What explains the galvanising of communities to participate actively in energy projects? How do groups mobilize to overcome the often formidable barriers highlighted in the existing literature? Drawing on original qualitative research of 100 community energy groups in Scotland, including six...

The objective of the present study is to analyse the effect of technological cooperation on SMEs performance consideringtwo dimensions: technological and economic results. For that purpose, we use a data set containing information about participants in research joint ventures supported by the...

In this paper we attempt to rationalize markups in a sample of Spanish manufacturing by assuming a representative consumer, profit-maximizing firms and constant returns to scale. We find that the standard forms of demand (CES and linear) do not provide a good explanation of markups. In contrast,...

The Spanish welfare state incorporates elements of both Bismarckian and Beveridgean traditions, and can be labelled as a via media with respect to other existing regimes of social protection. It also represents a middle way of decommodification and gendering, and of universal and means-tested...

El capital cliente representa el conocimiento creado como consecuencia de la relación entre una organización y sus clientes. Este trabajo se dirige a analizar los flujos de conocimiento del trabajador y la empresa para la creación del componente externo del capital cliente. Para ello, se...

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...