The private sector is part of the United Nations Global Compact, which promotes the voluntary participation of organizations to implement environmental care strategies. The purpose of this article is to examine the performance of Ecuadorian companies in regard to environmental management, especially in the fight against climate change, considering the economic sectors (manufacturing, mining, commerce, construction and services). Figures from the National Institute of Statistics and the Census of Ecuador (2020) are used, including descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations with Cramer’s V index. The results show that approximately 5% of companies had the ISO 14001:2015 certification. In the seven actions against climate change considered, the proportion of companies that did not consider them to be current expenses predominated. Cramer’s V index, for associating the economic sector and the environmental spend, revealed that certain economic sectors (manufacturing and mining) are contributing significantly to environmental management spending in the areas of air, soil, wastewater and waste treatment, while no economic sector dominates the others in areas such as radiation treatment, the use of mineral or energy resources and water resources.

Las Instituciones de Educación Superior del Ecuador deben poseer la Unidad de Bienestar destinada a garantizar los derechos constitucionales, dentro de ellos la salud y su promoción. Sin embargo, su alcance y atribuciones han sufrido modificaciones en el artículo 86, desde la Ley Orgánica de Educación Superior de 2010 hasta la reforma de 2018. Esto implica una nueva concepción de su abordaje y funcionamiento, tanto de los organismos rectores de salud y educación superior, como de las propias IES que las contienen. La investigación fue cualitativa se abordó sobre la base de entrevistas abiertas realizadas en las Unidades de Bienestar de tres IES privadas, que comparten un contexto territorial similar y cuentan con estamentos reguladores cercanos de salud y educación superior, a los cuales también se entrevistó. Se exploró políticas y lineamientos, promoción de la salud integral, alcance de las funciones, la inclusión en las nuevas atribuciones, la vinculación y el apoyo interinstitucional, que permiten develar la concepción y alcance del nuevo enfoque de las unidades de bienestar. Las unidades de bienestar muestran avances diferenciados en la implementación de los alcances y atribuciones designadas en la ley. Se sugiere promover la conformación de nodos interuniversitarios.

Integrating sustainability into higher education is a strategic priority of the 2030 Agenda, although its effective implementation remains uneven and understudied from internal institution comparative perspectives. This study analyzes the perceptions of faculty and students regarding the integration of sustainability at a higher education institution in Ecuador, using a convergent–complementary mixed-methods design that triangulates descriptive quantitative analysis and qualitative thematic content analysis. The quantitative component included 597 students and 88 faculty members, who responded to structured questionnaires of 15 items organized into five dimensions: curriculum and teaching, participation and engagement, resources and institutional support, impact and expectations, and vision for the future. The qualitative component was based on semi-structured interviews analyzed using thematic coding. The results show a generally favorable perception in both groups (Student Perception Index = 2.35; Faculty Perception Index = 2.23), with greater consensus in the impact and expectations dimension and significant gaps in resources and institutional support. Qualitative analysis revealed distinct relational models: faculty members articulate sustainability through professional responsibility and curriculum management, while students construct it from fragmented experiences and extra-university references. Triangulation of both components reveals a duality between solid normative legitimation and incipient structural institutionalization. These findings contribute to the debate on sustainable transition processes in Latin American universities and provide comparative empirical evidence for the design of institutional policies in emerging contexts.

This article aims to analyze the relationship between fuel consumption (gasoline, diesel, and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) and total production in Ecuadorian companies that use some fuel in their processes, in addition to quantifying the CO₂ emissions generated by these fuels in 2019. For this purpose, a correlational study of these variables (Pearson’s correlation coefficient) has been made, using statistical data from the ENESEM 2019 Structural Enterprise Survey, prepared by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC). The results show that the relationship between the consumption of Extra gasoline and Ecopais with total production is not significant, while it is in the case of consumption of Super gasoline, Diesel, and LPG. As for CO₂ emissions, it is observed that the largest generator is diesel, with almost 4.5 megatons per year, second to gasoline, with a little less than 2 megatons, and finally is LPG, with less than 0.5 megatons. In conclusion, LPG fuel, whose association with total production is the most significant, is the least polluting and in total these business sectors generate almost 7 megatons of CO₂ per year of the total 40 megatons generated by the country.

Since the purpose of organizations is to obtain economic returns, pricing is closely linked to the margin of profitability that you want to achieve, There are several factors that influence pricing policy. The objective of this study is to identify the factors that affect the pricing of SMEs dedicated to the trade segment in the city of Quito. The study is descriptive, with a quantitative approach, for which a survey was made to 81 commercial companies, through a probabilistic sampling. In conclusion, it can be noted that in most of the companies surveyed, pricing is carried out annually and is an activity addressed by managers and entrepreneurs, that is, third parties are not used, for which a budget of less than $ 500 per year is assigned. The most relevant internal factor is cost, and the external factor is the behavior of supply and demand, having as its main purpose, to obtain a good market share. Dado que el propósito de las organizaciones es obtener rendimientos económicos, la fijación de precios está estrechamente ligada al margen de rentabilidad que se desea conseguir, Existen diversos factores que influyen en la política de pricing y varios métodos para hacerlo. El objetivo de este estudio es identificar los factores que inciden en la fijación de precios en las Pymes dedicadas al segmento del comercio en la ciudad de Quito. El estudio es descriptivo, con enfoque cuantitativo, para el cual se hizo una encuesta 81 empresas comerciales, mediante un muestreo probabilístico. En conclusión, se puede señalar que en la mayoría de las empresas encuestadas la fijación de precios se realiza anualmente y es una actividad abordada por gerentes y emprendedores, es decir no se recurre a terceros, para lo cual se asigna un presupuesto inferior a los $500 anuales. El factor interno de mayor relevancia es el costo, y el factor externo es el comportamiento de la oferta y la demanda, teniendo como principal, propósito obtener una buena participación en el mercado.