Jose C. Sanchez

• PhD Psychology
• Full Professor at University of Salamanca

This study performs a systematic literature review of the importance of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in family firms. A set of 104 articles was gathered to allow for a critical and in-depth review of the research topic. In the first phase, cluster analysis was used to group the most common SDGs found in the sample articl...

Organizational behavior has been analyzed at the level of individual performance, in order to obtain sustainable competitive advantage. Invariably, leadership styles occupy a preponderant position in developing and improving skills that are crucial to the organization's success. Similarly, emotional intelligence (EI) is a cornerstone for the incorp...

Currently, companies face several challenges and are increasingly concerned about human capital, particularly after the pandemic period. Reward systems emerge as a powerful resource to influence workers’ behavior. This study systematically reviews 61 articles on reward systems in an organizational context, and the Preferred Reporting Items for Syst...

Work passion is defined as a state of persistent desire based on cognitive and affective work evaluations, and can be identified in two different dimensions: (1) harmonious passion – work occupies a significant and balanced space and (2) obsessive passion – the desire to work, even when should not. In general, harmonious passion is often associated...

Burnout is an emerging socio-labor phenomenon, where this problem is particularly relevant in airline cabin crew members, who face important psychosocial demands and difficult working conditions. This study aimed to analyze job satisfaction and its relationship with burnout and its consequences (family–work conflict (FWC), work–family conflict (WFC...

In this review, we explore the scientific landscape regarding Business Angels (BAs), a person who decides to offer their skills to improve the community where they live, distinguishing the different ways in which it is possible to contribute. This systematic review starts with a precise definition of what a BA is in terms of goals, strategies, and...

The study of entrepreneurship from a multidisciplinary perspective leads to the importance of applying sociodemographic and psychological perspectives to a population of University students, to a study that allows us to know the sociodemographic variables and the perception that University students have about their characteristics and conditions fo...

Introduction The motivation process from personal resources to commitment of administrative employees is still little studied. This article uses the Job Demands-Resources model to investigate how the multiplicative effect of personal resources and a goal-oriented climate among public employees influences their satisfaction and engagement at work. S...

Introduction: The motivation process from personal resources to commitment of administrative employees is still little studied. This article uses the Job Demands-Resources model to investigate how the multiplicative effect of personal resources and a goal-oriented climate among public employees influences their satisfaction and engagement at work....

Aim: To analyze the scientific literature on the effectiveness and beneficial of self-compassion for nurses. Background: Self-compassion has been regarded as a major psychological construct and a protective factor of mental health status, especially in nursing as a challenging professional. Method: This is a systematic study that analyzes the exist...

Las Empresas B pueden entenderse como entidades que tienen como propósito central, ocuparse de aspectos sociales y medioambientales, reconociendo que, sin dejar de ser rentables, pueden alcanzar fines relacionados con mejorar su entorno, desde diferentes perspectivas. Lo anterior es paradojal en el contexto actual, donde los objetivos empresariales...

Teleworking has become an increasingly adopted modality in organizations. However, changes in working conditions have led to several challenges regarding its impacts on professionals' health. The aim of this study is to provide a systematic review of the literature about the impact of teleworking on workers' mental health. The PRISMA protocol and V...

Purpose Understanding the role of emotion, landscape, involvement and storytelling related to wine is the basis for understanding the wine tourist experience. The purpose of this study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the wine experience scale in Spain. Design/methodology/approach The scale validation comprised translation, cultural a...

This study examines the influence of psychological variables on university students' entrepreneurial intention during the current crisis. We argue that individuals use their psychological resources to cope with adverse situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We therefore investigate how the basic psychological needs satisfaction, proactivity and...

Psychosocial risk prevention has become increasingly important in the European landscape. The relevance of analyzing conditioning factors in good psychosocial risk prevention practices is increasing significantly in the face of constant change and psychosocial risks that are difficult to mitigate for current reasons. The aim of this article is to i...

The Strait of Gibraltar is a region characterized by intricate oceanic sub-mesoscale features, influenced by topography, tidal forces, instabilities, and nonlinear hydraulic processes , all governed by the nonlinear equations of fluid motion. In this study, we aim to uncover the underlying physics of these phenomena within 3D MIT general circulatio...

