Sala de Graus, Edificio 696

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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, Edificio 696

Sala de Graus, Edificio 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

Aula de Seminarios 3, Espais de Recerca (ERE)

La fecha límite para el envío de resumenes es el 15 de octubre de 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, Edificio 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

¿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, Edificio 690

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Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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, Edificio 690

Sala de Graus, Edificio 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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.

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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.

Disculpa, pero esta entrada está disponible sólo en Inglés Estadounidense.

Sala de Graus, Edificio 690

Disculpa, pero esta entrada está disponible sólo en Inglés Estadounidense.

Aula 1022, Edifici 690

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Sala de Recepcions, Edificio 690
Aula 1038, Edificio 690

Calendario de presentaciones del trabajo final de master AQUÍ

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Aula Magna, Edificio 696

Aula Magna, Edificio 696

Aulas 1031 | 1032 | 1034 , Edificio 690

Calendario de presentaciones del trabajo final de master AQUÍ.

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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

Presentaciones AQUÍ.

Aula 4224, Edificio 690

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

Aula 1000, Edificio 690

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.

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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).

Aula 1002, Edificio 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

Aula Magna, Edifici 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690 

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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, Edificio 690

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

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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.

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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

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** 7:00 PM to 7:45 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5)

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

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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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Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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, Edificio 690

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, Edificio 690

Programa AQUÍ

Aula 1037, Edificio 690

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.