Articles publicats (D-OGEDP)http://hdl.handle.net/10256/15542024-03-29T12:31:14Z2024-03-29T12:31:14ZFamily firms' survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensityFreixanet, JoanRenart i Vicens, GemmaMarquès i Gou, Pilarhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/246192024-03-19T07:15:23Z2024-01-05T00:00:00ZFamily firms' survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity
Freixanet, Joan; Renart i Vicens, Gemma; Marquès i Gou, Pilar
This study examines the key topic of SME survival during an economic downturn by focusing on the role of family governance. We argue that family SMEs typically show higher levels of organizational inertia that may particularly harm their performance during an environmental jolt, while other idiosyncrasies, including greater survivability capital and owners' transgenerational sustainability intentions, enhance their odds of survival. However, we also contend that family firms are a heterogeneous group, and draw attention to the level of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity as factors likely to enhance these firms' survival. Conversely, we posit that family businesses with lower ownership concentration will benefit more from high collaborative intensity, thus suggesting the need to examine the joint survival effects of these two factors. We perform Cox survival analyses on a sample of 259 SMEs tracked from 2005 to 2019. The results offer important implications for scholars, managers, and policymakers
2024-01-05T00:00:00ZLas propuestas de Grado en Turismo en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES)Majó, Joaquimhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/244512024-02-12T08:53:04Z2010-04-01T00:00:00ZLas propuestas de Grado en Turismo en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES)
Majó, Joaquim
Este artículo hace un breve recorrido por los estudios superiores de turismo para abordar su reconversión dentro del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. Para ello, después de analizar los principales componentes del titulo a extinguir, aborda los objetivos marcados por el llamado "plan Bolonia" que se complementan por las acciones desarrolladas en España para su implementación y como afectan a los estudios de turismo. Finalmente se explican brevemente las principales características del Libro Blanco de Grado en Turismo promovido por ANECA y que ha sido la base para la implementación de la mayoría de grados en España. Como ejemplo se citan las propuestas que han realizado cuatro destacadas universidades formación turística
2010-04-01T00:00:00ZConceptualizing justice tourism and the promise of posthumanismGuia, Jaumehttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/244142024-02-08T10:58:46Z2021-02-10T00:00:00ZConceptualizing justice tourism and the promise of posthumanism
Guia, Jaume
The past two decades of tourism research have seen a growing interest in the relationship between tourism and justice. Some of this attention has focused on the just or unjust outcomes of mainstream tourism, and how it could contribute more to justice. Other research has directed the attention to the justice outcomes of alternative forms of tourism, where their increased commodification and de-politicization has limited the potential justice benefits enormously. Yet, a clear conceptualization of justice tourism is still lacking, and its theoretical grounding is still too limited. This paper addresses these concerns and aims to clarify the concept of justice tourism and advance a conceptual framework where types of justice tourism and justice through tourism are systematically identified and classified. Moreover, from the proposed conceptual framework, posthumanism emerges as a promising ethical regime with which the commodification and depoliticization of justice tourism could be reversed, and its increasing co-optation by neoliberal capitalism curved. Posthumanism's affirmative ethics and political responsibility, along with its political forms of solidarity and advocacy, can become an effective mechanism for radical transformation and a crucial catalyst for justice in tourism and tourism research
2021-02-10T00:00:00ZPartnerships and the SDGs in a cross-border destination: the case of the Cerdanya ValleyFerrer Roca, NatàliaGuia, JaumeBlasco Franch, Danielhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/244112024-02-08T09:36:43Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZPartnerships and the SDGs in a cross-border destination: the case of the Cerdanya Valley
Ferrer Roca, Natàlia; Guia, Jaume; Blasco Franch, Daniel
This paper seeks to identify the potential that cross-border tourism partnerships may have for destination integration and how it may contribute to advancing SDG goals in these regions. It takes the cross-border Cerdanya Valley as a case study. Tourism development in this region initially evolved without much regard for SDGs, nor for cross-border destination integration. This started to change with the emergence of a community-led cross-border tourism partnership. However, despite the best intentions of those involved in the partnership, it ended in stagnation, and a business-led cross-border cluster ensued. The paper analyses these developments and modes of partnership to (i) identify the dimensions of cross-border destinations that either foster or hinder the contribution to SDGs and (ii) determine how different modalities of cross-border partnerships (SDG17) deal with these hindrances and opportunities for attaining SDGs. Over an eight-year period, data were collected through interviews with the main stakeholders, including tourism entrepreneurs and representatives of communities and local governments, as well as through participant-observation. Results show that areas of concern for partnerships willing to integrate cross-border destinations that contribute to SDGs include the size and peripherality of the region, cross-border complementarities, uneven development, institutional similarities/dissimilarities and methodological nationalism
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