Jordi López-SintasAutonomous University of Barcelona | UAB · Departamento de Economía de la Empresa
Jordi López-Sintas
PhD in Management
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This article explores the heterogenous social mechanisms that drive responsible environmental behaviours by investigating differences in the mean effect of the psychosocial determinants of the intention to buy organic foods.
Design/methodology/approach
Using data for a representative sample of the Spanish population, we estimated the mean...
Working with SEM and cross-sectional data, and depending on the studied phenomenon, assuming an acyclic model may mean that we obtain only a partial view of the mechanisms that explain causal relationships between a set of theoretical constructs, given that variables are treated as antecedents and consequences. Our two-step approach allows research...
This study aims to explore the complex effects of post-purchase retargeting ads on consumer behavior, with a focus on expectation confirmation, satisfaction, and repurchase intentions. Additionally, it examines the influence of time spent online on these effects. Anchored in expectation confirmation theory (ECT), the study analyzes responses from 3...
This chapter was designed to specifically explore the effect of post-purchase retargeting ads on consumers’ confirmation of expectation and satisfaction. Data from 402 respondents having prior experience with post purchase retargeting ads after purchasing an e-tourism service was collected. The structural equation modeling technique was applied to...
We explore internet use and in-person leisure activities in young people depending on gender and age in an endeavor to uncover primary sources of heterogeneity in that relationship. Using a causal model, we analyze Catalan Youth Observatory 2017 Youth Survey data to explore causal links between internet use and in-person leisure, and using a segmen...
Most theoretical and empirical explanations of the generation of digital divides have been integrated into the resources and appropriation theory, which proposes a sequential model reflecting a socially unequally distributed digital divide. The unequal social distribution is reflected in internet use that is sequentially influenced by motivations/a...
This study examines how European Union (EU) citizens systematically differ in their environmental attitude-behavior relationships according to country-level contextual drivers. Using Eurobarometer data and a multilevel latent class regression model, we identified four attitude-behavior relationships that we labelled, according to mean environmental...
Working with SEM and crosssectional data, and depending on the studied phenomenon, assuming an acyclic model may mean that we obtain only a partial view of the mechanisms that explain causal relationships between a set of theoretical constructs, treated as antecedents and consequences. Our twogiven that variables are step approach allows researcher...
Explaining cross-national differences in individual pro-environmental behaviors is usually grounded in large, heterogeneous data sets. Consequently, research findings may over- or underestimate the effects of environmental variables of interest when analyzing cross-level interactions. This research contextualizes environmental behavior in the Europ...
We generalize and extend the sequential model proposed by the resources and appropriation theory to explain the digital divide in the European Union plus the United Kingdom (EU27+UK). We measure the theoretical constructs of the model with data provided by the EU and test the theoretical predictions using a partial least squares structural equation...
To identify the involvement outcomes of viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters and to measure the impact on series popularity, we capitalized on big data in the form of social TV viewers’ comments, sampled from nine Korean TV series with different popularity levels broadcast through the VIKI streaming website. We report evi...
We examine the first digital divide in a developing country, Thailand, exploring how resources and appropriation theory concepts explain internet use diversity. We find that computer and internet access opportunities are the primary drivers of internet use and also that their effect depends on individuals’ resources and social categories (particula...
While research exists regarding the internet’s influence on traditional forms of youth leisure, research based on a comprehensive set of leisure indicators is scattered. We explore how a set of young peoples’ in-person leisure activities are complemented by their internet practices, using a canonical correlation framework to estimate the relationsh...
Understanding the nature of consumers’ environmental behaviors will help design better environmental policies for a sustainable future. Drawing on the responsible environmental behavior (REB) theoretical framework, we disentangle the effects of social and psychological environmental factors on Europeans’ behaviors, considering that living contexts...
The new media provide alternative ways for consumers to enjoy TV series and fertile ground for researchers to analyse the stardom process. We analyse the case of Korean actors performing in K-drama productions that are globally made available through online platforms, testing alternative theories on the process of becoming a star. Socially shared e...
With the European Commission looking for ways to incentivize the adoption of circular economy (CE) activities by small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union (EU), further insights into the implementation of CE activities across member states are needed. We analyse a European Commission survey conducted in 2016 among approximatel...
