Publication Authors: Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres

Gabriela Citlalli López Torres, Octavio Hernandez Castorena, Alba Rocio Carvajal Sandoval

This research aims to analyze how operational sustainable business strategies and modern technologies, including employee training influence performance. The methodology is a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional design. Data was collected from 207 SMEs in Aguascalientes, central region of Mexico, through a survey administered to managers or those responsible for operations (INEGI, 2024). The data […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
441-447
Ana Lidia Quintero Ramírez, Francisco Javier Álvarez-Torres, Giovanni Schiuma, Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres, Maria D. De-Juan-Vigaray, Clara María Freire Margaça

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are fundamental to Mexico’s economy, representing over 70% of formal employment. Despite their importance, many SMEs, particularly in traditional industries such as leather-footwear, struggle to adopt digital technologies due to outdated infrastructure, limited resources, and cultural resistance to change. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified these challenges, underscoring the need for digital […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
454-460
Francisco Javier Álvarez-Torres, Giovanni Schiuma, Francisco Javier Velázquez-Sagahón, Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres

This study explores the complex relationship between technology and well-being in recent graduates entering the workforce of Industry 4.0. While technology offers flexibility through remote work, it also poses challenges like attention fatigue and emotional strain. The research focuses on how recent graduates navigate this balance, particularly as they adapt to their first jobs. On […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
828-845
Francisco Javier Álvarez-Torres, Giovanni Schiuma, Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres

Innovation is a fundamental process for the development of a prosperous and dynamic economy in this post-Covid era. The use of the Rao and Weintraub Model (2013) allows us to have an X-ray of the innovation culture of various organizations through the vision of general managers and/or founders. When these types of tools are used, […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
2029-2047
Giovanni Schiuma, Eva Schettini, Francesco Santarsiero, Francisco Javier Álvarez-Torres, Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres, Eduardo Álvarez-Rodríguez

Organizations today live in a complex business landscape that requires them to be increasingly resilient, resourceful, intuitive, and flexible. Organizations must confront increasing complexity, turbulence, unpredictability, and the speed of change in the competitive environment. Many different forces and trends are shaping the new business landscape, and rapidly evolving digital technologies are forcing breakthrough and […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
1625-1643
Patricia Hernández García, Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres, Mónica Hernández Madrigal, Marcelo Jesús Pérez Ramos

In the current economic era, named the knowledge economy, it is considered that knowledge is the most critical tool to create products and services. Knowledge transfer forces a focus on the knowledge-based economy, where access to tangible resources alone does not provide a sustainable competitive advantage (Marr & Spender, 2004). There are methods to measure […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
398-413
Francisco Javier Álvarez-Torres, Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres, Giovanni Schiuma, Eduardo Álvarez-Rodríguez

The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic represents a challenge for nations in 2020, not just in health issues, but even in well-being, job adaptation, digital competence for the future and develop new types of entrepreneurship among populations (ILO-OECD, 2020). The impact of COVID-19 on workers, workplaces and homes across the globe have been a digital-changing move, […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
163-182