Hecht, Theresa (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[eng] The PhD dissertation aims to investigate the impact of emotional intelligence, leadership traits and culture on leadership style in hospitality and the propensity of green management practices ...
Mazaira Font, Ferran A. (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)
[eng] Economic policies and institutional design and decision-making vary greatly accross countries. Germany, the US and Canada, are federal states, where decision-making and economic policies are highly ...
Belles Sampera, Jaume (Date of defense: 2015-07-30)
This work is focused on the study of risk measures and solutions to capital allocation problems, their suitability to answer practical questions in the framework of insurance and financial institutions ...
Vall-Prat, Pau (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)
This dissertation examines the origins and consequences of intra-elite political competition. Specifically, it focuses on elite tensions and its role in the democratization process under electoral ...
García-Hernández, Rosa (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
The general goal of this thesis is to analyze, in some European countries, the connections of Variable Pay Systems with company behaviour, collective bargaining, wage determination and wage inequality. ...
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 ...
Martínez González, José Luis (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
La presente tesis doctoral muestra evidencias claras de que la variabilidad climática y la energía fueron factores relevantes en la Revolución Agrícola, así como en el mercado de trabajo y la economía ...
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 ...