Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
Artículo que explica a grandes rasgos el pensamiento económico del mercantilismo y sus principales autores Mun y Colbert.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013
Peer-reviewed
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 ...
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 ...
