation inequalities in informal urban settlements in Lima, Perú. It achieves this by evaluating the conflicting and political tensions within the formal and informal structures of state public service provision in Lima using qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews with government officials, third-sector organizations, citizens of informal urban settlements, and academia. The paper argues that although the CBS provision has high social acceptability among its users within Lima's informal settlements, the state of Lima's fragmented sanitation sector regime hinders the possibility of scaling sanitation innovations. In Lima, scaling up CBS among informal settlements remains challenging as conventional sewerage is prioritised in WASH policy discourse and implementation. Even for CBS users, the technology was seen as a stopgap solution until they finally access sewered sanitation provided by the state, mainly because of the state's inability to fully address wastewater challenges and the assumption that conventional sewerage will eventually arrive.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Challenges and Opportunities for Sharing the Ownership in Peru(Routledge, 2025-01-01)The world has been living its processes so fast that when it looks back over its shoulder, it realizes that there are many changes needed to fix the flaws and tensions created due to speeding, to include everyone in the promise of progressive growth and prosperity within the current economic system. This issue is more evident in emerging markets, where institutional weaknesses, informal economies, and insufficient resources are considerable. Hence, our chapter explores how feasible the implementation of mechanisms of shared capitalism, specifically Employee Ownership initiatives, could be achieved in Peru. The result of our discussion proposes that traditional companies would suffer from an enormous inertia towards more inclusive and participatory business models because of what they have been doing to overcome the local institutional voids, contrary to new social businesses that could represent the start point of the diffusion of Employee Ownership practices in the Peruvian business community.1