Does it pay to be socially responsible? Evidence from Spanish retail banking sector

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of strategic competition in retail banking when some of the financial firms are non-profit organisations that invest in social activities. Banking literature about competition is fairly large, but the strategic interaction between profit maximizing and non profit maximizers has not been extensively analysed except for Purroy and Salas (1999). In this paper, a completely different approach is taken. An adaptation of Hotelling’s two stage model of spatial competition is developed to take into account consumer perceptions respect to the two different types of financial institutions. The empirical analysis confirms that consumers take into account other features different from the price, such as social contribution or closer service to make a deposit or mortgage decision. These conclusions are of interest in the debate about a firm’s social or ethical activities. It is shown that if consumers value social activities, firms can improve their results by behaving socially responsible.Strategic competition; Hotelling´s model; Spanish banking; Corporate social responsibility

El virreinato del arzobispo de Valencia Fray Pedro de Urbina (1650-1652)

El presente artículo analiza el virreinato del arzobispo de Valencia fray Pedro de Urbina, comprendido entre 1650 y 1652 y marcado por el bandolerismo endémico que asolaba el reino; las repercusiones de la guerra de Cataluña en el territorio regnícola; la crisis política del cap i casal; y el pulso sostenido por canónigos y pavordes en el seno de la catedral a resultas de las preeminencias reclamadas por unos y otros. (A

Breu història dels episcopologis valencians

Resum: El present article s’ocupa de la història dels episcopologis valentins, o el que és el mateix, dels catàlegs o séries de bisbes de l’Església de València, des de mitjans del segle XV i fins a l’actualitat, conservats els uns, perduts els altres i inèdits la seua major part. També se n’analitza el contingut i l’autoria.Paraules clau: Episcopologi, Catàleg, Bisbes, València, EsglésiaAbstract: The present article deals with the history of the valentins episcopology, or which is the same thing, the catalogues or series of bishops of the Church of Valencia, from middle of the 15th century and up to the present, preserved some of them, lost other ones, and mostly unpublished.Also the content and the authorship are analyzed.Keywords: Episcopology, Catalog, Bishop, Valencia, Churc

Benjamín Oltra, José Ignacio Garrigós, Alejandro Mantecón y Christian Oltra Algado. Sociedad, vida y teoría. La Teoría Sociológica desde una perspectiva de sociología narrativa. Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), 2004

Reseña de la obra "Sociedad, vida y teoría. La Teoría Sociológica desde una perspectiva de sociología narrativa". Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), 2004

Vergel de perfectísimas flores. Las dominicas valencianas de Carcaixent según fray José Agramunt

Resumen: El presente trabajo pretende rescatar del olvido una de los conventos dominicanos más desconocidos del ámbito valenciano. En concreto, el de Corpus Christi de la localidad de Carcaixent, en la ribera del rio Xúquer. Fundación tardobarroca ésta, erigida en 1654, objeto ya en el siglo XVIII del interés histórico de uno de sus primeros confesores. Hablamos de fray José Agramunt, autor del inédito Parayso de Dios. Idea del religiosíssimo monasterio de señoras dominicas de la real villa de Carcaxente, analizado en las siguientes páginas en el marco de la vida y producción literaria del citado religioso. Palabras clave: Orden de Predicadores, Monjas,  Siglos XVII y XVIII, Valencia  Abstract: In this present work, we aim to recover one of the forgotten dominican convents from Valencia. More specifically, the convent of the Corpus Christi located in Carcaixent, on the banks of the River Xúquer. This late Baroque convent was built in 1654. By the eighteenth century, one of his confessors had already made clear its historical interest. We are referring to fray José Agramunt, the author of the unpublished work, Parayso de Dios: Idea del Religiosíssimo Monasterio de Señoras Dominicas de la Real Villa de Carcaxente, analysis in the following pages the life and literal works of the aforementioned religious.   Keywords: Order of Preachers, Nuns, 17th and 18th centuries, Valenci