The introduction and domestication of the information and communication technologies –ICT, in the home has transformed leisure activities Now, those technologies have an important role on leisure of households’ embers and the transformation in leisure activities and experiences is a necessary issue to explore, because we actually know little about...
The introduction of the information and communication technologies in the home has transformed free-time leisure activities. Adopting a constructivist and interpretive perspective, we analysed 30 individual narratives in order to describe how digital technologies have transformed home-based leisure activities. The findings show that the changes bro...
We analysed young people’s leisure activities in order to identify their leisure habitus, discover how they combined activities into leisure patterns, and examine how leisure patterns were socially structured. We argue that the effects of age, gender, and language on how young people’s leisure patterns are structured are mediated by social class. W...
The new information and communication technologies have made it possible to view films in different spaces. Using the symbolic interactionist framework as a frame of analysis, we interpret the meaning of the two experiences of viewing technology-mediated films in the home and in the cinema. We conducted field research during the first half of 2009,...
The fact that leisure is a social activity is recognized by individuals in this study as well as by researchers both past and present. However, free-time activities differ in their social dimension. Since digital technologies alter the meaning of leisure activities, they may also affect their social properties. In order to examine, within the const...
In recent times the legal framework governing copyright in Spain has been reformed continuously. Due to the access to and consumption of intellectual creations on the internet becoming easier and more widespread, the tensions between copyright and related rights holders and other social actors have heightened. In an attempt to resolve these conflic...
This legal, economic and social analysis of the evolution of copyright regarding cultural expressions highlights the socially constructed nature of the culture markets. The move from local to socially constructed global markets — where cultural expressions can now be consumed beyond the limits imposed by temporal and geographical distance — was mad...
This chapter explores the role played by intellectual property legislation in the creation of cultural expressions (books, music, films, etc) and its influence on markets and access. We describe the theoretical arguments underpinning intellectual property laws, review the empirical evidence and reconsider arguments in light of the evidence. Finally...
Previous research into the ethics of accessing information goods using alternative means (the informal economy or social exchanges) has failed to study the moral arguments used by music consumers to justify their behaviour or explain actions they considered to be (un)ethical. To fill this gap, we conducted a study from the perspective of music cons...
La introducción de las tecnologías de la información y la
comunicación en el hogar ha transformado las actividades realizadas
durante el tiempo de ocio, cambios que tienen implicaciones para el
funcionamiento de los hogares. No obstante poco conocemos acerca de
esos cambios. Desde una perspectiva constructivista e interpretativa
hemos analizado las...
Revisión del concepto de ocio: Una interpretación desde el ocio digital. En LópezSintas, J. (Ed.). La construcción social de la experiencia de ocio cultural. Barcelona, España: OmniaScience. pp. XXXX. Resumen Las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) han hecho posible participar en actividades de ocio y de trabajo remunerado fuera...
El desarrollo de las audiencias se ha convertido en un problema crucial para el sector cultural. Sin embargo para incrementar las audiencias, los gestores de los teatros de la Ópera y los gestores de políticas culturales necesitan conocer con precisión el proceso que siguen las audiencias de la ópera para disfrutar de una representación. En este tr...
Estudiar la experiencia de ver cine supone investigar al individuo como sujeto que produce significados de sus experiencias en la sala cinematografica. Con el objeto de describirlos e interpretarlos hemos disenado una investigacion fenomenologica cuyos datos proceden de 16 entrevistados con posiciones sociales heterogeneas. La descripcion realizada...
En este capitulo discutimos las implicaciones de los resultados de investigacion que hemos expuesto en los capitulos precedentes. Primero abordamos las transformaciones sociales que hemos observado, tanto para el trabajo como para el ocio, el consumo de ocio cultural y su produccion y distribucion. Las tecnologias digitales han transformado los esp...
Las primeras investigaciones que han estudiado el comportamiento etico de los consumidores que acceden a los bienes de informacion utilizando medios alternativos (economia informal o intercambios sociales) no han encontrado relacion alguna entre las escalas de etica utilizadas y el acceso a los bienes de informacion mediante medios alternativos. Si...
El desarrollo de las audiencias se ha convertido en un problema crucial para el sector cultural. Sin embargo para incrementar las audiencias, los gestores de los teatros de la Opera y los gestores de politicas culturales necesitan conocer con precision el proceso que siguen las audiencias de la opera para disfrutar de una representacion. En este tr...
