ECONOMICS, 5

Author: morales Piñero Jesús Enrique.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: D.de economía e historia económica.
Place of preparation: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Summary: In the first part of the thesis discusses the role that institutions and have frictions in the labor market in explaining the barriers to the adoption of new technologies. The main conclusion of this work is that the unemployment rate along with the welfare losses experienced by workers after they have been laid off, are important factors to explain the existence of barriers to the adoption of new technologies. The theory also suggests that certain social protection policies, such as an unemployment insurance system, can increase this type of barriers, while policies, as a system of compensation for dismissal, appears to be more effective in eliminating these barriers. In the second part of the thesis introduces the informal sector in a standard neoclassical growth model with monopolistic competition. With this background work explores the extent to which they can explain the differences in per capita income and the size of the informal sector with differences in policies that distort the efficiency of the sector investment. The model presented is capable of generating differences in per capita income similar to those seen in the data for differences in productivity sector investment which cause reasonable differences in the relative price of investment goods. In addition, the paper examines whether the size of the informal sector and in per capita income can be explained by policies that increase the cost of entry into the formal sector. The exercises indicate that quantitative higher input costs are positively correlated with a much larger size of the informal sector with a level of per capita income lower. The magnitude of this effect, however, is moderate. Finally, the last part of the argument arises that the effects of monetary policy on the informal economic activity may be quite different from those exercised on which is officially registered. In this regard, it is considered a model of the business cycle monetary two sectors, in which one of these, we call formal sector is affected positively by the effects of liquidity generated by the actions of monetary policy. The other sector, which is called informal sector, is contracted as a result of an expansionary monetary policy, and that the acceleration of inflation acts as a tax on transactions of the participants in that sector. The model is consistent with the evidence presented on the informal sector in the UK. According to estimates obtained in the article, an increase in the interest rate causes an expansion of activity in the informal sector, while the formal sector shrinks.

Author: Gimbert Rafols Xavier.
Year: 2006.
University: RAMÓN LLULL.
Place of defense: Escuela Superior ESADE.
Place of preparation: Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas.

Summary: The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding and improvement of the strategic management process. Based on the idea that strategic management is a continuous process, which is not carried out in sequence (first formulation after implementation), but through constant interaction between phases of the process, the thesis has two objectives: 1) understand the best potential influence, little studied in the literature prior to the process of strategic management tools are originally designed for implementation, in particular the balanced scorecard (BSC) (Kaplan, 1992, 1996, 2001) and 2) provide a strategic model centered around the strategic management process, so that it can be used both in the formulation and implementation. To address this dual objective is also poses a two-fold approach. On the one hand, this research provides various assumptions about the possible effects of the use of the BSC in the way they formulated the strategy. Such scenarios postulated that the use of BSC leads to greater frequency in the strategy review (H1), a larger number of decisions in each revision of the strategy (H2) and that such decisions relate to a wider variety of strategic issues (H3). The following three scenarios suggest that, to increase the number of years of use of BSC, the three effects described in the initial assumptions are increased: frequency of the strategic review (H4), number of decisions in each revision (H5), and variety of those decisions (H6). It was also a contrast last (H7), most studied to be referred to the effect of BSC not already in the formulation, but in the implementation, which suggests that the use of BSC improves the implementation of the strategy. To contrast these scenarios is an empirical study quantitatively. Moreover, in order to meet the second objective, provides a prescriptive model that tries to give an integrated response to the needs of both design and the implementation. The genesis of this model merge visions of BSC, tool implementation, and the model of development that the author of this theory proposed in 1998 (the model IPF). The scenarios refer generally relations between constructs. One of the contributions of this thesis is the innovative operativización of construct Using BSC, which, unlike the previous literature, as part of its specification emerging multidimensional construct. According to this specification, BSC is a construct based on practice (practice based construct) and, therefore, takes meaning from the list of the features found in business practice. It proposes two complementary ways to operationalize the use of BSC, whose contrasting scenarios are parallel. The results of the empirical study supports the hypothesis postulated that companies using BSC in each revision of the strategy, compared with those not using it: a) take more decisions (H2) and b) on a broader range of topics strategic (H3). In particular, the empirical study suggests that the size of construct Using BSC, which show a significant impact on the process of formulation are those relating to the explicitness of relationships between activities and structuring explicit and organized into multiple indicators prospects. The results of the empirical study also supported the hypothesis which states that companies that use BSC better implement the strategy (H7). By contrast, the results do not support the hypothesis remaining raised concerning the increase in the frequency of revision of the strategy (H1) and the effect of years of use of BSC (H4, H5 and H6). The empirical study are twofold additional findings of interest: no evidence of any difference, either in the process of Buddha 8 rmulació 5c3 No, not in terms of the implementation process, among companies with indicator systems (IS) than BSC and companies without IS. It is the use of BSC, and not the use of any SI, which affects these two facets of strategic management. Based on the results of the empirical study, this thesis proposes strokes of a basic model inclusive, balanced scorecard of the strategic management (CMGE), which attempts to answer both needs and the formulation of implementation. The CMGE collects inputs from the previous literature and empirical study conducted in the first part of the thesis, and has merged its development visions of the model formulation (IPF) with those designed for implementation (BSC).

