Yakira Fernández-Torres- PhD in Economics
- Professor (Full) at University of Extremadura
Yakira Fernández-Torres
- PhD in Economics
- Professor (Full) at University of Extremadura
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Introduction
Yakira Fernández-Torres currently works at the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Extremadura. Yakira does research in Business Performance, Corporate Governance, Board Gender Diversity, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Banking Sector, Tourism, Institutional Economics, Entrepreneurial Economics.
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Language skills are fundamental for regions to strengthen and preserve their intangible cultural heritage and achieve economic growth. In the tourism sector, where people are the main factor of production, language training is essential so that all members of tourism companies, from managers to employees, can provide a good service. Therefore, anal...
The urgent need to tackle climate change has led scholars to study the factors that affect companies’ ability to achieve superior environmental performance. One such factor, the influence of women board members, has received considerable attention because of women’s greater tendency to care for the planet. However, to the best of the authors’ knowl...
An organisation's ability to exploit information and communication technologies (ICTs) depends on the ICT training of its employees, which is conditioned by the strategies implemented by managers. These business strategies may be influenced by the manager's gender. In this study, the manager's gender is used as a factor to determine the level of co...
This study examines whether gender diversity on the board of directors determines the performance of tourism firms in terms of their use of natural resources. A variable measuring environmental performance in response to the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is created for the first time. The creation of this variable represents t...
Purpose
This study aims to use a novel approach, focusing on the manager’s gender, to explore whether it acts as a differentiator in the following aspects of tourist accommodation companies in Extremadura (Spain): the level of information and communication technology (ICT) specialisation of employees, managers’ knowledge of ICTs and the social medi...
Ensuring a sustainable future by meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be achieved
without women’s empowerment and gender equality. This study aims to determine whether there are differences
between European banks in terms of their commitment to SDGs and the intensity of this commitment
depending on their board gender diversity. A...
As a key part of the fourth industrial revolution, technology companies have become the most valuable companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Surprisingly, however, these companies have been overlooked by studies of gender diversity in corporate governance even though their highly distinctive features may cause major differences i...
The tourism sector is a driver of economic development characterised by its environmental impact. It is a prevalent part of the 2030 Agenda, given its potential to help meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, board gender diversity is considered essential for companies to implement environmentally sustainable initiatives. H...
This study examines the degree of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the European banking sector in terms of commitment to the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also explores whether gender diversity on the board of directors can be used to differentiate between companies with different degrees of engagement with the SDGs....
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. Therefore, all segments of society must act together to stop the deterioration of the planet and the depletion of its resources. The business sector must play an active role in acting responsibly toward the environment. Given the importance of this issue, major efforts have bee...
Inland water tourism is put forward as a highly sustainable and attractive tourism product owing to its ability to generate economic development, raise awareness of respect for the environment, and contribute towards the diversification necessary to alleviate overexposure in coastal areas. For this reason, territories with sufficient expanses of wa...
Gender-related corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices are receiving increasing attention from all stakeholders, as the commitment to achieving equal opportunities for women has become a top priority. However, the reality is that women remain under-represented at the most senior corporate level, and there is a lack of knowledge about many o...
This work is an extension of the literature that studies the relationship between gender diversity in the managerial posts and business profitability. It aims to advance beyond the measurement of a possible direct relationship between both variables in financial entities, applying the institutional theory. In particular, it focus in the senior exec...
The aim of this paper is to provide an institutional explanation for the sharp volatility of economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, given its persistence over time and the dramatic consequences in terms of poverty for the region. The contribution is to conduct the first analysis of 28 countries during 2002-2010, using a static model of...
El sector financiero en general, y el bancario en particular, se han caracterizado habitualmente por ser innovadores en la incorporación de la tecnología a sus procesos y servicios. Sin embargo, por primera vez en su historia, la tecnología está originando modos de desintermediación financiera y de capacidad de aportación de servicios que nacen en...
El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una explicación institucional a la acentuada volatilidad del crecimiento económico de América Latina y el Caribe, dada su persistencia en el tiempo y las consecuencias dramáticas en términos de pobreza para la región. La aportación consiste en realizar el primer análisis para 28 países durante 2002-2010, media...
As a key part of the fourth industrial revolution, technology companies have become the most valuable companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Surprisingly, however, these companies have been overlooked by studies of gender diversity in corporate governance even though their highly distinctive features may cause major differences i...
As a key part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, technology companies have become the most valuable companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Surprisingly, however, these companies have been overlooked by studies of gender diversity in corporate governance, even though their highly distinctive features may cause major differences...
The question of gender in the decision-making bodies of business organisations is habitually inter-related with different facets within the scope of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance since all of these facets integrate the company’s not purely economic side. Starting from this social perspective, in the widest sense of the wo...
Este trabajo analiza cómo la configuración de una nueva sociedad digital está cambiando los modelos de relación entre las empresas y sus usuarios o consumidores, centrándose en el modelo de relación entre las cooperativas de crédito y sus socios y clientes. El desarrollo de la economía digital incide tanto en los procesos tecnológicos como en la fo...
This paper explores how corruption indirectly affects economic growth through business regulation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a relationship that has scarcely been addressed in the literature. Although regulation of the private sector explains GDP per capita, the effect is conditioned by the level of corruption. When the control of corrupti...
Si bien el talento directivo no es, o no debería ser, una cuestión vinculada al género, es notoria la menor representación que tienen las mujeres en los máximos órganos de gobierno de las compañías. Lograr una adecuada diversidad de género en los Consejos de Administración no constituye sólo un desafío en el plano de la ética, de la política y de l...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the degree of consensus in the
literature on the impact of institutions on economic growth, for which we differentiate between three dimensions: economic, political and social institutions. After a literature review from 1990 to today, as main conclusion we find that, generally,the revised authors find a positive...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the degree of consensus in the literature on the impact of institutions on economic growth, for which we differentiate between three dimensions: economic, political and social institutions. After a literature review from 1990 to today, as main conclusion we find that, generally, the revised authors find a positiv...
In 2015 sixty countries around the world participated in the GEM Project, 25 European, 14 American, 11 Asian, 9 African and Oceania 1. The average rate of entrepreneurial activity of all countries in the GEM has been of 13.3% to the same value as in the previous year. In Spain, the value of the TEA index stood at 5.7% compared to 5.5% in 2014, repr...
RESUMEN Esta investigación tiene su origen en el proceso de reordenación que ha acontecido en el sector bancario español. Dicha reestructuración se ha llevado a cabo para tratar de reducir las dudas sobre la viabilidad de las entidades bancarias a medio y largo plazo y así poder restituir de nuevo la confianza en el sector. Aunque la crisis económi...
Durante 2014 han participado en el Proyecto GEM sesenta y ocho países de todo el mundo, 27 europeos,
20 americanos, 14 asiáticos, 6 africanos y 1 de Oceanía. La tasa de actividad emprendedora media de todos
estos países en esta edición ha sido del 13,30%, aumentando sólo un 1,06% con respecto a la edición
pasada. En España, el valor del índice TEA...
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