The purpose of this research is to study job satisfaction, within an new labor culture environment, which has modified the rigid vertical organizational structure and has challenged new payment modalities, flexible production systems and labor competences-based profiles. This new stage has...

Within the valuation of Science and Technology (S+T) social impact, three dimensions are specially relevant for analysis, in the modern democratic societies: Public perception, citizen participation, and S+T culture. Innovation is an economic and political subject, where the State and private...

Any conventional poverty line, determined from the purchase power standard ought to establish distinctions inside the essential expenditures, defining that poverty line, in the urban space as well as in the countryside. Migration flows toward cities are the result of employment composition....

Since the eighties, also called "lost decade", Latin America went forward in several simultaneous fronts: From generally settled military dictator regimes to a elections cycle rendering democratic governments to the zone, initiating the economic reforms that have darken the remembrance of the...

The control of the expansion, in the metropolitan areas, represents, now a days, one of the most important challenges that the governmental authorities, in almost every region should face, to understand the context in which metropolitan settlers life's develops, with it's different local,...

The document has two objectives: the first is conceptual-theoretical and the second is empiric. In relation to the first we do a summary of the principal theories that explain the territorial development and draw a distinction between the concepts of growth and development that are frequently...

After a brief historic, economic and cultural contextualization of China as a country of special interest for foreigner investors (Section 1) and a brief presentation of the importance of cultural factors in Business Management, especially in international and global companies (Section 2), the...

The paper analyzes the globalization process and its relationship with human development. To fulfil this aim, the nature of globalization in the current world development stage, as well as human development, are explained, as criteria to asses how the benefits of this process may have reached...