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    A Reflection on Corporate Stakeholder Orientation: Antecedents and Assessment 

    Jain, Tanusree (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    El propòsit de l'empresa ha estat motiu d'extenses deliberacions acadèmiques en relació amb l'orientació de l'empresa cap als seus grups d'interès interns i externs. Els creixents desafiaments socials i mediambientals ...

    A statistichal equilibrium perspective on corporate profitability 

    Mundt, Philipp (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)

    The thesis shows how the dynamics a large pool of publicly traded firms can be meaningful described by a single stochastic equation under statistical equilibrium approximation. The whole dynamics of profitability of the ...

    Active transformative pathways for local agri-food systems : drawing and applying an integrated framework to assess agri-food systems vulnerability under the political paradigm of food sovereignty in Ecuadorian Andes 

    Vallejo-Rojas, Virginia (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)

    Taking into account the limitations of official approaches for addressing agri-food research, as well as their associated policies to tackle the problems of hunger and vulnerability of agri-food systems to global change, ...

    La adopción de prácticas de gestión del conocimiento y su efecto sobre el desempeño innovador y la creación de competencias distintivas: un estudio empírico en el sector de biotecnología 

    Alegre Vidal, Joaquín (Date of defense: 2003-03-10)

    En los últimos años el conocimiento está siendo reconocido como un recurso clave para la competitividad de las empresas. Los procesos de innovación en la empresa necesitan de una adecuada gestión del conocimiento. Sin ...

    Afrontar los asuntos globales : fundamentación teórica y propuesta metodológica para la creación de alianzas estratégicas entre organizaciones de la sociedad civil 

    Rocuts Pabon, Asthriesslav (Date of defense: 2010-03-03)

    This research aims to contribute to the integral management of Global Issues. Topics whose complexity and magnitude is so high that affect all humanity, they are long-term issues and cannot be solved by one sole nation. ...

    Analysis of the specialization patterns for scientific and industrial activities in the EU regions in the framework of the smart specialization strategy 

    Esparza Masana, Ricard (Date of defense: 2014-11-18)

    The thesis aims to provide a complete overview of the specialization trends of the EU regions in the context of the regional innovation smart specialization strategy (RIS3), as well as to evaluate whether some priorities ...

    Antecedents of radical innovation: an empirical research 

    Domínguez Escrig, Emilio (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)

    The main objective of this research is to disentangle the factors that promote or are positively related to radical innovation and its success. To this end, four studies have been proposed, which suggest various facilitators ...

    Anticooperación Norte Sur : cuando la coherencia es más importante que la ayuda. El caso de Ecuador y la "cooperación" española 

    Llistar, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    The thesis states that, as economies become more internationalized and as monetary and physical transnational flows increase, the negative externalities associated with these flows also rise. Externalities are distributed ...

    Aspects of the interplay of cognition and emotion and the use of verbal vs. numerical information decision making 

    Trujillo Valencia, Carlos Andrés (Date of defense: 2007-06-27)

    En ésta tesis se estudian 2 aspectos de la toma decisiones. Primero, se investiga la forma en que las personas categorizan atributos numéricos. Se presenta y se prueba experimentalmente un modelo del proceso mental que ...

    Brand patrimony: on the hypertext of the brand asset and its corporate culture and identity principles accountability: a new context-paradigm perspective about one of today's most valuable organizational assets, the managing responsability it conveys and a recommended guide for relevant corporate communications functions and activity 

    Fullana, Blanca (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)

    The present investigation is an approach to brand value from a top-management perspective, asserting that a brand is not merely a commercial value portrayed by a product placed in a market; even less so, a public relations ...

    Business Cycle Fluctuations and Granular Behavior: an Empirical Analysis vs. the Agent-Based Approach 

    Blanco Arroyo, Omar (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)

    This thesis aims to quantify the granular size of an economy, i.e., the number of granular firms. Empirically, we find that the contribution of idiosyncratic shocks to gross domestic product (GDP) fluctuations is attributed ...

    Capital intelectual y reporting financiero en España 

    Mayorga Ávalos, Myriam Jimena (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)

    Current accounting regulations do not allow intangible assets owned by companies to be fully accounted for in the Financial Statements. The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the hidden ...

    Capital social, inovação, e spin-off nos clusters. Um estudo sobre a influencia da estrutura e natureza do capital social no setor de tecnologia da informação no Brasil e Espanha 

    Coelho Borges Cardoso, Flávio Manoel (Date of defense: 2016-02-29)

    Um crescente interesse pelas relações interorganizacionais repousa sobre diferentes perspectivas. Este trabalho busca integrar quatro áreas-chaves para a competitividade das empresas: redes interorganizacionais, capital ...

    Cluster industrial y desarrollo territorial: el caso del polo petroquímico de Bahía Blanca (Agentina) 

    Cincunegui, Carmen (Date of defense: 2010-06-11)

    La tesis es un estudio de caso del Polo Petroquímico de Bahía Blanca (Argentina), que analiza su evolución y su configuración actual centrándose en su adecuación o no al modelo de cluster industrial y su contribución al ...

    Collaborative Healthcare: Understanding its Meanings from different Agents 

    Maghsoudi, Tahereh (Date of defense: 2022-06-21)

    Aquesta tesis es centra en l’estudi del concepte d’assistència sanitària col•laborativa. El sistema de provisió d’assistència sanitària involucra diferents parts i agents que pretenen proporcionar serveis per promoure, ...

    Commons based production and value. Contributions to the analytical frame. 

    Berlinguer, Marco (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)

    La ambición de esta tesis es contribuir al progreso del estado de la literatura científica que se ha desarrollado alrededor de la noción de bienes comunes, interpretada como un elemento crucial e innovador que está marcando ...

    Communities, organizations and collective entrepreneurship: An institutional perspective 

    Georgiou, Andreas (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)

    Els grups comunitaris i les empreses de base comunitària sovint han estat objecte de discussió en els estudis d'organització, gestió i emprenedoria. Es considera que representen una forma alternativa d’organitzar-se i ...

    Compassion Counts! The power of compassion at work: Empirical findings from several multi-samples studies 

    Miralles Armenteros, Sandra (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)

    Compassion is defined as an interpersonal process involving the noticing, feeling, sensemaking, and acting that alleviates the suffering of another person. Thus, compassion can be understood as a social process rather than ...

    Confraria, gremi i col·legi d’argenters a la Girona d’època moderna 

    Montroig Cruset, Sara (Date of defense: 2023-04-14)

    The present work, based on unpublished documentation such as the Llibre del Collegi de Argenters de Gerona sots invocasio del Glorios St. Aloy, y St. Anastasi of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, focuses on the study of the art ...

    La construcción del carácter frente a las contradicciones del Nuevo Capitalismo en Richard Sennett. 

    Muñoz Miralles, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)

    Esta tesis se adentra en la obra del sociológo Richard Sennett desde una mirada orientada filosóficamente, con el objetivo de extraer los conceptos y propuestas que sean más fructíferos para un pensamiento crítico atento ...