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Sustainable Micro-business in Environmental Unsustainability and Economic Inefficiency

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012 (ICCSA 2012)

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This paper analyzes sustainability and efficiency of organizations committed to the exploitation’ activities of tule Thypha spp at the Zapotlán’s Lake taking into consideration the socioeconomic and environmental impact in the municipalities of Gómez Farías and Zapotlán el Grande. The initial hypothesis departs from the consideration of the scarce social capital of organizations that limits development’s sustainability. The research method employed is the ethnographic complemented with field work supported by informal interviews, documental and bibliographic research. The hypothesis of this research is proved empirically and confirms similar findings by the research conducted on the mainstream theory of social capital and its implications on economic development. The outcomes of the application demonstrate that the drama of economic efficiency and sustainable development of micro-business is tied to constrain of social capital. This finding has implications for the design and implementation of economic and social policies oriented towards the improvement of economic growth and sustainable development.

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  1. Department of Administration, University Centre for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Periférico Norte 799 Edif G-201-7, Núcleo Universitario Los Belenes, Zapopan, Jalisco, México, 45100

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  3. Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Gidan Kwano Campus, Minna, Nigeria

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  4. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Sao Francisco Xavier, 524, 50. andar, sala 5145-F, Maracana, 20, 550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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  6. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

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Vargas-Hernández, J.G. (2012). Sustainable Micro-business in Environmental Unsustainability and Economic Inefficiency. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012. ICCSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31125-3_39

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