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On the social nature of objectivity: Helen Longino and Justin Biddle
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
According to Helen Longino, objectivity is necessarily social as it depends on critical interactions in community. Justin Biddle argues that Longino’s account presupposes individuals that are completely open to any criticism; ...
On the Essence and Identity of Numbers
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
Taking as premises some intuitions about the essences of natural numbers, pluralities and sets, the paper offers an argument that the natural numbers could not be the “Zermelo numbers”, the “Von Neumann numbers”, the “Kripke ...
Essence without fundamentality
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)
In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment argues that a single notion of essence can be used to play two distinct theoretical roles. He thinks there is an important connec- tion between essence and metaphysical ...
Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in the Ebro River Basin: From Theory to Facts
(MDPI, 2015)
In this article, we analyze how successful the implementation of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the Ebro river catchment (in Spain) has been. Our main aim is to show some gaps between theory and practice. ...
Company financial performance: Does board size matter? Case of the EUROSTOXX50 index
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2015-10-06)
[EN] This study analyzes the relationship between board size and economic-financial performance in a sample of European firms that constitute the EUROSTOXX50 Index. Based on previous literature, resource dependency and ...
Academic spin-offs incubation strategies: the case of the Andalusian region
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2015-10-06)
[EN] The objective of this paper is to analyze the incubation strategies developed in the universities of Andalusia, a relatively low-income region of Spain, to promote the creation of university spin-offs. These strategies ...
Systematic liquidity: commonality and inter-temporal variation in the Portuguese stock market
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2015-10-06)
[EN] The aim of this paper is to study systematic liquidity at the Euronext Lisbon Stock Exchange. The motivation for this research is provided by the growing interest in financial literature about stock liquidity and the ...
Traditional budgeting during financial crisis
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2015-10-06)
[EN] This study examines the evolution of budgeting practices in the extremely difficult Spanish economic environment. In order to analyse if companies are still maintaining their budgeting process and if, right now, they ...
Brand image and lexicographic analysis: an application to shopping malls
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2015-10-06)
[EN] The concept of image in its different aspects is very important in today s society as well as in the business management field. Some authors reports that most of the studies that measure image do not take into account ...
Measuring the influence of customer-based store brand equity in the purchase intention
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU), 2015-03)
[EN] Store brands account for and important market share in the Spain and a further increase in expected in the next years due to the downturn. However, there is lack of research on store brand customer-based Brand Equity. ...