Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Nuevas lógicas en las Industrias Creativas: una perspectiva sostenible
[spa] Es un tema de gran relevancia en el campo las competencias gerenciales en las Industrias Creativas y Culturales y su relación con la sostenibilidad empresarial. A lo largo de la investigación, se descubre que los ...
Industrializing Chocolate in Barcelona: Market Transformation, Competitive Advantages, and Gender Dynamics at Chocolates Amatller, 1850-1925
[eng] This thesis aims to analyse and underscore the importance of chocolate manufacturing in the broader context of industrialization from 1850 to 1925. In doing so, it also seeks to enhance research in the field of ...
Essays on Education: Evidence from a developing country
[eng] Education is crucial for personal and societal advancement, influencing economic prosperity and social equality. In conflict-affected regions like Colombia, accessing quality education is a major challenge. Armed ...
Driving Sustainable Business: The Role of Open Innovation and Digitalisation
[eng] Sustainability, the most pressing challenge facing society today, is reshaping the relationship between companies and society. While companies have long been recognised as major contributors to environmental ...
Dels paisatges agroforestals i ramaders a la gentrificació I els deserts alimentaris del turisme de muntanya (1900-2020). Una proposta de transició agroecològica per l’entorn pirinenc del Parc Natural del Cadí-Moixeró
[cat] En aquesta Tesi Doctoral analitzo les transformacions soecioeconòmiques i paisatgístiques del Cadí-Moixeró des del 1900 fins a l’actualitat, identificant la gentrificació i la desertització alimentària com a principals ...
The Role of Urban Mobility Services in Sustainable Urban Development Economic and Social Perspectives
[eng] Contemporary societies face different demographic, technological, health challenges, changes in citizen needs, and government policies. The concentration of population in major metropolises challenges the ability of ...
Evolución histórica del mercado del azúcar de la Unión Europea (1968-2005)
[spa] La Política Agraria Común (PAC) es una de las políticas comunes de la Unión Europea (UE) que más ha evolucionado. Desde su creación en los años 1960s, las Organizaciones Comunes de Mercado (OCMs) constituyeron un ...
Defining the customer experience: Tourism & Health
[eng] Customer experience management requires a strategic framework and a mighty organizational culture to manage a process of intentional creation, continuous monitoring, and proactive management of the customer experience. ...
Human Dimension as the Key Success Factor in Experience Management. The Emotional Connection as the Best Loyalty Strategy
[eng] PURPOSE: This study contributes to the understanding of the interconnectedness between employee well-being, emotional connection, fair work practices, and customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry. It ...
From Code to Capital: A Study of How Emerging Technologies Shape Stock Markets
[eng] Recent white papers have described how emerging technologies will shape the future (World Economic Forum, 2017) and how institutions are responding to the increasingly salient trend (EU Commission, 2021). From an ...
Understanding Customers’ Actual Purchase Behavior and the Role of Service Quality Perceptions in Quick-Service Restaurants
[eng] The global growth of the quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector over the past few decades has led it to its emergence as a prominent sector within the restaurant industry and the broader service industry. The expansion ...
Essays on Violence, Health and Family Dynamics
[eng] Violence is a pervasive societal challenge with profound economic implications. The experience of violence can have durable impacts on the life-outcomes of victims: their health; labor market opportunities, educational ...
Empirical Research on Firms’ Social Responsibility: Labor Tax Avoidance and Asymmetric Labor Costs Behavior
[eng] The goal of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and labor tax avoidance (LTAV) and asymmetric labor cost behavior within Social Accounting. Chapter 1 introduces ...
Essays on Gender Economics
[eng] Despite the abundance of theories and evidence, addressing key questions about the existence and drivers of gender gaps remains essential: Where do gender gaps exist? Why do they persist? Which factors contribute to ...
Essays on Economics of Education
[eng] This dissertation focuses on the determinants and the effects of human capital formation in Indonesia and contribute to the extensive literature on the economics of education. Since the seminal works by Mincer ...
Mercado del café, Comercio Justo y desarrollo de la cafeticultura orgánica en el estado mexicano de Chiapas (1980-2020)
[spa] El café es uno de las productos alimenticios con un mayor consumo mundial. Las más de 3.200 millones de tazas que se consumen diariamente en todo el mundo denotan su importancia social global. Se consume principalmente ...
Essays on Monetary Economics
[eng] This thesis provides research in the area of Monetary Economics. The thesis is divided in three main bodies in which three different but interrelated topics in the field of Monetary Economics are studied. The first ...
Business Model Innovation and Firm Performance: A Performance Feedback Perspective
[eng] This dissertation is presented as a collection of papers. Therefore, chapters 2 to 5 are written in the format of four stand-alone articles. Each chapter is intending to meet the specific objectives described in the ...
Essays on Telecommunications, Trade, and the Credit Market
[eng] The thesis contains three essays that are linked to Development Economics. The first essay is an evaluation of the impact on the Telecommunications sector of the Free Trade Agreements that the United States signed ...
Essays on Economics of Education
[eng] This dissertation explores how changes in society and the family shape educational outcomes, from the perspective of gender inequalities and spillover effects of health shocks. In the first chapter, I provide an ...
