Programa de Doctorat en Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Challenges of the Mexican Financial System: Empirical Studies on Financial Inclusion and Banking Competition
Dircio Palacios Macedo, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 2025-11-07)
The research presented in this PhD Thesis provides new empirical evidence on the dynamics of financial inclusion and banking competition in Mexico. By studying the probability and the determinants of establishing a branch ...
Big Data and Social Media for Sustainability: Proposal for a framework and methodology to foster People Sustainable Behavior and to assess Corporate Sustainability
Barbeito Caamaño, Adriana Macarena (Date of defense: 2025-10-08)
A large part of the population is not aware of the importance of sustainable behaviours and continues engaging in behaviours like failing to recycle, littering in natural settings, wasting water, overconsuming, etc. On the ...
Three essays in consumption and social dynamics
Pinna, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2025-07-07)
The Ph.D. thesis dissertation, “Three Essays in Consumption and Social Dynamics,” investigates the underlying determinants of consumer behavior and the influences arising from social norms through a rigorous exploration ...
La influencia del capital social y la proximidad sobre los resultados de innovación: una aplicación en la industria agroalimentaria de la Región de Coquimbo, Chile
Chacana Ojeda, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2025-07-16)
Este trabajo de tesis doctoral analiza las relaciones existentes entre las empresas de un territorio, Tras una revisión teórica y la determinación del objeto de estudio, se realizaron tres estudios empíricos para comprender ...
Exploring the dark side of engagement: hidden costs to job satisfaction and well-being
Papanestoras, Christos (Date of defense: 2025-07-17)
This thesis examines the less explored side of employee engagement, particularly how it relates to emotional labor, stress, and job satisfaction. While engagement is often seen as positive, the research shows that it can ...
Factores de éxito en los equipos de trabajo de los sistemas Lean Management
Garcia Palao, Cristina (Date of defense: 2025-04-07)
Los sistemas Lean se basan en una serie de principios cuya implantación incluye recursos técnicos y humanos, donde se desarrollan los equipos de trabajo multifuncionales. El objetivo principal de esta tesis es investigar ...
Impacto de la divulgación sobre sostenibilidad en la dimensión medioambiental en los informes no financieros de las empresas europeas que utilizan la metodología GRI para su elaboración y publicación
Muñoz Ramirez, Dennis Esther (Date of defense: 2025-03-21)
Esta tesis investiga el impacto de la divulgación ambiental en los informes no financieros de empresas europeas que utilizan la metodología GRI para su elaboración, centrándose en el tono narrativo y el nivel de divulgación ...
Decision-Making under Flow Dynamics: Deconstructing Behavioral Patterns on Portfolio Management
Rodriguez Revilla, Cristhian Andres (Date of defense: 2024-07-26)
This thesis delves into the behavioral patterns of managers within active equity mutual funds, focusing on their trading decisions influenced by various dimensions of return, risk, and capital flows. We pioneer a novel ...
The Economic Powerhouse: Corporate Profitability and Growth from the 19th to the 21st Century
Babirat, Christian (Date of defense: 2024-02-20)
Three research projects are at the core of this thesis. Their common point of departure is the seminalpaper by Alfarano et al. (2012), in which the authors analyze the statistical and distributional patternsthat characterize ...
La experiencia de clientes, modelos de madurez y las micro experiencias
Gallardo García, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2024-06-21)
La tesis doctoral examina la Experiencia de Clientes (CX), destacando su evolución más allá de la satisfacción de clientes hacia una comprensión profunda de los aspectos emocionales, cognitivos y conductuales de las ...
Incidencia e impacto de la COVID-19 en el sector organizador de eventos profesionales: caso concreto de los viajes de incentivo
Sánchez de Mora Vidal, María (Date of defense: 2024-03-26)
La pandemia de COVID-19, declarada por la OMS como una emergencia global en marzo de 2020, ha desencadenado una crisis sin precedentes en el sector de eventos, afectando especialmente a los viajes de incentivo. La falta ...
Searching new organizational paradigms: empirical analysis about Self-Management Teams, organizational behaviors and Well-Being
Barghouti, Zina (Date of defense: 2024-03-01)
In response to pressing social challenges such as economic inequality and job instability, this thesis explores alternative management models to transcend traditional structures. Focusing on analyzing behaviors like ...
Sustainability implementation and management in organizations. Proposal of framework, methodologies and business intelligence computer tools.
Ferrer Estévez, María (Date of defense: 2024-02-15)
The thesis, titled "Sustainability Implementation and Management in Organizations: Proposal of Framework, Methodologies, and Business Intelligence Computer Tools," explores the integration of sustainability into organizational ...
Turismo sostenible. Contribución a su desarrollo desde un triple enfoque: Certificaciones de empresas hoteleras, percepciones de los futuros directivos y el impacto de shocks externos
Rodríguez García, Roberto de los Milagros (Date of defense: 2024-01-30)
La sostenibilidad es fundamental para el desarrollo del sector turístico mundial. El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar la contribución de la sostenibilidad al turismo desde un triple enfoque. El primer enfoque examina las ...
Institutions, growth and comparative economic development: geographical and methodological perspectives
Aparicio-Pérez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2024-01-26)
This thesis investigates the impact of institutions on economic growth and development, a key area in economic research. While recognizing the broad consensus on the importance of institutions, it delves into how specific ...
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Behavior of Employees: Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences
Badoiu, Georgiana-Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)
This thesis sheds light on the factors that stimulate entrepreneurship within companies, both at the organizational level, by analyzing corporate entrepreneurship (CE), and at the employee level, by studying the entrepreneurial ...
The implications of FinTech for traditional banking and regional economic development in China
Wu, Minzhi (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
Over the past decade, the emergence of FinTech has reshaped the landscape of the financial sector worldwide. Although there are several alternative approaches to defining FinTech, a worldwide and generally accepted definition, ...
What drives the tax compliance attitude of individuals? The role of social ties, welfare state and environmental concern in tax morale
Cascavilla, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)
The present thesis aims to provide new empirical evidence on how the tax compliance attitude of individuals could be shaped by three factors: the social capital, the intergenerational labour mobility, and the individual ...
Gender differences in social preferences: experimental evidence
Doñate-Buendía, Anabel (Date of defense: 2023-06-05)
This thesis sheds light on the relevance of gender differences that are consistently found on economic experiments under diverse contexts. Gender (here understood as biological sex) is a crucial element determining ...
Economacy Strategies for Countries with Crises
Sawayfa, Khalil Abdalaziz Khalil (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
As part of this thesis, a conceptual and analytic framework for understanding economic diplomacy is presented, so that its missions, tools, and activities are better understood. Economic diplomacy can be conceptually ...

