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Aula Magna, 696 Building

Aula Magna, 696 Building

Rooms 1031 | 1032 | 1034 , 690 Building

Master thesis presentations HERE.

Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: Familiness, the bundle of idiosyncratic resources and capabilities (Habbershon, Williams, & MacMillan, 2003) related to family involvement and interactions with a firm, has been shown to affect the way family firms create strategies. Dimensions of familiness include power, experience, and culture (Astrachan, Klein, & Smyrnios, 2002; Klein, Astrachan, & Smyrnios, 2005). Within the culture dimension of familiness, a key element is the presence of family business values, a group of social principles, goals, and standards that define what members of an organization care about (Hatch 1997). Family business values highlighted in the literature include honesty, commitment, fairness, responsibility, integrity, quality, industriousness, and ethical conduct (Koiranen, 2002) . These are thought to strongly influence the ways a family firm governs, operates, develops strategies, and makes decisions (Koiranen, 2002). While research on family firms is flourishing, particularly on topics such as definitional issues (Chrisman, Chua, & Sharma, 2005; Gedajlovic, Carney, Chrisman, & Kellermanns, 2012; Sharma, 2004), governance (Aguilera & Crespi-Cladera, 2012), competitive advantages (Carney, Gedajlovic, Heugens, Van Essen, & Van Oosterhout, 2011; Hitt & Sirmon, 2003; Miller, Le Breton-Miller, & Lester, 2011; Zellweger, Eddleston, & Kellermanns, 2010), and succession (De Massis, A., Chua, J. H., & Chrisman, J. J. 2008; McKee, Madden, Kellermanns, & Eddleston, 2014), scholars have yet to fully explore family business values. Although addressed in various conceptual papers (Distelberg & Sorenson, 2009; Fletcher, Melin, & Gimeno, 2012), there seems to be a paucity of empirical papers on family business values. In this paper, we address the role of family business values in supporting post-acquisition integration, which is an important issue in the mergers and acquisition (M&A) literature (Viegas-Pires, 2013), and particularly within the context of cross border mergers and acqusitions. Although many cultural elements of post-acquisition integration have been studied, many remain unexamined (Riikka M. Sarala, Vaara, & Junni, 2017): specifically family business values (FBV) in cross-border acquisitions.

Keywords: family firm internationalization, cross border acquisition, integration, family business values

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Room 4224, 690 Building

Abstract
In this work, we propose a non-parametric density estimation technique for measuring the risk in a credit portfolio. The novel method is based on wavelets, and we derive closed-form expressions to calculate the Value-at-Risk (VaR), the Expected Shortfall (ES) as well as the risk contributions to VaR (VaRC) and ES (ESC). We consider the multi-factor Gaussian and t-copula models for driving the defaults. The results obtained along the numerical experiments show the impressive accuracy and speed of this method when compared with crude Monte Carlo simulation. The methodology presented applies in the same manner regardless of the model used, and the computational performance is invariant under a considerable change in the dimension of the model selected. The speed-up with respect to the classical Monte Carlo approach ranges from twenty-five to one-thousand depending on the model used.

Keywords: Risk Management, Value-at-Risk, Expected Shortfall, Portfolio Credit Risk Contributions, Shannon Wavelets

