Ángeles Pereira

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• PhD in Economics and Business
• Profesora contratada doutora at University of Santiago de Compostela

El desbordamiento de los límites ecológicos del planeta reclama una urgente y profunda transformación del actual modelo económico para caminar hacia una economía circular y sostenible, conscientemente respetuosa de esos límites. Como economistas, debemos superar el corsé del discurso convencional aportando diagnósticos rigurosos de las causas de l...

Circular economy goals have made their way towards the very heart of EU policy, promising the delivery of both economic and environmental goals, but key to their achievement is the active involvement and participation of businesses. Scholarly literature has made considerable headway in describing the diverse CE business model archetypes and the ena...

Los urgentes retos medioambientales que la sociedad debe afrontar en el futuro próximo reclaman la reconsideración del modelo de producción y consumo lineal dominante, así como el paso a una economía más circular y sostenible. El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un análisis teórico-conceptual sobre el papel de las actividades de servicios, jun...

This paper analyses the role of consultancy services in the transition towards a Circular Economy (CE). To this aim, the paper brings together two different strands, the emergence of a new Circular Economy paradigm as a complex innovation process which faces many barriers and the innovative role of Knowledge Intensive Services (KIBS). Among KIBS, c...

Energy Service Companies are one of the most promising sustainable business models that may support the transition towards a more sustainable energy system and mitigate climate change. The existence of multiple barriers in the ESCO market suggest that public procurement is a useful tool to promote these innovative business models, reducing some of...

In economies that are based on natural resources, efforts to achieve sustainability still seem unclear, especially in manufacturing companies. As a result, from a business perspective, many manufacturers have adopted various strategies to maintain their competitiveness in line with environmental regulations. In addition to product and process innov...

This paper deals with the efficiency and sustainability of Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) management in 30 Member States of the European Economic Area (EEA) (the 28 European Union countries plus Norway and Iceland) for the period 2010–2016 using Exploratory Data Analytics (EDA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The first stage of the pr...

The circular economy (CE) defines a new paradigm of production and consumption that seeks to reduce resource consumption and to extend the useful life of products and services through various strategies and closed loops, by trying to avoid waste generation as much as possible or by using waste as a resource for new processes. As such, innovative bu...

p>Eco-innovation is defined as any directed/oriented innovation aiming at reducing environmental impacts. Eco-innovation is not only a technology change; it also embraces organisational, social and system innovations. This systemic and complex thinking is necessary to understand the role of eco-innovation as an enabler of Circular Economy (CE). Cir...

This chapter provides a framework for using public procurement of innovation to trigger servitization with environmental goals. The research builds upon several cases of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in the Canary Islands, showing different scenarios faced by public procurers concerning energy services. The framework suggests four stages to help...

Eco-innovation is defined as any innovation aimed to get a reduction of environmental impacts. Eco-innovation is not only a technology change; it also embraces organisational, social and system innovations. This systemic and complex thinking is necessary to understand the role of eco-innovation as an enabler of Circular Economy (CE). Circular Econo...

Fresh pasteurized milk consumption is evaluated from environmental and socio-economic perspectives. Two different supply chains are analysed: traditional supply chain and vending machines—a circular business model based on a short supply chain. Milk vending machines show that consuming milk in proximity, eliminating intermediaries between producers...

Neste traballo analízase a importancia do proceso de terciarización do sector agrario galego e as súas características en relación co modelo agrario rexional. É un fenómeno que recibiu pouca atención na literatura e, porén, é unha realidade dunha importancia crecente para entender o desenvolvemento agrario e o desenvolvemento rexional. A distribuci...

The servicising approach in vineyard protection is considered a valid alternative to achieve decoupling between the economic and environmental performance of viticulture. In this paper, a policy package is designed to promote the uptake of a servicised model of vineyard protection in an area of smallholding viticulture. In doing so, a specific meth...

The adoption of a servicizing approach to pest control has been pointed out as a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of the agricultural sector. However, and especially in smallholding agriculture, the adoption of crop protection services is quite limited and the "calendar" approach is still dominant. The objective of this paper is to defin...

The use and management of new technologies is acknowledged as a key tool in the acquisition of competitive advantages in all the sectors. Particularly in the tourism sector, the use of website may influence the ability of companies to get to new markets. This paper aims at analysing the relation between the use of websites by companies of the touri...

In this paper the importance of the tertiarisation of the Galician agricultural sector and its main features in relation to the regional agricultural sector are analysed. It is a phenomenon that has received scarce attention in the literature, though it is a reality that deserves attention in order to favour the understanding of the agricultural an...

Servicizing has been identified as a business strategy that may contribute to the improvement of the environmental performance of economic activities. This paper analyses the organisational and environmental effects of servicizing in the farming sector. In particular, a case study of three Galician dairy farms which become members of cooperatives t...

Objectives/Rationale: The spread use of pesticides in agriculture, at least in the more intensive models of production, has important consequences in the environment and in people’s health. The challenge of environmental sustainability in the agricultural sector may be faced through different practices, with organic farming being one of the most re...

Objectives/rationale: This paper explores the barriers to adopt a servicized model of crop protection in viticulture, basing on grape wine growing in the Designation of Origin Rías Baixas (Galicia, Spain). Servicizing in the agricultural sector has rarely being studied although some existent works indicate the potential to reduce the environmental...

A través de una revisión bibliográfica este trabajo busca analizarla efectividad de los instrumentos de política ambiental, en particular los demando y control, instrumentos de mercado y planes voluntarios, que promuevenla ecoinnovación. Este trabajo analiza la información presentada en 40 artículosde investigación publicados en revistas con proces...

In this paper we conduct a systematic literature review with the aim of understanding the effectiveness of environmental policy instruments, in particular, command and control, marketbased instruments and voluntary schemes, in promoting eco-innovation. This study analyzes the information presented in selected papers, mainly from peer-reviewed journ...

The dramatic and continuous drop of the cow milk price paid to the dairy farmers has triggered new marketing channels, avoiding intermediaries in the supply chain. During the last 20-30 years, farmers were joined in co-ops to strengthen their interests. However, milk price has even decreased more in the last years. Recently, some farmers are joinin...

This paper explores the contribution of servitization practices to improve the environmental performance of economic activities. In particular, it focuses on the outsourcing of specific activities through cooperatives in the livestock farming sector. Therefore, the objective of the paper is twofold: firstly, we propose a conceptual framework to cla...

Servicizing has been defined as a shift from selling products to selling functionality. As an innovative business model, the approach tries to realize economic and environmental benefits at the same time. This paper focuses on how the servicizing approach may help small organizations to overcome structural and other barriers and to adopt complex su...

The necessity of addressing the challenge of sustainability has brought forth in recent years several approaches to enable greener paths of development for economies. From the field of engineering and environmental sciences servicizing or product-service-systems (PSS) have been studied since the end of the 1990’s as an innovative strategy linked to...

The increasing interest in eco-innovation or environmental innovation as a strategy not only to address the serious global environmental problems but also as a source of competitive advantages for companies and for the emergence of new business areas, leads us to try to identify the different factors that act as determinants of its development and...