MSCA-IF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Business Organization

Professor Víctor Jesús García Morales, from the Department of Business Organization at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidates interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF) in 2018 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (more information: http://sl.ugr.es/09Qg).

Brief description of the institution:

The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. It serves more than 60000 students per year, including many foreign students, as UGR is the leader host institution in the Erasmus program. UGR, featuring 3650 professors and more than 2000 auxiliary personnel, offers a total of 75 degrees through its 112 departments and 28 centers.

UGR is also a leading institution in research, located in the top 5/10 of Spanish universities by a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, or international funding. UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking (http://www.arwu.org/), and it is also well recognized for its web presence (http://www.4icu.org/top200/).

Internationally, we bet decidedly by our participation in the calls of H2020, both at partner and coordination. For the duration of the Seventh Framework Programme, the UGR has obtained a total of 66 projects, with total funding of 17.97 million euros, and for H2020, until 2015, more than 25 projects with total funding of more than 6 million euros. Our more than 3,000 researchers are grouped into 365 research groups covering all scientific fields and disciplines.

Brief description of the Centre/Research Group

The University of Granada is the second oldest University of Europe(1531). It receives students and scholars from 114 countries and it is recognized for its excellence in research in many fields. Currently it is the third University of Spain according to the Shanghai international ranking (ARWU). In 2016 the number of published scientific papers indexed in Journal Citation Reports, JCR, was near 3000, of which more than half were in Q1 journals. In addition, Granada University is developing 26 research projects under FP7 and H2020programs, and it is currently the second University of Spain concerning national research projects.The European Commission has granted to the University of Granada (UGR) the 'HRS4R' (Human Resources Strategy for Researchers) seal, which recognizes the efforts of research institutions and entities that finance R & D when adopting a series of good practices in hiring researchers and technical personnel. The Faculty of Economics and Management comprised more than 300 teachers and researchers in 25 departments. The Faculty is one of the bigger of Granada University, with 7,300 students enrolled in this faculty during the last academic year. It has also a preeminent place main as center of research. According to the impact factor, Economics is the 3th field of knowledge with a higher number of research papers of Granada University. Percentage of International authorship in these papersis near 50%. Concerning the Department of Business Organization the research group ISDE is a research group focused on topics related to entrepreneurship, knowledge management, innovation, sustainability, learning and is responsible of more than 250 research papers, more 50 Phd thesis, more 50 research projects and so on.

Project description

Social and technological networks in business activity is receiving increasing attention at a social, corporate, and researchers level to analyze the impact of these networks on companies and the environment. The main purpose of the project is to analyze: 1) the influence of social and technological networks as sources of knowledge and wealth in companies (technological sectors); 2) positive consequences of the management of social and technological networks in cross-organizational organizational aspects (e.g., innovation, human resources, entrepreneurship); 3) identification of contingent factors that influence these relationships; 4) Analysis of companies in strategic sector from a competitive perspective. Companies take advantage of the advantages based on the generation of knowledge through ICTs, achieve competitive advantages associated (social and technological networks are essential tools for knowledge management systems improving the processes of creation, storage, recovery, transfer and application of internal and external knowledge, promoting innovation and entrepreneurship).

Methodology: it is intended to offer a theoretical model and contrast it empirically allowing obtaining evidence on the potential of networks as sources of knowledge generation, innovation and corporate entrepreneurship, and adopting measures to improve the competitiveness of European companies. Research plan: 1) review of the relevant literature, 2) proposal of a study model and design of measurement instruments, 3) field work, 4) information processing and 5) dissemination of results. Dissemination plan: joint actions with socio-economic agents and publication in ISI-JCR journals.

Research Area

• Economic Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities (ECO-SOC)

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents below to Professor Víctor Jesús García Morales (victorj@ugr.es):

• CV
• Letter of recommendation (optional)