Religación. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

Presentation of the dossier: Confinements and social control. Reflections and embodied experiences

Berenice Pérez Ramírez — 2021-12-22

Presentation of the dossier: Confinements and social control. Reflections and embodied experiences

Review of Indosphere Revival: Strategies to meet Sinic Challenge by Pulind Samant

Ketut Ardhana — 2021-12-21

Review

Pulind Samant (2020) Indosphere Revival: Strategies to meet Sinic Challenge. Initiate Interact Influence.

Tun Mahathir’s administration of Malaysia’s relationship with Bangladesh: A preliminary appraisal

M. Shahidul Islam Khondaker — 2021-12-21

This study examines the pertinency and materiality of Malaysia’s affiliation with Bangladesh. It presents the picture of deep reciprocal relationships in trading and investment, workforce issues, and the societal, religious and cultural exchange between Malaysia and Bangladesh that deserve elevated research to get ideas of a further snapshot. The historiographic approach and literature-based qualitative method apply to this research and uses written primary and secondary sources to gather information. Several published texts and archival documents examine to achieve the objective. In terms of significance, the result of this study would craft a narrative of a new spear of the economic relationships, societal circumstance, and cultural contact that especially evident during Tun Mahathir administration when he served Malaysia as the fourth Prime Minister that would deserve supplementary study. Furthermore, it would serve to understand the characteristics of the subsequent engagements of Malaysia with Bangladesh.

Corporate social responsibility in financial institutions in Ecuador

Bélgica Cecilia Arias Macías — 2021-12-20

The incorporation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Ecuador is a topic of recent interest. The Ecuadorian financial system embarks on this problem, which seeks to guide its activities considering the expectations of different interest groups affected by its actions to contribute to sustainable development. The objective of this document is to carry out a comparative analysis of the corporate social responsibility of financial institutions in Ecuador. For this reason, three of the four FIs considered as large are taken as a reference, as these are the ones that apply the Global Reporting Initiative and ISO26000 social responsibility standards. His memories of social responsibility allowed the application of a measuring instrument. For the economy category, a comparison of their balance sheets was made, highlighting the FI that generated the highest profitability for its investors. In the social category, the perception of their collaborators is measured and the institution where they perceive a better work environment stands out. And finally, in the environment category, the data from the reports of the three institutions were analyzed, and by means of a checklist based on the Global Reporting Initiative, the institution that most complies with the CSR indices was determined.

Performance and managerial competencies in the Public Dry Cargo Autotransport. An empirical review in the middle of Mexico

Eduardo Cruz Aldana — 2021-12-19

Today in Mexico, the sector of Public Transportation of Dry Cargo presents a transportation agency on federal highways, thus it also shows the need to optimize the supply chain associated with said transportation, in this sense, what is the relationship between managerial skills and the performance of companies dedicated to Public Dry Cargo Transport? To answer this question, it was decided to select as a unit of analysis the Metropolitan Area of the State of Hidalgo in the middle of Mexico, particularly, fieldwork was carried out in 61 companies in the sector under study. For this purpose, construction of the managerial competences was carried out from different positions resulting in an approach from behavioral, attitudinal, formative, organizational, and leadership perspectives; methodologically, a delimitation of three types of variables was carried out: a) the interaction of managerial competences; (b) standardization and c) its impact on the performance of the organizations that supported factor analysis as the main analytical strategy. Of the main results, it is highlighted that there is no relationship between managerial competencies and expected performance in the sector under analysis and based on individual needs, as well as a psychological and sociological reference, the need to develop managerial competencies from a holistic rather than behavioral perspective was identified, as shown by the findings to improve the performance of organizations.