In this paper we analyse the observed systematic differences in costs for teaching hospitals (TH henceforth) in Spain. Concern has been voiced regarding the existence of a bias in the financing of TH s has been raised once prospective budgets are in the arena for hospital finance, and claims for...

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...

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....

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...