• openAccess   Using mixed research approaches to understand rural depopulation 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Budí Orduña, Vicente; García Álvarez-Coque, José María; Roig-Tierno, Norat Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2019)
      There is a growing consensus on the need to propose specific policies to face rural depopulation. This article applies fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to define the presence or absence in each municipality ...
    • openAccess   Centrality in networks of geographically proximate firms and competitive capabilities 

      Larrañeta, Bárbara; Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Herrero, Ines Elsevier (2019)
      We examine how a firm's centrality within a network of geographically proximate firms affects its competitive capabilities. Our study of the total population of one Spanish cluster of fishing firms shows that the effects ...
    • openAccess   Educación para el Desarrollo en los Programas Universitarios para Mayores (PUM) en España 

      Martínez Martínez, Miguel Ángel; Caballer Miedes, Antonio Universidad Loyola Andalucía (2019)
      En las últimas décadas, los Programas Universitarios para Mayores (PUM) han experimentado un importante desarrollo y crecimiento en España como respuesta a los cambios socio–demográficos acaecidos en nuestro país, en ...
    • openAccess   Transporte aéreo y turismo: un análisis para el mediterráneo español 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Artal-Tur, Andres; López Olivares, Diego Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (2019)
      El presente trabajo se centra en identificar los factores determinantes del transporte aéreo de pasajeros, con especial referencia al papel que juegan las variables turísticas en este contexto. Utilizando datos del tráfico ...
    • closedAccess   Spatial income and public capital: a case of a Spanish region 

      Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Cantavella, Manuel Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
    • closedAccess   A simplified model to assess vulnerable areas for urban regeneration 

      Ruá, María José; Huedo, Patricia; Civera, Vicente; Agost-Felip, Mª Raquel Elsevier (2019)
      The plethora of approaches to assess urban sustainability entails the challenge of selecting the most appropriate model. Theoretical models constitute a necessary and valuable starting point, but here we highlight the ...
    • openAccess   The importance of spatial effects in municipal debt 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Ivanova-Toneva, Mariya Asociación Española de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad, ASEPUC. Universidad de Murcia (2019)
      This article analyses the debt of local governments taking into account the presence of spatial interactions among neighbouring municipalities. To this end, the S2SLS and Spatial lag models were applied to a sample of ...
    • openAccess   Local government efficiency: determinants and spatial interdependence 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Brun-Martos, Maria Isabel; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      We analyse the determinants of local government efficiency taking into account the presence of spatial interactions among neighbouring municipalities. To do so, first we estimate an efficiency index using the robust order-m ...
    • openAccess   Which estimator to measure local governments’ costefficiency? The case of Spanish municipalities 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Petrovic, Marko; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Verlag (2019)
      WeanalyseoverallcostefficiencyinSpanishlocalgovernmentsduringthecrisisperiod(2008–2015). To this end, we first consider some of the most popular nonparametricmethods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment ...
    • openAccess   Risk-taking behavior, earnings quality, and bank performance: A profit frontier approach 

      García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Illueca, Manuel Elsevier (2019)
      After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, some bank performance dimensions have been the subject of debate, two of which are bank efficiency, and bank risk-taking behavior. The literature on bank efficiency and productivity ...
    • openAccess   Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ...
    • closedAccess   Evaluating local government performance in times of crisis 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      In recent years, Spanish local governments have come under increasing pressure to accommodate severe economic restrictions while maintaining their provision of local public services. We analyse overall cost efficiency in ...
    • openAccess   Emotional intelligence in nursing students 

      Giménez-Espert, María del Carmen; Pinazo, Daniel; Soto-Rubio, Ana Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora (2019-01-01)
      Emotional Intelligence (EI) stands as an essential element for establishing and maintaining quality interpersonal relationships and developing an adequate therapeutic relationship (Schutte, Malouff, Bobik, & Coston, 2001). ...
    • openAccess   Resource complementarities in R&D network for innovation performance: evidence from the agricultural sector in Brazil and Spain 

      Dias, Cleidson; Hoffmann, V. Emil; Martínez-Fernández, M. Teresa International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA ) (2019-03)
      This article deals with interorganizational networks for the development of technologies and innovation, the sharing of resources to generate competitive advantages, and the complementarity of resources within the context ...
    • openAccess   Energy Rehabilitation of Social Housing in Vulnerable Areas Case study: a 1950s Building in a Medium-sized Mediterranean City 

      Ruá, María José; Huedo, Patricia; Cabeza González, Manuel; Sáez Riquelme, Beatriz; Civera, Vicente Ierek Press (2019-03)
      In the urban context, buildings play a key role as they are energy consumers. In well-established cities with a high percentage of aged building stock, the focus should lie on sensitive urban areas where the weakest ...
    • openAccess   Ethical strategy focus and mutual fund management: Performance and persistence 

      Matallín Sáez, Juan Carlos; Soler-Dominguez, Amparo; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; de Mingo-López, Diego Víctor Elsevier (2019-03)
      The aim of this study is to analyze whether managers, practitioners and individual investors could obtain higher risk-adjusted returns by allocating their investments to funds that integrate specific levels of socially ...
    • closedAccess   Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry 

      Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Illueca, Manuel Springer (2019-05)
      The analysis of efficiency and productivity in banking has received a great deal of attention for almost three decades now.However, most of the existing literature to date has not explicitly accounted for risk when measuring ...
    • openAccess   Does active management add value? New evidence from a quantile regression approach 

      Matallín Sáez, Juan Carlos; Soler-Dominguez, Amparo; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor & Francis (2019-06)
      While it has long been recognised that active management is an important issue in the area of mutual fund performance, little consensus has been reached about the value managers’ abilities can add. This study examines ...
    • openAccess   La participación de las personas mayores en talleres y su efecto sobre la soledad 

      Esteve Grifo, Marina Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)
      Es importante valorar que la calidad de vida de una persona no solo está determinada por la salud física, sino también por la emocional. Existen evidencias del efecto que la soledad o el aislamiento social puede tener ...
    • openAccess   Perception of managers’ influence depending on status, power, and company performance 

      Agut, Sonia; Hernández Blasi, Carlos; Lozano Nomdedeu, Francisco Alejandro Wiley (2019-07-29)
      This research examines others’perception of the influence of managers working in successful or unsuccessful companies who possess or lack status (to berespected by others) and power (control of valued resources). Study 1 ...