José Manuel De la Torre Ruiz

Calidad y algo más: el efecto conjunto de la gestión de la calidad y medioambiental en la rentabilidad de la empresa

RESUMEN En el panorama empresarial actual tanto la implantación de sistemas de gestión de la calidad y medioambiental como su posterior certificación son prácticas de gestión cada más consolidadas debido a su gran importancia para el correcto desarrollo de la actividad económica. Usando la teoría de recursos y capacidades, este trabajo demuestra empíricamente que la combinación de ambas iniciativas de gestión está positivamente relacionada con altos niveles de rentabilidad empresarial. Para ello, se ha utilizado una muestra que cuenta con 3.817 unidades de negocio en siete países de la OCDE de diversos subsectores manufactureros.

What Motivates Hotel Managers to Become Ecopreneurs: A Case Study on the Spanish Tourism Sector

This chapter first presents a brief theoretical review of environmental concerns and entrepreneurship. It then analyses the main motivating factors for ecopreneurs outlined in research literature. The next section uses a case study to discuss ecopreneurship in the hotel sector, including the reasons and methodology used. The results of the case analysis are then given. The final section offers conclusions, contributions and future areas for research.

Drug-Induced Taste Disorders

Drug-induced taste disorders have been recognized only recently and have added a new dimension to the study of this much-neglected sense by demonstrating the complexity of its biochemical regulation. Although a great many papers dealing with this subject have been published, the true number of both the disorders and the responsible drugs is probably higher than reported. It is due not only to the fact that taste disorders may go unnoticed by the patient, especially as a complete recovery is often made, but also that the prescribing physician does not systematically test for taste alterations.