Unitate didaktiko baten prestaketa Antropologia Fisikoan

[EN]In education, a didactic unit of a concrete lesson is a way to organize the teachinglearning process, the content being adapted to the students' level, to the resources available and to the aim itself. The aim of this unit is to work on the question “ do races exist ? ”. To accomplish this, the didactic sequence's united planning can be found in the 1st attachment ( The didactic sequence's united planning, page 22 ) where the aims and aptitudes that want to be developed, as well as the resources needed to achieve them and the proposed activities are. With this, at the same time, the adopted criteria to evaluate the process can be observed. I would like to mention that I have created this materials and methods.

Managing and resisting ‘degeneration’ in employee-owned businesses: a comparative study of two large retailers in Spain and the UK

Employee-owned businesses have recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest as possible ‘alternatives’ to the somewhat tarnished image of conventional investor-owned capitalist firms. Within the context of global economic crisis, such alternatives seem newly attractive. This is somewhat ironic because, for more than a century, academic literature on employee-owned businesses has been dominated by the ‘degeneration thesis’. This suggested that these businesses tend towards failure – they either fail commercially, or they relinquish their democratic characters. Bucking this trend and offering a beacon - especially in the UK - has been the commercially successful, co-owned enterprise of the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) whose virtues have seemingly been rewarded with favourable and sustainable outcomes. This paper makes comparisons between JLP and its Spanish equivalent Eroski – the supermarket group which is part of the Mondragon cooperatives. The contribution of this paper is to examine in a comparative way how the managers in JLP and Eroski have constructed and accomplished their alternative scenarios. Using longitudinal data and detailed interviews with senior managers in both enterprises it explores the ways in which two large, employee-owned, enterprises reconcile apparently conflicting principles and objectives. The paper thus puts some new flesh on the ‘regeneration thesis’.

From bilateral two-way to unilateral one-way flow link-formation

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Analysis of the differences between the rates of inflation associated with two aggregate price level: The case of the euro area and the United States

Idioma: Inglés Abstract: This project focuses on two indicators of prices, the GDP deflator and the consumer price index (CPI), and analyzes the differences and similarities they present. These price indexes have been chosen taking into account its great representativeness and importance to economic and social level, and its direct relationship to the overall functioning of the economy and, in particular, inflation. It should be also mentioned that this study was conducted for cases of the euro area and the United States, as the impact of these economies in the economic and social situation at international level is very significant.

La crisis actual: una visión desde la transparencia y las medidas al respecto

[ES]Este trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamental, valorar si podría haber sido distinto el transcurso de la crisis actual de haber existido mayor transparencia. Al mismo tiempo, también se tratan de observar tanto las medidas actuales como futuras tomadas al respecto. Para ello, se plantean una serie de objetivos secundarios con la finalidad de conseguir de esta manera guiar el desarrollo ordenado de los acontecimientos. Uno de estos objetivos es ver cuál ha sido el origen y desarrollo de la crisis. Para ello, se ha planteado el surgimiento de las hipotecas subprime, base de un sistema que empezó a fallar cuando muchas de estas fueron insolventes. Además, la globalización del sistema financiero contribuyó a que el número de afectados por la titulización de estas hipotecas, un procedimiento muy habitual entonces, fuese mayor. De esta manera, la crisis que surgió originariamente en Estados Unidos pasó a afectar prácticamente a todos los demás países. Otros de los objetivos, están centrados alrededor de la falta de transparencia, sus consecuencias y las medidas paliativas tomadas tanto presentes como futuras. Todo esto se ha planteado acerca de varios aspectos, pero quizás los más importante son los que tratan acerca de la transparencia de los procedimientos bancarios, los cuales debido a su opacidad contribuyeron a generar desconfianza en el sistema interbancario, derivando en un colapso del mismo y en crisis de liquidez.

The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact

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 the three countries with the highest number of UNGC participants: Spain, France, and Japan. The results clearly reveal that adoption of the UNGC often requires an organizational change that fosters stakeholder engagement, ultimately resulting in improvements in companies' ESG performance. Additionally, the results reveal that ESG performance has a significant impact on financial performance for companies that adopted the principles of the UNGC. These findings provide both non-financial and financial incentives to companies to commit to this voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, which will have important implications on companies' strategic management policies that aim to foster sustainable businesses and community development. Finally, the linkages between the UNGC-committed companies' ESG and financial performance may be influenced by geographical spread, mainly due to the appearance of differences in the institutional, societal, and cultural settings.