Carlos Atienza-Sahuquillo

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Universidad de Castilla.La Mancha

In a context of economic crisis and strong competition between companies, managing information and knowledge seem to be key to the new productive model. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact that the intensity of a firm’s adoption of information and communications technologies (ICT) and industry attractiveness has on corporate performance....

En el contexto de la universidad emprendedora, el movimiento de la Junior Empresa nació como un complemento formativo para incrementar el espíritu emprendedor y mejorar la empleabilidad del alumno universitario de cualquier rama del conocimiento. Sin embargo, se observa que en el ámbito español ha tenido un éxito relativo, con una baja tasa de crea...

Partly due to the current crisis and its high unemployment rates, the labor market increasingly requires multidisciplinary engineers with additional skills to their own. Engineering education therefore faces new challenges and these include equipping engineers with greater entrepreneurship. Although entrepreneurship education has consequently been...

One effect of the economic crisis on the business world has been the drastic reduction in staff and this in turn highlights the need for self-employment and the creation of new companies to establish a solid industrial fabric to support the creation of wealth, employment and welfare. In this context, the aim of this research is to confirm a theoret...

Environmental sustainability in the winery sector is receiving increased attention from governments, environmental groups, and consumers. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the degree of proactivity of a firm’s environmental strategies and its business performance. The novelty of this research work lies in its definition o...

Purpose The main purpose of this research paper is to encourage entrepreneurship and creativity among primary school pupils than they acquire entrepreneurial skills through running a business. Design/methodology/approach A pilot experience has been structured into three large phases: 1) Analysis of the starting situation; 2) Production of the mate...

In light of recent environmental crises, companies are rethinking their relations with key stakeholders who live in the environments in which they operate. To meet the expectations of groups concerned about the environment, companies must adopt a responsible attitude for their surroundings to maintain sustainable development. Environmental monitori...

In light of recent environmental crises, companies are rethinking their relations with key stakeholders who live in the environments in which they operate. To meet the expectations of groups concerned about the environment, companies must adopt a responsible attitude for their surroundings to maintain sustainable development. Environmental monitori...

Background: Partly due to the current crisis and its high unemployment rates, the labor market increasingly requires multidisciplinary engineers with additional skills to their own. Engineering education therefore faces new challenges and these include equipping engineers with greater entrepreneurship. Although entrepreneurship education has conseq...

Newly created enterprises increase the dynamism of economies and generate employment. Thus, they are the object of growing research interest. Forming a new company represents a decision based on both personal and subjective motives, as well as on the environment. But regardless of the origin, a founder's motivation represents a commitment to a proj...

The starting point of the new conceptualization of regional economic development policy is that all territorial space has a number of resources --financial, human, institutional and cultural, susceptible to mobilization by local actors themselves, with the charge to create jobs and wealth (Barba and Atienza, 2011a, Coffey and Polese, 1984; Del Cast...

Newly created enterprises increase the dynamism of economies and generate employment. Thus, they are subject to significant recent research. Forming a new company represents a decision based on both personal and subjective motives, as much as on the environment. But regardless of the origin, a founder’s motivation represents a commitment to a proje...

En los últimos años las empresas se han replanteado las relaciones que mantienen con sus principales grupos de interés, aquellos que conforman los entornos en los que desarrollan sus actividades. Así, para satisfacer las expectativas de los grupos preocupados por el medio ambiente, cada vez más numerosos, las empresas empiezan a adoptar prácticas d...

En épocas de crisis como la actua, la dimensión de la creación de empresas como generadora de empleo y de riqueza se revaloriza, centrando el interés académico, institucional y social.

In an environment characterized by a global, dynamic and increasingly more competitive economy, businesses must identify advantages which enable them to achieve higher profits than their competitors. As such, the integration of an environmental variable in business strategy is being promoted as a potential source of competitive advantages. Most of...