Author: Palacín Antor Ramón.
Year: 2006.
University: RAMÓN LLULL.
Place of defense: ESADE.
Place of preparation: ESADE.

Summary: This thesis explores the role of general manager buyer (DGC), which is involved in the acquisition of a company along with a venture capital company through a Management Buy Out (MBO) or a Management Buy In (MBI). The objective is to understand their motivations, the key aspects in the negotiation of the acquisition, changes in the management after the acquisition, the meaning of owning and characteristics of the ideal DGC. The methodology has been based mainly on the conduct of interviews with executives from venture capital firms and DGC who have done an MBO or an MBI in Spain in the period 1998-2001. The main motivation of the DGC to conduct an MBO or MBI are developing an entrepreneurial project, able to control their own destiny, to have a chance to win a lot of money and could begin a new stage career. The most important aspects in the negotiation of the acquisition are: the future viability of the project, the price of the company, negotiating with banks to secure debt, supported by the management team, the remunerative package and the percentage of shares they buy managers. The strategy of the company after the acquisition is focused on growth in sales, reinforcing factor differential over their competitors, to reduce costs and to seek acquisitions. The effect of the debt taken on to acquire the company makes it look for the decline in working capital, that resources are focalicen on important issues, which control costs and seek the reduction of investments. To lead the management team, DGC choose to give economic participation, give more autonomy to take decisions in a more shared and set clear rules. The venture capital company after the acquisition is to be monitored rigorously, helps them make better decisions, and provides expertise in the financial area, image and contacts. Because owning the DGC have more ability to take risks, are more project-related business, have a professional development faster, they can see the results of their management and feel more accountable to employees. The DGC ideal for an MBO and MBI has to have a clear vision of the future project of the company, namely leadership teams, believing in the viability of the project, to be hard-working, have great confidence in itself, be able to take risks, invest a lot of money buying shares and have had success as a manager. Keywords: Management Buy Out, Management Buy In, Director-General Comparator, Business Venture Capital.

Author: QUINTERO ANGULO ANA MARIA.
Year: 2006.
University: LA LAGUNA.
Place of defense: F.C.ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: WORK PRESENTS A PROPOSAL FOR FORMULATION PROCESS OF PUBLIC POLICIES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT WITH CITIZEN PARTICIPATION BASED ON THE USE OF TECHNICAL GERENCIALES EFFECTIVE THAT PROPICIEN CONSENSUS ON GROUP TAKES THE TIMELY AND ACERTADA DECISIONS CONTRIBUYAN TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS OF A CITY, AND USE OF TOOLS OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNING. UNDERSTAND THE STUDY OF AN INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTARY AND FIELD, TAKING AS REFERENCE CIUDAD GUAYANA, LOCALIZADA IN THE STATE BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA. FINALLY IS PROPOSING A CONCEPT AND DETAILED AN OUTLINE OF THE STEPS TO FOLLOW FOR FORMULATION OF SOCIAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT POLICIES

Author: Lopez Marmolejo Arnoldo.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: D.de Economia e Historia AEconomica.
Place of preparation: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Summary: This thesis consists in three essays on macroeconomics. The first essay argues that certain barrier to labor affects more poor countries than rich countries in terms of the size of the underground economy and output fluctuations. The second essay analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices. The third essay explores the effect in the credit risk ratings of pension privatization. I will give more intuition and explain more carefully each essay ahead. First essay: Barriers to work, underground economy and aggregate fluctuations There are different barriers to work, such as 'over-regulation', bureaucratic requirements and bribes. Economic data demonstrate that poor countries with labor regulations (as proxy variable for barrier to work) similar to those of rich countries face a higher standard deviation (S.D.) of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and a larger size of the underground economy than the rich countries.

