Construction and validation of a questionnaire to measure sustainable practices that create value in agricultural organizations
Contextualization: Guasave is a municipality located in the northwest of Mexico, it is part of the 18 municipalities of the State of Sinaloa, it´s considered one of the richest regions in the country's agricultural activity, according to the volume of production and nationally sown area.
Research gap: The global warming, the pollution and erosion of soils and waters, have seriously affected agriculture, therefore, it is necessary to implement sustainable strategies that allow this sector to continue developing. The importance of this article lies in addressing the shortage of instruments that contribute to the creation of value in companies dedicated to this activity, the implementation of this will allow us to obtain useful empirical information for the identification of sustainable practices that generate value for agricultural organizations.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to publicize the construction and validation process, as well as to disseminate the instrument "Sustainable practices for value creation in agricultural organizations" in northern Sinaloa, Mexico.
Methodology: There are 38 items of value scale, organized in the three dimensions of sustainable development and value creation that make up the instrument. The approach used was quantitative, the target population was 32 agricultural organizations in the municipality for the reliability test using Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency coefficient and 10 experts in the case of validation.
Results and conclusions: The results obtained allow us to affirm that the instrument is appropriate to measure the sustainable practices that create value in the agricultural organizations of the northern part of the entity, when determining a coefficient of .941 and a pertinent validity.