Articles: Enviaments recents
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Usefulness of Z scoring models in the early detection of financial problems in bankrupt Spanish companies
Purpose: To determine the predictive capacity of two Z scoring models in situations of bankruptcy in the Spanish context. Design/methodology: The research intends to answer four questions: (1) Is Altman's Z scoring model ...
Developing models for online academic advising
Peer-reviewed
TASTET ECONOMIA NRO7 :consumidors paràsits o free riders
Peer-reviewed
Consumer expectations of online services in the insurance industry: An exploratory study of drivers and outcomes
Today, the customer-brand relationship is fundamental to a company's bottom line, especially in the service sector and with services offered via online channels. In order to maximize its effects, organizations need to know ...
Del diseño de modelos de costes basados en las actividades a su uso normalizado
Purpose, to understand why many companies that develop activity-based costing (ABC) systems do not use them on a regular basis. Design/methodology/approach: We review the existing literature on the process of ABC implementation, ...
Tourism and the collaborative economy: the case of free walking tours in Barcelona
Tourism has undergone a deep change closely linked to the accelerated use of the Internet and social media. In this context, the concept of free walking tours free of charge are becoming increasingly popular throughout ...
La cadena global de valor en la industria electrónica
Global value chains are one of the most paradigmatic elements of the transformation of international trade and investment. The electronics industry is a characteristic example of a globally integrated activity that has ...
Sustainability motivations and practices in small tourism enterprises in European protected areas
A survey of around 900 tourism enterprises in 57 European protected areas shows that small firms are more involved in taking responsibility for being sustainable than previously expected, including eco-savings related ...
Regional wage gaps, education and informality in an emerging country: the case of Colombia
This paper uses Colombian micro-data to analyze the role of education and informality in regional wage differentials. The hypothesis is that apart from differences in the endowment of human capital, regional heterogeneity ...
Social flow in social MOOCs
Flow theory is a way to explain how humans can be self-motivated and reach a state of high focus and intense, very effective learning. Usually this theory is merely descriptive but recently it has also been operationalized ...
The coming of MOOCs
A MOOC is a Massively Online Open Course. It is massive because there are many students (sometimes hundreds of thousands). It is online because it uses the Internet for course delivery. It is open because it is publically ...
Tastets d'economia número 2: Psicologia i Economia
Peer-reviewed
E-learning in Economics and Business
E-learning is broadening education horizons all over the world. The contribution sought by this work is to evidence innovations and practices that are applied to teaching environments and fields of knowledge connected with ...
Silver as a constraint for a large-scale development of solar photovoltaics? scenario-making to the year 2050 supported by expert engagement and global sensitivity analysis
In this study we assess whether availability of silver could constrain a large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV). While silver-paste use in photovoltaics cell metallization is becoming more efficient, solar ...
La logística del demà: reptes i oportunitats en l'era digital
En una societat global i interconnectada, el sector logístic és especialment rellevant per entendre el funcionament de l'economia moderna. Els països europeus, gràcies al seu nivell de desenvolupament, ocupen una posició ...
Marketing education, distance learning and hypermedia: teaching current issues in marketing in a virtual campus
This article reports on a project at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC: The Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona) to develop an innovative package of hypermedia-based learning materials for a new course entitled ...
EU Immigrant integration policies and returns on human capital
In order to address skill shortages and the demographic challenges facing the EU, member states have to attract (and retain) the more skilled migrants. Nevertheless, foreign residents generally find a significant wage gap ...
Learning from customer interaction: how merchants create price-level propositions for experience goods in hybrid market environments
For hybrid merchants, who sell goods simultaneously through digital media and conventional channels, creating a price proposition is a major and controversial decision. We model the interaction between hybrid merchants and ...
Actitudes punitivas : diferentes preguntas, diferentes respuestas
Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013
Building Sustainable Smart Destinations: An Approach Based on the Development of Spanish Smart Tourism Plans
The aim of this research is to assess the real effects of developing smart tourism destinations on urban sustainability. A content analysis method is used to analyze 994 initiatives contained in action-plan and strategy ...
