Online seminar

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Room 1037, 690 Building

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.

Room 1037, 690 Building

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

Room 1037, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

This event is organized by:

• Department of Business
• Centre Antoni de Capmany. Department of Economic History, Institutions, and World Policy and Economics
• Universitat de Barcelona Business School

With the support of:

• Research project PGC 2018-093971-B-100 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Suffering is a significant and pervasive, though often neglected, aspect of organizational life, especially for organizations that must deal recurrently with painful situations.Thus, navigating the contradictory needs to work effectively while protecting the self from distressing experiences is a recurrent challenge for many organizational members. In this article, by means of an ethnographic study at a Hospice in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, we aim at refining our understanding of organizations dealing with suffering others, routinely putting its members under emotional distress. Specifically, we ask: what are the micro and organizational processes that allow organizational members facing distressing situations to create a culture of compassion?

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

Seminar Room 3, Espais de Recerca (ERE)

The deadline for abstracts submissions is October 15th, 2019

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Email: marketing.decision.making@gmail.com

The aim of the 4th On / Off International Conference in Marketing Decision Making is to develop a space for discussion and provide ideas, methodologies and techniques that facilitate marketing decision making in a competitive and uncertainty markets. Abstracts related to the improvement of marketing management in the company, tourism as a business, University-Business collaboration and teaching innovation in marketing and business are welcome.

Room 1037, 690 Building

The bibliometric study is an indispensable tool to map the state of the art in a given area of scientific knowledge and identify essential information for various purposes, such as prospecting research opportunities and substantiating scientific researches. The objective of this seminar is to present a method of bibliometric analysis for mapping the state of the art and identifying gaps and trends of research. This method provides researchers means to identify and support paths towards the development of scientific projects.

Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

¿Sabías que el siguiente paso de la llamada Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) es el Emprendimiento Social Corporativo (ESC)? Por ahora, más bien las empresas han adoptado las prácticas y certificaciones de rigor en sus industrias, habiendo pasado por lo que Zadek (2004) llama las etapas de “defensiva” y de “cumplimiento” de la RSC; la gestión de la huella social y ambiental de la actividad económica generalmente se acepta como parte del costo de hacer negocios. Sin embargo, queda mucho por hacer, si las empresas van a trasladar su RSC a actividades de comportamiento satisfactorio y llevar su compromiso con la sociedad y el medio ambiente al siguiente nivel; deberán repensar sus enfoques actuales y comprometerse con recursos sustanciales, tanto dentro como fuera de su control directo, para actividades de Emprendimiento Social. ¿Cómo lo lograrán? ¿Qué elementos como factores de éxito propician valor social dentro de las industrias? Los estudios empíricos sobre ESC son pocos (Linna, 2012) y en el caso de la industria automotriz, el emprendimiento social, es particularmente interesante, debido a que está inmerso en contextos desafiantes y con una visión global de la problemática social y medioambiental a la que están expuestos (Boutempo, 2012).

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Aula Magna, 690 Building

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Room 1037, 690 Building

Drawing on an exclusive dataset of more than 106,000 items of comic art sold at auction, we build quarterly and semi-annual indices for American and European comic art. We find that this new type of alternative investment outperformed US and European equities and bonds. Between 2002 and 2017, annualized returns of US comic artworks clearly outperformed most asset classes with a solid 11% annualized return, while European comic art achieved 25% yearly returns on average in the period after 2009. We show that comic art delivers significant diversification benefits to an investment portfolio thanks to low correlations with other assets and to the geographical diversification between European and American markets. These outcomes contrast with fine art in general, which delivered few diversification benefits when compared to equities and bonds between 2002 and 2017, and whose geographical markets are closely tied to each other.

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Room 1037, 690 Building

This seminar aims to share my experience and, all that I have learned, during the last seventeen years of publications in better and worse journals and about the exciting world of journals, editors, reviewers, etc. Through a very practical approach, full of examples and cases, I will explain some key elements of the structure of papers that can help you avoid the well-known “rejection” message of the editor.

Room 1037, 690 Building

Los mercados y las organizaciones actuales son sistemas complejos. Para comprender y gestionar su complejidad intrínseca, se requieren estrategias que vayan más allá de la intuición y los métodos analíticos tradicionales. En los dos últimas décadas, la simulación basada en agentes ha surgido como un nuevo paradigma de investigación en ciencias sociales. El punto clave de los modelos basados en agentes es describir sistemas complejos desde la perspectiva de sus unidades constituyentes y su comportamiento. Si bien su uso en áreas como la economía o los mercados financeros se ha incrementado en los últimos años, en el área de empresa es todavía incipiente.

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Sala de Graus, 690 Building

Room 1033, 690 Building

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Sala de Recepcions, 690 building
Room 1038, 690 building

Master thesis presentations schedule HERE

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Aula Magna, 696 Building

Aula Magna, 696 Building

Rooms 1031 | 1032 | 1034 , 690 Building

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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

Presentations HERE.