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Overeducation and childcare time
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-08-01)
Purpose – Research shows that parental employment and education status affect the amount of parental childcare time, which is a fundamental determinant of children’s outcomes. In this paper, the authors ...
BS-QUAL: measuring student perceptions of service quality in business schools, an exploratory study
(Springer Nature, 2023-02-13)
The number of Business Schools (BS) and their market share had increased in the last decades. Positioning strategy of BS is crucial in today’s competitive and changing environments. Thus, paying attention ...
Flipped classroom as an active learning methodology in sustainable development curricula
(MDPI, 2019-08-23)
Goal 4 of the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs) is aimed at working towards quality in education. Universities have an important role in teaching sustainability principles. Yet, which ...
The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
(MDPI, 2016-07-21)
This paper examines small hotels that have some type of environmental certification. A survey of 210 small (less than 50 employees) Catalonian hotels was conducted to investigate whether there are ...
A comparison of banks and real estate intermediaries as house sellers
(Springer Nature, 2023)
The foreclosure crisis associated with the banking crisis transformed banks in the hardesthit countries into real estate brokers. The main novelty of this paper is to study banks as sellers of their own ...
Sustainable development through CSR in human resource management practices: the effects of the economic crisis on job quality
(Wiley, 2018)
This article focuses on sustainable development and human resource management (HRM). It analyses the effects of the economic crisis on CSR in the management of employees, its determinants and also depicts ...
Evaluación de la efectividad de un programa de intervención en cuidadores no profesionales de personas dependientes en el ámbito de la atención primaria
(Elsevier, 2021)
Objetivo: Evaluar la eficacia de una intervención a cuidadores no profesionales (CNP). Diseño: Estudio cuasiexperimental de tipo antes/después, sin grupo control. Emplazamiento: Atención primaria; 5 ...
An explanatory study of MBA students with regards to sustainability and ethics commitment
(MDPI, 2016-03-18)
(1) Background: The consequences of the recent economic crisis have shown the need for promoting certain key skills in future entrepreneurs to create enterprises that are capable of producing added ...
Milk, social acceptance of a new food in Europe: Catalonia, 19th-20th centuries
(Universidad de Granada, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2010)
In this article we analyse the time course of the consumption of fresh milk in different regions of Europe between the 1870s and 1930s. Working from the case of Catalonia, we
affirm that the increasing ...
Economic and social yield of investing in a sporting event: sustainable value creation in a territory
(MDPI, 2021-06-23)
Sporting events are a stimulant for the economy and for improving social benefits. This paper aims to estimate a sporting event’s economic and social impact through input–output tables and cost-benefit ...