Purpose: To understand how online social networks promote social capital development of college students. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative and ethnographic, studied during an academic semester (5 months) the case of a group of 21 university students of Information Technology Management from a private school in Mexico. Was used participant observation, through Facebook...
Purpose: Considering inconsistent results in the literature about the HRM-performance relationship, this study discusses the association between both variables from a process perspective. To do so, the paper proposes a theoretical model that differentiates between the intended double fit (vertical and horizontal fit) and the real fit achieved in the HR practices implementation...
Purpose: The aim of this research is to deepen the knowledge about luxury consumption from the paradigm of symbolic consumption through a holistic and multidimensional vision, allowing us to see and understand the perceptions of university consumers.Design/methodology: A literature review of the construct of a luxury brand is performed as part of the theoretical framework, before...
Purpose: The increasing social concern about establishing procedures of accountability and ensuring information transparency in public universities prompted us to raise the need to disclose information on their intellectual capital.Design/methodology/approach: In this study we developed a questionnaire which was sent to members of the Social Councils of Spanish public...
Purpose: Explore current forms of involvement between schools and their school communities that prove to be satisfactory.Design/methodology/approach: Are carried out two case studies in two innovative schools, following the model of qualitative research, performing participant observation, interviews, and discussions with the individuals involved.Findings and Originality/value...
Objeto: El propósito de esta investigación es ahondar en el consumo del lujo desde el paradigma del consumo simbólico a través de una visión holística y multidimensional que nos permita contemplar su complejidad y conocer las percepciones de los consumidores universitarios.Diseño/metodología/enfoque: En el marco teórico se lleva a cabo una revisión bibliográfica del constructo de...
Purpose: TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) is difficult to implement. This article attempts, through the analysis of existing literature, approach to this difficulty and provide an analysis to advance their knowledge.Design/methodology/approach: The literature review was conducted through analysis of 44 publications on TPM, extracted from databases chosen for their reputation in...
Purpose: There is an extensive literature which associates organizational learning with creation of knowledge, but models that relate organizational learning constructs and learning organization with the creation of knowledge are not found. The aim of this paper is to present a model of creation and knowledge transfer are based learning in organizations. Design / methodology...
Purpose: The present article is a report that begins with a review of the main local development theories in order to go into the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial promotion in rural areas as a local progress boost. Also, we study the influence of the entrepreneur personal factors (experience, location…) in companies setting-up, and how the education level (in a broadly definition...
Purpose: This paper explores training activities for building engineers, working as site managers, carried out by construction companies in the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha. It also examines the effect of training on job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative methodology has been applied, by means of 34 semi-structured interviews to 34 building...
Purpose: The application of IAS 32 in co-operatives has generated an important controversy in recent years. Until now, various works have tried to predict the possible effects of its application. This paper intends to analyze the impact of the first application of IAS 32 on the co-operative sector. Design/methodology/approach: To perform this analysis, a sample of 98 cooperatives...
Purpose: This work is intended to reflect the economic and financial situation of the Catalan meat companies during the period 2007-2011, by analyzing data from their financial statements, in order to diagnose the health of the corporate Catalan meat sector. The study also performed a descriptive analysis of the entities that make up the Catalan meat companies and their position...
Purpose: The aim of this research is to deepen the knowledge about luxury consumption from the paradigm of symbolic consumption through a holistic and multidimensional vision, allowing us to see and understand the perceptions of university consumers.Design/methodology: A literature review of the construct of a luxury brand is performed as part of the theoretical framework, before...
Purpose: The increasing social concern about establishing procedures of accountability and ensuring information transparency in public universities prompted us to raise the need to disclose information on their intellectual capital.Design/methodology/approach: In this study we developed a questionnaire which was sent to members of the Social Councils of Spanish public...
Purpose: We considered two objectives; on one hand, to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of enterprises, the purpose of which is to provide services to the elderly. On the other hand, examine whether the enactment of law 39/2006, has meant a change in the profitability of the companies.Design/methodology/approach: We study the accounting behaviour of companies that have...
Purpose: This paper examines the principles of the Institutional Theory in order to increase the understanding of the contractual covenants that Spanish Venture Capital Firms use in their relationship with the portfolio companies.Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on the data obtained by means of a postal survey addressed to the 70 Spanish VCF registered in the ASCRI...
Purpose: This paper aims to analyse in depth the determinants of disclosure of corporate social activities. In particular, it is focused on a barely considered factor: ownership structure.Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of Spanish listed companies in 2008 we employed a OLS model to analyse how the identity of the largest shareholder as well as other firm...
Purpose: Although knowledge and its management is, and has been, studied in depth, particularly since the 90’s decade of the past century, especially for the strategic management, innovation, trade, or business administration, there are still many questions on how it articulates or transfers and the barriers to its management, especially when we talk about internal tactical...
Objeto: Aunque el conocimiento y su gestión es, y ha sido, estudiado en profundidad, especialmente desde la década de los 90 del siglo pasado, sobre todo para la gestión estratégica, innovación, comercio, o administración de las empresas, todavía quedan muchos interrogantes en cómo se articula o se transfiere y las barreras para su gestión, principalmente cuando hablamos de las...
Object: To analyze gender equality in the field of Science and Technology with the aim of determining the work trajectory of women scientists as well as the main difficulties that they have faced in their professional careers regarding promotion, pay and work-family balance. Moreover, the situation of women scientists in other countries is also analyzed. The results confirm the...
Purpose: Open innovation represents an emergent paradigm by which organizations make use of internal and external resources to drive their innovation processes. The growth of information and communication technologies has facilitated the emergence of online open innovation communities which allow a direct contact with customers and users. The aim of this work consists of...
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the decision to disclose intangible assets could be explained by Institutional Theory. Our interest is to provide evidence of his interpretative capacity through an empirical study applied to the olive oil mill industry. Design/methodology/approach: We used a mixed methodological design that combines quantitative and...
Purpose: This article analyzes the contents of the Fourth General Construction Agreement 2007-2011 and Provincial Collective Agreements of the region of Andalusia in order to understand the impact of the Law 3 / 2007 for Effective Equality between Women and Men in collective bargaining in construction sector.Design/methodology: It has been compiled and analyzed the contents of...
Purpose: This research attempts to determine, empirically and for a large sample of countries, which kind of educational variables can better explain technological innovation processes, approximated by the number of patents per capita. To do this, we use a model that explains the innovative capacity of the countries employing six educational variables: two quantitative variables...