By using Social Network Services (SNSs) as platforms, game developers have gathered a huge user base, and the entertainment these games provide has further enlarged the SNS user base. However, there are signs that this symbiotic growth is slowing down. We developed a model and tested 14 hypotheses. Our main findings are: Although SNSs are “social,” “social norms” do not have much impact on the ...

In recent years, our field has seen an increase in research that explicitly emphasizes objective of social impact the most unprivileged parts world—the so-called global base pyramid (referring to 2.7 billion people living on less than $2.50 per day, largest but resource-poor economic group globally). This trend seems cut across traditional application areas OM and OR, it coincides with increase...

Toda disciplina científica que pretenda formar una concepción integrada de la realidad, y por consiguiente, del objeto estudio aborda, debe nutrirse propuestas teóricas epistemológicas diversas. En el presente artículo se pretende lograr un acercamiento a algunas las principales corrientes lógicas pensamiento: Filosofía Marxista, Constructivismo, Educación Popular, Escuela Histórico-Cultural Te...