Editorial

• Published in: Cuadernos de administración (Cali, Colombia) Colombia), 2018-06, Vol.34 (60)
• Main Author: González-Campo, Carlos Hernán
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0120-4645; 2256-5078
• DOI: 10.25100/cdea.v34i60.6625

The 60th number of the Cuadernos de   Administración journal is the first one of 2018, a year in which we are consolidating this means of scientific dissemination, with the entry into several databases, the consolidation of our Editorial and Scientific committees and the process of internationalization of this publishing effort, which has promoted the dissemination of knowledge in Administration sciences throughout 42 years. On this occasion, the first paper entitled "Citizen participation through ICTs in the design of public policy in Colombia", presents the research results of a completed project, using data from 2013 and 2014, collected through surveys and interviews, to actors from different sectors in the department of Tolima, to assess the digitization strategy of the public sector. Opportunity strategies related to business competitiveness in restaurants in Mexico. Case: microenterprises in the municipality of Othón Payo. Blanco, Quintana Roo", is the second paper in this volume, wherein Mexican researchers analyze the relationship between organizational management and the business competitiveness of microenterprises in the restaurant sector in the municipality of Othón Payo Blanco, Quintana Roo. Among their main findings, they obtain that the business competitiveness in this region of Mexico is oriented towards technology and organizational culture, where strategic alliances are one of the strategies for achieving competitiveness within the sector. The third article is entitled "Quality Analysis of hotels service in Medellín through perceptual maps", is the result of a research wherefrom the perception of national and international guests staying in different hotels in Medellín, registered in the platform TripAdvisor, 57 hotels between 2005 and 2010 show that the factors most valued by guests are cleanliness, quality of rest and service above the location, price and comfort of the rooms, among others. "Sectorial adjustment costs induced by the Colombian pattern of international trade, 1991-2015", is the title of the fourth paper, wherein the authors analyze the adjustment costs induced by the Colombian international trade pattern for the 1991-2015 period; they calculate marginal intra-industrial trade indexes, adjustment costs and the use of the International Adjustment Cost Space and present different types of results. The fifth article, entitled "Craftsmanship and champeta: cultural industries and local development in the municipalities of Clemen