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Disorders in the Franciscan Province of Valencia towards the end of the 17th century

El presente artículo analiza la inestabilidad padecida a finales del siglo XVII por la Provincia franciscana observante de Valencia. La gravedad de la situación retrotrajo a los hijos de san Francisco a tumultuosos tiempos pasados, ante la mirada cómplice de las autoridades superiores de la orden. El recurso a la nunciatura complicaría todavía más este conflicto, enfrentando a la jurisdicción eclesiástica con la lugartenencia general del reino mientras el conflicto se extendía a los seglares y amenazaba seriamente el orden del territorio. Sería al final la corona, con la concurrencia de la Santa Sede y mediante el enarbolamiento de sus regalías sobre la Iglesia, quien atajara la crisis.The present article analyses the instability the Franciscan province of Valencia suffered at the end of the 17th century. The seriousness of the circumstances took the followers of saint Francisco back to uproarious past times, with the connivance of the order’s higher authorities. The appeal lodged by the nunciature made this conflict even more complicated and confronted the ecclesiastic jurisdiction with the general vice regency of the reign while the conflict spread over to the laity and seriously menaced the order of the territory. Eventually the crown put an end to the crisis through the concurrence of the Vatican and hoisting its royalties over the Church

Assessment of University External Internships. Towards a Mixed Model for Measuring the Acquisition of Skills and the Satisfaction of Parties Involved

The continuous improvement of management and assessment processes for curricular external internships has led a group of university teachers specialised in this area to develop a mixed model of measurement that combines the verification of skill acquisition by those students choosing external internships with the satisfaction of the parties involved in that process. They included academics, educational tutors of companies and organisations and administration and services personnel in the latter category. The experience, developed within University of Alicante, has been carried out in the degrees of Business Administration and Management, Business Studies, Economics, Advertising and Public Relations, Sociology and Social Work, all part of the Faculty of Economics and Business. By designing and managing closed standardised interviews and other research tools, validated outside the centre, a system of continuous improvement and quality assurance has been created, clearly contributing to the gradual increase in the number of students with internships in this Faculty, as well as to the improvement in satisfaction, efficiency and efficacy indicators at a global level. As this experience of educational innovation has shown, the acquisition of curricular knowledge, skills, abilities and competences by the students is directly correlated with the satisfaction of those parties involved in a process that takes the student beyond the physical borders of a university campus. Ensuring the latter is a task made easier by the implementation of a mixed assessment method, combining continuous and final assessment, and characterised by its rigorousness and simple management. This report presents that model, subject in turn to a persistent and continuous control, a model all parties involved in the external internships are taking part of. Its short-term results imply an increase, estimated at 15% for the last course, in the number of students choosing curricular internships and, for the medium and long-term, a major interweaving between the academic world and its social and productive environment, both in the business and institutional areas. The potentiality of this assessment model does not lie only in the quality of its measurement tools, but also in the effects from its use in the various groups and in the actions that are carried out as a result of its implementation and which, without any doubt and as it is shown below, are the real guarantee of a continuous improvement

El confesor fray Luis Aliaga y la expulsión de los moriscos

This paper analyzes the intervention of Philip III confessor father Luis Aliaga in the expulsion of the moriscos. For it some crucial aspects are studied in the history of this episode, which great debates provoked in the court. Among the most important, the fate of children, the distinction between ancient and modem moors, Murcia case or the possibility of a second exile to the new Christians of the Kingdom of Valencia, all with an active religious participation.El presente trabajo analiza la intervención del confesor de Felipe III fray Luis Aliaga en la expulsión de los moriscos, a partir del estudio de algunos aspectos cruciales para la historia de este episodio en torno a los cuales se suscitaron toda suerte de debates en la corte. Entre los más sonados, el destino de los niños, la distinción entre moriscos antiguos y modernos, el caso murciano o la posibilidad de un segundo destierro para los cristianos nuevos del Reino de Valencia, todos ellos con una activa participación del religioso