This paper analyses the international growth of the global air transport sector to identify factors that determine the emergence of transnational companies and different forms of international expansion in the airline industry. An analysis of the market structure is conducted to understand why...

Hotel industry is a management intensive industry as well as a distinct real estate asset class. During the 80ís, a reduced number of hotel groups led the internationalization of the Spanish tourism industry. In the decade of the 90ís, the process of internationalization wraps to a growing and...

This paper considers the influence of business cycles and economic crises on tourism destinations competitiveness. This competitiveness is measured by its share in world tourism. Analysing a period of forty years, the differential permanent or temporary effects that economic crises has on...

L’articolo propone un’analisi concettuale dei fondamenti del Modello Sociale Europeo come sistema di welfare multilivello. In particolare, espone l’importanza della sussidiarietà amministrativa tra i diversi livelli della governance europea come un elemento centrale della cittadinanza...

The progressive federalization of the Spanish Estado de las Autonomías (State of the Autonomies) is in accordance with a model of multiple ethnoterritorial concurrence. The process of territorial accommodation in Spain relates substate ethnic mobilization with the competitive interplay among...

<i> Spagna, una via intermedia allo sviluppo del welfare </i> (di Luis Moreno) - ABSTRACT: This article chapter analyses developments in social policy and welfare in Spain during the second half of the 20th century and examines current reforms and policy changes for the near future. In particular, it...

Since the transition to democracy in the late 1970s, Spain has undergone a process of deep decentralization and an incipient federalization. This article analyses the main features of such processes underlying the high level of home rule achieved by the 17 Comunidades Autonomas , when compared...

En las páginas siguientes hacemos un repaso general acerca de cómo la cuestión de los recursos naturales y, especialmente, el agua, han ido incorporándose a los razonamientos económicos de una forma progresiva. Como veremos, esto no significa que nos encontremos ante un marco teórico nuevo...

En una economía de mercado, los distintos bienes económicos tratan de gestionarse buscando la máxima eficiencia, sobre todo para los propietarios. La gestión colectiva se aplica en el caso de algunos bienes con características específicas, tales como la dificultad de su divisibilidad y...

Europeanization implies that policies are to be shaped by considerations which go beyond the formal sovereignty of EU’s member states. Claims for autonomy within the EU have been put forward not only by ‘stateless’ nations within plural and compound states, but also by regions demanding...