Social entrepreneurship is a research topic that has received great attention from academics especially in recent years. However, the results in the literature are far from univocal, for example, there is no clear conceptual delimitation of the term, and it is often analyzed using the same theoretical models of traditional entrepreneurship. With th...

Purpose To protect the environment and society, research on responsible behavior and personal values has increased. Values have been identified as important for understanding and predicting environmental preservation behaviors. The purpose of this study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the Environmental Portrait Value Questionnaire in...

Introduction In recent years, job crafting has greatly interested Work and Organizational Psychology. Different research studies have shown its positive impact on people and organizational performance. However, it knows little about the differential effect of the two dimensions that make up this variable (prevention-focused and promotion-focused) a...

Purpose: Psychological resources are determinant for the entrepreneur's individual performance.Psychological capital has been seen as one of the pillars of entrepreneurship and this is one of thereasons that the study of the relationship between these two constructs is emerging. The primary focusof this article is to analyze the development in the...

Video games are one of the most representative elements of digital revolution, creating an opportunity to influence both culture and markets, reuniting together recent and less recent media technologies. Despite its innovativeness and potentialities, video games are often underestimated in different areas, for example are hardly considered as art b...

Introduction Spirituality can be understood as a capital based on individual capabilities created by the application of intrinsic spiritual values, in order to use and develop human potential. The literature points out that spiritual capital increasingly influences and motivates entrepreneurs. Methods In this paper, we investigate whether spiritua...

In this paper, the authors aim to analyze entrepreneurial intention and focus on sustainable entrepreneurial strategies, which consider the responsible use of resources while avoiding the strong exploitation of materials and workers, and which use a long-term approach. This consideration is important in the current era, especially when considering...

Definition Social entrepreneurship defines organizations or initiatives that, by producing and/or transacting goods or services, seek new solutions to persistent social problems, thus generating high social value. In other words, that deliberately subject their economic strategy to social priorities and place the social mission at the center of the...

A continuación, se presentan los principales indicadores y puntos clave del Informe GUESSS de la Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), que recoge la opinión de más de 2.400 alumnos, con un mismo cuestionario y la misma metodología aplicada en otros 58 países y más de 267.000 estudiantes universitarios de todo el mundo.

The project aims to measure the level of intentions and entrepreneurial activities of university students. The University of Salamanca Entrepreneurship Research Group collects data and analyzes the Spanish national survey.

In the literature, entrepreneurial intention is the most important predictor of behavior, however, many empirical studies have shown that other exogenous factors influence this process. One of the most important is the social environment in which the young person lives, such as the family, especially if one of the two parents is self-employed. Acc...

The theory of separation assumes, with provocation, that an organization cannot reconcile profits and social function. Organizations can reconcile these two, apparently contrasting, missions, by considering emotions, especially moral emotions, to create a genuine motivation for focusing on goals beyond simple economic earnings and protecting organi...

In this review, we study the state of entrepreneurial education as it applies to business resilience. We consider records over the last 20 years about entrepreneurial resilience that consider their social impact and focus on sustainability. The aim of the study was to determine whether an enterprise that stresses social impact and sustainability ra...

El mayor aprendizaje en tiempos de pandemia por la COVID-19 es que las escuelas y los estudiantes son más autodirigidos en su propia enseñanza y aprendizaje a menudo obtienen mejores resultados. La autodirección fortalece la participación de todos los estudiantes, genera autenticidad de los aprendizajes y ayuda a las escuelas a respondera mejorar l...

Call for Abstracts - Frontiers in Psychology link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/28632/entrepreneurial-psychological-capital-and-spirituality-a-core-distinction-among-entrepreneurs

During the outbreak of the novel COVID-19 pandemic, economies around the world underwent unprecedented changes, which negatively limited young people’s perceptions of their future. The study aims to describe the development and validation of the 10-item COVID-19 Future Impact Perception Scale (C-19FIPS), a measurement tool to assess future impact p...

Editorial on the Research Topic Women and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic development and social progress, however, most research has focused on sectors that are male dominated and embody a male perspective (Marlow and McAdam, 2013; Henry et al., 2016), paying little attention to gender issues (Zampetakis et al...

Purpose To achieve sustainable development to protect the environment and society, an increasing number of scholars have conducted in-depth research on sustainable and responsible consumption behaviors. The outputs demonstrate that consumers are increasingly concerned and aware of the issues associated with the excessive use of resources. The purpo...

