Cristina Suárez

Universidad de Alcalá

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Sonia Quiroga

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Pablo Martínez-Juárez

Universidad de Alcalá

Virginia Hernanz

Universidad de Alcalá

Justo de Jorge Moreno

Universidad de Alcalá

José Evelio Aguiño

Universidad de Alcalá

Cecilia Latorre Cosculluela

Universidad de Zaragoza

Juan Muro

Universidad de Alcalá

Zuzana Sarvašová

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Tim Taylor

University of Exeter

Aline Chiabai

Basque Centre for Climate Change

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Advisory Board Company (United States)

Universidad de Alcalá

Universidad de Zaragoza

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Heidelberg University

Loyola University Medical Center

Loyola University Chicago

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

University Hospital Heidelberg

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Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

Sustainability (2017)

Inés Suárez‐Perales Concepción Garcés‐Ayerbe Pilar Rivera Torres Cristina Suárez

This study analyses strategic proactivity as a driving factor in the implementation of an advanced environmental strategy in a firm. Strategic proactivity is defined as a firm’s tendency to initiate voluntary changes instead of reacting to events in the environment and according to previous literature, can be interpreted as a combination of internal factors that characterise a firm’s business strategy as that of a prospector firm. In this study, we measured this through innovation, with two variables related to the firm’s entire production cycle: R&D expenditure and patents. However, we also considered two more strategic proactivity indicators: innovation proactivity and internationalisation proactivity. These two proactivity variables take into account the innovative and international actions of the firms, going beyond the actions usually taken by firms in the same sector. Using panel data methodology, we obtained results that show that firms who invest in R&D and patent their innovations achieve more advanced positions in their environmental strategies. Empirical evidence also shows that firms with a greater innovation effort throughout the production cycle (product, process, organisation and marketing) than their competitors also attain more advanced positions (proactivity) in environmental matters. In other words, innovation proactivity is a driver of environmental strategy. In relation to internationalization, the results also showed that firms that operate in a larger geographical area than their competitors adapt to the most demanding environmental legislation, placing them in a position of environmental leadership in their respective sectors. The inclusion of internationalization as an indicator of strategic proactivity, the measurement of proactivity variables and the correction of firms’ specific unobserved aspects are some of this paper’s contributions.

Competitor analysis

10.3390/su9101870

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Diseño de un software para obtener el informe de planificación mensual de equipos industriales

Geominas (2009)

Diógenes Suárez Darwin Bravo Cristina Suárez Mario Alejandro Muñoz León E Rodríguez

El objetivo que se persigue con la realizacion de este trabajo, consiste en el diseno de un software que genere de forma automatizada el Informe de Planificacion Mensual por equipos en una linea de produccion. Este documento sirve para evaluar la gestion de mantenimiento en plantas industriales, basandose en una serie de indicadores asociados a la planificacion [2]. Esta herramienta fue concebida bajo el lenguaje de programacionVisual Basic y se apoya de una potente base de datos, como lo es Access 2003 [5]. Para el diseno de este programa se procedio al desarrollo de cuatro etapas las cuales se describen a continuacion: la primera consistio en el diseno de una ventana para el registro de equipos y repuestos asociados a la linea de produccion en estudio. La segunda se fundamento en el diseno de una ventana que permite el ingreso de materiales y repuestos para ejecutar las actividades de mantenimiento [2]. La tercera etapa consistio en generar la ventana vinculada a la Orden de Trabajo y, la ultima, esta representada por la ventana que permite procesar toda la informacion asociada al Informe de Planificacion Mensual [6]. Entre las conclusiones mas relevantes destaca que el desarrollado es versatil y sirve de ayuda para evaluar y tomar decisiones a tiempo en el escenario industrial, lo cual se traduce en un ahorro de tiempo en la gestion del mantenimiento. El resultado mas importante en este trabajo se refiere a la disposicion de una herramienta computacional que tendra un mayor control sobre los equipos y una mejor capacidad de respuesta

