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The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact
(MDPI, 2015-02)
This paper aims to investigate companies' environmental, social, governance (ESG), and financial implications of their commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The focus is placed on companies operating in ...
An exploratory study of the pressures and ethical dilemmas in the audit conflict
(Elsevier, 2016-01-09)
The present study analyzes the pressures perceived by auditors in their professional activity. Furthermore, it explores the ethical acceptability of questionable practices and the way auditors resolve the conflicts of ...
La comunicación digital empresarial de las empresas privadas del País Vasco: uso y evolución del euskera entre 2013 y 2017
(Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya, 2019-12)
The goal of this article is to understand the use that private companies in the autonomous community of the Basque Country make of digital external communication on social networks and the presence of Basque therein, to ...
Enhanced mass sensitivity in novel magnetoelastic resonators geometries for advanced detection systems
(Elsevier, 2019-10-01)
Acoustic wave based sensors have a major impact in the detection of low concentration of biological and chemical agents. Magnetoelastic resonator platforms are particularly interesting due to their low cost and wireless ...
Conceptual structure and perspectives on entrepreneurship education research: A bibliometric review
(Elsevier, 2019-06-20)
This study aims to review the field of Entrepreneurship Education (EE). The review examines 325 scientific articles published in refereed scientific journals from 1987 to 2017. The SciMat software was used to conduct an ...
Conflicting Values in Rural Planning: A Multifunctionality Approach through Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation
(MDPI, 2018-05)
The planning of rural land depends, to a large extent, on the agreed-upon agrarian and forestry development model. Within the framework of agrarian multifunctionality, to evaluate different development alternatives and ...
Firms’ board independence and corporate social performance: a meta-analysis
(MDPI, 2017-06-10)
This paper investigates the influence of organizations' board independence on corporate social performance (CSP) using a meta-analytic approach. A sample of 87 published papers is used to identify a set of underlying ...
Do Credit Ratings Take into Account the Sustainability Performance of Companies?
(MDPI, 2018-11-19)
In the last few decades, sustainability performance measuring has become a widely-studied issue, and various measurement proposals have been put forward. However, it is also important to know whether those measures are ...
Communication policies of Spanish universities targeting prospective students: an evaluation by secondary schools
(Universidade de Sorocaba, 2016-07)
This paper presents an evaluation of the communication policies through which Spanish universities help to facilitate young people's passage from secondary to higher education. The underlying data have been gathered through ...
Lucro cesante por invalidez permanente derivada de accidente de circulación: valoración versus baremo
(Instituto de Actuarios Españoles, 2018)
Con el fin de racionalizar las indemnizaciones producidas por los siniestros personales de los accidentes de circulación, en España se ha fijado un Baremo (Ley 35/2015, de 22 septiembre) que además ...