Tourism persistence in Spain: National versus international visitors.

In this article, we examine the statistical properties of the time series corresponding to the number of national and international visitors in Spain using fractional integration. This methodology allows us to examine the degree of persistence of the series, and thus, infer some conclusions about the nature of the shocks. According to the results reported in this work, seasonality matters in both cases, being more important in international tourism. Moreover, we observe significant differences in the degree of persistence between national and international tourism. Although both series seem to be mean reverting, with shocks having a transitory nature, higher orders of integration are observed in the case of the international arrivals.pre-print230 K

As old as history: Family-controlled business groups in transport services: the case of SEUR

This article presents empirical evidence about the contribution of family-controlled business groups as highly efficient alternatives to the large vertically integrated and professionally managed corporation in specific institutional and market environments. This hypothesis is tested with a single case study, SEUR, in the Spanish transport services sector. SEUR is one of the most prominent Spanish courier companies. It was founded during Franco’s dictatorship, expanded in democratic times, and imaginatively adapted to the financial challenges of the late globalisation at the end of the twentieth century, while maintaining the traditional values based on personal trust and family ties

100 Families that Changed the World: Family Businesses and Industrialization

This book gathers together the stories of 100 companies organized by country and; within each section; by seniority.1; The epilogue outlines some of the reflections that arise from reading these stories as suggested in this introduction. The actual novelty is; however; that what the reader will find in these pages are the very lessons on how said 100 companies managed to survive for more than a century.; We hope that many of these “lessons from history” are applicable to our readers’ businesses in the present day.; Students at business schools are considered to be a key component of their own individual training process; which is developed through discussion via the case method. Likewise; we have considered our readers to be a key component in the learning opportunities offered by these 100 stories.; While in most books written by academics the authors offer their conclusions systematically and defend them with examples; our aim is; rather; the opposite: to present the 100 company histories; brimming with wisdom on their own; and allow readers to draw their own conclusions

Deciphering the stack, a novel bacterial structure, by (cryo-) transmission electron microscopy and (cryo-) electron tomography

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At the crossroads. Management and business history in entrepreneurship research

Recent calls for a historic turn in organization studies offer the opportunity to relaunch dialogue between management and business history research. Focusing on the specific domain of entrepreneurship research, this article illustrates the potential of mutual contributions from management and business history. In doing so, it highlights how historical approaches strongly influenced the early theoretical developments within entrepreneurship and demonstrates the potential to contribute to future scholarly debates. In sum, this article brings closer together business history and management studies stressing that their different perspectives and approaches are very valuable to enriching entrepreneurship research

Is Spain Different? Innovation systems in the long-term development of the tourism sector. The IBEROSTAR case study.

Tourism is a highly competitive sector which is characterized by permanent transformation. Therefore, tourism firms depend largely on innovation to adapt themselves and compete, ensuring their survival and competitiveness. Despite research on innovation concludes that tourism firms are in most cases only moderately innovative, there are outstanding exceptions in specific fields and destinies. Spain, which is an unquestionable leader in tourism, constitutes one of them. In fact, Spanish tourism firms have shown a strong innovation capacity. They have improved and diversified their products thus meeting the requirements of a changing demand. This raises the need to properly understand how and why innovation takes place and who is involved in such a process. This paper aims to address these questions through the case study of one of the largest Spanish hospitality firms. The long history of Iberostar Group confirms that family firms and the networks they provide, along with environments that foster competition as was the case of the Spanish tourism industry, are important determinants of innovation particularly in a late-developed country

David y Goliat. La industria cerillera española en perspectiva internacional (1892-1956)

Este trabajo estudia la evolución del sector fosforero español, desde sus orígenes hasta 1956, fecha en que el monopolio estatal sobre la fabricación y venta de cerillas fue clausurado. Este monopolio estuvo arrendado durante más de treinta años a una empresa familiar, la Compañía Arrendataria de Fósforos, integrante de un holding empresarial nacido en los años veinte: el Grupo Fierro. Su temprana internacionalización se apoyó en la creación de unas redes empresariales muy valiosas en la España de la autarquía. En la década de 1950 contaba con empresas fosforeras en Portugal, Marruecos y varios países iberoamericanos como Cuba, Venezuela y Ecuador. Desde el punto de vista internacional, el sector ha funcionado como un perfecto cártel, dominado por un número reducido de gigantes industriales que experimentaron un vital crecimiento basado en la integración horizontal y en múltiples acuerdos de colaboración para repartirse el mercado

Driving through change at speed. Opportunity conditions and entrepreneurial responses in the history of the express industry.

