Is the current economic crisis affecting the quality of working conditions within organisations? More specifically, due to constrained economic times, are organisations reducing the social benefits they offer to employees? This study analyses whether the current situation of economic downturn...

This paper offers an analysis of the effectiveness of one of the more widespread techniques for personnel development and training: coaching. This technique in the business context entails boosting of a manager’s capabilities so as to improve business results through a combination of...

The need to implement advanced approaches to protect the environment is forcing companies to refocus their internal procedures and actions. To match employees’ capabilities and the organization itself to these new requirements, the human resource management department can offer some key tools....

Spanish Abstract: En el actual contexto empresarial, las prácticas dirigidas a la formación y desarrollo del personal constituyen una herramienta clave para los gerentes. Este trabajo analiza la eficacia de una novedosa técnica relacionada con la capacitación y desarrollo personal: el...

This empirical article examines how the institutional development of the home country and host countries in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) are embedded can drive MNEs' research and development (R&D) intensity. In doing so, this study analyzes 967 firm-year observations of 234...

While prior literature has emphasized that stakeholders can influence a firm's decision to adopt environmental practices that lead to competitive advantage, most scholarship has assumed that stakeholders influence the design of firms' environmental practices similarly. We challenge this notion...

Spanish Abstract: La literatura existente señala el potencial de una gestión medioambiental proactiva en la generación de capacidades organizativas relativas a la minimización de costes. Además, durante los últimos años, la internalización de los costes medioambientales de la industria...

Spanish Abstract: Downloadable document is in El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cuáles son las características demográficas de las empresas que implantan contabilidad de gestión medioambiental, concretamente país y sector. Para ello, se analizan datos provenientes de un cuestionario...

Spanish Abstract:El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en ofrecer una revisión sobre cómo facilitar la obtención de ventajas competitivas a las empresas mediante la gestión medioambiental avanzada a través de la reducción de costes y del potencial para generar capacidades valiosas internas....