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Flipped Classroom model before and during COVID-19: using technology to develop 21st century skills

Interactive Technology and Smart Education (2021)

Cecilia Latorre Cosculluela Cristina Suárez Sonia Quiroga Natalia Sobradiel-Sierra Raquel Lozano-Blasco

Purpose The confidence placed in the use of technology and other computing resources is an important support for the deep transformation toward processes of very high quality teaching-learning based on active learning. This paper aims to present and describe a higher education experience with Flipped Learning before and during the transformation of education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the study analyzes the effectiveness perceived by university students of Flipped Learning for the development of competencies for the 21st century. Design/methodology/approach For this study, a quantitative methodology is used in which 376 university students fill out a questionnaire after experiencing several sessions with an inverted classroom under both onsite and online instructions. Findings On average, the results show a high agreement among students on the benefits or effectiveness that learning designs with Flipped Classroom have on the development of skills that will be useful for their personal and professional future. These competencies include character building, collaboration, communication, citizenship, critical thinking and creativity. At the same time, and depending on some control variables such as the modality of teaching (onsite or online), the course, the predisposition to innovate or previous experience with innovation, significant differences are also observed. Originality/value Education and learning have the need to respond to the different educational and training needs for the future. In this sense, the Flipped Classroom methodology allows the development of skills for the 21st century. In turn, this approach also makes it possible to approach blended learning. Experiences such as the one described in this study will characterize the future of education.

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Value (mathematics)

10.1108/itse-08-2020-0137

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A Technological Scenario for a Healthier, More Equitable and Sustainable Europe in 2040: Citizen Perceptions and Policy Implications

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2019)

Arlind Xhelili Rosa Strube Francesca Grossi Iva Zvěřinová Tim Taylor

This article aims at exploring, understanding and comparing European citizens’ insights and perceptions towards “My life between realities”, a positive future scenario which depicts a narrative of reaching healthier, more equitable and sustainable societies by 2040 with the support of technology and technological solutions. It responds to the need for gathering and incorporating more citizen insights into future policy developments and strategic actions to tackle the global challenge of unsustainable development. Citizens of five European countries—the Czech Republic, Germany, North Macedonia, Spain and the United Kingdom—have been consulted through focus groups. The exercise has uncovered citizens’ preferences and attitudes towards four main lifestyle areas; namely, green spaces, energy efficient housing, active mobility and (food) consumption. The technological attributes of the scenario led to citizens expressing diametrically opposed and critical perceptions and attitudes. Given the prospects of technology in driving sustainable development, based on these insights, policy recommendations for the better integration and acceptance of technological advances by the public are discussed herein.

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Sustainable Consumption

10.3390/ijerph17010231

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A spatial analysis of the relevance of community organizations as an insurance against the economic and environmental vulnerability of Colombian cacao producers.

Sonia Quiroga Cristina Suárez Virginia Hernanz José Evelio Aguiño

The future of replacing illicit crops with cocoa in the South-Pacific region of Colombia goes far beyond the economic viability of these plantations. The process of social and ecological restoration (SER) that this process implies is intrinsically linked to the role of local organisations and the support of international non-governmental organisations, which are introducing the main technical improvements conditional on the achievement of social improvements. Here we analyse the situation in the South-Pacific region of Colombia, a territory traditionally dominated by illicit crops, inhabited by vulnerable Afro-American communities, and where post-conflict agreements are having a special relevance due to the high level of violence. This paper analyses the determinants of differences in the selling price of cocoa, assuming that the decision to be able to sell cocoa dry and access international markets is directly related to the support received by farmers. To be able to obtain a sustainable production of quality dry cocoa, the main requirement for accessing international market prices, is conditioned by access to adequate infrastructures. And, without access to this higher quality production, the substitution of illicit crops does not seem viable, and with it the environmental sustainability and social cohesion of the territory. Therefore, we analyse the determinants of farmers' ability to sell dry cocoa: percentage of cocoa damaged by pests, the pressure of violence. To do so, we use spatial econometric models, as these have been found to be more appropriate than other types of models. And we show that increasing the participation of producers in community councils supported by international NGOs is fundamental to achieving a better cocoa price.