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The playful as a dimension of Corporal Education. The game of desire and pleasure

ABSTRACT: This article is a bid to move new roads, re-run of the concepts and ideas that are fun and we have indicated the path that so far we have apprehended, we have internalized as an option attitudinal human development as an opening through the enjoyment and pleasure. Modernity has shown its influence through its dualism, this being incisive in understanding and subjective concept formation with us today in this present and the fun has not escaped it, unlike blends into a speech multifaceted and rich in adjectives that denote integral and unique beings, but in the background, we can uncover through its stir, objectivity, a playful discourse operation turns out to be permeated modern discourse where cause and effect relationship becomes relevant to the extent that they continue to meet needs, absence, leading to the fun that is not seen as a process, but as states of being, allowing a glimpse of a fragmentation of it. Concepts such as the desire then from Deleuze, allow us to demonstrate in other ways, other perspectives, other ideas and other ways that the fun has not considered and this fact motivates us to “shake” a bit in that line, where fun has only embraced the positive and well - being of the human being as dominant factor in his theory.RESUMEN: Este artículo es una apuesta por transitar nuevos caminos, por recorrer conceptos e ideas de la lúdica, que existen y que nos han indicado la ruta que hasta el momento hemos aprehendido e interiorizado como opción actitudinal, como apertura del desarrollo humano mediante el goce y el placer. La modernidad ha hecho gala de su influencia a través de su dualismo, siendo éste incisivo en la comprensión y formación de los conceptos subjetivos que hoy nos acompañan en este presente, y la lúdica no ha escapado a ello; al contrario, se mimetiza en un discurso polifacético y rico en adjetivos que denotan seres integrales y singulares, pero en su trasfondo podemos develar una objetividad, una operatividad del discurso lúdico que resulta permeado por el discurso moderno, donde la relación causa efecto se hace relevante en la medida en que se sigan satisfaciendo necesidades, ausencias, lo que conlleva que la lúdica no sea vista como un proceso sino como estados del ser, lo que permite vislumbrar una fragmentación del mismo. Conceptos como el deseo, a partir de Deleuze, nos permiten evidenciar otras formas, otras perspectivas, otras ideas y otros caminos que la lúdica no ha considerado. Tal hecho nos motiva a "sacudirnos" un poco en esa línea recta, donde la lúdica solo ha abrazado los aspectos positivos y el bien-estar del ser humano, como factor preponderante en su teoría

El nuevo informe de auditoría: Análisis empírico y sectorial de las cuestiones clave de auditoría en entidades cotizadas.

En el contexto económico actual, la auditoría adquiere un papel fundamental en su labor de garantía de fiabilidad de la información financiera. Los recientes cambios normativos producidos en este campo han tenido un gran impacto, entre otras cuestiones, en la configuración y características del informe resultado de la auditoría. En este trabajo se analizan estos cambios, en primer lugar, desde una perspectiva teórica explicando en qué consiste el nuevo informe y las cuestiones o aspectos clave de auditoría; esto es, los riesgos más significativos detectados durante la misma, diferenciando entre Entidades de Interés Público y el resto de entidades. Posteriormente, estas novedades se cotejan con la perspectiva práctica resultante de analizar los informes de auditoría y cuestiones clave de las empresas cotizadas del IBEX 35 en 2018, extrayéndose de forma comparada las cuestiones más relevantes que han afectado a los distintos sectores durante el pasado ejercicio. Se hace finalmente una valoración de los resultados de la nueva regulación para el futuro de la auditoría y el desarrollo económico, evaluándose positivamente el hecho de que el nuevo informe aporta mayor transparencia, claridad, y adopta ante todo un enfoque integral del presente y futuro de la empresa, preocupándose por mejorar la información dirigida a los usuarios del mismo