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The Port and its Environment
2013
In times of increasing environmental awareness, the port-city relationship has gained a new meaning since ports have been seen as the origin of both negative and positive externalities affecting the public wellbeing. While the former are the result of port expansion, the latter are the result of transforming obsolete port areas into recreational facilities. Therefore, in order to support effective policy-making, in this research is emphasized the need of measuring these environmental externalities. Considering their non-market nature, the contingent valuation method is introduced as an economic tool capable of overcoming this obstacle. Thus, the cases of two ports in Spain, namely Valencia …
Comprehensive education boundaries and remedies on the edges of the Spanish educational system
2015
Throughout the history of education different conceptions have been developed about the role and the function that education has in society as a whole. Such conceptions have been constructed around different discourses that show underlying social conflicts. The different educational practices acquire their legitimacy through such discourses, which organize the action of the subjects participating in them. In the research works that have been developed from the University of Valencia over the period 1994 to 20141, discursive keys through which educators of comprehensive measures legitimate their action have been identified. In those analyses a notion of discourse as the structure of argumen…
Restructuring the defence industry and arms production in Russia
2000
AT THE BEGINNING OF 1997, after five years of failed reforms in the defence industry, there took place a substantial change in the administrative structure running this sector. The Ministry of Economic Affairs took over the restructuring of the defence industry and thereby defined a new way of tackling reforms in this industrial sector. Three elements stand out in the new approach: intersectorality, a predominance of civilian elements and a greater realism. This approach, therefore, represents a break with the idea in force up to that moment of the best way to tackle problems related to the defence industry, which was greatly conditioned by its Soviet heritage. Although two years later this…
Organizational Ethical Virtues of Innovativeness
2017
This study participates in the discussion of the ethical culture of organizations by deepening the knowledge and understanding of the meaning of organizational ethical virtues in organizational innovativeness. The aim in this study was to explore how an organization’s ethical culture and, more specifically, organization’s ethical virtues support organizational innovativeness. The ethical culture of an organization is defined as the virtuousness of an organization. Organizational innovativeness is conceptualized as an organization’s behavioral propensity to produce innovative products and services. The empirical data consisted of a total of 39 interviews from specialist organizations. Qualit…
Constructions of EU Europe and National EU Concepts – A Research Agenda
2012
In the last years, European identity has become a key issue for theory development as well as for quantitative and qualitative research in the social sciences (see the contributions of Westle and Datler et al. in this volume). Analysing European identity touches upon three related areas: 1) people identifying with Europe/the European Union (EU) and attributing meaning to it (individual/micro-level), 2) the aggregate effects of these individual orientations (macrolevel), and 3) the shared meanings people associate with Europe/the EU and identify with (macro-level).
Estrategias de aprendizaje en educación superior en un modelo curricular por competencias
2014
ResumenLas estrategias de aprendizaje utilizadas por los estudiantes afectan las metas de un modelo educativo; inciden en el tipo de aprendizaje que se pretende lograr. En el análisis sobre estas estrategias que utilizan los alumnos de las carreras de educación superior, cuyo modelo institucional está centrado en el estudiante con el enfoque por competencias, se encontró que la mitad de ellos se auxilian de tácticas acordes con este modelo como el ensayo, la elaboración, las metacognitivas, la autorreguladora, la autoevaluación y el apoyo afectivo; los demás combinan estrategias que conllevan a la memorización con las del aprendizaje significativo; las que menos utilizan son las de organiza…
“The famous aunt in America” or the meaning of transnational relationships revisited
2014
Research on transnationalism has provided several empirical studies that depict social structures beyond national borders. One enriching contribution to this vastly growing literature represents a ...
The impact of multinational banking on domestic banking
2006
Post-Keynesians have made endogenous money a central argument in their theory of output. Indeed, production cannot be undertaken if access to finance, usually meaning bank credit, does not exist. Such access is needed if wages are to be paid, and inputs of production purchased. In a monetary economy, therefore, money is created at the demand of borrowers, supplied by banks.
Participer pour rendre le travail possible. Les staffs en unités de soins palliatifs
2018
Répondant à un mandat médical particulier — soigner sans guérir —, les professionnels de soins palliatifs font d’une partie du « sale boulot » hospitalier leur cœur de métier. Dans l’incapacité d’y faire face seuls mais aussi pour lutter contre la souffrance au travail, les médecins attendent des personnels paramédicaux qu’ils participent à l’élaboration du soin à travers des réunions pluridisciplinaires nommées « staff ». Cette participation modifie la division du travail habituellement en vigueur à l’hôpital, et entraîne des « charges de la participation » supplémentaires pour les paramédicaux. Mais dans le même temps, les staffs permettent aux paramédicaux de s’approprier les cadres cult…
Startup Trust Model: The Role of Trust in Successful Software Startup
2017
the increasing desire by many for a better world and easier living conditions have contributed to various efforts to the frontiers of innovation in information technology (IT). The ensuing phenomena is the launch of many software startups to give meaning to such innovations in IT. Interestingly, the rate at which many of such startups fail is usually higher than expected. A collaborative effort by actors in IT innovation ecosystem has been posited to lead to a successful startup. However, there is the need for a trust model to ensure that the collaborative effort become meaningful. Through the lens of Morgan and Hunt's commitment trust theory, this study examines the antecedents of trust am…