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A comparison of banks and real estate intermediaries as house sellers
(Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 2023;(38):1385–1407, 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 ... -
An explanatory study of MBA students with regards to sustainability and ethics commitment
(Sustainability. 2016 Mar 18;8(3):280, 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 ... -
BS-QUAL: measuring student perceptions of service quality in business schools, an exploratory study
(Tertiary Education and Management. 2023 Feb 13;29:161–187, 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 ... -
Circular economy. A review and bibliometric analysis
(Sustainability. 2020; 12(16):6381, 2020-08-07)The aim of the study is mapping the thematic structure of the circular economy research by mapping research outputs related to it. The methodology consists of developing a bibliometric study based on ... -
Cities and milk consumption in Europe, 1890-1936: the emergence of a new market in Spain
(Historia Agraria. 2017;73:59-90, 2017-12)One of the main features of the European nutritional transition involved the wide-spread increase in milk consumption, a singular process as it involved the emergence of new consumption preferences.This ... -
Construction of biophysical indicators for the catalan economy: building a new conceptual framework
(Sustainability. 2021 Jul 4;13(13):7462, 2021-07-04)The main objective of this work is to create an environmental vision of the Catalan economy based on various indicators. To do this, we started from the fundamental idea of obtaining new metrics to ... -
Diagnosis of the domino effect in bankruptcy situations through positioning maps and their evolution 10 years later
(SAGE Open. 2020;10(4):1-18, 2020)This work aims to describe how the insolvency of a firm affects other business creditors. Through a sample of small and medium entities in Catalonia for the biennium 2004–2005, the situation of creditors ... -
Differences in residents' attitudes towards tourism among mass tourism destinations
(International Journal of Tourism Research. 2017;19(5):535-545, 2017-09)This article contributes to extant knowledge by analysing differences in the attitudes towards tourism of residents living in several micro-destinations (cities) within a larger tourism destination, ... -
Economic and social yield of investing in a sporting event: sustainable value creation in a territory
(Sustainability. 2021 Jun 23;13(13):7033, 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 ... -
Educando contra la posverdad. La alfabetización informacional como estrategia para hacer resilientes a los menores en el consumo digital
(ZER: Revista De Estudios De Comunicación = Komunikazio Ikasketen Aldizkaria. 2020 May 29;25(48):309-327, 2020-05-29)La proliferación de las fake news hace que la capacitación para la elección y evaluación de fuentes de información sea de relevancia en el sistema educativo. Se presentan los resultados de un cuestionario ... -
Empirical evolution of credit risk over a decade in IBEX. 35 companies and its relationship with the qualification of its ratings
(Intangible Capital. 2020;16(2):61-77, 2020)Purpose: The present work responds to two objectives. On the one hand, it describes the evolution of the main economic-financial indicators that influence credit risk (insolvency) for a sample of 10 ... -
Entrepreneurial skills and wage employment
(International Journal of Manpower. 2016;37(3):556-588, 2016)Promotion of entrepreneurial skills among the population is often considered as an adequate policy to enhance job creation and economic growth. However, neither the definition of entrepreneurial skills, ... -
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 ... -
How to become a cashless economy and what are the determinants of eliminating cash
(Journal of Applied Economics. 2022 Apr 4;25(1):543-562, 2022-04-04)This paper aims to ascertain the determinants by which individuals decide to use credit cards as a payment method rather than cash; that is, to understand changes in socioeconomic factors on the long-term ... -
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 ... -
Markus Lampe y Paul Sharp, A land of milk & butter. How elites created the modern Danish dairy industry, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 320 pp.
(Revista de Historia Industrial. 2020;29(79):211-214, 2020-07-15)La mayor parte de las 1.136 cooperativas lácteas existentes en Dinamarca en 1909 fueron creadas entre 1880 y los primeros años de 1890. [...] -
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 ...