Articles publicats Departament d'Organització, Gestió Empresarial i Disseny de Producte: Recent submissions
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ISO 9001 aspectes related to perfomance and their level of implementation
Purpose: In the last three decades, thousands of companies around the world have embraced the ISO 9001 standard in their quest to improve company performance and customer satisfaction. In recent literature, a number of ...
OSS-Qual: Holistic Scale to Assess Customer Quality Perception When Buying Secondhand Products in Online Platforms
Online secondhand markets have been growing substantially over the last decade and are expected to grow further. In order to effectively promote the growth of online secondhand markets, this paper designs and validates a ...
Digital Destination Matching: Practices, Priorities and Predictions
Over the past three years, travel agents, enterprises and destinations have switched almost entirely from traditional to digital marketing methods, relying strongly on search engines and social media. They consider these ...
A Fresh Approach to Context Influence, Development and Performance in Environmental Management
Environment Respect for the environment has rapidly gained importance in the context of firms, regardless of their pollution levels. Most of the existing research has related to the most polluting sectors and has been ...
Residents’ Risk Perception in Developing Destinations
This paper addresses a gap in research concerning local communities’ perceptions of emerging tourism destinations through the lens of risk perception theory. Despite extensive exploration of perceived risk across disciplines, ...
EMAS environmental statements as a measuring tool in the transition of industry towards a circular economy
One of the European Commission's main objectives within its Green Deal strategy is to encourage organisations to adopt a circular economy (CE). Although the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) regulation is highlighted ...
Computer-Aided Design: Development of a Software Tool for Solving Loci Problems
In this work, we developed a software tool for the simplified, automated definition and viewing of loci in the plane, an essential task in the design, engineering and architectural fields. The process was started by ...
Analysis of the education and training of haute cuisine chefs: is there a common pattern?
This study examines the haute cuisine chefs' education and training in order to identify a common pattern of training. Specifically, this study investigates the education and training received during the careers of a sample ...
Family firms' survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity
This study examines the key topic of SME survival during an economic downturn by focusing on the role of family governance. We argue that family SMEs typically show higher levels of organizational inertia that may particularly ...
Innovative Behaviour and Performance of Technology-based Knowledge-Intensive Business Service: an empirical study
The aim of this paper is to learn more about how technology-based knowledge-intensive business service firms (t-KIBS) innovate. To do so, we examine the range of innovation practices employed by a sample of 50 t-KIBS in ...
Bio-based composites from stone groundwood applied to new product development
This paper deals with the product design, engineering, and material selection intended for the manufacturing of an eco-friendly chair. The final product is expected to combine design attributes with technical and legal ...
Evidence for quality management systems being instrumental in improving supplier performance: the case of the wind power sector
This paper evaluates whether ISO certification enables a supplier to become an extended resource in a specific sector. The evaluation consisted of a statistical analysis of data from 90 suppliers to a wind turbine ...
Knowledge Transfer in Haute Cuisine: The Relationship between Chefs as an Enabler Factor
The aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between haute cuisine chefs and to identify which elements of these relationships enhance the generation of ideas and the exchange of knowledge. A qualitative methodology ...
El disseny de producte identitari i diferencial
Molt sovint als mitjans de comunicació es parla de com els productes estan subjectes a les modes imperants i, fins i tot, moltes vegades nosaltres mateixos ens deixem anar en aquest sentit i adquirim productes que en altres ...
Standardised innovation management systems: a case study of the Spanish Standard UNE 166002:2006
This paper describes the experience of a Spanish manufacturing firm that implemented the UNE 166002:2006 standard, which is the first in the world to offer a certifiable standardised management system for innovation. After ...
An affective and posthumanist cosmopolitan hospitality
This conceptual article argues for revisiting and revising notions of cosmopolitanism and hospitality in light of the increasingly interconnected local to global domain of contemporary tourism. We briefly trace the ...
East meets West: Spiritual tourism in Chinese protected areas
This article is a first attempt at studying the concept of spiritual tourism in Chinese protected areas, and examines this western concept within an eastern context. Data from the literature review and in-depth interviews ...
Editorial: Polymer Composite Analysis and Characterization
Editorial article from 'Polymers', 2023, vol. 15, issue 8. This Special Issue aimed to provide a forum for the discussion of recent advances in the analysis and characterization of polymer-based composites. Authors were ...
Impact of quality improvement tools on the performance of firms using different quality management systems
This study compares the impact of quality management tools on the performance of organisations utilising the ISO 9001:2000 standard as a basis for a quality-management system band those utilising the EFQM model for this ...
Impact of Using Automatic E-Learning Correctors on Teaching Business Subjects to Engineers
An innovative higher education is the visible outcome of the combination of the proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and novel approaches in education. We position our paper in this context, ...
