Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Envíos recientes
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The role of Personal Values in the Entrepreneurship Research. An analysis of new trends, decision making and success of entrepreneurs
Nowadays entrepreneurs deal with new technological, social and environmental challenges. Faced with this unpredictable environment, personal values can help to understand the decisions that have to be made. Personal values ...
Banking Regulation, Financial Stability and Credit in Mexico (1960-2016)
INTRODUCCIÓN: El objetivo de este trabajo es profundizar sobre las razones por las cuales existe una escasa concesión del crédito en México. En particular, el crédito que va dirigido a promover el crecimiento económico, ...
Biomass Energies in Industrializing Catalonia: The Changing Role of Firewood and Charcoal in the City and Province of Barcelona (1780-1960)
There is a debate in the international literature between two differing conceptions of the Energy Transition: the so-cal led «energy ladder approach», according to which societies transit from qualitatively ...
Spanish Muslims' halal food purchase intention
For centuries, halal is a spiritual concept that Muslims continue to follow in their daily lives, specifically when purchasing and consuming products. The Muslim community takes up a big part of the world population. The ...
Essays on Regional Management Centres: Subsidiary management at the crossroad of psychic distance and regionalization
The aim of this research has been to advance the understanding of RMC units, especially springboard subsidiaries, by identifying factors that contribute to the development of an ordinary subsidiary into springboard, ...
El sistema de direcció i planificació de l'economia cubana, 1975-1985
L'objectiu de la tesi doctoral és el de mostrar què és el Sistema de Direcció i Planificació de l'Economia de Cuba (SDPEC), quines són les seves principals característiques, així com estudiar el Subsistema de la ...
Análisis de la implantación de la estrategia de servitización en las empresas manufactureras españolas
La elevada competencia a la que se enfrentan las empresas manufactureras hoy en día obliga a las organizaciones a establecer nuevas estrategias de diferenciación. En la búsqueda de esta diferencia, las empresas manufactureras ...
Three Empirical Essays on Comparative Advantage & Productivity Growth in Asia
The thesis is a combination of three independent papers that discuss various challenges posed on developing countries of Asia and provide suggestions as to how comparative advantage and labor productivity growth is relevant ...
Gorros frigios en la Guerra Fría. El socialismo republicano de E. P. Thompson
La tradición socialista fue heredera y continuadora del republicanismo democrático moderno. E. P. Thompson, como historiador e intelectual comunista, reivindicó de forma precursora los valores jacobinos e ilustrados frente ...
Essays on the Economics of Social Dilemmas
The purpose of this dissertation is to study specific cases of all those aforementioned questions in a number of different settings, all of which share one common characteristic of particular economic relevance. The settings ...
Essays on Environmental Policy and Green Investment
This PhD thesis provides abundant empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental policy instruments alone and as a policy-mix, looking at its effect on green investment and employment. Finally, it also studies ...
On Renewable Energy Innovation and its Knowledge Flows’ Sources and Nature
El núcleo de la tesis consta de tres capítulos en los que se explora la naturaleza de los flujos de conocimiento que influyen en la innovación en energías renovables. En los tres capítulos se utiliza información de patentes ...
Transferability of Successful Educational Actions of the Roma Women to the plural European Contexts
The Romani Women’s Association Drom Kotar Mestipen (DKM) was at the centre of this academic investigation. The association is based in Barcelona, Catalonia and their approach to engaging with Roma women and advocating for ...
La influencia de los contenidos publicitarios en el engagement hacia las comunidades virtuales de marca
Las redes sociales han ido cambiando la manera de interacción social, especializándose y ofreciendo diferentes tipos para diferentes necesidades. Algunas de ellas; Twitter principalmente para las noticias y temas de ...
Organizational behavior in Ecuadorian SME’s. An analysis of leadership, trust and conflict management
There are many factors involved in the low survival rate of Ecuadorian SMEs, among which we can highlight: a lack of R & D, poor managerial orientation to improve processes, poor relations with universities, excessive ...
Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets
This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of liquidity in financial markets. Relying on the latest proxies for liquidity and TAQ benchmark data, this dissertation investigates liquidity in financial markets ...
Three essays on commodity prices
In the first part of our thesis, we present an analysis of a group of small commodity exporting countries' price differentials relative to the US dollar. Using unrestricted self exciting threshold autoregressive models ...
Essays on the Political Economy of Urbanization and Climate Change
The world has been urbanizing at an incredible pace during the last century. Meanwhile, the global rise in temperatures has led to the increased probabilities of gradual and sudden natural disasters, putting large shares ...
Machine-Learning Applied Methods
The presented discourse followed several topics where every new chapter introduced an economic prediction problem and showed how traditional approaches can be complemented with new techniques like machine learning and deep ...
Essays on Labor Markets and Institutions
Esta tesis estudia dos factores clave para el funcionamiento adecuado del mercado de trabajo: la movilidad geográfica y los procesos de selección. Relacionado con el aspecto de movilidad geográfica, la cuestión es por ...