Room 1000, 690 Building

Abstract: The impact of digitisation has moved to the centre of debates on contemporary work and employment. There is a widely held belief that work mediated by digital platforms will keep expanding (see Huws et al. 2016) and be adopted as an organisational and employment model by increasing number of firms. The digitization of society and the economy poses both opportunities and risks (CIPD 2017, Kalleberg and Dunn 2016). However, recent publications highlight that digitisation brings about power shifts away from digital labour (Graham et al. 2017) toward platform owners and employers (Kenney and Zysman 2016), who access digital labour at low cost and without any moral obligation (Bergvall-Kareborn and Howcroft 2014). Subsequently, concerns abound about the consequences of actions of digital actors resulting in insecurity of employment and lack of social protections (Berg 2016, Forde et al. 2017). Despite the practical and institutional obstacles to organize, we are witnessing attempts by digital workers to exercise their agency and actively shape their reality. This is evident in the legal challenges and industrial action but also through innovative use of software. This presentation will shed light on the process of designing a large research project focusing on the exploration of collective and individual agency exercised by digital workers, both technological and non-technological, to enhance their dignity. In particular, it will focus on the challenges stemming from the proposed adoption of participatory action research (PAR). Participative action research approach (Park 1999, 2006) involves co-production of research with its beneficiaries, leading to enhanced application of findings directly useful to beneficiaries. It enables cross-feeding of ideas and findings between the stakeholders to optimise outcomes and generate knowledge that can inform their approaches to pursuing the desired outcome, in this case the dignified digital labour.

Keywords: participative action research (PAR); digital economy, digital labour, modern working practices, dignity of labour.

Short Bio: Iwona Wilkowska is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Management and HR Analytics at Westminster University and a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include the impact of technological developments on workers, organisations and society.

Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: Individuals often experience incidental device-delivered haptic feedback (e.g., vibrational alerts accompanying messages on mobile phones and wearables), yet almost no research has examined the psychological and behavioral implications of this technology-mediated touch on users. Drawing from theories in social psychology, computer science, and communications, we begin to address this gap by exploring how device-delivered haptic feedback can influence consumer responses. Across four studies, we find that haptic alerts accompanying messages can improve consumer performance on related tasks and demonstrate that this effect is driven by an increased sense of “social presence” in what can otherwise feel like an impersonal technological exchange. These findings provide applied value for mobile marketers and gadget designers, and carry important implications for consumer compliance in health and fitness domains.

Keywords: haptic feedback, consumer performance, social presence.

Short Bio: Ana Valenzuela has a Part Time appointment at ESADE Business School. Her regular appointment is as Full Professor at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. She holds a PhD from University of Madrid, Autónoma and an MBA from Georgetown University. She was a Research Fellow at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley for three years. She has also served as a faculty member at INSEAD, Santa Clara University, China-Europe International Business School, Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Singapore Institute of Management, San Francisco State University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Instituto de Empresa. Ana began her professional career with AC Nielsen, serving as a marketing consultant for multi-country projects informing consumer goods markets. In addition, she worked in marketing research for PubliEspana (TV5), The Advisory Board Company, Hello America and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Room 1002, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Aula Magna, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: The role of peer feedback in the acquisition of teamwork skills, which are increasingly recognized as valuable toward thriving in organizations. The focus of the talk will be on the use of ITPMetrics.com system for research on peer feedback and teams. We will provide more details of some of the studies that have already been conducted, and explore with participants potential avenues for future research. For example, current research has found that users who have used a peer feedback system multiple times outperform first time users in teams. Also, we have found that repeated use of a peer feedback system while at university makes team members more comfortable evaluating their peers providing important practical training to providing performance evaluations on the job as supervisors/managers.

Keywords: Team work, Peers feedback, longitudinal research.

Short Bio: Dr. Magda Donia is associate professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the University of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). Her work on peer feedback has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and published in peer reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Learning and Education and Learning and Individual differences. One of the important findings of her longitudinal research is that use of a peer feedback system in higher education leads to the development of teamwork skills in users which at university and that these gains transfer into the workforce. In addition to her research on peer feedback, she has also published research on employee attributions of corporate social responsibility and motives underlying organizational citizenship behaviors.

In addition of this Research focus talk on Wednesday at 3:30 pm., we also scheduled two other sessions:
a) on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Room 1000 (Teaching focus) and
b) on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Room 1000 (Hands on Overview of the ITPMetrics.com System).
The ITPMetrics.com is currently available in five languages (including English & Spanish).

