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Online thesis defence

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Online thesis defence

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Online thesis defence

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If you are interested in attending, please contact us at business.school@ub.edu by September 6th, 2020.

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If you are interested in attending, please contact us at business.school@ub.edu by July 10th, 2020.

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If you are interested in attending, please contact us at business.school@ub.edu by June 21st, 2020.

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Online book presentation

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Entrepreneurs develop based on their surroundings. It is easy to understand US entrepreneurs, with the wealth of information available about their development, but how does working in Mexico influence entrepreneurship, and emerging entrepreneurs? Exploring the history of Mexico’s entrepreneurs, expert authors Araceli Almaraz Alvarado and Oscar Javier Montiel Méndez delve into the empirical and theoretical opportunities that emerge from this historical analysis.

Room 1037, 690 Building

Online seminar

Online seminar

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Online seminar

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Abstract:
This study aims to further unveil how transformational leadership and team cohesion foster effective team performance, studying the interactive role of three contextual variables: previous performance, consensus on leadership and consensus on cohesion. We computed a moderated-mediation model based on a sample of 690 professional players on 59 top professional interactive sports league teams (hockey, indoor football/soccer, handball and basketball) in Spain. Our findings suggest that transformational leadership indirectly influences objective team performance through the mediation role of team cohesion and that this indirect effect is more prominent when the level of previous performance is higher. We also found that the indirect effect of transformational leadership on team performance via cohesion is stronger in teams with higher consensus regarding their coaches’ leadership but weaker in teams with higher consensus on team cohesion. Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of integrating contextual variables into research models, in particular, previous performance and consensus.

Note:
This research (*) submitted to the Academy of Management 2019 Annual meeting was selected for inclusion in the 2019-Proceedings as one of that year’s Best Papers (Top 10%)

(*) Mach, M. (2019). The leadership contextual model: The role of past performance and team consensus. In Guclu Atinc (Ed.). Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Online: ISSN:2151-6561.

Bio:
Merce Mach obtained her PhD in Psychology from Ramon Llull University. She is currently Associate professor and research fellow at University of Barcelona (Faculty of Economics and Buisness). She has developed her career in education and consultancy. Her research interests revolve around trust in leadership, organizational trust, group process, effectiveness, as well as the emergent issues of HRM and organizational performance: presenteeism and absenteeism, the evolving nature of careers and cross-cultural management. She was recipient of several competitive research grants. She participated in various research projects and published peer review papers on strategic HRM and organizational effectiveness, attendance at work, as well as trust in leadership, work in teams and peers’ feedback.

Room 1037, 690 Building

This study aims to further unveil how transformational leadership and team cohesion foster effective team performance, studying the interactive role of three contextual variables: previous performance, consensus on leadership and consensus on cohesion. We computed a moderated-mediation model based on a sample of 690 professional players on 59 top professional interactive sports league teams (hockey, indoor football/soccer, handball and basketball) in Spain. Our findings suggest that transformational leadership indirectly influences objective team performance through the mediation role of team cohesion and that this indirect effect is more prominent when the level of previous performance is higher. We also found that the indirect effect of transformational leadership on team performance via cohesion is stronger in teams with higher consensus regarding their coaches’ leadership but weaker in teams with higher consensus on team cohesion. Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of integrating contextual variables into research models, in particular, previous performance and consensus.

Merce Mach obtained her PhD in Psychology from Ramon Llull University. She is currently Associate professor and research fellow at University of Barcelona (Faculty of Economics and Business). She has developed her career in education and consultancy. Her research interests revolve around trust in leadership, organizational trust, group process, effectiveness, as well as the emergent issues of HRM and organizational performance: presenteeism and absenteeism, the evolving nature of careers and cross-cultural management. She was recipient of several competitive research grants. She participated in various research projects and published peer review papers on strategic HRM and organizational effectiveness, attendance at work, as well as trust in leadership, work in teams and peers’ feedback.

This research (*) submitted to the Academy of Management 2019 Annual meeting was selected for inclusion in the 2019-Proceedings as one of that year’s Best Papers (Top 10%)
(*) Mach, M. (2019). The leadership contextual model:​ The role of past performance and team consensus.​ In Guclu Atinc (Ed.). Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth​ Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.​ Online: ISSN:2151-6561.

Aula Magna, 690 Building

The Actuarial Day is the meeting of the UBZurich Challenge program in which participating teams of the business case present their concluding results. The UBZurich Challenge Program is the annual education activity organized by the UB Zurich Chair in which students of the Master in Actuarial and Finance Science of the University of Barcelona participate in a business case study. The aim of the business case is to provide an opportunity for students to apply their skills on a real world problem under the supervision of professionals of the insurance sector.

In this 7th edition, 12 students from the UB Master of Actuarial and Finance Sciences, organized in three teams, worked during four weeks in the business case entitled ‘“Holistic proposition for SME business”. After the teams’ presentations, the winner of the Zurich Experience Award 2020 will be disclosed. The Zurich Experience Award consists of a three-day visit to the headquarters of the Zurich Insurance Group in Zurich (Switzerland).

Registration is only open to EMBA alumni.

Room 4224, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

This study proposes, through weighted averages and ordered weighted averaging operators, a new aggregation system for the investigation of average gases emissions. We present the ordered weighted averaging operators gases emissions, the induced ordered weighted averaging operators gases emissions, the weighted ordered weighted averaging operators gases emissions and the induced probabilistic weighted ordered weighted averaging operators gases emissions. These operators represent a new way of analyzing the average gases emissions of different variables like countries or regions. The work presents further generalizations by using generalized and quasi-arithmetic means. The article also presents an illustrative example with respect to the calculations of the average gases emissions in the European region.

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Conflicts are part of nature, and certainly part of human relations. People experience conflict with other persons, in teams or groups, as well as between larger entities, departments, organizations, communities, and countries. Conflicts appear at home, at work and in our spare activities with friends; with people we love and with people we hate, as well as with our superiors and with our subordinates and co-workers.  Parties need to accept conflicts as part of life dynamics and learn to deal with them effectively and efficiently. Conflict management refers to the way we manage incompatible actions with the other, being this other a person or a group (Elgoibar, Euwema and Munduate, 2017).

In this research seminar, we will present the key concepts of the research area, following a systematic bibliometric approach. These methods can be used to help researchs improve the transparency, credibilty, and inclusivity of their literature reviews. A discussion with the audience will follow the presentation.

Keywords: Conflict, Negotiation, bibliometric study, systematic reviews, organizational behavior

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