Issue Overview

Abstract

As a demonstration of the scientific contributions in this field, Volume 40, Issue 78 (2024) of the journal Cuadernos de Administración from Universidad del Valle presents several contributions related to organizational management and innovation. The first study addresses organizational justice as a mediator in the relationship between power distance and organizational alienation. Furthermore, it examined how power distance affects organizational alienation among healthcare workers in public hospitals in Ankara, Turkey, using organizational justice as a mediating variable. A total of 491 employees were surveyed, and a positive relationship was found between perceived power distance and organizational alienation. In addition, a negative relationship was identified between power distance and the perception of organizational justice. The research concluded that organizational justice plays a crucial mediating role by mitigating the negative effects of power distance on organizational alienation in these hospital environments.

Another study evaluates technical efficiency in secondary education and healthcare through a two-stage DEA analysis, incorporating non-discretionary variables and considering atypical incidences. The results show greater efficiency in the healthcare sector compared to the education sector.

The article “Impact Factors in Innovation Management: A Perspective from State-Owned Enterprises” highlights the importance of innovation as an economic driver and a tool for business management, especially within the context of state-owned enterprises in Cuba. Through a Bayesian network model, the study demonstrates the crucial role of leadership, process documentation, and collaboration with other entities as competitive elements in innovative business management.

Additionally, the influence of the pandemic on leadership models is addressed, emphasizing the importance of transactional and transformational leadership in employee engagement within distributed work environments. The study underscores the need for further research to better understand the impact of other leadership models in this emerging context.

Likewise, an evaluation is conducted through a measurement model of Customer Analytics Capabilities (CAC), psychometrically validated through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. This study, carried out in 101 Colombian companies, presents two models: a three-dimensional model with 10 items linked to different factors, and a one-dimensional model with 14 items, enabling the measurement of CAC within a context of reconfiguration of traditional operational capabilities in marketing.

Finally, the issue concludes with “Evaluation of the Implementation of the School Feeding Program in Cali: PAE on the Board,” focusing its analysis on the School Feeding Program (PAE) in Cali during the 2016–2019 period. Using a thematic network methodology, the study identifies discrepancies between the proposed theory and the actual implementation of the program, as well as possible adjustments to its design.

All these studies converge with the current trends in the field, contributing to the state of the art and responding to organizational needs.