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The relationship between teaching and practical training, i.e., the link between theory and practice, occurs since the very first academic years through the combination of teaching, real-life and research activities. This paper shows the results of a strategy adopted by the teaching staff in the Knowledge Management Department Lázaro Quintana Tápanes in order to promote scientific research by Industrial Engineering majors at the University of Matanzas, with these adopting a Knowledge Management approach. In this way, real-life and research activities could be combined. This was also a contribution to university management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existing situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic requires new ideas to face the obstacles that have arisen in logistics systems and supply chains. This article aims to analyze the challenges of logistics and the post Covid-19 supply chain. The methods used are bibliometric analysis that allowed determining the main lines of research on the subject, the bibliographic review that makes it possible to make a contrast with other top-level journals from different areas of knowledge and work with experts to validate the challenges obtained. With the application of the aforementioned methods, it is determined that the main lines of research are: the training of new professionals who know how to face current situations with renewed engineering and inventory management to avoid the depletion of resources and purchases of chaos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work is based on the study of Ecuadorian legal framework as well as the diagnosis in a Cacao production organization at Vinces, Ecuador. Consequently, is highlighted the need to empower human talent and knowledge management, corroborating government's needs of developing this sector. Seventy-one Knowledge Management models were studied based on twelve selected variables, the inclusion was subject to their presence on previous models or the need to answer the current problem. A bibliometric study was carried out based on the co-occurrence of keywords (variables) and Knowledge Management models using a software to perform a cluster analysis. The obtained results were the basis to build a Knowledge Management model, which allows empowering human talent and the organizational culture of peasant organizations in Vinces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]