A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Publications on the Fuzzy Sets Theory

[EN] The publication opportunities in science require knowing the existing gaps in the academic debate. In recent decades, scholars specializing in fuzzy theory and applied methodologies have experienced an unprecedented evolution of the field. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have shaped the way socio-technical transitions use fuzzy methodologies to solve environmental problems. This study conducts a systematic literature review of articles published in the Journal Citations Report on these specific fields. The Web of Science (Core Collection) was used and a database was assembled (N = 1956) that allowed the evaluation of the evolution of the research agenda and detecting high-impact publication opportunities. A model of analysis of successful strategies in academic influence is proposed. The model is tested with a configurational methodology through fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). The conditions used are: number of authors, underlying interest of the researchers, standardized citations per year, age of the articles and link of the research with sustainability. The results are solid and inform five paths that ensure the success of academic publications in high-impact journals. The robustness of the model allows its extrapolation to other fields of research. The contribution of this article allows knowledge of the academic conversation and its research opportunities. In addition, it clarifies the different paths that guarantee high impact research articles. This article offers important recommendations for academics and journal editors, allowing them to guide and advise academic production in the scholarly debate of the future.This research was funded by ESIC Business and Marketing School under grant number 1-V-2021 and is part of the SEDDeS Research Group (Society, Digital Economy and Sustainable Development).Castello-Sirvent, F. (2022). A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Publications on the Fuzzy Sets Theory. Mathematics. 10(8):1-23. https://doi.org/10.3390/math1008132212310

Aplicación de Scrum en el aula como herramienta de innovación docente

Manual de uso de scrum en su adaptación al aulaCastello Sirvent, F. (2020). Aplicación de Scrum en el aula como herramienta de innovación docente. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/146348DE

Aplicació de Scrum a l'aula com a eina d'innovació docent

Manual d'ús de melé en la seva adaptació a l'aula.Castello Sirvent, F. (2020). Aplicació de Scrum a l'aula com a eina d'innovació docent. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/146341DE

Research Agenda on Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making: New Academic Debates in Business and Management

[EN] Systemic disruptions are becoming more continuous, intense, and persistent. Their effects have a severe impact on the economy in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments that are increasingly transversal to productive sectors and activities. Researchers have intensified their academic production of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) in recent years. This article analyzes the research agenda through a systematic review of scientific articles in the Web of Science Core Collection according to the Journal Citation Report (JCR), both in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). According to the selected search criteria, 909 articles on MCDM published between 1979 and 2022 in Web of Science journals in the business and management categories were located. A bibliometric analysis of the main thematic clusters, the international collaboration networks, and the bibliographic coupling of articles was carried out. In addition, the analysis period is divided into two subperiods (1979¿2008 and 2009¿2022), establishing 2008 as the threshold, the year of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), to assess the evolution of the research agenda at the beginning of systemic disruptions. The bibliometric analysis allows the identification of the motor, basic, specialized, and emerging themes of each subperiod. The results show the similarities and differences between the academic debate before and after the GFC. The evidence found allows academics to be guided in their high-impact research in business and management using MCDM methodologies to address contemporary challenges. An important contribution of this study is to detect gaps in the literature, highlighting unclosed gaps and emerging trends in the field of study for journal editors.Castello-Sirvent, F.; Meneses-Eraso, C. (2022). Research Agenda on Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making: New Academic Debates in Business and Management. Axioms. 11(10):1-37. https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11100515137111

Corruption Shock in Mexico: fsQCA Analysis of Entrepreneurial Intention in University Students

[EN] Entrepreneurship is the basis of the production network, and thus a key to territorial development. In this line, entrepreneurial intention has been pointed out as an indicator of latent entrepreneurship. In this article, the entrepreneurial intention of university students is studied from a configurational approach, allowing the study of the combined effect of corruption perception, corruption normalization, gender, university career area, and family entrepreneurial background to explain high levels of entrepreneurial intention. The model was tested with the fsQCA methodology according to two samples of students grouped according to their household income (medium and high level: N = 180; low level: N = 200). Stress tests were run to confirm the robustness of the results. This study highlights the negative impact produced by corruption among university students¿ entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, the importance of family entrepreneurial background for specific archetypes like female, STEM, and low household income students is pointed out, as well as the importance of implementing education programs for entrepreneurship in higher education, and more specifically in STEM areas. Policies focused on facilitating the access to financial resources for female students and low household income students, and specific programs to foster female entrepreneurship, are also recommended.Castello-Sirvent, F.; Pinazo-Dallenbach, P. (2021). Corruption Shock in Mexico: fsQCA Analysis of Entrepreneurial Intention in University Students. Mathematics. 9(14):1-31. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9141702S13191

El papel del alumnado en la propuesta y diseño de acciones docentes

En aquesta investigació es presenta el Projecte d'Innovació Docent ComunicArte16 dut a terme en el curs 2015-2016 en l'assignatura Estructura Econòmica del Sector de la Comunicació del grau en Comunicació i Relacions Públiques d'ESIC Business & Marketing School, on van participar 21 alumnes. ComunicArte16 té com a objectiu incrementar la participació de l'alumnat a través de la proposta i disseny de les seues pròpies accions docents a realitzar a l'aula. A partir de les 14 accions proposades, es va sol·licitar a cinc docents especialistes en la matèria que revelaren les seues preferències d'acord amb els objectius del currículum de l'assignatura. Aquest procés s'ha articulat sobre quatre eixos: analitzar, connectar, experimentar i crear (ACEC), seguint com a referència el Model d'Estils d'Aprenentatge de Felder-Silverman (FSLSM). Per a la selecció d'accions docents de ComunicArte16 es va seguir el Procés Analític Jeràrquic (AHP) que, a través de la comparació aparellada d'alternatives de tipus autoexcloents, va brindar una prelació ponderada i va donar lloc a la selecció efectiva de 4 accions, una per a cada eix. L'anàlisi dels resultats avala una alta acceptació de ComunicArte16 entre l'alumnat, incrementant la participació activa a l'aula i millorant el seu compromís a través d'una major taxa d'assistència a classe

