La literatura señala el importante papel que los trabajadores juegan en los resultados de una empresa y que las prácticas de gestión de recursos humanos pueden tener un efecto positivo sobre el rendimiento organizativo. Aunque esta realidad se ha estudiado ampliamente a nivel de empresa...

Emaús Bilbao Cooperative Company is a social economy and solidarity organization for socio-labour insertion. It is dedicated to the comprehensive management of solid urban waste. It has its headquarters in Bilbao and carries out its work in Vizcaya. From 1970, the year in which Emaús...

This paper presents the main results of a study aimed at approaching the reality of both family and no family small and medium-size enterprises in La Rioja, as they represent an overwhelming majority in the region. Some key aspects linked to the management of human resources such as staff and...

This paper analyzes the human resources management in a familiar and entrepreneurial company, REDUR. Specifically, it is analyzed the characteristics and the main problems of the human resources area along the company’s cycle of life. Nowadays, REDUR is in the growth stage. The work shows that...

The efficiency and competitive capacity of firms depend besides other factors on the quality of the human capital which they have. Thus the objective of this work is to analyze the effect of the firm’s human capital in the decision to enter into the international markets like in the intensity...

In this paper, we explain and partially proof (with the analysis of some cases of Basque companies), that for the services companies, the quality and more especifically, the management of quality based on the principles of the philosophy of Total Quality Management, and gathered in models as...

Análisis desde la experiencia profesional de uno de los problemas a los que se enfrenta la empresa en general y la española en particular, la internacionalización.

The number of university spin offs in the Spanish University System have increased in the last years. However, these companies still have to face financial and organizational problems, like the lack of management abilities of their founder members. Based on a panel of 72 spin offs created in...

Literature highlights the key role that organizations' workforce has in companies' performance. It is also emphasized that human resource management is a source of competitive advantage. However, although this topic has been widely studied in the private sector, little research has focused on...

The Bologna Process has imprinted an institutional perspective on concerns about quality, quality management and quality assurance in the services provided in the universities and other institutions of higher education. The quality of higher education is not centered on the teaching and learning...