Gallardo-Gallardo, Eva (Date of defense: 2013-09-09)
In this dissertation a critical review of talent and the talent management (TM) literature is provided. Three key questions for TM research are covered within three chapters, defined as three different ...
Sabaté Domingo, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)
The thesis offers a new database of military expense in Spain from middle of the century nineteen up to the current importance, as well as three analyses of the determining ones and the economic and ...
Liu, Yu (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
In this thesis, it is detailed the bottom-up production and characterization of thermoelectric (TE) nanomaterials with significant enhanced performance by using colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) as building ...
Torrents Vivó, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-06-07)
The last half of twentieth century has witnessed a key shift in the production process of knowledge: the most important discoveries and innovations in science and technology are not anymore the result ...
Marco Lafuente, Inés (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
This PhD dissertation is part of an international research project, Sustainable Farm Systems, which seeks to analyze pre-industrial to industrial agriculture transition from a biophysical perspective. ...
Sadian, Samuel (Date of defense: 2018-02-12)
This study proposes a novel approach to understanding the contribution that consumer action makes to social change, both at the level of conceptual generalisation and when applied to institutionalised ...
Álvarez Ruano, Enrique José (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)
The measurement of sales force performance is an issue of the upmost importance. Research in this area has primarily focused on cross-sectional studies establishing a link between various types of ...
Campos Sánchez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-10-01)
This work aims to explore different stages of the entrepreneurial process from the perspective of personal values as main predictors and guides of behavior. This work focuses on personal values for two ...
Curto Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-05-21)
Nevertheless, this peculiarity of the Spanish political system did not eliminate the incentives for governments to use pork-barrel policies. On the one hand, despite electoral results being centrally ...
Antonini, Carla (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
An increasing body of scientific evidence continues to fuel concerns regarding the effects of economic human activity on the environment. In this call, environmental accounting attempts to increase ...