Author: Purroy Sánchez Pedro.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Escuela de Doctorado y de Formación Continuada.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.

Summary: The objective of this thesis is to explore the possible potential of the theory of preference for spending to explain economic facts. This paper discusses the behavior of preference for spending under competition in low quantities and price competition in the Spanish banking sector. It presents the strategic advantages of the boxes in front of banks arising out of conduct in preference for spending on the part of its directors and that arises from the configuration legal-institutional savings, ie the intensity of preference by spending is an exogenous variable. This behavior gives banks a strategic advantage against the banks who follow the Orthodox maximizing profits. In order to reestablish symmetry in the competitive balance we consider a possible strategic response by the banks. Thus, according to the literature strategic incentive for managers, the bank replaced its objective function of the other benefits that it is linear combination of profits and sales. So as in the previous case discusses the implications on market share and level of benefits of adopting this strategy. However, the results arising under competition on prices, it appears that the way to compete entities affects the outcome of the competitive process. Chapter five shows on the assumption that the intensity of preference for spending is an endogenous variable. It explores the implications for a company to adopt a system of incentives strategic preference for spending to their managers. The results are compared with regard to the case in which the goal of a manager is the maximization of profit. In chapter six contrasts if the boxes show a preference for the behavior of spending compared to banks that are considered maximizadores profit. The result is that the boxes actually show a preference for spending. So, that the theoretical results obtained in the previous chapters of the thesis are confirmed experimentally.

Author: Solano García Angel.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: F.Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de CC Economicas y Empresariales. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.

Summary: Immigration is currently a hot issue in many parliaments of many developed countries. Why is it so? why the control of immigration might be the relevant issue in elections?. In other words: why immigration is important for the host countryâs voters? The answer is that immigration may a.ect host country natives welfare. In general, immigration may a.ect host country natives welfare through two di.erent channels, the economic channel (labor market, fiscal policy) and non economic channel (cultural conflict, xenophobia). There are quite extended literature about the economic e.ect of immigration on natives welfare (for instance see Borjas, 1994 and 1995, and Zimmerman,1995 for some excellent surveys). However, there is not so many research papers dealing with the non economic e.ect of immigration even though there are empirical evidence of the importance of this non economic e.ect on shaping natives preferences over immigration.

Author: CARLOS ANDRÉS GUALDRÓN GUERRERO.
Year: 2006.
University: ALICANTE.
Place of defense: FACULTAD ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The present research examined the relationship between human development and economic growth, both globally and in Latin America as an application to the regional level Colombian. This tailor survey methods proposed in recent years by Ranis, Stewart and Ramirez those who believe in the existence of four different situations in the relationship between two variables: vicious circles virtuous circles, biases pro-crecimiento or bias pro development. We apply the method on a regional scale for all Colombian regions in the first phase, focusing on the region later Santander (and the two departments that are) in a more detailed analysis. Some empirical studies in recent years have called into question the alleged automatic relationship between economic growth and human development, and have confirmed the need to give priority to human development to achieve a virtuous cycle (a good human development reinforces growth, in turn promotes human development). This can be seen from Ranis, Stewart and Ramirez, 2002 and UNDP, 1996. Precisely the main objective of this work was to incorporate more empirical evidence on the issue, and corroboramos the validity of the conclusions in Colombia and regional level for the period 1990-2005. For the research program, we made the following main questions: Do you what the relationship growth and human development?, Â what are the results of the implementation of development policies based on the tenets of human development? Also in this work is the contrast assumption that the relationship demonstrated by Ranis, Stewart and Ramirez are given to the case of Colombia and santandereano, as well as stating that the level of economic activity in a territory as measured by GDP per capita explains the level of human development. To achieve the goal of research and test raised the proposed relationship in the second scenario, it has resorted to different statistical methods

Author: LOPEZ NICOLAS CAROLINA.
Year: 2006.
University: MURCIA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE ECONOMIA Y EMPRESA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE ECONOMIA Y EMPRESA.

