Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas

About: Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Lifelong learning & Variety (cybernetics). The organization has 25 authors who have published 23 publications receiving 390 citations.

Connectivity, Extremes, and Adaptation: A Power-Law Perspective of Organizational Effectiveness

Abstract: Managers are often required to respond in adaptive ways to the threats and opportunities presented by rare, extreme outcomes. Given these, management scholars frequently face a stark choice: say something useful to practitioners using narratives in which dramatic effects are often achieved at the expense of academic rigor or maintain the latter by sacrificing practitioner relevance. Recent developments in complexity science offer a new perspective. The article distinguishes between the simplicities achieved by reductionism (equilibrium, law-like equations, linearity, and predictability) and the complexity triggered by initiating “butterfly events”—nonlinearity, scale-free causes, and power laws (PLs). Schema formation and adaptation within Gaussian and PL ontologies are framed in terms of Ashby’s law of requisite variety. Variety perceived to be requisite is sensitive to the type of ontological assumptions that are made. PL approaches to management inquiry focusing on rank/frequency distributions, fractal structures, and scale-free dynamics are outlined.

Mood Homeostasis, Low Mood, and History of Depression in 2 Large Population Samples.

Abstract: Importance Existing therapeutic options are insufficient to tackle the disease burden of depression, and new treatments are sorely needed. Defining new psychotherapeutic targets is challenging given the paucity of coherent mechanistic explanations for depression. Objective To assess whether mood homeostasis (ie, the stabilization of one’s mood by engaging in mood-modifying activities) is a possible new therapeutic target by testing the hypothesis that people with low (vs high) mean mood and people with (vs without) a history of depression have impaired mood homeostasis. Design, Setting, and Participants The quantitative association between mood and daily activities was computed in 2 large case-control studies based on the 58sec data set (collected from December 1, 2012, to May 31, 2014, and analyzed from April 1 to 30, 2019), and the World Health Organization Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (WHO SAGE) data set (collected from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2010, and analyzed from June 1 to 30, 2019). The 58sec data set consists of self-enrolled participants from high-income countries. The WHO SAGE data set consists of nationally representative participants in low- and middle-income countries recruited via cluster sampling. Main Outcomes and Measures The main outcome (defined before data analysis) was the difference in mood homeostasis between people with high vs low mean mood (58sec data) and between people with vs without a history of depression (WHO SAGE data). Results A total of 28 212 participants from the 58sec data set (65.8% female; mean [SD] age, 28.1 [9.0] years) and 30 116 from the WHO SAGE data set (57.0% female; mean [SD] age, 57.8 [14.7] years) were included, for an overall study population of 58 328 participants. Mood homeostasis was significantly lower in people with low (vs high) mean mood (0.63 [95% CI, 0.45 to 0.79] vs 0.96 [95% CI, 0.96 to 0.98];P Conclusions and Relevance In this study, mood homeostasis appeared to have been impaired in people with low mood and in those with a history of depression. Mood homeostasis may therefore provide new insights to guide the development of treatments for depression.

La gestión transversal. Expectativas y resultados

Abstract: Entre las temáticas que se han orientado hacia la perspectiva transversal en busca de solución a su necesaria integración en la estructura orgánica pública, más allá del discurso político, pueden resaltarse la política de igualdad de género, la pobreza, la participación ciudadana, la sostenibilidad medioambiental, la gestión de la diversidad y la seguridad. Desde el punto de vista de los segmentos de población, desde hace tiempo, se está recurriendo a la perspectiva transversal en la gestión de la relación y de las políticas dirigidas a colectivos que se encuentran en situación de debilidad o discriminación en más de un aspecto (mujeres, personas mayores, jóvenes, personas con disminuciones,...).