Social Intervention Through Community Projects in Virtual Mode in Merida, Mexico. A Perspective from Social Work

The purpose of this work is to gather and systematize the professional learning of the Bachelor in Social Work at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan. The learning experiences are from the practical work in communities, which for the first time was carried out in virtual mode due to the social distancing caused by COVID-19.The study was based on Castaneda's methodological proposal, which consists of five phases: experience contexts, conceptual theoretical references, methodological decisions, development of the analysis process, reflections, learning and conclusions of the process. Similarly, a documentary review was carried out with the help of the following instruments: intervention projects, descriptive letters, group chronicles, supervision reports and operational programs. The validation of the information was accomplished by the judgment of experts.As a result, the roles of the social worker were identified: social educator, sociocultural animator and social manager;in addition to the creation of virtual spaces for dissemination, participation and interaction with the population, and finally, the rigor of the methodology used.In conclusion, the methodological process of community practice, integrated into five substantial stages, framed in the use of virtual media, contributed to the development of professional skills, responding to the context of the new reality.

Small and Medium Enterprises in Mexico and the Craft Beer Sector in Baja California: Dynamic Capabilities, Culture, and Innovation

This article studies how Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operating in emerging economies implement adaptative strategies to respond to constant changes in demand and global uncertainties, such as those stemming from the current SARS-COV2 pandemic. In this study the knowledge management capabilities used by SMEs in the craft beer sector in a region of northern Mexico are the focus of analysis. The objective is to present the competitive capabilities that craft beer sector has demonstrated in Baja California region and how small companies compete with the national industrial brewery and survive. Sources are data from a sample of companies and interviews with brewery owners, with which the analysis approaches, also, the Baja California business environment. The article highlights the routes of creativity, innovation, and symbolic capital of the companies in the region, and uses ideas from dynamic capabilities and knowledge management theoretical frameworks, to understand the craft brewery milieu. The conclusions in this article include the confirmation about the usefulness of these analytical frameworks based in the capabilities approach and the territorial knowledge. Also, the description of the existence of a complex Baja Californian milieu, where a multimodal scheme of craft beer characterized by different places of distribution and types of beer container, food-districts, at Mexicali, Tijuana, and Ensenada and a second generation of entrepreneur groups leading local business, is identified. © 2022, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Economia y Empresa. All rights reserved.