Summary: THE GOAL OF THIS IS THESIS CONTRIBUTE TO PROGRESS OF RESEARCH ON GC FROM A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE, ANALIZANDO THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES ON STRATEGY GC, AS WELL AS THE INFLUENCE THAT CAN GET THERE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS OF INNOVATION ORGANIZATIONS. STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS IS HÍBRIDA, BECAUSE COMBINING THE STRUCTURE CLASSIC WITH A STRUCTURE FOR PAPERS. THE FIRST CHAPTER AIM REVISE THE STATE OF THE ART IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, PROFUNDIZANDO IN CLASSIFICATION OF STRATEGIES GC PROPOSAL BY HANSEN ET AL. (1999) TO FEATURE CODING AND PERSONALIZATION. CHAPTER SECOND DETALLA MAIN POINTS OF METHODOLOGICAL STUDY COURSE TO VALIDATE CARRIED OUT EACH OF THE PROPOSED MODEL IN SENDOS CHAPTERS. IN CHAPTER THREE, ANALYSIS IS THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL FACTORS, AS THE SIZE OF THE COMPANY, ITS ANTIGÃEDAD, SECTOR AND EXTENT OF GEOGRAPHIC DISPERSIÓN, ON TWO STRATEGIES GC. ANALYSIS EMPÍRICO IS BASED ON ANOVA. CHAPTER CONSIDERS THE FOURTH AS BACKGROUND OF THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND STRATEGIC LEVEL OF BUSINESS AND ANALYZING THE AIM OF THE TYPE OF CULTURE OF PROPOSALS BY CAMERON AND QUINN (1999), WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO MORE STRATEGY CODING FOR CUSTOMIZATION AND, AND ASSESSING THE ROLE OF BUSINESS STRATEGY ON STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CULTURE. WILL THEREFORE BE EMPLEAN REGRESIONES LINEAR JERÁRQUICAS. CHAPTER FIVE ANALYZING THE AIM OF THE CONSEQUENCES TO THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE CAN GET ON INNOVATION AND RESULTS ORGANIZATIVOS. THE PROPOSED MODEL IN THIS CHAPTER WILL LAST THROUGH AN ESTIMATED MODEL WITH STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS LISREL. IN THE LAST PART OF THE THESIS, SE DISCUTEN THE OVERALL RESULTS AND RECOGEN FINDINGS OF ALL RELEVANT MORE RESEARCH, AND THEIR LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE LINES OF STUDY.

Author: JORGE GARCÍA-INÉS MARTA.
Year: 2006.
University: LEÓN.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES..

Summary: The initial motivation for this research is the assessment of the effects that would result from the implementation of the joint state and autonomic stretch of IVMH on fuels by all regions, in accordance with the regulations adopted in the year 2005. This reform was to double the rate of tax autonomic up from the 2.4 to 4.8 cents per liter. The structure of the thesis is as follows. The second chapter Funding for ACs In common: a system to search for fiscal responsibility is a description of the funding model autonomous force since 2002, with particular emphasis on the autonomous power of taxation and its impact on the fiscal responsibility. In the third chapter IVMH elaborates on the factors that have shaped its creation and the study of its basic characteristics. Later, in the fourth chapter Exploring the demand for fuels of Spanish households discusses a number of issues that are presented to identify and estimate the demand for fuel as a prerequisite to the simulation of the tax reform. These issues range from heterogeneity and endogeneity up the habit, the infrequency of purchase and, more importantly, the high dispersion that has characterized the elasticidades-precio and spending in demand for fuels in the economic literature. Then, in the fifth chapter The IVMH: An analysis of the economic impact on ACs Develops the simulation exercise that enables evaluate both for the country as a whole, as they are broken down by Autonomy, the effects of the tax in terms recaudatorios, distributional, and social welfare individually and on emissions CO2. Finally, this dissertation closes with a chapter devoted to conclusions and future lines of inquiry.

