Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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(English) Managing the development of workers in the organization, their well-being, health and performance, should not be questioned in a world that shows day by day that it is people who, with their humanity, creativity ...
The answer to the current changes that take place in our society implies new demands for our universities. What functions correspond to a University today? Training, research, professional training through professional ...
Globalization has irreversibly transformed our reality. However, firms must work to develop new ideas that mitigate the negative effects of globalization, take advantage of its opportunities and propose new forms to make ...
The increasing interest in the real estate investment has led to the emergence of new real estate investment vehicles, adding more complexity to the real estate market which increasingly resembles to financial markets. ...
The research work was based on an analysis of the film industry and its prospects in terms of distribution and exhibition. The film industry is based on three processes: production, distribution and screening. The work ...
This thesis studies diffusion phenomena in heterogeneous media, which includes Darcy flow and diffusive solute transport in geological media. Natural media are heterogeneous at different scales, which induces complexity ...
This thesis, entitled "Contributions to sequencing problems in JiT productive environments using heuristic, exact and hybrid procedures" consists of three publications that address the resolution of job sequencing problems ...
Day by day, the great companies are reduced to increase their competitiveness. After these reductions, the small enterprises have kept assuming a prominent role in the employment creation, opportunities of investment and ...
In this thesis a supply chain of the real world is studied through a simulation model, in order to analyze the dynamic aspects of this system under different inventory management policies. The chain is comprised of a main ...
TESIS DOCTORAL.<br/><br/>HIPÓTESIS DE PARTIDA Y OBJETIVOS DE LA TESIS.<br/><br/>La investigación parte de la hipótesis de que las grandes empresas con sede en Catalunya no realizan control de gestión económico (tanto de ...
Competitiveness and excellence heavily rely on the capacity of regions to innovate and transfer knowledge from academic institutions to society. In a scenario where these values acquire a growing importance, universities ...
Context: Over the last decades, the interest in personalization and, namely, web personalization has grown exponentially, both in industry and in academia. But still, while web personalization is already a standard ...
This doctoral thesis tackles an assembly line balancing problem with restricted access to the workpieces that has been entitled AWALBP: the Accessibility Windows Assembly Line Balancing Problem. The problem is described ...
The following research originates in the need to enhance the Generic Skills in the profile of graduate Engineers according to the needs of our current Society of Knowledge, considering that Engineering Education has not ...
Since 2007 the Mexican Govemment introduced the fight against poverty as a top priority in its agenda,thus increasing the amount of resources allocated to minimize this social condition. Nevertheless, poverty levels in ...
This Doctoral Thesis analyzes the "problem of the emotions" in the person, as entity organizacional and analyzes and realizes contributions concerning the constructs of Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Capital, Relational ...
Production systems based on lean philosophy have been gaining importance as a frequent and successful path to business improvement. Adopting a lean production system in the most appropriate way is a key decision given that ...
Context. The current industrial and corporate ecosystem is heavily conditioned both by the technological advances and by the existence of globalized and interconnected markets. Consequently, this makes it highly dynamic ...
La presente tesis aborda desde la perspectiva de la Nueva Geografía Económica un modelo de desarrollo local que incorpora la innovación tecnológica como su eje principal aunque no único. Por otra parte, con el fin de partir ...
Innovative behaviour is presented as a concept to analyse the employees¿ active participation. There is no agreement regarding the innovative behaviour definition, though it refers to an employee's intentional introduction ...
