Over the last few years, a new generation of Chinese multinationals has set out to conquer global markets, featuring major international acquisitions that were unthinkable until very recently. This work seeks to analyze the nature of this emerging phenomenon, illustrating…

Purpose – The number of papers focusing on foreign companies doing business in China has increased significantly since the open-door policy came into effect in the late 1970s. Performance has been one of the most researched topics. This paper aims…

This report presents a summary of the research stimulated by the Concerted Action: Beauty & the Doctor: Moral Issues in Health Care with Regard to Appearance, funded by the European Commission, Directorate General XII, Biomedicine and Health Research Programme (BIOMED).,…

The knowledge imperfections should be considered when modeling complex problems. A solution is to develop a model that reduces the complexity and another option is to represent the imperfections: uncertainty, vagueness and incompleteness in the knowledge base. This paper proposes…

Decision making models for autonomous agents are recently receiving increased attention, particularly in the feld of intelligent robots. This work presents a Defeasible Logic Programming approach to decision making in an environment with single and multiple robots. We will show,…

In this paper, we present a novel model of an artificial immune system (AIS), based on the process that suffers the T-Cell. The proposed model is used for solving constrained (numerical) optimization problems. The model operates on three populations: Virgins,…

China’s growing economic importance has led to a significant increase in the volume of empirical research about business and management in this country during the last few years. This study reviews the 180 empirical papers focusing on the Chinese context…

Tenemos que huir de la falsa dicotomía entre procedimiento y espontaneidad porque esta es artificial. Un buen vendedor no es el que ejecuta procedimientos es el que se hace pasando por las distintas etapas respecto al procedimiento hasta dominarlo, de…

The Chinese tourism sector is experiencing one of the highest levels of growth, to the extent that China is set to become the leading world power in tourism within the coming decade. Therefore, studying this important sector deserves particular attention.…

Purpose – In recent years, China and India have been experiencing a process of economic and social transformation that is unprecedented in recent human history. The consequences of the spectacular resurgence of these two Asian giants are profound and far-reaching,…