Ciencias Sociales
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Pertenecen a esta colección Tesis y Trabajos de grado de los Doctorados correspondientes a las Escuelas de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Humanidades y Educación, Arquitectura y Diseño, Negocios y EGADE Business School.
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- Exploring spiritual well-being for entrepreneurial performance(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2025-06-30) Rosales Ledezma, Olimpia Nayelli; Silveyra León, Geraldina; Amorós Espinosa, José Ernesto; Fisher, John W.; EGADE Business School; Campus Ciudad de MéxicoEntrepreneurship plays a vital role in driving economic growth, innovation, and job creation and, as this study advocates, it is also a transformative force operating at multiple levels. At the macro level, it contributes to societal and systemic change; at the meso level, it manifests through the creation and evolution of ventures; and at the micro level, it shapes the personal journeys of entrepreneurs. Despite its potential, over half of new ventures fail within three years, often due to a complex mix of external crises and internal struggles related to purpose, meaning, and wellbeing. To better understand and address this phenomenon, this research adopts a holistic perspective, integrating exogenous and endogenous aspects, including core values and spirituality, through the lens of Spiritual Well-Being (SWB) and its impact on Entrepreneurial Performance (EP). The findings reveal, first at a conceptual level addressed in Chapter 2, a strong alignment between the core purposes of entrepreneurship and spirituality. While often viewed as economic or pragmatic, entrepreneurship also entails personal fulfillment and social impact. Similarly, spirituality is not limited to transcendence but involves living one’s values through meaningful action. At the empirical level, qualitative research in Chapter 3 identified three entrepreneurial archetypes: the task-oriented, the heropreneur, and the holistic. These offer a reflective tool for understanding entrepreneurial motivations and recognizing identity as a dynamic process. Two applications of first insights are developed in Chapter 4, by using SWB as mediator between Humane Entrepreneurial Orientation and EP, and in Chapter 5, by proposing the integration of SWB aspects into entrepreneurial education. Chapter 6 further applies quantitative methods to introduce a novel scale to measure Holistic Entrepreneurial Performance (HEP), integrating the four dimensions of SWB: personal, communal, environmental, and transcendental. This framework supports evaluating entrepreneurial outcomes beyond traditional metrics, highlighting strengths and areas for growth. Final thoughts are expressed in Chapter 7 regarding the three main contributions of this work: emphasizing the link between entrepreneurship and spirituality, inviting entrepreneurs to integrate different aspects of SWB into their ventures and reflect on their journey as a process of becoming, and advocating for the integration of spiritual awareness into entrepreneurship education. In the long run, this holistic vision holds the promise of reducing failure, easing burnout, and fostering a more soulful integration of life and work
- Preconditions for innovative entrepreneurship in Mexico(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2021-02-23) Carreón-Gutiérrez, José Pedro; Amorós Espinosa, José Ernesto; hermlugo; EGADE Business School; Sede EGADE Monterrey; Saiz-Álvarez, José ManuelThis dissertation was written as a compendium of three articles: Article 1. Opportunity Motivation and Growth Aspirations of Mexican Entrepreneurs: The Moderating Role of the Household Income Framed in the Theory of Planned Behavior, the second article analyzes the entrepreneurial growth aspirations in efficiency-driven economies and examines the interaction effect of household income on the relationship between opportunity entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We propose a growth aspirations model using GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) data, with two explanatory variables: increased wealth and independence, and a moderating variable (household income). Hypotheses were validated with the use of hierarchical regression, and we find that that opportunity motivation is positively related to the entrepreneurial intention to expand entrepreneurial business activities. A second interesting finding of this study is that the independent effects model infers that growth aspirations are significantly related to household income. Article 2. Product Newness, Low Competition, Recent Technology, and Export Orientation as Predictors for Entrepreneurial Growth This study examines the contribution of how product newness, low competition, recent technology, and export orientation affect entrepreneurial growth aspirations moderated by financial capital. Based on a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) sample of 512 Mexican new entrepreneurs, we use a hierarchical regression model to study the independent and interaction effects between these variables, and we apply a Chow breakpoint test and a CUSUMSQ (cumulative sum of squares of recursive residuals) test to analyze structural change and robustness. Our results suggest that achieving higher educational levels, acquiring recent technology, and product newness slightly increase the entrepreneurial growth ambition of the firm, and that financial capital positively moderates the impact of product newness and recent technology on growth aspirations. Besides this, we show that the interaction effect of financial capital with low competition and export activity on their growth aspirations is not crucial, and business angels tend to finance, primarily when the firm exports new products and services are facing a reduced number of competitors. Article 3. Regional Efficiency Index for New Venture Creation and Job Generation This paper proposes an approach to the Resource-Based Theory within regions in which the configuration and composition of their resources may be used to describe their ability to generate entrepreneurial activity. The Mexican States were used as examples in this case in which the Resource-Based Theory was applied, in combination with the Data Envelopment Analysis, to construct a composite index that measured the efficiency of the Mexican States in their use of resources that the literature has shown as influential in new firm formation and employment creation. The index was then studied with a cluster analysis from the weights of resources to determine those that are the most important. The differences found between states and groups of states suggest that the effects of individual and specific resources on entrepreneurial efficiency are significant.
- Propuesta de un modelo educativo e-learning que permita identificar habilidades de emprendimiento en estudiantes universitarios dentro de un ecosistema emprendedor(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) Portuguez Castro, May Iliana; Gómez Zermeño, Marcela Georgina; hermlugo; García Peñalvo, Francisco José; Alemán de la Garza, Lorena Yadira; Alonso Galicia, Patricia Esther; Glasserman Morales, Leonardo David; Escuela de Humanidades y Educación; Campus MonterreyEsta disertación presenta los resultados de un estudio que tuvo como objetivo principal proponer un modelo educativo e-learning que permita identificar habilidades de emprendimiento en estudiantes universitarios de nivel de licenciatura dentro de un ecosistema emprendedor. Por medio de una metodología de investigación basada en diseño se pudo identificar el problema a investigar y desarrollar una solución que integrara innovaciones pedagógicas y herramientas tecnológicas para el diseño de un curso-taller en línea orientado a la formación del espíritu emprendedor en estudiantes universitarios y en el que participaron 20 estudiantes y cinco mentores. Durante el curso se implementaron diversos instrumentos cuantitativos y cualitativos que permitieron recolectar datos para dar respuesta a los objetivos planteados. El análisis se realizó dentro de un estudio de caso único con tres ejes de análisis relacionados con esos objetivos. Los resultados mostraron que los alumnos pudieron identificar sus habilidades de emprendimiento, proponer soluciones innovadoras a problemas sociales de manera colaborativa y alcanzar dominios cognitivos como análisis, síntesis y evaluación. Se encuentra que este proyecto puede aportar al desarrollo del espíritu emprendedor, competencia que es difícil de alcanzar por los estudiantes, contribuir a la identificación del perfil del alumno para conocer mejor cuáles son sus intereses y habilidades y fortalecerlas de manera transversal durante toda su carrera, a través de su vinculación con el ecosistema emprendedor universitario. Como sugerencias para futuras investigaciones se recomienda implementar esta innovación en grupos más grandes, utilizando los instrumentos desarrollados en este estudio y continuar indagando sobre el impacto que tienen los cursos de emprendimiento en el desarrollo de la competencia emprendedora de los estudiantes universitarios.