Consolación Adame-Sánchez

University of Valencia | UV · Departamento de Dirección de Empresas. Juan José Renau Piqueras

The purpose of this article is to enhance scholars' understanding of work-life balance (WLB) policies in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The study explores whether SMEs display a common pattern of behavior when implementing WLB policies. The benefits of implementing WLB policies either improve conditions for the workers themselves or improve t...

Purpose This paper aims to perform a descriptive analysis of the current degree of development and application of work‐life balance policies in Spanish SMEs, examining the differences that arise due to ownership structure (family owned business versus non‐family owned business) and presenting an in‐depth analysis of the variables that influence man...

This study describes the locational factors that are most valuable and useful to immigrant entrepreneurs in the Bay Area, which is also referred to as Silicon Valley in this paper. Silicon Valley is the world’s leading entrepreneurial and technological ecosystem. As such, it attracts thousands of entrepreneurs with outstanding technical skills and...

This paper presents an individualized evaluation of the health costs and health risks of haze pollution by conduction channels and conduction strengths. Ordinal probit model and quantile regression are used to analyze data on individuals in Hangzhou, an environmental friendly city in China. The analyses yield four findings. First, in Hangzhou, haze...

An extensive literature provides evidence that conflict between employees’ family and work duties is associated with stress and poor well-being, which have negative consequences for firms and their employees. This paper analyzes the role of two internal and two external drivers that encourage (or discourage) organizations to adopt and implement wor...

Relationship marketing aims to generate long-term profitable relationships between partners. In the context of the convenience goods market, the present study considers private labels in traditional categories as a tool to develop effective relationships. The main contribution of the study is the use of the relationship approach to explain private...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedents that may determine the opening of e-mails from companies that endeavour to promote their products, and what may motivate individuals to forward such messages to others. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents exploratory research to approach the nature of the viral process...

Our main purpose is to analyse the evolution experienced by a local productive system based on SMEs specialising in a traditional food segment: the nougat sector. This local system has undergone a serious crisis in the last decade due to a variety of factors. The Xixona SMEs have failed to behave as a real local productive system, fully integrated...