Amparo Blázquez-Soriano

• PhD Business Administration and Management
• Polytechnic University of Valencia

This research explores sentiments of live-tweeting during the first 2021 Peruvian Presidential debate. We focus on citizens' social media engagement during political debates, because this may have the potential to affect opinion formation about candidates, as well as to encourage (or discourage) election participation. To reach this goal, we explor...

CONTEXT In the last few years, the effects of climate change have impacted heavily on the agricultural sector, particularly in developing countries provided their high vulnerability. In this sense, knowledge and information transference could act as a strategic support service to improve the resilience of their farming systems, as this would help f...

This study aims to foresee the future of organic farming in the smallholder agricultural systems of the Valencian Region (Spain), as well as to identify how different drivers of change may affect such a future. To do so, two qualitative methodologies were combined: The Delphi method and the participatory scenario development. The results estimate a...

En el contexto del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES), las universidades basan el diseño y evaluación de sus planes de estudio en el sistema de créditos ECTS. Este sistema facilita la comparación de las titulaciones y así, la movilidad de los estudiantes. Sin embargo, se vienen observando deficiencias en su papel como elemento cuantificad...

The purpose of this paper is to propose an intelligent system to automatically monitor the firms’ engagement in e-commerce by analyzing online data retrieved from their corporate websites. The design of the proposed system combines web content mining and scraping techniques with learning methods for Big Data. Corporate websites are scraped to extra...

The series of HEAd conferences have become a leading forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences and research results relating to the preparation of students and the organization of higher educational systems. The fifth edition (HEAd’19) was held in Valencia, Spain during 25-28 June 2019. This preface gives an overview of...

Public policies have encouraged the proliferation of technology platforms that support the transition towards sustainable agriculture and the development of innovations in the food system. Provided the difficulty associated with assessing the outputs and outcomes of technology platforms, this work proposes a practical assessment method based on the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent changes in corporate websites reflect firms’ survival. Since keeping a website online involves some costs, it is likely that firms would invest resources on it only when they are active and healthy. Therefore, when a firm dies, this event is likely to be manifested on its website as la...

Research methods in economics and social sciences are evolving with the increasing availability of Internet and Big Data sources of information. As these sources, methods, and applications become more interdisciplinary, the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA) is an excellent forum for researchers and prac...

The series of HEAd conferences have become a leading forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences and research results relating to the preparation of students and the organization of higher educational systems. The fourth edition (HEAd’18) was held in Valencia, Spain during 20-22 June 2018. This preface gives an overview o...

This chapter explores which business structural characteristics (size, age, productivity, technology level and area) affect the adoption of Twitter by companies, as well as their use intensity and online influence. Data regarding 405 manufacturing firms were collected from their financial statements and Twitter accounts and, three regressions were...

The Data Big Bang that the development of the ICTs has raised is providing us with a stream of fresh and digitized data related to how people, companies and other organizations interact. To turn these data into knowledge about the underlying behavior of the social and economic agents, organizations and researchers must deal with such amount of unst...

The World Wide Web (WWW) has become the largest repository of information in the world, providing a data stream that grows at the same time as the scope of the Internet does in society. As with most Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), its digital nature makes it easy for computer programs to analyze it and discover information. This...

In the transition to the digital economy, the implementation of e-commerce strategies contributes to foster economic growth and obtain competitive advantages. Indeed, national and supranational statistics offices monitor the adoption of e-commerce solutions by conducting periodic surveys to businesses. However, the information about e-commerce adop...

This volume contains the selected short papers and posters of the Second International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’16), which was held in Valencia, Spain during 21-23 June 2016. After this second edition, the series of HEAd conferences have become a leading forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences and...

Frequent testing provides opportunities for students to receive regular feedback and to increase their motivation. It also provides the instructor with valuable information on how course progresses, thus making it possible to solve the problems encountered before it is too late. Frequent tests with noncumulative contents have been widely analysed i...

Economic indicators are essential for economic studies, forecasts and economic policy designs. To meet their objective, they should be available in a frequent and timely fashion. However, official data are usually released with a long delay. Web-based economic indicators can be made available on real-time basis, thus contributing to alleviate this...

The purpose of this article is to infer indicators about the export orientation of firms from the analysis of their corporate websites. Using a data set of manufacturing firms, two logistic regressions were performed and compared: one considering some firm structural variables, and another considering some web-based variables. Results showed that t...