The objective of this research was to analyze the processes of business counterintelligence as a strategy to shield the SMEs from competitive intelligence services. It was framed in the convergence of research approaches given in 2 phases: quantitative phase (Likert type questionnaire applied to 385 Colombian businessmen), qualitative phase (semi-structured interview to 4 police officers with more than 25 years of experience in police counter-intelligence) and the conclusions are formulated taking into account the convergence of approaches by dimension/category. The significant findings allude to the existence of a perception on the part of the entrepreneurs about the counterintelligence systems implemented in the SMEs they manage. However, experts on the subject agree on the lack of knowledge of risk factors regarding information vulnerability and the lack of strategies to shield SMEs from competitive intelligence services.

The present study aims to describe a methodological proposal that shows the techno-operational procedures to be followed in qualitative-naturalistic research in management sciences. For this, a procedural description is presented and applied in a study that seeks to reveal the factors that generate job satisfaction in the Acosta footwear factory. 3 workers were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria (data saturation). They were subjected to a process of coding, analysis and interpretation of the significant findings of the study, in light of the context developed (relativization). The results show a qualitative-naturalistic research path that constitutes an effective techno-methodological strategy to tackle complex research problems in the social and managerial sciences, which conceives the integration of techniques, tools and sequential analyzes to interpret and understand the social phenomenon. It is concluded in a 4-phase route: spontaneous categorical interviews, as a product of piloting the research question to primary-key informants and the emergence of a priori categories (semi-structured interviews); Coding, open codes emerge, associated with guiding categories (rooting and density); Analysis, semantic networks, code-document tables, code co-occurrence are presented; e, Interpretation, according to the relativization of the context and subjects involved to answer the research question.

This article presents an analysis of the degree of intrinsic alignment with the strategy as a source of business sustainability in the SMEs dedicated to the manufacturing sector in the region of Tacna, Peru. It was framed in a non-experimental research design of fieldtransaction, a survey was applied (questionnaire with 32 items with a Likert scale validated in the opinion of 3 experts with an Alpha Cronbach coefficient of 0.95(Excellent) to a random sample of 247 directors and managers. The data were analyzed through the descriptive statistics (SPSS25) to know the behaviour of the variables under study. In order to test hypotheses, the chi-square statistic was applied (categorical variables, ordinals and unit of analysis greater than 30 subjects). The main findings show that the degree of intra-strategy alignment is 4.46 (excellent alignment of the Intrinsic with the strategy) and business sustainability resulted in 4.23 (high business sustainability). In conclusion, there is a relationship between the intrategy alignment and business sustainability in the SMEs of the manufacturing sector of the Tacna-Peru Region with a strength of 0.691 (strong relationship).

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El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo principal determinar en qué medida el control interno influye en la gestión administrativa en la municipalidad distrital de Pocollay, Región Tacna, año 2019. El tipo de investigación del presente estudio es básico, su diseño de la investigación es no experimental, y su nivel explicativo. La investigación estuvo dirigida a 30 trabajadores; se efectuó la validez de contenido y la confiabilidad de cada instrumento, siendo de alta fiabilidad. Se utilizó el estadístico de regresión ordinal, en la que se analiza la influencia del control interno en la gestión empresarial de la municipalidad distrital de Pocollay, teniendo como resultado, el coeficiente de Nagelkerke, que muestra la influencia del Control Interno de 65.0 % sobre la Gestión Administrativa. Con respecto al nivel de influencia de las dimensiones de la variable control interno sobre la gestión administrativa, mediante la contrastación de hipótesis, mediante la estadística inferencial, se comprobó influencias en valores de menor a mayor del rango del 25.10% hasta el 47%.