Francisco Xavier Martínez Cobas- PhD
- Professor at University of Vigo
Francisco Xavier Martínez Cobas
- PhD
- Professor at University of Vigo
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Introduction
Francisco Xavier Martínez Cobas currently works at the Department of Financial Economics and Accountancy, University of Vigo.
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March 2002 - present
July 2007 - present
Fundación Isla Couto - IGESCO
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Publications (39)
Forest communities around the world are becoming increasingly involved in sustainable forest management and intellectual capital view can orient the outcome. This paper aims to identify the principal components of intellectual capital, in its three dimensions; human, structural and relational (internal and external) capital, and their relationships...
The Management of Local Knowledge in the Strategic Planning of Quito.
35 Pages Posted: 29 Nov 2023
Carlos M. Fernández-Jardón
University of Vigo - Departamento de Economia Aplicada
Klaus Gierhake
Universidad Giessen CRELA
Xavier Martinez Cobas
Universidade de Vigo
Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper
Date Written: October 31,...
The agenda of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) for 2030 has shifted attention from poverty to equality. Unlike poverty, which has declined, inequality has not significantly changed in the past twenty years. Hence, in the absence of a strong fiscal context in which profits are redistributed from governments to their local soci...
Emerging economies have specific characteristics that condition the use of intellectual capital. The economic crisis has had important consequences for emerging countries. The investments in intellectual capital could slow down this influence. This paper uses a new model for assessing the effects of an investment in intellectual capital on the perf...
Lokales Wissen ist Teil der immateriellen Vermögenswerte eines Gebietes. Diese auf dem Ansatz intellektuelles Kapital basierende Untersuchung will zeigen, wie immaterielle Vermögenswerte in einem Raum und den dortigen Institutionen Werte generieren, die wesentlich für die Einführung umfassender sozialer Innovationen sind. Damit wird ein Beitrag zur...
En este trabajo se analiza una cadena de valor transfronteriza en el área del río Miño. Para ello, se realiza una estimación del valor añadido bruto de la cadena de valor por municipios, para trabajar con magnitudes homogéneas. De esa forma, se puede comparar cómo es la generación de valor de cada territorio. A continuación, se analiza el nivel de...
Small businesses are vital in developing countries. Usually, the marketplaces in the most impoverished areas are subsistence marketplaces, and small businesses are frequently created as the only form of subsistence for the entrepreneur and their family. These businesses working in subsistence marketplaces have distinct marketing needs. These busine...
The COVID-19 crisis experienced since early 2020 has been the first time in decades that all the boundaries between European Union member-states have been systematically re-set. This paper examines the economic impact derived from re-establishing the boundary on a particular cross-border region located between Galicia (Spain) and Portugal. The pape...
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Subsistence markets are characterized by being composed of economic agents with low levels of education, marketing and management skills, and income. There are common in developing countries. Promote entrepreneurship in these markets is a strategy to reduce poverty, contributing to sustainable development goals. Small‐scale timber businesses (SSTB)...
This publication presents different expressions of social innovation grouped into diverse thematic sections and approaches which were applied in several cities and places in Latin America.
- Local knowledge. Within this topic the main actors in the field of local governments, civil society, and universities as well as the identification of strengt...
Intellectual capital is defined as the set of intangible assets that generate value for the company. Normally, the models that measure the intellectual capital make use of investments in intangible assets, as indicators of the generation of value by the company; or are based on a holistic measure, using another focus to validate. This research prop...
Los negocios de subsistencia son muy importantes en los países en vías de desarrollo y, en particular, en Ecuador. Estas empresas se desarrollan normalmente en mercados situados en el fondo de la pirámide. Su competitividad se basa en el capital relacional, esencialmente. El tipo de mercados, las características de estos negocios y la cultura local...
The paper analyzes the connection between technological knowledge and organizational culture in small subsistence businesses (SSBs). It uses data from a proportional representative sample of 980 surveys in the canton of La Maná (Cotopaxí, Ecuador) to test if culture conditions the different components of technological knowledge in SSBs. This work v...
This study analyses the mechanism through which dynamic capabilities affect performance in a group of Russian companies. It suggests a new method to measure indicators of dynamic capabilities with economic and financial data, using activity cost elasticity with respect to total cost in order to analyse the increase in investment in this activity ve...
RESUMEN
Los negocios de subsistencia son muy importantes en los países en vías de desarrollo y, en particular, en Ecuador. Estas empresas se desarrollan normalmente en mercados situados en el fondo de la pirámide. Su competitividad se basa en el capital relacional, esencialmente. El tipo de mercados, las características de estos negocios y la cultu...
In developing countries, the business environment is more uncertain, so normally, companies must continually seek new ways to compete, based on their innovation capability. This is especially necessary in small businesses that are created as a way of subsistence of the entrepreneur and their family (subsistence small businesses). The innovation of...
Purpose
Small-scale forestry-based enterprising communities are particularly associated with their territory and, therefore, are very conditioned by the local culture. This paper aims to explore the relationship between culture and competitiveness in small-scale Latin-American forestry-based enterprising communities.
Design/methodology/approach
Th...
The concept of leadership is complex and has been studied from multiple approaches, especially from the psychological field and from the field of management. Small businesses created as way of subsistence for the entrepreneur and their family present a limited leadership. The cultural traditions of the forestry industry are based on the culture and...
Recollemos nestas liñas o papel que ocupa Xaime Isla Couto en relación á Economía galega no século XX. Consideramos que a súa principal achega é a incorporación do pensamento económico e político da Europa de posguerra en Galicia. As canles para a influencia das súas ideas foron a dirección da Revista de Economía de Galicia, a Cátedra de Dereito e...
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la justificacion de la existencia de las Zonas Francas en España, tras la ultima reforma a nivel europeo (2001) y la autorizacion de la creacion de una nueva Zona Franca (1998) en nuestro pais. Para ello, y partiendo de la literatura economica existente, una vez realizado un breve repaso a la historia de las...
El objetivo de este trabajo es revisar la metodología aplicada en las estimaciones de renta familiar disponible en unidades territoriales. Se analizan las ventajas e inconvenientes de los diferentes sistemas empleados. Finalmente se propone un modelo de estimación que evita los principales defectos aquellos
El trabajo presenta el ahorro gallego y el uso que hace de éste el sistema financiero.
Después de un repaso por el pasado y por los cambios producidos hasta la situación actual, se
comentan las variables que afectarán a su evolución.
O traballo presenta o aforro galego e o uso que fai deste o sistema financeiro. Logo dun repaso polo pasado e polos cambios producidos ata a situación actual, coméntanse as variables que afectarán á súa evolución.
The objective of the present work consists of identifying aspects envisaged in the different legislations currently in force, in the national area as well as in the federal area, that they could affect the development of the economic-financial activity of the cooperatives. In this way, we use as work methodology the analysis of the legal rankings c...
One of the main problems of Mozambican small businesses is that they have some charac- teristics, which on one hand they need to survive, but on the other hand make it impossible or at least difficult for them to prosper and to grow. The first part of the paper gives a literature review about small business in Africa and in particular in Mozambique...
