The publication addresses five multidisciplinary studies in the Latin American context. It analyzes the impact of occupational hazards in Ecuadorian mining, highlighting an underreporting of accidents exceeding 70% and proposing the ratification of ILO Convention 176 to improve safety. The use of deep neural networks (LSTM, CNN, MLP) for sales forecasting, demonstrating that ensemble models achieve higher accuracy (sMAPE of 12.3%) compared to classical methods.

The third paper selected from among the more than 16 papers submitted for evaluation studies the relationship between the entrepreneurial ecosystem and social intention in Manabí, finding a positive correlation where institutional support motivates initiatives aimed at collective well-being. Finally, it explores governance in Catholic universities, describing a hybrid model that integrates managerial rationality with confessional identity to legitimize strategic planning.