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Measuring job risks when hedonic wage models do not do the job
(Elsevier, 2025-01-10) Ferreira, Susana; Martínez de Morentin, Sara; Erro Garcés, Amaya; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE; Economía; Ekonomia
The theory of compensating differentials predicts that wages should compensate for differences in job characteristics, including the risk of death on the job. Empirically estimating these compensating differentials in real-world labor markets has, however, proven difficult. This paper explores the potential of job satisfaction regressions as an additional valuation approach to estimate the tradeoffs between wages and job amenities along the wage-amenity frontier. In this approach, job satisfaction scores act as a proxy for utility at work, and can be used to directly estimate the tradeoffs between wages and amenities at the job taken by the worker. Conventional hedonic wage regressions with data on thirty-five thousand workers across thirty European countries show limited evidence that European workers facing larger job risks and other workplace disamenities receive higher wages. On the other hand, using the same data, workers who perceive their jobs to be riskier, are absent more days from work due to work accidents, or are exposed to worse conditions at their workplace are less satisfied with their jobs, ceteris paribus, revealing a negative valuation of those job disamenities.
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Open social innovation: an approach to public organizations
(IGI Global, 2019) Erro Garcés, Amaya; Aramendia Muneta, María Elena; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE
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Home-based telework: usefulness and facilitators
(Emerald, 2020) Ollo López, Andrea; Goñi Legaz, Salomé; Erro Garcés, Amaya; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE; Gestión de Empresas
Purpose: This article aims to analyze individual-, organizational- and country-level factors that determine the use of home-based telework across Europe according to the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the technology–organization–environment model. Design/methodology/approach: To examine the impact of individual-, organizational- and country-level factors on telework, multilevel models are estimated to prevent problems derived from biased standard errors when micro- and macro-level data are combined. Findings: The main findings show that, according to the usefulness side of the TAM, employees with family responsibilities, those that live away from their work and highly qualified workers use more home-based telework. Additionally, and according to the ease of use side of the TAM, empowerment in firms facilitates home-based telework. At the country level, lower power distance, individualism and femininity, better telework regulations and technology developments are also facilitators of home-based telework. Research limitations/implications: The study is limited by the cross-sectional nature of the data. This prevents the estimation of causal effects. Additional research would benefit from the use of panel data and from a more detailed analysis of the effects of country dimensions. Practical implications: From an applied perspective, politics related to cultural dimensions are suggested to stimulate home-based telework. Originality/value: The research contributes to previous literature by: (1) considering a large sample to conduct an empirical analysis of the use of home-based telework across Europe, (2) including micro and macro factors, (3) providing a theoretical framework to explain home-based telework, (4) applying a rigorous definition of home-based telework and (5) focusing on employees who are able to adopt home-based telework.
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Young people, social workers and social work education: the role of digital skills
(Routledge, 2020) López Peláez, Antonio; Erro Garcés, Amaya; Gómez Ciriano, Emilio José; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
This paper addresses a key issue in the development of youth-focused social work: the role of digital skills in the relationship between young people and social workers who work with these native digital users. To this end, we analysed data from the International Digital Economy and Society Index 2019 and Eurostat. Information from the sixth European Working Conditions Survey and a survey conducted by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the British Association of Social Workers supported the empirical analysis. The main findings reveal a gap between the level of digital skills required in the labour market and the actual level of digital skills in both young people and social workers, despite efforts by both groups to improve their skills. Initiatives to foster digital skills are therefore recommended to bridge this digital divide. Lastly, it was concluded that both groups could act as mutual drivers of digital transformation.
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Guest editorial: Immersive telework: a new hybrid organizational model
(Emerald, 2024) Erro Garcés, Amaya; Belzunegui Eraso, Ángel; Pastor Gosálbez, Inma; López Peláez, Antonio; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
To expand the theoretical knowledge base and provide a better understanding of telework since the pandemic, we launched a special call for papers on "Organizational behavior since COVID-19: teleworking and organizational challenges since the pandemic".
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La economía y organización industrial como paradigma de desarrollo sostenible en el nuevo modelo de industria para Europa
(Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo, 2023) Bueno Campos, Eduardo; Erro Garcés, Amaya; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
El artículo analiza el papel del paradigma de la Economía y Organización Industrial, considerando su génesis en Inglaterra y desarrollo en EEUU, junto a su consolidación en Europa, como enfoque de carácter «mesoeconómico» y de naturaleza «multidisciplinar», con énfasis en el papel de la tecnología y de la innovación en la Política Industrial y en las estrategias industriales, como fundamentación de los objetivos y contenido del Documento de la UE( 2021) sobre el «Nuevo Modelo de Industria para Europa» y el consecuente Programa NEXT GENERATION para lograr la recuperación europea e incorporando la transición y transformación digital de la empresa, tras la crisis de la COVID-19, con el consiguiente análisis de la propuesta del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia de España, junto a la Nueva Ley de Industria.
