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    Searching new organizational paradigms: empirical analysis about Self-Management Teams, organizational behaviors and Well-Being 

    Barghouti, Zina (Date of defense: 2024-03-01)

    In response to pressing social challenges such as economic inequality and job instability, this thesis explores alternative management models to transcend traditional structures. Focusing on analyzing behaviors like ...

    Sustainability implementation and management in organizations. Proposal of framework, methodologies and business intelligence computer tools. 

    Ferrer Estévez, María (Date of defense: 2024-02-15)

    The thesis, titled "Sustainability Implementation and Management in Organizations: Proposal of Framework, Methodologies, and Business Intelligence Computer Tools," explores the integration of sustainability into organizational ...

    Turismo sostenible. Contribución a su desarrollo desde un triple enfoque: Certificaciones de empresas hoteleras, percepciones de los futuros directivos y el impacto de shocks externos 

    Rodríguez García, Roberto de los Milagros (Date of defense: 2024-01-30)

    La sostenibilidad es fundamental para el desarrollo del sector turístico mundial. El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar la contribución de la sostenibilidad al turismo desde un triple enfoque. El primer enfoque examina las ...

    Institutions, growth and comparative economic development: geographical and methodological perspectives 

    Aparicio-Pérez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2024-01-26)

    This thesis investigates the impact of institutions on economic growth and development, a key area in economic research. While recognizing the broad consensus on the importance of institutions, it delves into how specific ...

    Corporate Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Behavior of Employees: Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences 

    Badoiu, Georgiana-Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)

    This thesis sheds light on the factors that stimulate entrepreneurship within companies, both at the organizational level, by analyzing corporate entrepreneurship (CE), and at the employee level, by studying the entrepreneurial ...

    The implications of FinTech for traditional banking and regional economic development in China 

    Wu, Minzhi (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)

    Over the past decade, the emergence of FinTech has reshaped the landscape of the financial sector worldwide. Although there are several alternative approaches to defining FinTech, a worldwide and generally accepted definition, ...

    What drives the tax compliance attitude of individuals? The role of social ties, welfare state and environmental concern in tax morale 

    Cascavilla, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)

    The present thesis aims to provide new empirical evidence on how the tax compliance attitude of individuals could be shaped by three factors: the social capital, the intergenerational labour mobility, and the individual ...

    Gender differences in social preferences: experimental evidence 

    Doñate-Buendía, Anabel (Date of defense: 2023-06-05)

    This thesis sheds light on the relevance of gender differences that are consistently found on economic experiments under diverse contexts. Gender (here understood as biological sex) is a crucial element determining ...

    Economacy Strategies for Countries with Crises 

    Sawayfa, Khalil Abdalaziz Khalil (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)

    As part of this thesis, a conceptual and analytic framework for understanding economic diplomacy is presented, so that its missions, tools, and activities are better understood. Economic diplomacy can be conceptually ...

    The logic of markets: From Micro to Macro Dynamics 

    Caferra, Rocco (Date of defense: 2022-03-21)

    This thesis proposes a series of experimental and empirical works considering traders from "isolate atoms" to heterogeneous "interacting particles" operating into the marketplace. Part I discusses the risk propensity of ...

    Análisis de la influencia del Country of Origin en el comportamiento del consumidor del sector calzado español 

    Casado Cárdenas, Raquel (Date of defense: 2023-02-15)

    Este proyecto pretende profundizar en el grado de implicación del constructo COO en su relación con el consumidor del sector calzado español. En este sentido, parece que el contexto socioeconómico, político y cultural ...

    Un análisis de la evaluación SQAS en el transporte de mercancías peligrosas por carretera: motivaciones, interiorización, prácticas de responsabilidad social y resultados. 

    Torres-Rubira, Juan-Luis (Date of defense: 2022-12-22)

    En este trabajo se pretende analizar la validez de la evaluación SQAS (Safety and Quality Assessment for Sustainability) como herramienta de responsabilidad social (RS). Por una parte, un análisis comparativo basado en la ...

    The Employers' responsibility towards employees in group healt insurance plans in Israel: analysis of the perception of the insurance companies, the employers and employees 

    Luttinger, Shlomi (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)

    This comprehensive study uses mixed methods research. The study reveals how each of the “participants” in group health insurance arrangements interpret the term “faith and diligence” and how they perceive an employer’s ...

    Expanding on the debate around the performance of SRI Funds 

    Martínez Meyers, Susana (Date of defense: 2022-11-30)

    With the growth of SRI funds concerns on doubts about their relative performance have increased. In our systematic literature review, we conclude that the vast majority (67%) of the empirical studies show no difference in ...

    The analysis of location in a science an technology park on sustainability performance through knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity 

    Fernández-Yáñez, José María (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)

    Sustainability performance requires reconciling an economic return with a reduction of business impact on the environment and ensuring social well-being. To improve sustainability performance, knowledge is a fundamental ...

    Organizational ambidexterity: Antecedents and Consequences 

    García Joerger, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2022-10-28)

    Any organization requires the development of a capability, which has come to be known as organizational ambidexterity, allowing organizations to harmoniously balance and develop activities aimed at exploiting existing ...

    Outward FDI determinants in large N and T panels under model uncertainty: the case of Japan and the US 

    Moliner Clemente, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-07-25)

    Traditionally, the main investor countries at a worldwide level have been Japan, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). This Dissertation focuses on the cases of Japan and the US as investors, and the EU as ...

    Attachment Styles Associations with Long-Term Relationships Mediated by Brand Loyalty in the Israeli Mobile Market 

    Frydman, Smadar (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)

    Purpose: The main objective of the thesis is to use attachment styles theory to explore long-term relationships in a service context, using the Israeli mobile market as a case study. Theoretical framework: Attachment theory ...

    Business Cycle Fluctuations and Granular Behavior: an Empirical Analysis vs. the Agent-Based Approach 

    Blanco Arroyo, Omar (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)

    This thesis aims to quantify the granular size of an economy, i.e., the number of granular firms. Empirically, we find that the contribution of idiosyncratic shocks to gross domestic product (GDP) fluctuations is attributed ...

    El proceso de implementación de la gestión de los recursos humanos: actores y factores determinantes de su eficacia 

    Salvador Gómez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)

    La implementación de las prácticas de RRHH media la relación GRH-desempeño organizativo. A pesar de su relevancia organizativa, el conocimiento sobre este proceso todavía es limitado, evidenciándose una falta de consenso ...