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Entrepreneurship is a complex, dynamic and multidimensional phenomenon that transforms spaces and territories. The effects of this process on economic and social dynamics are increasingly evident in the Cuban context. However, there has not been a thorough examination of cultural undertakings, in their relationship with institutions, and in their profoundly transforming role. Therefore, the objective of this article is to theoretically explore the topic of the cultural entrepreneurship, as a factor of territorial reconfiguration, as well as to lay the foundations on future research and conceptualizations on the subject. This article highlights the benefits of the articulated management between institutions and entrepreneurs in the field of arts and culture, the importance of the spatial approach in studies on the subject, and the relevance to highlight the creativity and heterogeneity of the cultural entrepreneurs. The article contributes in a reflexive way to a theoretical and methodological approach to cultural entrepreneurship and the territorial synergies that take place in the process of artistic and cultural creation from the Cuban perspective.

One of the essential duties of the Human Resources department is personnel selection. It is a critical task for any organization that wants to use the human factor to gain a competitive advantage. As a result, Human Resources plays a critical function in the organization as it sparks the effective growth of all activities and departments and attaining organizational goals. Therefore, investing in people and technical innovation can ensure a competitive advantage. In this work, we overview the current state-of-the-art approaches to talent recruiting, education, and training. The rationale behind this overview is to shed light on how to make people ready to meet market demands or implement new management models based on Big Data and AI that foster a company-wide culture of innovation and development.

Communication management in Spanish public universities. This paper analyzes communication management in Spanish public universities by interviewing communication directors of these institutions. Results show that, in addition to the shortcomings identified in the management of communications in public universities, which undermines the achievement of the exact marketing objective, the diffusional model is dominant, playing a negative influencing role. The diffusional model obscures other alternative models that would show more democratic institutions.

Challenges and perspectives in organizational communication.- Organisational communication is going through a time of change in which technology has taken on a leading role. Its inclusion simplifies and improves some work processes but motivates reflections on the use of data, the accuracy of the information, the transparency of new influences or the measurement of results. It adds the capacity and need of professionals to integrate new skills in their performance; the cooperation of interdisciplinary profiles that provide value; and the inclusion of these scenarios in university training. A reflection is proposed on 1) the impact of technology: derived challenges and their disruptive impact on the sector; 2) new influences: in which trust, transparency and outcome are being questioned; 3) the adaptation of professional competencies through the network of professionals and the Academy; and 4) the challenges present in organizational communication research

The objective of this article is to generate a discussion about how to differentiate research universities, teaching universities that do research and teaching universities. The distinction made by university taxonomies, global higher education rankings and the academic information generated by the system’s own actors is analyzed. The study demonstrates how currently taxonomies and traditional models do not characterize university systems, even in the country where they were born. The global rankings of universities prove to be a useful source of information and a way to contribute to institutional visibility and reputation. Academic information, when it comes to qualitative indicators of scientific production, finds access limitations, especially for teaching universities that carry out research. Examples of lack of methodological rigor are documented when these indicators are reused. The characterization of scientific production must balance the indicators that describe the size of the production, with those that characterize performance, impact and excellence. The analysis of the empirical information shows that some institutions, of all countries analyzed and of all sizes, have impact results that are below the world average, showing that there is no positive correlation between research performance and institutional size. The difficulty is not so much in determining when we are in front of a research university, but in defining the border between a teaching university that does research and the one that is essentially teaching. A teaching university that does research produces at least 100 articles per year, counted in five-year windows, being desirable that this size threshold be above 150 annual articles. A research university produces at least 1,000 to 2,000 articles per year and graduates at least 20 doctors per year. In both cases, the institutions must reach performance, impact and excellence indicators, both led, that demonstrate that the university has a faculty staff able to do original research autonomously, with a level of results equivalent to those of their colleagues in the world.

Over the last decade, the systematic literature review has extended to management research and management education. The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative method named Strict Structured Literature Review (SSLR), to provide a robust selection of articles for starting a longitudinal study or as a fast reliable and transparent method reviewing literature for shorter work under a time-limit, for example research projects or educational assignments. A properly executed Strict Structured Literature Review will lead to the desirable outcome of connecting researchers, or students, with practitioners and create conditions for evidence-based management based on already existing research results. Using a Strict Structured Literature Review would create a publishing strategy where research funders return on investments (ROI) can be met through increased implementation of earlier research results in organizational decision making as well as extended scholarly communication. This is completely in line with the movement towards open science. At the same time, the method for Strict Structured Literature Review fosters a development within management education towards evidence-based management and scholarly interaction.