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Sala de Graus, 690 Building

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** 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5)

Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: Compositional Data analysis (CoDa) is the standard statistical methodology when data contain information about the relative importance of parts of a whole. Many research questions in the field of management are either related to the distribution of a whole (e.g., market share, product or investment portfolios, family budgets, etc.), or to relative importance (e.g., financial ratios, relative prices, etc.). This paper presents the manner in which CoDa solves statistical problems that arise when treating compositional data with classical statistical methods (e.g., spurious correlations, meaningless distances, violation of statistical assumptions). It next presents three applications. The first concerns the evolution of tourist spending in Spain between 2006 and 2012 and constructs market segments on the basis of how tourists distribute their trip budget among transportation, accommodation & food, and activities. The second relates innovated product portfolios of firms to their open innovation and their marketing innovation activities. The third is an analysis of risk sources in an investment along time. In this case, we show that predictive models for compositional data improve those that work with non-compositional values. Some other case studies are briefly descried,

Keywords: Compositional data analysis, log-ratio methodology, market segmentation, tourist spending, cluster analysis, MANOVA, open innovation, risk allocation, time series

Short Bios: Germà Coenders Gallart received his PhD in Management Sciences at the Ramon Llull University in 1996 and is currently a Professor of Quantitative Methods for the Economy and Business in the Economics Department of the University of Girona. At this university, he belongs to the Research Group in Statistics, Econometrics and Health (GRECS), the Consolidated Research Group Compositional and Spatial Data Analysis-COSDA-(2014SGR551; 2017SGR656), and the Food and Gastronomy Campus. Currently his main research interest is the analysis of compositional data in economics and management, and has pioneered some applications in the field. He is a founding member of the Association for Compositional Data CoDa-Association.

Montserrat Guillén Estany is Professor of Quantitative Methods at UB and she is currently Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance at City, University London. She is director of the Institute of Applied Economics and the Riskcenter research group. In 2018 she was an invited speaker at the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk at the University of California, Berkeley. She is associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, a senior editor of Astin Bulletin – the official journal of the International Actuarial Association-, co-editor for the North American Actuarial Journal and editor of SORT-Statistics and Operations Research Transactions. She is the ranked the first woman in actuarial science by number of academic citations.

Room 1037, 690 Building

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Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: Purpose: this study is aimed to empirically measure the effect that the deterrents have on the users attitude towards co-creation online.
Design/methodology/approach: The data from two different Internet societies the UK (306 users) and Spain (307 users) have been collected and compared by performing multigroup analysis across context, age, gender, and education level using structural equation modeling approach.
Findings: (1) there is a distinction in the effect of the deterrents have on the attitude moderated by the context: in the case of the UK the deterrents don’t have a significant effect on the attitude towards co-creation online; (2) younger men exhibit a higher level of positive attitude and higher effect of the motivators towards attitude; on the contrary old women exhibit a higher level of the deterrents effect ; (3) the individuals with basic education level exhibit a higher level of the deterrents’ effect.
Research limitations/implications: The generalizability of the results across different cultures requires further examination and cross-validation.
Practical implications: The research indicates quantitatively to which degree the deterrents affect the attitude towards co-creation online, which in turn shapes the users’ participation behavior. The multigroup analysis of two different Internet cultures (Spain and the UK) provides practitioners with information how different contexts may affect the effect that deterrents and motivators may have of the attitude.
Originality/value: The first study up-to-date that empirically examines the effect the deterrents have on the attitude towards co-creation online simultaneously including the relationship that the motivators have on the same attitude.

Keywords: co-creation, online, deterrents, PLS-SEM.

Short Bio: Josep Rialp is associated professor of Marketing and Market Research at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His main research areas are international marketing, marketing metrics and international business. He is author or co-author of different articles published in international and national journals as: European Management Journal, Frontiers in Psychology, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Promotion Management, Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Spanish Journal of Marketing, Transformations in Business & Economics.

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Room 1037, 690 Building

The talk will consist in an overview of how communication can be studied in the laboratory and in the presentation of some specific research on the effects of communication in organizational environments. Some experiments on gender differences in competitiveness will also be presented.

