Chertow M. R., Ashton W. S. and Espinosa J. C. Industrial symbiosis in Puerto Rico: environmentally related agglomeration economies, Regional Studies. Industrial symbiosis, a sub-field of industrial ecology, examines the flow of water, energy, materials, and by-products across firms in geographic proximity. Environmentally related co-location benefits often result that have not been a focus of traditional agglomeration economies, but extend the basic theory. This paper conceptualizes the relationship between agglomeration economies and industrial symbiosis, finding that many negative environmental externalities can be reduced while increasing production efficiency. Four industrial regions of Puerto Rico, all with agglomeration economies, but only two with significant industrial symbiosis, highlight the contribution of symbiosis and how it can influence both static and dynamic agglomeration economies. Chertow M. R., Ashton W. S. et Espinosa J. C. Symbiose industrielle à Porto Rico: économie d'urbanisation liée à l'environnement, Regional Studies. La symbiose industrielle, sous domaine de l'écologie industrielle, examine les flux d'eau, d'énergie, de matériaux et de sous-produits entre entreprises voisines. Les avantages de la co-occupation présentent souvent des résultats qui n'ont pas été au cœur des économies d'urbanisation classiques mais qui prolongent cette théorie de base. Cet article conceptualise les relations entre les résultats de l'économie d'urbanisation et ceux de la symbiose industrielle selon lesquels de nombreux effets externes environnementaux négatifs peuvent être réduits tout en augmentant la productivité. Quatre régions industrielles de Porto Rico, toutes dans des économies d'urbanisation mais dont deux seulement avec une symbiose industrielle significative, mettent en lumière la contribution de la symbiose et comment elle peut avoir une influence sur des économies d'urbanisation statiques et dynamiques. Écologie industrielle Symbiose industrielle Économie d'urbanisation Environneme nt Développement durable Porto Rico Chertow M. R., Ashton W. S. und Espinosa J. C. Industriesymbiose in Puerto Rico: umweltbezogene Agglomerationswirtschaften, Regional Studies. Im Bereich der Industriesymbiose – einem Untergebiet der Industrieökologie – werden die Ströme von Wasser, Energie, Materialien und Nebenprodukten zwischen Firmen innerhalb eines geografischen Bereichs untersucht. Ein häufiges Resultat sind umweltbezogene gemeinsame Standortvorteile, die bisher nicht im Mittelpunkt der traditionellen Agglomerationswirtschaften standen, sondern die Grundtheorie erweitern. In diesem Beitrag wird die Beziehung zwischen Agglomerationswirtschaften und Industriesymbiose konzeptualisiert, wobei festgestellt wird, dass sich zahlreiche negative Umweltexternalitäten bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung der Produktionseffizienz reduzieren lassen. Anhand von vier Industrieregionen in Puerto Rico – alle mit Agglomerationswirtschaften, aber nur zwei mit signifikanter Industriesymbiose – wird der Beitrag der Symbiose hervorgehoben,...

With permanents global changes, organizations are increasingly required to promote employee creative behavior to deal with competitiveness keeping ethical leadership practices and responsible models of management. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of ethical leadership on creativity and estimates the mediating effect of organizational support for creativity in this relationship. A cross-sectional approach with a sample of 258 professionals, employees of different companies and economic sectors in the city of Lima, Peru, was employed. Valid and reliable instruments were used to assess the perception of the variables studied, and direct and indirect effects were tested using structural equation models. The results indicate that ethical leadership positively influences creativity both directly and through organizational support for creativity. This draws attention to the opportunity that leaders have to optimize organizational processes, procedures, and protocols oriented toward responsibility and respect for others to encourage creative behavior in employees. Furthermore, theoretical, and practical implications are discussed.

The absorptive capacity is related to knowledge evaluation and acquisition (Potential Capacity), as well as to the transformation and exploitation of such knowledge (Realized Capacity). This research aims to analyze the absorptive capacity in Colombian companies and to investigate whether the Realized capacity can be predicted from the Potential capacity. Likewise, due to the importance of the context on the absorptive capacity development, the mediating role of the organizational climate for innovation was tested. Through a cross-sectional study, a total of 260 employees from different companies completed the Absorptive Capacity Scale and the Organizational Climate for Innovation Scale. The results showed that Potential absorptive capacity is needed for Realized absorptive capacity, additionally, organizational climate for innovation exerted a mediator role in this transition. These findings highlight that companies should have an organizational climate that allows them to acquire and transform knowledge in order to increase their innovativeness and be more competitive. Further studies should analyze the organizational innovation in relation to the proposed and tested model, while considering employees from different industrial sectors.

In male-dominated work contexts, the challenges faced by women and their impact on wellbeing and work attitudes have been documented, most extensively in other than police organizations. This study was conducted as a cross-sectional quantitative descriptive correlational predictive study to validate a model of relationships among workplace aggression, job satisfaction, and wellbeing at work with a sample of 1,066 female and male officers from the Romanian Border Police. The results obtained in the study showed that no differential gender effects were found, although women reported higher levels of workplace aggression than men (1.61 vs. 1.52; F = 4.20, p = 0.04). Also, workplace aggression significantly and negatively predicted job satisfaction (R2 = 0.27) and wellbeing at work (R2 = 0.31). In conclusion, although this research is an exploratory approach to the study of workplace aggression in the Romanian police organization, it can generate interventions that would lead to the reduction of undesirable behaviors such as verbal aggression, malicious jokes, discrimination, perception of inequalities, gossip, and defamatory words. In the future lines of research, different sources and conditions of victims and witnesses can be considered the. We also studied the limitations of the study and the future lines of research.

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