Tradicionalmente las investigaciones han privilegiado el estudio de la experiencia museistica que tiene lugar durante la visita al museo, oponiendo la que denominan experiencia personal—de los que asisten solos—a la social—de los que asisten acompanados. En esta investigacion, en cambio, estudiamos la experiencia museistica de manera holistica, es...
Las nuevas tecnologias de la informacion y comunicacion han hecho posible disfrutar de la experiencia de ver pelicula cinematograficas en diferentes espacios. Enmarcado en la tradicion del interaccionismo simbolico analizamos el significado de la experiencia de ver films mediada por la tecnologia, en casa y en la sala cinematografica. La interpreta...
Audience development is a key issue in the cultural sector, so opera house managers and policy makers need to understand how and why opera goers enjoy an opera. Our research, which investigates opera enjoyment, is framed in the social constructivist paradigm and draws on interview data collected from 15 informants. Results suggest that certain pre-...
We address the subjective experience of social network gamers playing Restaurant
City, a game hosted on Facebook. We adopted a netnographic approach to studying
the culture of transient Internet communities shaping the player off-line commu-
nities. Fieldwork was conducted over the entire life span of the game (3 years). Data
were analyzed using a...
Information and communication technologies have made it possible to engage in leisure and
paid-work activities outside their usual context, thereby challenging the construction of their
meanings. We explored 30 individuals’ narratives in an endeavour to identify the properties
of digital leisure and paid-work activities performed in and out of thei...
Technological tools and digital contents are increasingly used in order to distinguish and add value to the tourist offer. The literature review confirms a wide application of new information and communications technologies for the creation of a wide variety of tourist products and services. Among these, digital storytelling for tourism promotion (...
Like the vynil several years ago transformed local music markets into national markets, now digital technologies and Internet have ignited a new social construction of music markets. However the story repeats again. The legal framework established by incumbents does not make it easy the transformation of the market. Like in the past, entrants have...
La educación de doctorado en España ha experimentado rápidos cambios estructurales. Considerando su membrecía en la Comunidad Europea, las políticas institucionales a nivel supranacional y nacional, han incidido en esos cambios. Este estudio se centra en los cambios de la política de educación de doctorado en España. Con el fin de explorarlos y con...
Audience development is a key issue in the cultural sector, so opera house managers and policy makers need to understand how and why opera goers enjoy an opera. Our research, which investigates opera enjoyment, is framed in the social constructivist paradigm and draws on interview data collected from 15 informants. Results suggest that certain pre-...
The digital leisure at home has transformed the leisure activities, not only introducing new activities, but also modifying traditional. In this research we analyze the practices of digital home leisure from the narratives of individuals aged 17 to 58 years interviewed in Barcelona on their practices of digital home leisure and entertainment under...
Prior research into the museum experience has prioritised the study of the visit itself, opposing the individual experience of visitors who attend alone to the social experience of those who attend accompanied. In this research, however, we study the social dimension of the art museum experience holistically, that is, before, during, and after the...
Spanish Abstract: La educacion de doctorado en Espana ha experimentado rapidos cambios estructurales. Considerando su membrecia en la Comunidad Europea, las politicas institucionales a nivel supranacional y nacional, han incidido en esos cambios. Este estudio se centra en los cambios de la politica de educacion de doctorado en Espana. Con el fin de...
We offer a multilevel analysis of a sample of individuals living in European countries to model the factors that generate individuals' breadth of musical tastes. We identify two groups of genres that we label contemporary and middlebrow. Individual level indicators explain the greater part of sample variation, suggesting that country characteristic...
The new information and communication technologies promote the creation, access and consumption of digital productions for tourism and leisure activities. The digital age has increased the demand and value of these intellectual creations in Internet while distinguishes the goods and services of tourism and leisure companies. However, the growing pr...
The digital age has transformed the leisure experiences and the way we access and consume cultural goods. Spain has been pointed to as a country with one of the highest levels of infringement of intellectual property rights on the Internet. Constant pressure has forced Spain to develop a new regulatory instrument that complies with both European di...
Purpose: As well as introducing the articles in the special issue titled "Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences", this article reviews the challenges, problems and main advances made by the qualitative paradigm in the context of the new European science policy based on open science and e-Science and analysis alternative technologies freely av...
We explored the aesthetic experience of viewing artworks in art museums, specifically examining the content and conditions of high-intensity aesthetic experiences and assessing whether these varied between consumers of artworks. In an interpretive research framework, we conducted 21 in-depth interviews with Spanish individuals who are regular visit...