Objectives: an approach to the behavior of the informational context of a group of Cuban organizations belonging to the higher education sector is presented. Methodology: an exploratory study was developed using a simple of Cuban informational organizations belonging to the sector of higher education. An anonymous survey was carried out among professionals that work in different levels or roles in this sector. The answers were open, without preelaborated options, intending their pronunciation without a close redaction of the aspects considered. Results: a high concentration of answers is obtained corresponding to areas such as management or technology representing its importance to participants. The balance of positive and negative answers is interesting. The solutions proposed also are related to the negative answers obtained. No significant differences are preliminarily identified with other sectors being studied, but there is a reduction in the category unstable/turbulent that could be related to the characteristics of the educational sector. Conclusions: an analysis of the contexts can contribute to the identification of some items than can positively or negatively influence some particular issue, in this case information in organizations, suggesting that its attention can favor solutions in the system performance and its effectiveness. Some positive results also have negative views in some participants that look for an improvement of some items. Some recommendations were suggested to the participant’s institutions

This research aims to investigate on the behavior of the process of management of scientific information provided by the criteria of experts at the Oriente University in Cuba. In this regard, an exploratory study of that process was conducted from a documentary sample, conformed by thesis of undergraduate and doctoral, and using interviews to researchers professors. The developed study verified that there are inadequacies related to the location and access to expert groups, criteria for evaluation and the mechanisms used for managing and processing the information provided by these. Further verifying, the need to elaborate computer products with open access policies, which enable lessen the identified shortcomings.

The increase in technological capabilities in information handling has raised a number of security and privacy issues with growing importance at the corporate level. On the other hand, aspects such as the implementation of the ISO 30300 series and innovative procurement projects pose new challenges and opportunities for document management and competitive intelligence, respectively. All this points to the issue of how to reformulate intermediation and the corresponding professional role in the organizational environment.

This paper (A critique to the anti-labor trends in the sciences of information recorded in documents) presents a critique to the anti-labor trends in the sciences of information recorded in documents. It is based on the critical librarianship with a critical epistemology to analyze and criticize the ideologies of bourgeoisie of its various kinds: neo-liberalism, global capitalism, and imperialism in general (e.g. Castells, 1996; Masuda, 1981), and in particular of the bourgeoisie within the sciences of information recorded in documents (e.g. Lau Noriega, 2007ª; 2007b; Gorman, 2001; Cronin, 1992; Mann, 1993; Rodríguez Gallardo, 2001; Hernández Pacheco, 2007; 2000; Uribe Tirado, 2005). It proposes some issues for debate for the followers of labor movements to demand in favor of the rights of the workers of information recorded in documents (e.g. librarians).

This article analyzes the current trend towards dilution of the concept of «cultural industries» and the increasing usage of terms such as «entertainment industries», «leisure industries» or even «creative industries». We review recent specialized literature, identify overlapping between the above terms and conclude that this change is a new turning point in the concept of culture, closely associated with new spaces and times for its enjoyment, with the technological evolution of cultural products, changes in the ownership of their suppliers as well as with the shifting roles of author, actor and spectator. To understand this change, we identify and explain three factors: 1) from the strong, closed materiality and textuality of the classic cultural product to the malleability and convertibility permitted by new technologies; 2) from an essentially contemplative, reverent cultural experience to participant experimentation and play; 3) from a desire for permanence and intensity to constitutive contingency and super ficiality. We conclude by suggesting wider implications that go the scope of this work: the melting pot that blurs the boundaries between culture and entertainment, which undermines the autonomy of the disputed cultural «field» situated between work and leisure (more pleasant than the first, more demanding than the second), and which also erases the boundaries between cultural entertainment and work (a merged environment of «otium and negotium»,«homo ludens» and «homo laborans»

The Library Science Program was first created in 1956 at the Inter-American School in Medellin, Colombia. The program was then created at La Salle University, Javeriana University in Bogotá, Quindio University and the INPAHU University in Bogota. All these programs are attempting to combine information management with traditional librarianship. However, research training in these schools, which continues to grow, has not yet found its true course. The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how, despite the efforts of students, they still are far away from the problems of modern information science. The article is limited to the Information Systems Program at La Salle University. The introduction provides a small theoretical framework, briefly y describing the problem and discussing a few previous studies. The materials and methods section gives an account of the sources consulted. The results section discusses the findings and present a number of statistical tables. The article concludes that the new research program, initiated in 2009, must change the research culture among students and hence in its Faculty Staff.

