La gestión del conocimiento de las universidades cofinanciadas del Ecuador (UCE)

Gabriela Cuadrado Barreto

doi:10.33571/teuken.v11n17a6

Authors

Gabriela Cuadrado Barreto Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8562-7843

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https://doi.org/10.33571/teuken.v11n17a6

Keywords:

assess of university, knowledge management, intellectual capital, model

Abstract

The university realizes the functions of teaching, research and linkage with the environment, so the process of institutional assessment of knowledge management and intellectual capital is essential to understand the activities it implements. The research is quantitative, transectional, correlational, and non-experimental. The testing context is the Co-Funded Universities of Ecuador (UCE), which responds to the question of how to study the knowledge management processes carried out by the university and proposes to demonstrate the usefulness of the Model for the Assessment of University Knowledge Management (MEGCU). Cronbach's alpha reaches 0.95 and the exploratory factorial analysis shows the particular processes of creation, transfer/storage and application/use of knowledge as latent variables that explain the activities carried out by the group of UCE.

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Author Biography

Gabriela Cuadrado Barreto, Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi

Doctora en Ciencias de la Administración por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Docente Investigador Titular de Tiempo Completo en la Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (Tulcán-Ecuador), miembro del Grupo de Investigación Frontera Norte, en las líneas de investigación en Gestión del conocimiento – Capital intelectual, enseñanza superior, universidad.

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