Aula Magna, 690 Building

Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building

Is there a direct relationship between Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Manuscript Rejection Rates (MRR) in academic journals? Given the traditional use of JIF as a performance indicator in bibliometric literature, we revisit this question through the theoretical lens of performance feedback to explore JIF-based journal aspirations and their effect on MRR. While extant research on performance feedback has provided numerous contributions about the consequences of financial-based performance feedback, little is known on other non-financial performance categories despite recent calls on the topic. We use secondary data on the 30 primary journals affiliated with the American Psychological Association (APA) from the period 2004-2017 to test our hypotheses. We find that journal performance below social aspirations has a negative impact on the rejection rate of submitted manuscripts while performance above social aspirations increases manuscript rejection rates. Additionally, we find that performance above historical aspirations decreases MRR. We contribute to both bibliometric literature and performance feedback literature by studying the effect of JIF as a journal performance feedback indicator on the rejection rate of submitted manuscripts.

Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building

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Room 1037, 690 Building

The idea is to deliver a tailored seminar, to show different results (papers) depending on the needs of the audience and experience in DEA or/and SFA. The seminar will address alternative methodological approaches to the conventional models commonly classified as non-parametric and parametric methods. Several approaches are used in order to overcome specific limitations that the methodologies present compared to the other. Within the non-parametric techniques, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used and as parametric models, Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The literature shows a lack of usage of SFA in empirical studies compared to DEA. The conventional DEA models present some limitations; for example, they tend not to incorporate time-related effects. Empirical examples of both methodologies are drawn based on the application to the Spanish airports with the aim to estimate and to confirm the consistency of the Spanish airports’ efficiency across time.

Room 1037, 690 Building

The Emerging Market Multinationals Report (EMR) 2018 is the third of a series of reports on emerging market multinationals (eMNCs) published by the Emerging Market Institute (EMI) at Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Building on the findings of previous years, the 2018 report examines the growing presence emerging market multinationals on the global stage and compares their performance with other firms from advanced economies.

Room 1037, 690 Building

Bibliometric metrics is a research field of library and information sciences that studies the bibliographical material in a quantitative way.

Room 1037, 690 Building

We apply institutional economics and human capital perspectives to advance research on the influence of institutional factors predicting entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We use data that combines individual and country level information over the period 2006-13. The main findings suggest that some institutions represent a barrier to new ventures’ development (cost of property registration and fear of failure) while others may enhance it (access to credit and role models). Additionally, the role of entrepreneurs’ human capital appear to be moderated by the institutional context. We find that those entrepreneurs holding higher levels of human capital investment would attenuate their growth aspirations when regulation, access to credit, and fear of failure, will not be favorable. However, the influence of role models would strengthen that relationship.

Room 1001, 690 Building

Seminar organised by: Research Group on Risk in Insurance and Finance & Research Group on Actuarial and Financial Modelling

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Room 4224, 690 Building

Aula Magna, 690 Building

Aula Magna, 690 Building

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

The growing importance that knowledge and innovation are acquiring as the basis for economic development and growth has led universities to expand their traditional functions, spreading their commitment in the contribution to economic and social welfare through their so-called third mission. Certainly, universities have turned into one of the most important engines for regional development. However, these demands are not accompanied by a greater availability of resources. On the contrary, universities are struggling to carry out their teaching and research activities simultaneously, alongside technology transfer efforts. In this study we argue that due to the scarcity of resources and because universities follow different strategies with regard their three core missions (teaching, research and third mission), the assessment of universities’ performance should acknowledge this reality. Accordingly, we propose the use of qualitative comparative analysis to do so. More specifically we investigate the portfolio of technology transfer activities (including patents, spin-offs and R&D contracts) relaxing the traditional constraint that universities should conduct all types of technology transfer activities. Instead, our model allows universities to concentrate in the activity in which each university performs best. Data from the Spanish public higher education system is used. Two points of time are compared: 2008 and 2015.

Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: Literature on the antecedents of entrepreneurial employees has examined the role of different factors at different levels of analysis. However, the study of these conditioning factors is incomplete, limiting understanding of how entrepreneurship in established companies is developed and promoted. While the effect of certain contextual features has been theorized, the relationship between the environmental and individual level determinants is not clear. Therefore, we examine the determinants of entrepreneurial employee activity differentiating between the individual and the environmental levels of analysis, as well as, the interactions between these levels.

Bio: Andreu Turro is an assistant professor in Strategy and Organization at the Utrecht School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Management and a double BSc degree in Business Administration and Market Research from Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona (UAB). In addition, he also has a MSc in Marketing Management by ESADE Business School (Barcelona).

Aula Magna, 690 Building

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Aula Magna, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

En este seminario hablaremos de Web Scraping, una técnica para extraer información de páginas web de forma automatizada. Concretamente hablaremos de:

• Qué es web scraping
• Casos de uso
• El protocolo http
• El proceso detrás del web scraping
• Otra forma de extraer información: APIs
• Ejemplos de implementaciones en Python

Se mostrarán y discutirán varios ejemplos aplicados a la investigación de empresa.

El seminario estará abierto a dudas y discusión entre ponente y asistentes.

Room 4224, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Abstract: I will give an overview of my research experiences into efficiency modelling using Data Envelopment Analysis. Over the years I have applied this methodology to the management of prison services, police bodies, tax offices, oil companies, hospitals, schools, saving banks, micro-finance institutions, universities, and airports. Although some equations are necessary, I will try to keep the discussion to a non-mathematical level, concentrating on the issues rather than on the complexities of the models used.

Bio: Cecilio Mar Molinero is an Emeritus Professor from the University of Kent, in the United Kingdom. He qualified as a chartered engineer at the Politechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) a long time ago. He holds a Master in Operational Research from the University of Southampton, UK, and a couple of doctorates, one from Southampton University and another one from the UPC. He has worked as a management scientist in companies both in the UK and in Spain. He has many publications in the main journals of his discipline. He has been a visitor at the UPC, the University of Alcala, and Barcelona Autonomous University (UAB) amongst others. He currently does some teaching for the UAB and for the Pablo Olavide University.

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Room 1037, 690 Building

Firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) represent an important part of the economic activity in Jordan with 63.5% of market capitalization to GDP in 2016. However, there is little known about the ownership of Jordanian listed firms. This study is the first to document in details the ownership and control structures of more than 200 firms listed on the ASE. In this study I document the immediate ownership of shareholders who control over 5% of the votes in the sample firms. If principal shareholders are legal entities, I identify their owners, the owners of their owners and so on. Then, percentage control is computed using the weakest link rule to identify the ultimate controller at different cut-offs. If the corporation is identified as closely held I assign it one of the following identities: Family, Foreign, State, Widely Held Financial Institution, Widely Held Corporation and other. The study shows that around one third of listed firms are single firms with virtually no deviation between ownership and control. Single firms are mostly owned by families. The other two thirds of listed firms are group affiliated. In some cases control of group affiliated firms is enhanced by their ultimate controllers by the use of pyramids and cross holdings which leads to a diversion of voting rights and cash flow rights especially at the 5% and 10% levels. The control of group affiliated firms is mostly in the hands of families with some groups controlled by foreigners (mainly from the Saudi Arabia) and the state. Finally, corporate wealth is concentrated among a small number of investors, mostly families.

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Information risk is considered as a systematic risk factor in many asset pricing models. However, there is no agreement on the correct proxy for information risk. I will discuss two proxies for information risk, namely disclosure quality and accruals quality. I test the ability of modified Fama French model that includes information risk in explaining UK stock returns. Also, I run a horse race between those models and examine if they are complements or substitutes. The results indicate that they are substitutes rather than complements and consequently confirm that they proxy the same information.

Central hallway, 690 Building

Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building

Room 1106, 690 Building

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Aula Magna, 690 Building

Rooms 1033-1035, 690 Building

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