Las intervenciones publicas realizadas con la finalidad de fomentar el desarrollo de las zonas rurales pueden justificarse por la necesidad de corregir los desequilibrios regionales y asegurar unas condiciones de vida similares a las de los ambitos urbanos. Entre las medidas aplicadas,...

The present paper aims to explore the field of adult education and competence development in university settings. An ICT-based tool was used to assess three successive target groups of professionals considered adult students. Our results have a research and practical series of implications....

Given the increasing interest worldwide in the growth of new technology-based companies, the aim of the present paper is to contribute to the future design of patent commercialization and spin-off creation units on behalf of university authorities and national or regional innovation agencies....

This article contributes to the understanding of why some management experiences of non-family CEOs (NF-CEOs) in privately-owned family firms (POFFs) are successful while others are not. It uses the flexible pattern matching technique to examine seven case studies of POFFs with different...

Despite the recent concern about social, environmental and economic perspectives of sustainability, the issue is relatively under-researched and very little is known about the drivers of sustainability. There is no doubt that innovation is one of those drivers. The aim of the present article is...

The industrial district is a model of production mainly related to medium and small cities characterized by industrial specializations in small and medium enterprises. However, the mapping of the phenomenon in countries as Italy and Spain suggest that industrial districts are also present in...

Usually, immigrants have been studied as employed work force. However, they often choose to become entrepreneurs. According to the relevant literature, there are evidences that immigrants are more entrepreneurially active than local inhabitants. However, results from the Global Entrepreneurship...

Purpose: This study analyzes work safety perceptions among workers and safety experts in the construction industry. Furthermore, we evaluate whether experiential learning (i.e., labor experience) and knowledge-enhancing practices, that we link to safety training, explain the differences in work...