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Do quality consultants offer a quality service?
(Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 2002-09)By the end of year 2000, more than 3800 Spanish companies had been ISO certified (ISO, 2001). Aiming for a quality certification is still the most extended practice leading to quality improvements in ... -
Investigating discrepancies between e-services implementing or not ISO 9001: customers' outlook in the backdrop of e-services in Catalonia (Spain)
(International Journal for Quality research, 2011)This paper seeks to investigate from customers´ perspective, if the implementation of ISO 9001 with the scope directly related to customers (offices, claims, etc.), spawn any discrepancies on service ... -
The singularity of agrarian cooperatives management: cooperatives positioning in the olive oil sector in Spain
(International Journal of Business and Management, 2011-06)Cooperatives are the basis of the social economy in many agricultural sectors. This research work investigates the management situation of the olive oil cooperatives in Spain. The study identifies a ... -
Deslocalizaciones y productividad. ¿Una oportunidad para España?
(Papeles de Economía Española, 2012)En este artículo describimos las últimas tendencias en materia de deslocalizaciones a nivel mundial y en particular para el caso español. De esta manera, hacemos referencia a los distintos sectores ... -
Assessing e-service quality: the current state of E-S-QUAL
(Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 2012)Purpose: this study seeks to holistically undertake a comprehensive review of the current state of the E-S-QUAL scale including methodology used, suggestions, and limitations associated with the adoption ... -
Anàlisi de les modificacions estatutàries per adaptar el règim de reemborsament del capital social a les normes comptables de les cooperatives
(Intangible Capital, 2014)Objecte: L’objectiu del treball és analitzar les modificacions realitzades en els Estatuts de les cooperatives per adaptar el capital social a les normes comptables i veure quins han estats els efectes ... -
Analysis of three strategies to increase screening coverage for cervical cancer in the general population of women aged 60 to 70 years: the CRICERVA study
(BMC Women's Health, 2014-07-16)Background: Cervical cancer is a frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide. Despite having easy preventive and therapeutic approaches, it is an important cause of mortality among women. Methods: ... -
Economic impact of HIV/AIDS: a systematic review in five European countries
(Health Economics Review, 2014-09-16)The HIV/AIDS disease represent a priority for all health authorities in all countries and it also represents serious added socioeconomic problems for societies over the world. The aim of this paper is ... -
Assessing learner satisfaction by simultaneously measuring learner attitude, motivation, loyalty, and service quality in English academies
(Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015-09-30)The aims of this study are threefold in their approach to English academy teaching: (i) to assess learner satisfaction, (ii) to assess the impact of satisfaction on loyalty and (iii) to assess the three ... -
Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies
(Economic Modelling, 2016)We analyze the effects of low-skill offshoring on welfare. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria we discuss three alternative policies that could potentially outweigh the ... -
UnivQual: a holistic scale to assess student perceptions of service quality at universities
(Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 2017-03-20)The aim of this study is twofold. First, we validate a scale to assess the quality of the university experienced by students (UnivQual). Three main dimensions are envisioned: (i) “curriculum”, which ... -
Fulfilment of expectations mediating quality and satisfaction: the case of hospital service
(Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 2017-11-15)Many attempts have been conducted during the last decades to define a quality measurement scale in the health sector; however, there is not yet a complete agreement on which dimensions impact satisfaction. ... -
A bibliometric overview of university-business collaboration between 1980 and 2016
(Computación y Sistemas, 2018)Bibliometrics is a research field that analyses bibliographic material from a quantitative point of view. Aiming at providing a comprehensive overview, this study scrutinises the academic literature in ... -
Cost-effectiveness of alternative smoking cessation scenarios in Spain: results from the EQUIPTMOD
(Addiction, 2018)Aims: To assess the cost‐effectiveness of alternative smoking cessation scenarios from the perspective of the Spanish National Health Service (NHS). Design: We used the European study on Quantifying ... -
ICT skills gap in Spain: before and after a decade of harmonizing the European Higher Education Area
(Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2019)This study examines the impact that the implementation of the European Higher Education Area has had on engineers in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. Specifically, we focus on ... -
Dealing with heterogeneity: an analysis of Spanish universities
(Tec Empresarial, 2019)Universities are highly dependent on regulatory frameworks, the geographical setting as well as on requirements for the creation of the different outputs they pursue. As a result, universities are ... -
A systematic literature review. Relationships between the sharing economy, sustainability and sustainable development goals
(Sustainability, 2020)The sharing economy is an umbrella term for different business models that seem to have a positive impact on sustainability. To achieve sustainable development, the UN has created 17 Sustainable Development ... -
How do business schools compete in Latin America? Stability and best predictors of success for the America Economia MBA Ranking
(Applied Economics, 2020)The main aim of this paper is to present a longitudinal analysis of the AmericaEconomia MBA Ranking for the period 2005–2014. AmericaEconomia was the first international ranking specifically devoted to ... -
OSS-Qual: holistic scale to assess customer quality perception when buying secondhand products in online platforms
(Sustainability, 2020)Online secondhand markets have been growing substantially over the last decade and are expected to grow further. In order to effectively promote the growth of online secondhand markets, this paper designs ... -
Differential costs for the non-adult ADHD population in Catalonia
(Health Economics Review, 2023)Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is young children’s most common mental health disorder. We aim to provide causal estimates of the differential costs for the non-adult population with ...