Nuria Nevers Esteban Lloret

• University of Murcia

Purpose Higher education institutions (HEIs) offer courses and programmes focusing on sustainability in economics, as courses on sustainable development (SD), which examine the economic, social and environmental dimensions of SD. This paper aims to examine sustainability integration in economics degree programmes. Design/methodology/approach Throu...

This paper focuses on the analisys of entrepreneurship and disabled people. It is the main objective to identify the main obstacles to become an entrepreneur, particularly economic, fiscal and organizative barriers. It is used a case study methodology to analyse whether these types of obstacles are greater in the case of people with disabilities. T...

La población española involucrada en negocios que se encuentran en fases iniciales del proceso emprendedor vuelve a aumentar ligeramente en el último año, manteniendo así los niveles de participación por encima del umbral de seis personas emprendedoras en fase inicial por cada cien personas de la población adulta. De acuerdo con el indicador de ac...

Alicia Rubio Bañon, Nuria Esteban-Lloret and Antonio Aragón Sánchez report the results of an original comparative analysis. While it has been documented that social companies share the pursuit of revenue generation with commercial firms, but look as well to achieve goals such as positive social and environmental impact, little is still known about...

Employee training is one of the most studied human resource practices, as it is considered critical for organizational success. However, employee training and its impact on organizational performance have usually been studied from an economic-rational perspective, in terms of the economic and competitive advantages that companies can achieve by tra...

Women play an important role in entrepreneurship although feminine entrepreneurship is lower than masculine entrepreneurship. However, the distance between both entrepreneurship rates (male–female) varies across countries because of the influence of different roles and stereotypes on entrepreneurial behavior. In order to understand those difference...

Studies of the relationship between employee training and outcomes at the company level, in general, do not produce conclusive results. The objective of this paper is to analyze the drivers and outcomes of managers training. Drawing on institutional and economic-rational perspectives, this research explores the reasons why firms train their manager...

Employee training is one of the most important human resource practices to improve organizational competitiveness. But, what does firms really want when they train their employees? Are they looking for something else than became more efficient? Drawing on a sample of 374 large spanish firms, regression analysis showed that training enhanced not onl...

La formación de los empleados es una de las prácticas de recursos humanos más utilizadas por las empresas para mejorar su competitividad. La pregunta que nos hacemos en este trabajo es si las empresas buscan algo más que mejorar sus resultados y su competitividad cuando hacen formación. Veremos, con una muestra de 374 grandes empresas españolas, qu...

Los desafíos planteados por una economía cada vez más abierta y avanzada tecnológicamente, han favorecido que el estudio de la formación de los empleados de cara a la mejora de la competitividad sea uno de los aspectos de la gestión de los recursos humanos al que se presta más atención. Sin embargo, a pesar de los muchos trabajos que han analizado...