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Factors affecting time spent visiting heritage city areas
(Sustainability. 2018;10(6):1824, 2018-06-01)Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption ... -
Flipped classroom as an active learning methodology in sustainable development curricula
(Sustainability.2019 AUG 23;11(17):4577, 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 ... -
How on earth did Spanish banking sell the housing stock?
(SAGE Open. 2022;12(1):1-14, 2022)The accumulation of properties by Spanish banks during the crisis of the first decade of the 21st century has definitely changed the housing market. An optimal house price valuation is useful to determine ... -
La introducción de los REI en la formación de profesores: un ejemplo de REI-FP
(Educação Matemática Pesquisa. 2020;22(4):546-560, 2020)En este trabajo comentamos el desarrollo de una experiencia piloto para presentar un proceso de estudio en el marco de la formación didáctica inicial de los futuros profesores de Educación Secundaria. ... -
Management, cooperatives and sustainability: a new methodological proposal for a holistic analysis
(Sustainability. 2022 Jun 20;17(2):7489, 2022-06-20)This article examines how the advent of the new globalisation and climate change requires us to transform the scientific paradigm of economics and, therefore, poses new challenges for analysis. In ... -
Milk, social acceptance of a new food in Europe: Catalonia, 19th-20th centuries
(Dynamis. 2010;30:119-139, 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 ... -
Monetary policy and asset price bubbles: a laboratory experiment
(Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 2021 Sep;130:1-15, 2021-09)Leaning-against the-wind (LAW) policies, whereby interest rates are raised in the face of a growing asset price bubble, are often advocated as a means of dampening such bubbles. On the other hand, there ... -
Overeducation and childcare time
(International Journal of Manpower. 2023;44(9):108-127, 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 ... -
El reto de mantener los principios de la economía social a largo plazo: el caso de TUSGSAL
(REVESCO. Revista de Estudios Cooperativos. 2023;1(143):e69184, 2023-02-27)Las organizaciones de la economía social se encuentran en un momento importante desde el punto de vista económico y social. Nuevos modelos de negocio, el papel de la innovación, la atención a los grupos ... -
Social economy companies in the times of crises: entrepreneurship and survival
(Intangible Capital. 2018 Feb;14(1):35-46, 2018-02)Purpose: The work presented in this article is a study of the strategies carried out by social economy companies in times of crisis. This article analyses the financial characteristics of the ... -
Socially responsible HR practices and their effects on employees’ wellbeing: empirical evidence from Catalonia, Spain
(European Research on Management and Business Economics. 2018 Aug;24(2):82-89, 2018-08)Corporate social responsibility towards employees has been promoted by international organizations that produced recommendations, conventions, principles and other documents to enhance job quality and ... -
El soporte a la investigación en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas
(Anales de Documentación. 2018 Jan 31;21(1):1-10, 2018-01-31)En el contexto actual, en el que las universidades y su cuerpo docente deben adaptarse a los requerimientos legislativos vinculados al incremento de la investigación, las bibliotecas ocupan un rol crucial ... -
Sustainability practices at private universities: a state-of-the-art assessment
(International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. 2021;28(5):402-416, 2021)Private universities are important actors in higher education, and also play a key role in the sustainability debate. But despite their importance, there a shortage of research on how sustainability is ... -
Sustainable development through CSR in human resource management practices: the effects of the economic crisis on job quality
(Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 2018; 25(4):441-456, 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 ... -
The Adoption of Environmental Practices in Small Hotels. Voluntary or Mandatory? An Empirical Approach
(Sustainability. 2016 Jul 21;8(7):695, 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 ... -
The economic and social value of science and technology parks. The case of Tecnocampus
(Frontiers in Psychology. 2020 Dec 23;11:632600, 2020-12-23)This article aims to measure both the economic and social value of Tecnocampus, a Science and Technology Park in its region of influence (Mataró city in the Maresme region of Catalonia, Spain). Our ... -
The economic and social value of spa tourism: the case of balneotherapy in Maresme, Spain
(PLoS ONE. 2022 JAN 31;17(1):e0262428, 2022-01-31)The aim of this article is to assess both the economic and social value of balneotherapy and spa tourism, being the first paper in carrying out this analysis. The study has been conducted in Maresme, a ... -
The evolution and impact of tourism in the Mediterranean: the case of island regions, 1990-2002
(Cuadernos de Turismo. 2016;(37):269–303, 2016-05-03)This paper aims to analyse one of the world’s top tourist destinations, the Mediterranean, and, more specifically, the evolution and impact of mass tourism on its western islands (Corsica, Sardinia, ... -
The importance of administrative data in the evaluation of the incidence of social housing allowance programmes
(Evaluation and Program Planning. 2022 Oct;94:102117, 2022-10)The aim of this work is to assess the rental assistance programme that was implemented by the Catalan regional government in the 2010s using administrative data provided by the Catalonia Housing Agency ... -
The transparency of CSUC member university libraries
(Library Management. 2019;40(8/9):558-569, 2019)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the level of transparency of the libraries of Catalan universities that are members of the Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC). Desi ...