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AUTHOR
Manuel Rico
Successful turnarounds in bankrupt firms? Assessing retrenchment in the most severe form of crisis
During economic downturns, firms file for bankruptcy in an effort to attempt a “turnaround.” The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of retrenchment strategies in the context of bankruptcy, as the most severe form of crisis. We conducted a longitudinal analysis of a sample of 868 bankrupt Spanish firms during the period 2004–2017. The empirical results show that stakeholder support and deep cost retrenchment increase the likelihood of survival and performance recovery, while aggressive layoffs are detrimental for turning bankrupt firms around. Surprisingly, intense asset retrenchment had no significant effects on firm survival and also pushed performance downward. The fi…
El Mètode Ballester d'Aprenentatge
A la pràctica docent, no només convé tenir coneixement de la ciència específica, sinó també de l'evolució de la psicologia educativa, és a dir, de com aprenen els estudiants. La investigació en psicologia educativa més recent, i més rellevant des del punt de vista en què ens situem nosaltres, és la del constructivisme, iniciada a partir del psicòleg bielorús Lev Semionovitch Vigotski.
Regional Disparities and Spatial Dependence of Bankruptcy in Spain
Firm survival, bankruptcy, and turnaround are of great interest nowadays. Bankruptcy is the ultimate resource for a company to survive when it is affected by a severe decline. Thus, determinants of firm turnaround and survival in the context of bankruptcy are of interest to researchers, managers, and policy-makers. Prior turnaround literature has broadly studied firm-specific factors for turnaround success. However, location-specific factors remain relatively unstudied despite their increasing relevance. Thus, this paper aims to evaluate the existence of spatial dependence on the outcome of the bankruptcy procedure. Economic geography and business literature suggest that location matters an…
Insights into the determinants of ��-sheet stability: 1H and 13C���NMR conformational investigation of three-stranded antiparallel ��-sheet-forming peptides
In a previous study we designed a 20-residue peptide able to adopt a significant population of a three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet in aqueous solution (de Alba et al. [1999]Protein Sci.8, 854-865). In order to better understand the factors contributing to beta-sheet folding and stability we designed and prepared nine variants of the parent peptide by substituting residues at selected positions in its strands. The ability of these peptides to form the target motif was assessed on the basis of NMR parameters, in particular NOE data and 13Calpha conformational shifts. The populations of the target beta-sheet motif were lower in the variants than in the parent peptide. Comparative analysis…