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Market access

10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16861

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Potential-energy surfaces for the Li+HF reaction. MRDCI study of the ground- and lower excited-states for doublet LiFH

Chemical Physics (1995)

Alfredo Aguado Cristina Suárez Miguel Paniagua

Diatomic molecule

Potential energy surface

Open shell

10.1016/0301-0104(95)00343-0

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Growth and evolution of technical efficiency among entrant versus incumbent firms: the Spanish retail sector

Service Industries Journal (2011)

Cristina Suárez Justo de Jorge Moreno

This study investigates two objectives using a cohort approach: first, the firms' growth and, second, the technical efficiency of entrant and incumbent firms with a non-parametric approach, keeping in mind changes in the Spanish retail environment. The results obtained suggest, on the one hand, that evidence suggested by Gibrat's Law has not been fully proven. In this sense, smaller firms within their cohort membership grow faster than larger ones. On the other hand, our results indicate significant differences in the efficiency by sector. In this sense, entrant and incumbent firms shift the frontier in non-specialized and specialized sectors, respectively.

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Stochastic frontier analysis

Retail industry

10.1080/02642069.2011.594875

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Estimación de la disponibilidad mediante la simulación de Montecarlo aplicado a una planta productora de nitrógeno

Geominas (2008)

Diógenes Suárez Darwin Bravo Cristina Suárez M. A. González León

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Climate change and drought effects on rural income distribution in the Mediterranean: a case study for Spain

Sonia Quiroga Cristina Suárez

Abstract. This paper examines the effects of climate change and drought on agricultural outputs in Spanish rural areas. By now the effects of drought as a response to climate change or policy restrictions have been analyzed through response functions considering direct effects on crop productivity and incomes. These changes also affect incomes distribution in the region and therefore modify the social structure. Here we consider this complementary indirect effect on social distribution of incomes which is essential in the long term. We estimate crop production functions for a range of Mediterranean crops in Spain and we use a decomposition of inequalities measure to estimate the impact of climate change and drought on yield disparities. This social aspect is important for climate change policies since it can be determinant for the public acceptance of certain adaptation measures in a context of drought. We provide the empirical estimations for the marginal effects of the two considered impacts: farms' income average and social income distribution. In our estimates we consider crop productivity response to both bio-physical and socio-economic aspects to analyze long term implications on both competitiveness and social disparities. We find disparities in the adaptation priorities depending on the crop and the region analyzed.

10.5194/nhessd-3-4353-2015

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Do Water Rights Affect Technical Efficiency and Social Disparities of Crop Production in the Mediterranean? The Spanish Ebro Basin Evidence

Water (2014)

Sonia Quiroga Zaira Fernández-Haddad Cristina Suárez

The coming agenda for the European Common Agricultural Policy includes more incentives for the environmental compliance of farmer’s activities. This will be particularly important in the case of water risk management in Mediterranean countries. Among the new challenges is the need to evaluate some of the instruments necessary to comply with the Water Framework Directive requirements that emphasize the management of water demand to achieve the environmental targets. Here we analyze the implications of changing water rights as a policy response to these challenges. We analyze two important aspects of the decision: (i) the effects on the crop productivity and efficiency and (ii) the effects on the rural income distribution. We provide the empirical estimations for the marginal effects on the two considered aspects. First, we calculate a stochastic frontier production function for five representative crops using historical data to estimate technical efficiency. Second, we use a decomposition of the Gini coefficient to estimate the impact of irrigation rights changes on yield disparity. In our estimates, we consider both bio-physical and socio-economic aspects to conclude that there are long term implications on both efficiency and social disparities. We find disparities in the adaptation strategies depending on the crop and the region analyzed.

Production–possibility frontier

Water Framework Directive

Common Agricultural Policy

10.3390/w6113300

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