Author: GARAY TAMAJÓN LUIS ALFONSO.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMIA E HISTORIA ECONÓMICA, UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.

Summary: This research performed for the first time a comprehensive review of tourism development in Catalonia during the past two centuries, and among other things presented as a new historical series of supply and tourism demand in the Principality in its period of greatest growth, mass tourism or fordista. The paper demonstrates the importance of the activity in the economy and society as well as Catalan in creating an image of the territory. Along the analysis raises the advantages that the activity has been reported but also the disadvantages that have been detected in it. In turn, is a reflection on the possible future scenarios of the activity taking into account the current transit to a new phase of activity, postfordist. Finally, it presents a comprehensive model that brings together the development phases of fate with the paradigm changes in activity and that means it is helpful to understand the past, present and possible future paths of tourism.

Author: Russi Daniela.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales.
Place of preparation: Instituto de Ciencias y Tecnologias Ambientales.

Summary: Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation is a kind of multi-criteria analysis that combines the technical evaluation of different options according to various assessment criteria with the analysis of the social actors' conflicting values and interests. Two main ideas are at the basis of SMCE: technical incommensurability (i.e. in a complex environment one cannot express all impacts of a policy using one only unit of measurement, or, in other words, an inter/multidisciplinary analysis is needed) and social incommensurability (i.e. the social actors have different and legitimately conflicting values and interests, which must be taken into account when evaluating a policy or a project). SMCE was applied to two case-studies. In the first one, the problem at hand was how to provide some isolated rural households in a natural park near Barcelona with electricity, whether by extending the grid or installing stand-alone photovoltaic systems.

Author: DOMENECH SANCHEZ RAFAEL CARLOS.
Year: 2006.
University: MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ DE ELCHE.
Place of defense: F.CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURDICAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURIDICAS DE ELCHE.

Summary: The research presented deepens in using the tools of evaluation of policies and their application in the evaluation of the effectiveness of programs to support industrial innovation. In particular, the multivariate analysis was applied to the evaluation of a specific program for the promotion of collaborative research between companies and public research centers. The report begins with a chapter devoted to the theories of technological change which constitute the core of the rationale for public intervention in the field of technology and innovation. The next chapter focuses on the analysis of the methodologies applicable to the evaluation of technology policy. This review is completed by a study of the major national approaches to the evaluation, which addresses the importance it gives each country and its impact on the process of political decision-making. Reviewed the broader aspects of technology policy and its assessment, the next chapter elaborates on the contents of the collaborative research with the goal of developing a model that could identify the variables and relationships relevant to the cooperative agreements. Then, on the basis of this model focuses on the empirical analysis of the agreements developed in the context of a specific program of support for the public-private partnership by applying multivariate techniques. The results make it possible to identify different models of collaboration within the same program, which in turn imply differences in the role of public financial support as an incentive. We conclude that the degree of systemic efficiency of technology policies can be improved with the use of integrated approaches in the design and evaluation of the instruments. Such approaches have to consider the complexity inherent in the cooperation in R & D.

Author: Ponce Alifonso Xavier.
Year: 2006.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: Universidad Rovira i Virgili.

Summary: It examines the formation of water policy in Spain over the twentieth century, using the continental approach of the policy network. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the various instruments used in water management and performed a comparative analysis. Subsequently, it identifies the optimal contract to be offered a bank of water in a context of adverse selection and how this affects the outcome priorities or composition of this government agency. Finally, it contrasts the viability of the hypothesis Porter in water policy, stressing the impotancia of the informal rules in the results that are obtained.

Author: Da Silva Monteiro Sónia Maria.
Year: 2006.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.

Summary: The thesis discusses, in a sample of companies operating in Portugal, the implications consideration of the environmental variables in defining business strategies for both the organizational structure and, in particular, to management practices and environmental disclosure , and the role played by the accounting information system in relation to the preparation and submission of relevant environmental information, both for the purpose of accountability to others for use in decision-making by managers of enterprises.

