Universitat Rovira i Virgili: Envíos recientes
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Innovation or Imitation? The effect of spillovers and competitive pressure on firms' R&D strategy choice
This article provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of a firm's optimal R&D strategy choice. In this paper a firm's R&D strategy is assumed to be endogenous and allowed to depend on both internal firms. characteristics ...
Multi-stage oligopoly models with nested logit demand structures: A simplifying approach
Solving multi-stage oligopoly models by backward induction can easily become a com- plex task when rms are multi-product and demands are derived from a nested logit frame- work. This paper shows that under the assumption ...
R&D cooperation between Spanish firms and scientific partners: what is the role of tertiary education?
This paper explores the factors that determine firm’s R&D cooperation with different partners, paying special attention on the role of tertiary education (degree and PhDs level) in facilitating the connection between the ...
Innovation and absorptive capacity: What is the role of technological frontier?
This paper explores how absorptive capacity affects the innovative performance and productivity dynamics of Spanish firms. A firm’s efficiency levels are measured using two variables: the labour productivity and the ...
Aerotropolis: an aviation-linked space
This paper examines the conditions allowing the formation of aeropolitan areas as large industrial areas with a high concentration of commercial activities in the proximity of selected airports. We assume that firms deliver ...
Air services on thin routes: Regional versus low-cost airlines
An examination of the impact in the US and EU markets of two major innovations in the provision of air services on thin routes - regional jet technology and the low-cost business model - reveals significant differences. ...
Price policies and Price dispersion in the private healthcare insurance industry: The Catalan case
We present an overlapping generations model that explains price dispersion among Catalonian healthcare insurance firms. The model shows that firms with different premium policies can coexist. Furthermore, if interest rates ...
Internal and External Determinants of Radical and incremental Innovation in SMEs: the case of Catalonia
There is a major concern in economic literature about innovation, which is the interaction between internal and external factors.. In this paper those activities are hypothesized as being determined by some territorial ...
Sobreeducación y Sobrecualificación en los Universitarios Catalanes. Una perspectiva de género
Partiendo de una muestra compuesta por más de 19.000 titulados universitarios encuestados en 2008 y 2011, 3 años y medio después de haber finalizado sus estudios, obtenemos que la incidencia de la sobreeducación femenina ...
Staffing strategies in SME's: determinants of external recruitment and internal promotion
The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of use internal or external labour market to fill a firm vacancy in SME’s taking into account the differences existing among blue and white collar jobs. Following ...
Contextualizing the impact of work organization on employee satisfaction
The paper assesses the relationship between the use of alternative workplace practices (AWP) and job satisfaction. Using a unique employeremployee data set with rich information on both firm and employee characteristics ...
Pork Value Chains: A Comparison of Catalonia, Spain and Manitoba, Canada
The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of pork value chains in Catalonia, Spain and Manitoba, Canada. Intensive hog production models were implemented in Catalonia in the 1960s as a result of ...
El retorno a las competencias para los titulados universitarios catalanes
In this paper the impact of different types of competences in the labor market for college graduates is investigated. We use two waves of a new data set of Catalan college graduates interviewed three years after graduation. ...
An investigation on the pay-off to generic competences for core employees in Catalan manufacturing firms
The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to human capital. We use a unique data set consisting of matched employer-employee information. Data on individuals' human capital include a set of 26 competences that capture ...
Productivity in southern European small firms: When and how work organization complements process innovation
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of human capital, advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT), and new work organizational practices on firm productivity, while taking into account the synergies existing ...
Workers cooperation within the firm: an analysis using small and medium size firms
We investigate the determinants of teamwork and workers cooperation within the firm. Up to now the literature has almost exclusively focused on workers incentives as the main determinants for workers cooperation. We take ...
Productivity and human capital: a business-level analysis
This paper aims to analyse the impact of human capital on business productivity, focusing the analysis on the possible effect of the complementarity that exists between human capital and new production technologies, ...
Environmental Regulations in the Hog Farming Sector: A Comparison of Catalonia, Spain and Manitoba, Canada
This article examines the governance structures for managing the location and operation of Intensive Livestock Farming Operations (ILFOs). The article focuses on the hog sector and compares two very different jurisdictions: ...
Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age?
Our empirical literature review shows that little is known about how firm performance changes with age, presumably because of the paucity of data on firm age. For Spanish manufacturing firms, we analyse the firm performance ...
An axiomatic justification of mediation in bankruptcy problems.
This paper provides a natural way of reaching an agreement between two prominent proposals in a bankruptcy problem. Particularly, using the fact that such problems can be faced from two different points of views, awards and ...
