Browsing by Subject "Composite index"

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    Evaluando la adaptación de la competitividad turística en diez destinos españoles: una propuesta multicriterio
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de publicaciones, 2024) Castro Nuño, Mercedes; López Valpuesta, Lourdes; Chávez Solís, Mauricio
    La competitividad turística representa un tema esencial en un mercado sobreexplotado, teniendo en cuenta su vulnerabilidad a la coyuntura socioeconómica, así como a los desafíos medioambientales y retos de los avances tecnológicos. Mediante técnicas multicriterio, este artículo evalúa la competitividad de destinos urbanos españoles en dos escenarios relativos a la reciente pandemia, a través de un índice sintético que agrupa más de una decena de pilares y más de una treintena de criterios. Las ordenaciones resultantes destacan los factores que han influido en su capacidad de adaptación.
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    Measuring corporate social responsibility using composite indices: Mission impossible? The case of the electricity utility industry
    (2016) Paredes-Gazquez, Juan Diego; Rodríguez-Fernández, José Miguel; Cuesta-González, Marta de la
    Corporate social responsibility is a multidimensional concept that is often measured using diverse indicators. Composite indices can aggregate these single indicators into one measurement. This article aims to identify the key challenges in constructing a composite index for measuring corporate social responsibility. The process is illustrated by the construction of a composite index for measuring social outcomes in the electricity utility industry. The sample consisted of seventy-four companies from twenty-three different countries, and one special administrative region operating in the industry in 2011. The findings show that (1) the unavailability of information about corporate social responsibility, (2) the particular characteristics of this information and (3) the weighting of indicators are the main obstacles when constructing the composite index. We highlight than an effective composite index should has a clear objective, a solid theoretical background and a robust structure. In a practical sense, it should be reconsidered how researchers use composite indexes to measure corporate social responsibility, as more transparency and stringency is needed when constructing these tools.