Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation at EU level to be implemented in 2018 will represent a history achievement data time when the Europe is laying the foundations of a single digital market. In the context of ...
Peru and its neighbors Chile and Colombia, have in common that have been and are exporters of commodities, besides economic strategies have pursued the same trend but at different times and for different reasons, since the ...
This thesis addresses the Ecuadorian cacao value chain through three interrelated chapters. Small producers linked to this chain face significant trade-offs between the two main available varieties for planting: the fine ...
The paper studies the behavior of the household savings rate in the period 1985 to 2016. It examines the variables that the literature considers determine the long-term savings rate of households: income, wealth, unemployment, ...
Virtually the entire scientific, political, business, and social community is aware of the importance of climate change. Countries adhering to the Kyoto Protocol have taken up the challenge of reducing carbon emission, ...
The ever-changing conditions of the environment demand systems able to manage flexible and operative human resources, adapted to the requirements of the organizations, since the actual outlines of competitiveness demand ...
This thesis aims to identify other alternatives to evaluate the Development Plans and Territorial Planning (PDOT), since traditionally the system of evaluation of the municipalities is only to measure if the objectives, ...
The general objective of this thesis is to improve the quality of a certain Sustainability Objectives (OS) and Material Flows Indicators (IFM) to propose a set of Sustainability Indicators for the Sustainable Planning of ...
This paper studies the profitability of office buildings, associating urban and environmental attractions in the context of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. ...
La Educación Superior constituye un imperativo estratégico para los países, impactando a la sociedad como un todo, siendo la formación de capital humano avanzado uno de los factores que permite un mayor bienestar de las ...
La tesis doctoral que se desarrolla a continuación se centra en la réplica de negocio que, en contextos de pobreza, crean valor para la sociedad (en términos de reducción de pobreza) y la empresa. La incorporación de las ...
lnnovation management has different approaches for implementation. depending on the type of company and industry in which it is applied. In spite of existing organizational models for innovation management in companies and ...
This research investigates the qualitative effects of foreign direct investments of the clothing industry in a developing country like Albania. The clothing industry is often regarded as the first step of industrialization ...
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in the study of production systems as a whole, over organizations as particular units, especially the analysis of organizational networks and the configurations they ...
Introducción. Los países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) comparados con los países de la OCDE presentan un rezago notable en el crecimiento socio económico y el desarrollo sustentable. Las publicaciones de UNESCO, ...
El constante crecimiento de la urbanización de las ciudades hace necesaria una continua expansión de los servicios públicos municipales hacia las zonas recién urbanizadas. El coste del mantenimiento de las infraestructuras ...
Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing due to the current ...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability of health goals – ...
El peso creciente que la actividad del sector servicios está adquiriendo dentro de la economía ha repercutido en un mayor interés por conocer las organizaciones suministradoras de servicios.<br/><br/>Uno de los temas ...
Electricity market analysis is important to access strategic market information which can be further employed to pass energy policies. Due to the advantages of privatization, the Iranian government has taken certain ...