Author: GOICOCHEA CALDERON JOSE ALBERTO.
Year: 2006.
University: OVIEDO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICA Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: DURING THE LAST DÉCADA HAS PRODUCED A CONVERGENCE IN THE GROWING AREAS GASISTA AND ELECTRICAL. THE CAUSE OF THIS PHENOMENON IS DOUBLE. BY THE SIDE OF CENTRAL GAS COMBINED CYCLE (CGCC) HAVE BECOME THE DOMINANT TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRIC POWER GENERATING. BY ANOTHER SIDE, THE TRADITIONAL POWER COMPANIES HAVE ENTRADO BE EXPANDED TO THE BUSINESS OF MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF GAS TO CUSTOMERS FINAL. CONVERGENCE OF SUCH AS A RESULT, THE POWER COMPANIES HAVE BEEN IDO CONFIGURANDO AS BIG DEMANDANTES NATURAL GAS. IN THIS CONTEXT, THESIS DOCTORAL ANALYSIS THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE AND TAKING TEORICA THE ECONOMY AS A TOOL OF THE COST OF TRANSACTION, THE DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES FOR APROVISIONAMIENTO OF NATURAL GAS IN PLACE. BELOW IS MAKES A STUDY Confirmatory THROUGH THE CASE OF THREE PRINCIAPLAES GROUPS ELECTRICOS SPANIARDS.

Author: JIMENEZ ALMAGUER KARLA PAOLA.
Year: 2006.
University: OVIEDO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The success of the clusters in various parts of the world has increased interest in the study of these phenomena over the past two decades, both by academics and the government. However, there are many uncertainties regarding clusters. Some examples of these are the most appropriate term to define this phenomenon, its key features, its origins, its features, its objectives and its typology and, most importantly, the factors that lead to a better economic performance, technological and social . In this regard, the objective of this research is to identify environmental factors, the same cluster and the companies that make it up that lead to success in Spain for clusters, thus promoting the improvement of existing and creation of new . At the same time, this research aims to discover what factors influence the success of different types of clusters through analysis methodology cases.

Author: Fernàndez Arguiñano Josè MarÒ¬a.
Year: 2006.
University: LA LAGUNA.
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias Econòmicas y Empresariales.

Author: de Martí Beltran Joan Francesc.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials.
Place of preparation: Escola de Postgrau.

Summary: This thesis uses techniques of social networks, microeconomics and game theory to analyze two different problems. On the one hand, analyzes the provision of public resources, and the competition for these resources, before the existence of a heterogeneous pattern of externalities among the various actors who make up the economy analyzed. This heterogeneous pattern takes the form of a network and the socio-economic results in terms of supply and competition depends on the position of the players is networking. On the other hand, looks as different communication processes within an organization determine the actions that members of this organization will take. Understanding an organization as a group of individuals with imperfect information on the task to perform optimally, members of an organization communicate information through social networks, which determine their beliefs about what the other knows and what other tasks. Different social networks determine different levels of communication, and therefore different levels of organizational performance. Els analysis developed by the study of structures optimum network to maximize the performance of the organization under these communication structures.

Author: VELÁZQUEZ PATIÑO ANA CAROLINA.
Year: 2006.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES.
Place of preparation: CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES (IUCA).

Summary: KEYWORDS Waste Management Environmental Recycling, Principles environmental, social and corporate involvement. The thesis is a comparative analysis on the current situation with regard to the generation and management of urban waste within countries of the European Union and Mexico, with the aim of offering the metropolitan area of Guadalajara a proposal with specific lines of action to correct the current system of waste management. This audit was conducted in response to various theoretical approaches that consider the social, educational, political and economic elements as a key to understanding the phenomenon of waste as a problem of global dimension. The development of speech paid special attention to the use of principles, taxes and fees related to waste that have begun to take place in some of the more developed countries, but simultaneously highlights the importance has meant that education and environmental awareness of society to countering the changing needs of excessive consumption with waste generation, mainly the changing needs of excessive consumption with waste generation, mainly from the packaging and packaging of products. The research methods used can be divided into three: an exploratory analysis multidisciplinary on waste generation and the appreciation of the environment. Secondly, it provides a critical analysis contrasts comparative literature in this field. Finally there is an evaluative analysis incorporating factors most relevant to the formulation of a proposal in the form of conclusions from work.