Sensible Leaders and Hybrid Working: Challenges for Talent Management

[EN] Talent Management (TM) was affected by unprecedented disruptions unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace. The sequential periods of international lockdown, in many cases, forced activities to be redirected for a blended or hybrid form of teleworking. Spatial mobility impacted on the performance of the TM. The impacts have been so deep and widespread that organizations had to adapt to crises using intensive Information and Communicating Technologies (ICT). Hybrid Work (HW) is a modality that became more usual after several COVID-19 waves and lockdowns. In this context, Talent Management depend on sensible leader's capabilities to attract, maintain, develop, and retain talents to strengthen organizational performance, productivity, and competitiveness, mainly in HW context. In this context, we use Factiva tool to check the relevance of this new way to work before and after the COVID-19 pandemics. This paper discusses some challenges to TM in HW as Relationship based on Trust, Team engagement, Knowledge management, Renewal of Organizational Culture, Inclusive practices and Life-work continuum (LWC). Finally, we present some trends for TM especially in HW to help organizations to counterbalance disruptive events in the future.Barbosa Da Silva, A.; Castello-Sirvent, F.; Canós-Darós, L. (2022). Sensible Leaders and Hybrid Working: Challenges for Talent Management. Sustainability. 14(24):1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416883116142

Three Decades of Fuzzy AHP: A Bibliometric Analysis

[EN] For decades, Fuzzy Sets Theory (FST) has been consistently developed, and its use has spread across multiple disciplines. In this process of knowledge transfer, fuzzy applications have experienced great diffusion. Among them, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (fuzzy AHP) is one of the most widely used methodologies today. This study performs a systematic review following the PRISMA statement and addresses a bibliometric analysis of all articles published on fuzzy AHP in journals indexed in Web of Science, specifically in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The analyzed database includes 2086 articles published between 1994 and 2022. The results show the thematic clusters, the evolution of the academic conversation and the main collaboration networks. The main contribution of this article is to clarify the research agenda on fuzzy AHP. The results of the study allow academics to detect publication opportunities. In addition, the evidence found allows researchers and academics setting the field¿s agenda to advise the editors of high-impact journals on gaps and new research trends.Castello-Sirvent, F.; Meneses-Eraso, C.; Alonso-Gómez, J.; Peris-Ortiz, M. (2022). Three Decades of Fuzzy AHP: A Bibliometric Analysis. Axioms. 11(10):1-34. https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11100525134111

La interactividad en la docencia universitaria presencial como herramienta de innovación para incentivar la involucración del alumno en el aprendizaje

[EN] In this communication we share a successful case of face-to-face teaching of the subject 'Information Systems in Business' within a Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering, consisting of the application of a pedagogical strategy with a manifest interactive nature, as an innovation tool to promote the degree of student engagement and thus improve their results and experience in the learning process. We describe what this strategy is based on, what are the most relevant aspects in its implementation from the point of view of the teacher and the student, and what differential results are observed in the students in relation to sessions with greater lecturing weight that continue to be prominent in the university education in Spain. As predicted by the literature, in our case this strategy results in a particularly significant way in greater motivation and engagement of the student which facilitates their learning process.[ES] En esta comunicación compartimos un caso de éxito de docencia presencial de la asignatura ‘Sistemas de Información en la Empresa’ dentro de un Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Industrial, consistente en la aplicación de una estrategia pedagógica con marcado carácter interactivo, como herramienta de innovación para fomentar el grado de involucración del alumno y mejorar así sus resultados y experiencia en el proceso de aprendizaje. Describimos en qué se fundamenta esta estrategia, cuáles son los aspectos más relevantes en su implementación desde el punto de vista del profesor y del alumnado, y qué resultados diferenciales se observan en los alumnos con relación a sesiones tradicionales con mayor peso expositivo que siguen predominando en la docencia universitaria en España. Según predice la literatura, en nuestro caso esta estrategia redunda de una forma especialmente significativa en una mayor motivación e involucración del alumno de cara a facilitar su proceso de aprendizaje.García Ortega, B.; Castello Sirvent, F.; Jordá Rodríguez, MA. (2021). La interactividad en la docencia universitaria presencial como herramienta de innovación para incentivar la involucración del alumno en el aprendizaje. En IN-RED 2021: VII Congreso de Innovación Edicativa y Docencia en Red. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 433-439. https://doi.org/10.4995/INRED2021.2021.13747OCS43343

Introducción a SABI

Objeto de aprendizaje que tiene como finalidad la presentación de SABI y supone una introducción a sus posibilidades y algunos aspectos relacionados con su uso.https://polimedia.upv.es/visor/?id=a9c2e210-df28-11ec-b017-bf498893fa21Castello Sirvent, F. (2022). Introducción a SABI. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/183916DE