Las nuevas tecnologías e Internet han transformado las experiencias de ocio y las formas de acceder y consumir bienes protegidos por la propiedad intelectual online. Esta situación provoca tensiones entre los titulares de derechos de propiedad intelectual, los usuarios e intermediarios. Con el propósito de fortalecer la protección en el ciberespaci...
La era digital ha incrementado el acceso y consumo de bienes protegidos por la propiedad intelectual para actividades de ocio online. Sin embargo, las organizaciones de ocio no han reajustado del todo sus ofertas al ciberespacio. Los usuarios cada vez más consumen bienes de propiedad intelectual digitalizados por vías que no siempre son legales. En...
Grounded in how individuals access recorded music, we have developed a comprehensive description that classifies social exchanges aimed at accessing cultural resources and that also clarifies the forces that shape individual choices regarding particular social exchanges. We also highlight the exchange properties that socially integrate and classify...
Las nuevas tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones favorecen el acceso y consumo de bienes de propiedad intelectual para actividades de ocio y turismo online. Por este motivo, crece la presencia de las industrias de ocio y turismo como creadoras y consumidoras de estos bienes en el entorno digital. Sin embargo, cuestiones vitales para un...
Digital technologies are transforming leisure and the way it is organized. Despite its importance, few studies have addres-sed the study from the academic world. In this paper, we make an extensive literature review on leisure and digital technologies, in order to contribute to knowledge by developing an interpretive framework of digital entertainm...
Digital technologies are transforming leisure and the way it is organized. Despite its importance, few studies have addressed the study from the academic world. In this paper, we make an extensive literature review on leisure and digital technologies, in order to contribute to knowledge by developing an interpretive framework of digital entertainme...
The authors analyze the understudied relationship between social class and Internet-in-practice in the Spanish social space in order to develop a social theory of Internet use based on the concepts of scale of consumption, technological, social, and information linkage needs of individuals, and Bourdieu's suggested homology between the social and c...
This article compares and contrasts Adler and Rosen’s theories regarding the stardom and popularity of musical artists through
the impact of local linguistic policies on consumers’ decisions to buy recorded music (CDs). Spain, with local linguistic
policies implemented in Catalonia and the Basque Country, serves as an ideal quasi ‘natural experimen...
This paper offers a social interpretation of the generational divide emerging from Spaniards’ patterns of accessing music and their socioeconomic correlates. The three robust music consumer segments (inactive, buyer and downloader), determined with latent class models, suggest a digital generational divide in the music consumption behaviour: young-...
This study contributes to the understanding of how individuals access recorded music, and how they attach meanings to the social exchanges they use to access music. Theoretically we frame the analysis in social exchange theories in order to develop a contextual theory of exchanging music, a theory grounded on data. With that aim, we conducted 23 in...
El artículo expone una categoría de estudio de una investigación sobre las actividades de ocio digital en relación a los conceptos de ocio casual y ocio serio, como actividades que generan espacios de interacción que un usuario puede considerar como una forma de socialización y mantenimiento de relaciones. Parte de un estudio con metodología cualit...
We turn here to the anthropological view of consumption according to which social uses of technology ape not random, and focus on the relationship between Spanish Internet usage patterns and the socioeconomic status of individuals. We applied multiple correspondence procedures to structure the social uses of Internet and identified four generic pat...
We approach the issue of Internet adoption by households using a two-level theoretical framework of analysis, backed by anthropological (consumption scale and linkage concepts) and sociological theories of consumption. Our multilevel mixed logistic model determines the influence of both individual and contextual factors on the likelihood of Spanish...
Previous research into the ethics of accessing information goods using alternative means (the informal economy or social exchanges) has failed to study the moral arguments used by music consumers to justify their behavior or explain actions they considered to be (un)ethical. To fill this gap, we conducted a study from the perspective of music consu...
Recent data show that middle class consumers have an omnivorous pattern of consumption or tastes, contrary to Bourdieu's predictions of a snob pattern of consumption. To explore the implications of Bourdieu's framework for omnivorousness further, we make use of the anthropological view of consumption to analyse Spaniards' musical tastes and consump...
