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La localización de la clase creativa en ciudades turísticas: un análisis a escala local del sistema urbano mediterráneo español
The trend towards the concentration of economic and human flows in urban agglomerations has generated global attraction poles reducing development options in other territories. However, territorial reorganisation is becoming ...
El valor de la sostenibilidad como factor de diferenciación en los procesos de intermediación turística: un análisis para el caso de las pymes catalanas
Research on sustainability in the tourism sector has been focused in recent years on large accommodation companies. Although diverse studies analyse the impact of sustainability in large tour-operators, this topic has not ...
Mandatory IFRS adoption and the cost of equity capital: Evidence from Spanish firms
Purpose: The main objective of this paper analyses the effects of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption by Spanish firms in 2005 on the cost of equity capital. Design/methodology/approach: ...
The activity-based costing model trajectory: A path of lights and shadows
Purpose: To present a literature review showing the trajectory of the ABC model. Design/methodology: Literature review. Findings: This paper analyzes the history of the ABC model and its dissemination process, in the form ...
Caracterización de la oferta comercializada bajo la etiqueta de turismo responsable en España
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the current Spanish fair tourism supply. The fieldwork consisted in analyzing fair tourism travel catalogues from 14 major Spanish distributors. The characterization of the ...
Pensamiento Económico 1: los mercantilistas
Artículo que explica a grandes rasgos el pensamiento económico del mercantilismo y sus principales autores Mun y Colbert.
La implantación integral de la formación por competencias en titulaciones transversales: La experiencia de los estudios de economía y empresa de la UOC
Purpose, this paper describes a good practice for methodological renewal focusing on coordinated development and assessment of generic and specific competencies for a large - in terms of enrolment - undergraduate program ...
Determinants of science-based cooperation: evidence in a sample of small and micro firms
We study the determining factors of cience-based cooperation in the case of small and micro firms. In this research, we propose an analytical framework based on the resource-based view of the firm and we identify a set of ...
Ferrocarril y sistema de ciudades. Integración e impacto de las redes ferroviarias en el contexto urbano europeo
Railway networks and city systems have been interacting for almost two centuries. The role planned by transport infrastructure on urban development and configuration of territories is hardly questionable. Railway networks ...
Institutional determinants of student employer entrepreneurs at Catalan universities
This article investigates the influence of informal and formal institutions on the university students' decision of becoming employer entrepreneurs (university students that create a new firm with employees) in the context ...
The impact of innovation and the use of ICTs on human capital development in Spanish industry
Purpose, the analysis of the characteristics of the industrial companies that invest in the training of their human capital in comparison to the organizations that do not train their employees. This characterization is ...
Editorial: How to prevent, detect and control common method variance in electronic commerce research
In electronic commerce research, questionnaire surveys are widely used to gather information. But these questionnaires usually include scales to measure both the predictor constructs and the criterion constructs, and the ...
The impact of ABC costing systems to solve managerial cost problems: a real improvement, a fad or a fashion?
One of the main problems of management profession is that there is not yet a corpus of theories and knowledge that can assist professionals to take adequate choices for solving the problems they actually have. Initially, ...
Estudi sobre assetjament sexual a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013
HISTORIA ECONÓMICA: El padre de la economia:Adam Smith
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Transportation and regional inequality: the impact of railways in the Nordic countries, 1860-1960
Before industrialisation the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) were part of Europe's poor periphery, but over the last century these countries have become some of the richest in the world. This article ...
Breaking the boundary between personal- and work-life skills: parenting as a valuable experience for knowledge workers
The idea that the skills that are useful in companies are in opposition to the skills needed in family life has created a separation between work and personal areas, which diminishes the value placed on the learning obtained ...