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Competencies in digitalization: an experiment in an international course
(Hindawi, 2021) Erro Garcés, Amaya; Hernández Palaceto, Celia; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
This research aims to explore competencies in the digital global context through an international experiment conducted at the Veracruzana University in Mexico and the Public University of Navarre in Spain. In this paper, we report test scores of a course from both universities (N = 85). The course was grounded on Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. Students were required to work in international teams through virtual communication and coworking tools. The main findings show that digital competencies though necessary, do not seem sufficient. Additionally, the research identifies the most developed competencies (decision-making and cognitive development competencies) and the competencies that need to be strengthened (digital competencies). From a practical perspective, the international experiment facilitates a collaborative learning scenario.
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Computer use and pay for performance
(Wiley, 2021) Bayo Moriones, José Alberto; Erro Garcés, Amaya; Lera López, Fernando; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Ekonomia; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE; Gestión de Empresas; Economía
Workplace digitalisation is a pervasive phenomenon associated to an increase in wage differentials between occupations. This paper analyses the relationship between computer use and pay for performance, whose incidence has also followed a positive growth pattern. More concretely, we examined three pay-for-performance schemes: productivity/piece rate, team and firm pay for performance. We also investigated the mediating role of job design in this relationship. The complementarity framework perspective and the economic theory of incentives were the theoretical approaches applied in the development of hypotheses. Data from four waves of the European Working Conditions Survey were used in the empirical analyses. A positive association was found between computer use and the three pay for performance schemes considered, particularly team and firm pay for performance. The results also indicated that this relationship was partially explained by changes in job design due to computerisation, such as higher job complexity, on-the-job training and teamwork.
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Futuros escenarios del management. Casos de éxito y evidencia empírica
(Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo, 2017) Erro Garcés, Amaya; Pérez García, Raquel María; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
Este documento persigue identificar tendencias que afecten al management del futuro. En concreto, se proponen cinco posibles: Industria 4.0, el Big Data, el Internet de las Cosas, la realidad virtual y la ciberseguridad. Para cada una de estas tendencias, se ha presentado un análisis del concepto y diferentes escenarios organizativos en los que esta tendencia modifica las formas de gestionar la empresa. Asimismo, se han descrito diferentes casos de estudio en los que se implantan cada una de estas tendencias. Con la finalidad de validar si, efectivamente, estas realidades constituyen realmente tendencias de futuro en el ámbito empresarial, se han realizado varios análisis empíricos. En primer lugar, se elaboró un estudio de los términos en buscadores de Internet para conocer la popularidad de estos conceptos. Posteriormente, se entrevistaron a directivos de diferentes sectores de referencia para constatar su visión acerca de estos nuevos escenarios. Como conclusión, estos directivos validaron las propuestas previas, ratificando que las tendencias propuestas son una realidad en muchas de sus empresas, e indicaron la necesidad de adaptar las organizaciones a estos entornos de futuro. La transformación actual que se está realizando en las empresas conlleva unos beneficios que se pueden considerar extensivos a cualquier sector, si bien serán más patentes en mayor o menor medida dependiendo del tipo de empresa y de su actividad. Todos estos cambios no implican solamente rentabilidad económica, sino también el aumento de la satisfacción de empleados y clientes, agilidad en la toma de decisiones y la mejora de la imagen de la compañía. Por lo señalado anteriormente, la aplicación de las tendencias es vista por parte de las empresas como una inversión imprescindible para su salud y supervivencia. Finalmente, se elaboró un cuestionario dirigido al sector de automoción, en el que se preguntaba a las empresas por tendencias que afectarían a su futuro. Temas como la Industria 4.0 fueron destacados como tendencias. Entre las limitaciones que este estudio presenta cabe destacar la muestra limitada que se ha utilizado, y la necesidad de incrementar el número de empresas participantes en el análisis empírico. Futuras investigaciones sobre estos temas podrían dirigirse a estudiar la implantación de cada una de estas tendencias en la empresa española, así como las medidas públicas dirigidas a potenciar su desarrollo.
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Catching the wave: Industry 4.0 in BRICS
(Emerald, 2020) Erro Garcés, Amaya; Aranaz-Núñez, Irene; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE
Purpose – This research aims to conduct, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic review of the implementation of Industry 4.0 in BRICS. This review facilitates the identification of main factors that affect the readiness to adopt Industry 4.0 in BRICS and the role of different agents, such as multinationals, the public sector or educative institutions. Design/methodology/approach – Key publications published from 2010 to 2019 have been analysed. A total of 61 papers have been selected from the systematic review. Findings – Three factors of convergence of BRICS to developed economies in terms of Industry 4.0 are identified: (1) the public initiatives that can also result in the attraction of talent from developed countries to BRICS; (2) the role of multinationals and (3) the implication of educational institutions. Research limitations/implications – This review has some limitations. First, some grey literature, such as reports from non-governmental organisations and front-line practitioners’ reflections, were not included. Second, only research studies in English were reviewed. Practical implications – The heterogeneity of BRICS amongst themselves affects the implementation of Industry 4.0 policies. Therefore, public policies should differ among countries to achieve the different readiness of companies within each country. Industry 4.0 cannot be understood as a manufacturing strategy against delocalisation, as emerging countries, such as BRICS, are also aware of the potential of automation. Originality/value – Based on a systematic review, this article shows that the strategy created by Germany to increase industrial productivity has been also introduced in BRICS countries as a critical factor to improve their competitiveness.