The workflow systems are becoming a technological tool that provides the possibility to automate and to manage electronically generated documents. It allows the development of solutions in the information systems, granting benefits and advantages in the improvement of control process and activities, saving time and productivity increase, a better attention and customer service, optimizing the information spreading. All of it is done in such a way that it is possible to take the highest advantage in the spreading, storageand recovery of the intellectual patrimony.

This article presents, first of all, a brief description of some events that lead to the formation of professional archivists and Colombian archivist associations. Then, it makes clear what the professional colleges are and it also mentions some of their characteristics. Finally, it presents a series of moments that made possible the creation of the Colombian College of Archivists, CCA.

This article presents, first of all, a brief description of some events that lead to the formation of professional archivists and Colombian archivist associations. Then, it makes clear what the professional colleges are and it also mentions some of their characteristics. Finally, it presents a series of moments that made possible the creation of the Colombian College of Archivists, CCA.

This paper investigates the origins of teaching librarianship in the city of La Plata, taking as the central axis the creation the School of Library by the Library Department of the Province of Buenos Aires. The main characteristics of educational library institutions in the province until 1950 are described, according to interpret the background that led to the formation of this school. Then, the political and social situation is presented in the context of the first Peronista government of Buenos Aires. Finally, the contents in the curricula of the careers are addressed with the aim of describe the professional librarian ideal achieved according to the provincial government's cultural policies. It is concluded that through this educational institution tries to form a professional librarian with multiple skills related to library, a cultural agent capable of guiding readers towards national books edition yet is also assigned a teacher role, closely with the teacher and students at all levels of training.

We describe the case of Facso, a database of the minutes and other documents of the Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, which illustrates the integration of Unesco’s WinIsis database management system with Dropbox acting as a “virtual hard disk” on the cloud. Various routing options are shown, even incorporating the old Ms-dos .bat executable commands. This has been tested in a 64-bit version with Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 using Oracle’s Virtual Box, and on 32-bit PC desktop, notebook, and netbook platforms.

“What is This Thing We Call Archival Science ?” shows how the archives are perceived, the level of discussion and if it exists a indepedent dicipline or not in many countries in 1990’s. These questions were asked to academics and archivists. It is believed that this translation will fill the void of how is the perception of the archival science in the world in Turkish literature.

The use and impact of web resources and services provided by universities can be measured through various web indicators – especially their size, visibility and usage – and have been used to design web ranking of universities, among which the Ranking Web of Universities stands out for its quality and coverage. These rankings allow the quantification of all university missions as long as these activities are reflected on the university's website, which requires the application of an appropriate web policy.

It is treated of research on curricular apprenticeship based in the trainees' and their supervisors perception, in the quality of organizational politics concerning the apprenticeship programs, and also, in the integration with the disciplines seen by teachers of Librarianship Course of Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). With that, the profile of the ideal apprenticeship, constituted by the involved groups, should be the indicator of the best institution to work as a trainee in Librarianship. The curricular apprenticeship is part of the professional formation and aided by legislation and academic instruments that support the students' participation. However, few studies analyze qualitatively the process and the relationships generated. The data were collect through forms of qualitative character. It aims to promote the communicative integration between students and teachers of the Course of Librarianship of UNIRIO as well as of the professionals that act in the concessive institutions of work as trainee. Finally, the research should motivate in the companies the adoption of apprenticeship practices that you/they accomplish the legislation and value the formation,looking for the complementation of the trainees' learning, and guide them to the market.

Which are the best ways to promote heritage? Of course, mass media, travel agencies, tourism offices, embassies,... but specially the Internet. The Internet attracts potential tourists looking for cultural information, but it is accessible to everyone. Are public resources in web sites of high quality? Do web sites give good information about museums?

For the first time in its history, the Texas Library Association reached beyond its state borders to promote reading, literacy, and the value of libraries. By special invitation of the organizers of the Eighth International Book Fair of Monterrey (IBFM), TLA connected with the public of Monterrey, Mexico during the nine day fair, held September 26 to October 4, 1998. With an estimated attendance of over 150,000 people, the fair provided a cultural highlight for the entire state of Nuevo León. The fair, an annual Mecca for book buying and selling, offered TLA a chance to bring attention to the universal need for stronger libraries and to collaborate with librarians and library school students in Mexico. The TLA thanks some librarians from Monterrey who lent their support in organizing and staffing the booth, and mobilizing the Monterrey library community, particularly our special thanks to Zapopan Muela.