Agenda

Description:

Matilde (University of Granada) will present her paper "Symbolic and substantive commitment to sustainability in new companies: the role of the perception of opportunities and organizational growth", together with Ana Maria Bojica (University of Granada).

You can find the summary below:

In this article we theorize and empirically analyze the factors that explain the voluntary adoption by new companies of behaviors that promote social and/or environmental sustainability as a response to regulatory pressures. Specifically, we propose that (1) the adoption of sustainable symbolic behaviors in response to regulatory pressures depends on the entrepreneur's ability to identify business opportunities (2) the adoption of symbolic behaviors is associated with the development of sustainable substantives in new companies and (3) ) this relationship is further moderated by the organizational growth of new companies. The results obtained in a sample of 1,588 new Spanish companies (less than three and a half years old), statistically representative at national level, show partial support for these hypotheses. We find that entrepreneurs who identify more business opportunities are also more likely to respond to regulatory pressures by adopting symbolic sustainable behavior that, in turn, are associated with the adoption of substantive sustainable behaviors.

Date: Wednesday 21, February2024 - 15:00h

End date: Wednesday 21, February2024 - 17:00h

Description:

Ana Barajas, Ana Aznar and Daniela León, PhDs and lecturers from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, will be in the expert's seat of the Science Carriage this week from 9:41 a.m. to 2:22 p.m. They will be talking with train passengers about the stigma related to mental illnesses. 

The first trajectory will begin at 9:41 a.m. from Sarrià to Sabadell Parc del Nord.

All three lecturers have participated in the Science Carriage podcasts, which are available here.

Next expert carriages

Place: Science Carriage, FGC. BCN-SABADELL 9:41 a.m. -> SABADELL PARC DEL NORD

Date: Thursday 22, February2024 - 09:41h

Description:

Our Macro students will present their work in progress in three sessions starting this week. Each session will last 80 minutes and will have two students. Your feedback will be very helpful as they refine their projects for the next progress review in May/June.

In this case, the presentation will take place on February 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. in Room B3.123C.

Date: Wednesday 28, February2024 - 13:30h

End date: Wednesday 28, February2024 - 14:50h

Description:

Lecturer David Sánchez will be in the Science Carriage expert's seet this week on the train travelling from Barcelona to the UAB and leaving from Plaça Catalunya at 11:28 a.m. Sánchez, lecturer in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and director of the Reseearch Group in Health and Weight-Related Problems, will be talking with passengers about obesity and eating disorders, and the associated stigma.

Sánchez has participated in the podcasts of the Science Carriage, which can be consulted at this link.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC Plaça Catalunya-UAB 11:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 29, February2024 - 11:20h

Description:

On March 4 at 14:45 am, we will find Mathias Thoenig (UNIL) in the IAE Seminary Room. 

Mathias Thoenig is Professor of Economics at the University of Lausanne School of Economics and Business and Visiting Professor of the Centennial of the PPE at the Department of Economics at Oxford University, in association with University College and Queen's College, Oxford. This visiting professorship marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the degree of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford. 

Mathias is also a CEPR researcher in international trade, macroeconomics and political economy programs and an elected member of the Council of the European Economic Partnership. He is a distinguished researcher at the IMD Business School. He has held visiting and statutory positions at the International Monetary Fund, MIT, Queen Mary University in London, Sciences Po Paris, the University of British Columbia, and Pompeu Fabra University. He also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of European Economic Association and International Economics.

His research interests include development, international trade, and the political economy of conflicts and migration.

Date: Monday 4, March2024 - 14:45h

End date: Monday 4, March2024 - 15:45h

Description:

The next 5th of March at 2.20 p.m Pierre Boyer (CREST - Polythechnique) will be presented at the IAE Seminar Room. 

For more information you can enter its website.

Date: Tuesday 5, March2024 - 14:20h

End date: Tuesday 5, March2024 - 15:20h