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Description: This session is aimed at helping doctoral students at the Faculty of Economy and Business, and their supervisors, to create a data management plan for their theses. It is required to include this plan in the general research plan of any doctoral programme at the University of Barcelona since 2019, and its relevance is increasing every year in the field of social science. The main elements of a plan, practical aspects and previous experiences will be presented during the session.

Program:

• Introduction: research data management plan
• The relevance of a data management plan
• The data management plan for doctoral theses at UB
• Previous experiences
• Questions and Answers
• Conclusions

Advisors:
Marti Segarra, Min Zhang

Thesis comittee:
Chair: Dr. Frederic Marimon (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)
Secretary: Dr. Josep Maria Argilés Bosch (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dr. Pere Ortín Angel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

If you are interested in attending, register HERE.

Advisor
Montserrat Pareja Eastaway

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dr Pau Rausell Köster (Universitat de València)
Secretary: Dr María de la Cruz Del Río Rama (Universidad de Vigo)
Member: Dr Mº Beatriz Plaza Inchausti (Universidad del País Vasco)

Advisors
Claudio Cruz Cazares

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dr Josep Rialp Criado (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Secretary: Dr Vesna Savic (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dr Nicola Del Sarto (University of Florence)

Advisors
David Alaminos
Emilio Vizuete

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dra. Montserrat Guillén Estany (Universitat de Barcelona)
Secretary: Dr. Mario Arias Oliva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Member: Dr. Orlando Manuel Martins de Lima Rua (Polytechnic Institute of Porto)

Programme.

Advisor
Montserrat Crespi

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dr F. Javier de la Ballina Ballina (Universidad de Oviedo)
Secretary: Dr Santiago Forgas Coll (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dra Berta Ferrer Rosell (Universitat de Lleida)

Advisor
Laura Guitart

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dr Frederic Marimon Viadiu (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)
Secretary: Dr Montserrat Crespi Vallbona (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dr August Francesc Corrons Giménez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Advisor
Anna Maria Gil Lafuente

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dr Vicente Liern Carrión (Universitat de València)
Secretary: Dr Francisco Javier Arroyo Cañada (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dr Luciano Barcellos de Paula (Universidad Católica del Perú)

Programme.

Advisors
Paloma Miravitlles | Jorge Matute

Thesis comittee
Chair: Dr María Belén Derqui Zaragoza (Universitat Ramon Llull)
Secretary: Dr Santiago Forgas Coll (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dr Sara Catalán Gil (Universidad de Zaragoza)

If you are interested in attending online, register HERE 48 hours before the event.

Advisors
Josep Maria Argilés Bosch

Thesis committee
Chair: Dr Josep García Blandón (IQS Business School – Universitat Ramon Llull)
Secretary: Dr Diego Ravenda (Toulouse Business School – Campus Barcelona)
Member: Dr Tobias Hahn (ESADE Business School – Universitat Ramon Llull)

Programme.

Abstract

Environmental sustainability strategies have gained traction in recent years in response to the growing awareness and demand from stakeholders to address contemporary challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, the mechanisms through which environmental sustainability drives firm value are not sufficiently well-understood. Using a global firm-level dataset that covers 2228 firms between 2009 and 2019, this paper demonstrates that environmental sustainability drives firm value through three different mechanisms, namely building capabilities, signalling and eco-innovation. These strategies are found to exert different effects on firm value, especially across firms with low and high firm value. The findings indicate that signalling and innovation strategies have a positive and relatively homogeneous impact across all deciles of firm value, while building capabilities is only beneficial for firms with very low market value.

Advisors
Elio Shijaku
Nizar Abdelkafi

Thesis committee
Chair: Dr Victor Martin Sanchez (University of Southern Denmark)
Secretary: Dr Fariza Achcaoucaou (Universitat de Barcelona)
Member: Dr María Teresa Bolívar Ramos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Before May 3rd. It is possible to sign up as a group, with people who already know each other, you just have to indicate it on the registration form.

This study extends research on the insurance-like protection offered by corporate social responsibility (CSR) against negative events by unpacking the concept of moral capital. We propose two pathways to generating this moral capital, depending on whether firms’ CSR is targeted at a foreseen or unforeseen negative event. Applying this distinction, we argue that the effectiveness of each pathway depends on the firm’s institutional context. Specifically, engaging in CSR once events can be foreseen provides the more effective insurance when stakeholders’ interests are protected by strong institutions. Conversely, in institutional contexts with weak protection of stakeholders’ interests, the firm may derive more such benefits when it engages with its stakeholders at the time the negative event cannot yet be foreseen. Using employee downsizing as our empirical setting, we find that our sample of 18,083 firm-year observations distributed across 59 countries provides support for our argument.

This study introduces a novel framework based on “alliance tensile strength” to understand strategic alliance failure, integrating insights from a resource-based view (RBV) and transaction cost economics (TCE). Our simulation model, analyzing factors like resource availability, innovation capability, relationship quality, partner preferences, and partner alternatives, identifies a critical stress threshold beyond which the alliance cannot recover and, therefore, is prone to failure. The findings highlight the importance of these factors in alliance understanding the transition from resilience to failure. We also present the Strategic Alliance Resilience Toolkit, a practical tool for alliance managers to enhance resilience strategies and mitigate failure risks. This research offers valuable theoretical and practical insights, bridging the gap between academic understanding and the management of strategic alliances.

Despite decades of research, the impact of internationalization level on performance still lacks consensus. Our objective is to show that this is partly due to the use of different methods of measuring variables. We conducted a first study on the global automotive sector over a 10-year period using various methods to measure internationalization on one hand, and performance on the other hand. Our results validate our hypotheses. We believe that by using different indicators, researchers measure very different dimensions of internationalization and performance. Our research indicates that it would be useful to return to more in-depth analyses of the link between different forms of internationalization and different facets of performance.

Whatever it takes – Antecedents and consequences of leader bottom-line mentality

An exclusive focus on organizational results helps leaders narrow down on what is essential, but when taken too far, it may lead to ignoring anything else along the way. This bottom-line mentality (BLM), a unidimensional frame of mind prioritizing bottom-line results at the expense of other important outcomes, has been exemplified globally in recent high-profile organizational scandals. It appears that leaders who approach their work with a BLM tend to pursue these outcomes by any means necessary – even if it meant engaging in ethically problematic behaviors for personal, environmental or organizational functioning. This seminar will give an overview of current understanding around the antecedents and consequences of leader BLM and present findings from a large multi-national study.

This study addresses the impact of evolving organizational dynamics on career paradigms, focusing on protean careers in the context of boundaryless trajectories. Framed within social cognitive career theory, we investigate how protean career orientation, perceived self-efficacy, and managerial competencies acquired at higher education influence subjective career success. Employing a two-wave research design over three consecutive years, we collected data through two online questionnaires, the second one 9-12 months after the first survey. We tested our research model via structural equation modelling (SEM) and path modelling techniques, applying AMOS and the PROCES macro tool. Our findings based on 217 participating management alumni reveal that early career conditions, particularly self-efficacy and protean career orientations, predict subjective career success. A moderated mediation analysis indicates that a high perception of managerial competencies enhances the effect of self-efficacy on career success through protean career orientation. This study builds on existing research by investigating how formal knowledge acquired at university contributes to future career success. It underscores the importance of proactive individuals with a protean orientation and heightened career self-efficacy, providing theoretical insights and practical implications for predictors of career success.