Begoña Fuster

El objetivo del trabajo es conocer la situación actual del sector pesquero valenciano y su dinámica reciente, identificar las dificultades por las que atraviesa y sus necesidades al objeto de proponer estrategias que redunden en su mejora y, especialmente, en las empresas y trabajadores que se dedican al sector pesquero y de acuicultura en la Comun...

The aim of this paper is to deepen the analysis of services reshoring in the Spanish services sector, both as a whole and for its constituent elements, examining both intra- and inter-sectoral components. Likewise, it analyzes the impact of this strategy on employment in the services sector, also differentiating between broad reshoring, intra-secto...

Coinciding with the onset of the economic crisis in 2007, a reshoring process, consisting in the return to the home country of part or all of the activities previously offshored abroad can be observed in all advanced economies. This study aims to analyse for first time whether this strategy has affected the tourism sector. The results show that bet...

Reshoring of services emerged in advanced economies barely a decade ago. It has hardly been analysed and there are no academic studies on its possible effects. This study addresses two objectives: The measurement of the reshoring of services in Spain for 2008 to 2010; and its impact on employment. The results reveal that there is a percentage reduc...

This paper studies the offshoring of services and whether this phenomenon is linked to the international fragmentation of activities or to a shift in outsourcing to foreign rather than domestic suppliers. Analysis is performed using the National Accounting input-output tables of Spain’s National Institute for Statistics for the 2000-2007 period. Th...

Aim: To evaluate the level of efficiency of public acute hospitals situated in the region of Murcia (Spain). Materials & methods: Data from nine acute general hospitals of Murcia’s Health Service (SMS by its Spanish acronym) were analyzed over the 2012–2014 period. The data were extracted from the In-patient Health Establishment Statistics of the M...

This study analyzes for the first time for Spain the impact of the service offshoring on the employmentof the service sector•The data drawn from the Input-Output Tables of Spain’s National Accounts•The empirical analysis is carried out by estimating a labour demand function with constant elasticityof substitution (CES), with panel data methods•The...

Hightlights • This study analyzes for the first time for Spain the impact of the service offshoring on the employment of the service sector • The data drawn from the Input-Output Tables of Spain’s National Accounts • The empirical analysis is carried out by estimating a labour demand function with constant elasticity of substitution (CES), with pa...

The offshoring of services has steadily expanded in recent years and acquired growing importance in certain tourism subsectors. The present study analyses for the first time the offshoring indices and the trend seen in tourism services, based on input–output data (Spanish National Accounts) during the 2000–2007 expansive period. A distinction is ma...

Las páginas que aquí se presentan recogen los textos referidos a las ponencias de la primera edición del Simposyum Agroalimentario de la Vega Baja del Segura (SYA), que tuvo lugar los días 18 y 19 de noviembre de 2016, bajo el lema: sostenibilidad, cooperación y expansión. En dicho foro se reunieron en el Auditorio de la Lonja de Orihuela los grand...

This study evaluates the technical efficiency of the learning-teaching process in higher education using a three-stage procedure that offers advances in comparison to previous studies and improves the quality of the results. First, it utilizes a multiple stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with contextual variables. Second, the levels of super ef...

The growing importance of international competition is converting the tourism sector into a global industry, accelerating the formation of multinational tourism service providers. Tourism activities, made up of a series of companies of varying types, have been affected by the liberalisation of the services sector, particularly the deregulation of t...

Estrategias de internacionalización de grandes empresas turísticas españolas, fundamentalmente cadenas hoteleras: Un estudio de casos.

El crecimiento y expansión de las cadenas hoteleras ha llevado a que éstas sitúen su mirada en la internacionalización de sus actividades, desarrollando estrategias de inversión extranjera directa en diferentes países. En este trabajo se presentan los principales resultados de un estudio de casos de seis grupos turísticos vacacionales españoles imp...

This paper has been elaborated in order to evaluate the competitive strategies generated by the shoe making companies to face up to the growing competition from low cost countries. This research is focused on a case study of shoe making corporations located in the Spanish province of Alicante in order to answer the questions that follow: What strat...

Cálculo e interpretación de indicadores y variables habitualmente utilizados en el análisis de la desigualdad regional. Cálculo de series en números índices, representación gráfica y cálculo e interpretación de indicadores de dispersión. Cálculo e interpretación de convergencia sigma y beta. Diferencias en los niveles de desigualdad regional de los...

RESUMEN El propósito del trabajo es analizar el grado de internacionalización de la economía alicantina, que se manifiesta por la presencia de sus empresas en los mercados externos a través de diversas estrategias de entrada. Dicho proceso de internacionalización está siendo gradual. Tradicionalmente, la economía alicantina ha presentado una impor...

El sector exterior constituye uno de los sectores más dinámicos y significativos de la Comunidad Valenciana, caracterizándola como una economía abierta y fuertemente relacionada con el exterior. Esta característica se refleja básicamente en la vertiente exportadora, conformando ésta uno de los principales pilares del crecimiento económico valencian...

María del Enar Universidad de Alicante, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, 03690 Alicante PALABRAS CLAVE: Aprendizaje semi-presencial, red social, plataformas digitales RESUMEN Se describe la articulación de una red social de b-learning en el profesorado de la Universidad de Alicante, con el respaldo institucional de su Vicerrectorado de Tec...