This research examines heterogeneity in Americans' musical tastes by separating breadth and level of taste, taking into account
the structural constraints such as cohort, period, social class, gender and racial composition, which have shaped Americans'
musical preferences over the past 20 years. We identify four types of respondents who share simil...
This article contributes to the study of cinema audiences in Europe by analyzing the actual behavior of Spanish moviegoers and their level of satisfaction. We modeled moviegoers' choice of film by country of origin (U.S.A., Spain, and other countries) according to a set of determinants: (1) consumers' interpretation of several sources of informatio...
The heterogeneous behaviour of Spanish audio-visual audiences could be encapsulated into five classes: (1) television fans,
(2) occasional film-goers, (3) light film-goers, (4) film fans, and (5) audio-visual fans. When the five clusters of audio-visual
consumers were analysed according to a set of sociocultural indicators, they appeared ordered as...
Although we found a general trend favouring the omnivorousness thesis, as soon as we adjusted it to a set of structural factors and consumers' tastes it was clear that this was caused by elitist inclusive omnivores who had increased the scope of their tastes. In general, younger cohorts were becoming less omnivorous, nevertheless, they were also be...
There are presently three competing hypotheses about the symbolic role played by consumption: the distinction, the boundary-effacement, and omnivore effects. Our research design follows another recently proposed alternate view in which all three effects are working simultaneously, but to differing degrees, and introduces several innovations. We fou...
Research on cultural omnivorousness is expanded by examination of cultural participation and by anchoring omnivorousness alongside other patterns of cultural consumption in a comparative context over time in the USA. Between 1982 and 2002, at the aggregate level little change was found in cultural consumption of live performing arts, but patterns o...
Although we found a general trend favouring the omnivorousness thesis, as soon as we adjusted it to a set of structural factors and consumers’ tastes it was clear that this was caused by elitist inclusive omnivores who had increased the scope of their tastes. In general, younger cohorts were becoming less omnivorous, nevertheless, they were also be...
In this research we discuss the use of a combination of several research tools to look for evidence supporting the symbolic meanings of performing arts attendance and on how taste is related to consumers’ social position. Our findings indicate an omnivorous pattern of consumption among the upper social classes, univore consumption among the upper-m...
The new economy offers a large range of opportunities to family businesses if they are able to promote values that allow constantly innovative behavior and business evolution. Although family firms are commonly associated with a traditional way of doing business, this paper shows the heterogeneity among first-generation family firms by building a t...
The problem of CEO succession is critically important yet unique and distinct from that of turnover at other levels. Research in management agrees with the findings in family business research regarding the preference for an insider as successor, more specifically a family insider. Successful family business continuity requires raising potential su...
Contenido: El consumo y los consumidores de los productos culturales; El comportamiento de los consumidores de las artes escénicas y musicales; El consumo de las artes escénicas y musicales; Modelo explicativo de la asistencia a las artes escénicas y musicales; Discusión, implicaciones y conclusiones; anexos.
This paper focuses on the socialization of potential successors in family business and attempts to relate this process to values that founders intend to convey to the next generation. We found that founders' values condition potential successors' socialization and that there are two different phases common to all socialization processes. The first...
The sociological analysis of the consumption of cultural products predicts a relationship between social class and lifestyle. We used a new exploratory methodology based on latent class models to analyse the stratification of cultural product consumption. We discovered four segments of Spanish consumers based on their cultural lifestyle: the no cul...
Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods in the same project allowed us to gain more in-depth knowledge as well to achieve sharper data reduction and verification than would have been possible using only one approach. Qualitative data were obtained from in-depth interviews with 13 founders of leading family businesses and published s...
This article analyses the social consumption of cultural products by Spaniards from the standpoint of microeconomics and sociology. By comparing Lancaster''s ``new consumer theory'''' to Bourdieu''s theory, we show the usefulness of simultaneous analysis of consumption from both perspectives. The results provide evidence supporting the hypothesis o...
Our aim was to analyze the effects of firms' innovative behavior on their employees' salaries in the Spanish manufacturing industry. We found a premium in the wage paid by innovative firms, regardless of size. However, when taking company size into account, we found that the effect of innovations was greater in small-medium enterprises (SME), contr...
In an ever-changing environment, firms must also constantly change the way they do things in order to compete successfully. The Spanish textile leaders of 1992 (in comparison to 1978) have altered their organizational boundaries, favoring more complex and flexible structures, outsourcing production and procurement activities -in order to decrease p...
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