To achieve sustainable development to protect the environment and society, an increasing number of scholars have conducted in-depth research on sustainable and responsible consumption behaviors. The outputs demonstrate that consumers are increasingly concerned and aware of the issues associated with the excessive use of resources. The purpose of th...

El objetivo de esta investigación identificó la presencia y utilidad de las herramientas digitales en las personas con discapacidad y del desarrollo (DID), se buscó conocer qué herramientas les darían ventajas, qué herramientas necesitan para trabajar; además, se identificó las necesidades de formación. Estos objetivos nos llevaron a planearnos sup...

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an emerging research field that has received much scholarly attention in recent years. Given the global scope of this attention, this review explores the existing scientific literature on social entrepreneurship to contribute to a systematization of the research field. Based on the publications in Web of Science and...

The year 2020 has been marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like previous epidemic, this disease has not just caused a biological impairment among world countries, but it has damaged world countries economies, government and society, hurting harder countries which were more vulnerable in these areas. Lifestyle has been strongly modified, especially wit...

This chapter revises biogeophysical issues of connectivity processes for fish populations in the Alboran Sea—Strait of Gibraltar—Gulf of Cadiz area. Connectivity of early life history stages between distant spawning grounds is crucial to incorporate vital developmental rates that condition survival probabilities at critical ontogenic stages. Hydrod...

Social entrepreneurship (SE) enables business consolidation, combined with the production of positive impact and improvements in society. Aligned with 2030 Agenda for the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, it is important to clarify the role of social entrepreneurs, as they are making visible the impact of their creati...

The relationship between sport and entrepreneurship is an emerging but constantly evolving research field, especially in recent years. This is an extremely important topic considering its positive impact on public health, social inclusion, economic development, and the promotion of intercultural exchange. This study has carried out a comprehensive...

El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar si la curiosidad es una variable moderadora entre la Impulsividad y la Orientación Emprendedora. Se utiliza una muestra multiocupacional de 883 empleados españoles (49 % hombres, 51 % mujeres), obtenidos mediante un muestreo no probabilístico. Se ha utilizado el programa SPSS 23.0. Se encontraron correla...

Editorial of the Special Issue "Managerial and Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Emerging Issues" for Administrative Sciences

Subjective well-being and happiness have taken on increasing interest and relevance. Recently some governments and entities have been presenting, developing, and supporting happiness indexes. Regarding entrepreneurial activity, the presentation of global indexes has been developed for some more years until now. However, despite the existence of the...

Universities increasingly play an important role in entrepreneurship, which has contributed to gender equality in the business world. The aim of this study is to establish a causal model of entrepreneurial intentions and explore it by gender, based on the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior, and how these are mediated by the individuals’ r...

Libro "Retos y oportunidades para emprender en la sociedad del conocimiento" trata diferentes perspectivas que tuvieron lugar en el Congreso Internacional de Emprendimiento de AFIDE-Universidad de Salamanca. CONGRESO AFIDE 2020

Entrepreneurship has always been present in the course of human history, due to its inherent nature to create. In recent decades, this concept has become highly important, given the need to overcome constant and growing economic problems in different societies. Today, we can say that entrepreneurship is so essential and ingrained that it has itself...

Research confirms that entrepreneurial intention plays an important role in the decision to start a new firm. For this reason, it has received a lot of attention from researchers who have studied it from different perspectives, using different variables. The goal of this chapter is to investigate the reasons why some individuals tend more to entrep...

Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease epidemic (Covid-19) is a public health emergency of international concern and poses a challenge to the labor market. The pandemic has a devastating and disproportionate effect on young workers, their interest in entrepreneurship, and their mental health. Research is needed to develop evidence-based strategi...

In recent years, the study of women entrepreneurship has experienced great growth, gaining a broad consensus among academics and contributing above all to understanding all those factors that explain the difficulty of women in undertaking an entrepreneurial career. This document tries to contribute to the field of study, thanks to a systematic anal...

Motivation is an essential component in higher education. In this area, researchers have described three psychological needs that drive human behavior: Autonomy, competence, and relatedness. These three needs are central dimensions of Self-Determination Theory. Various measurement tools have been used to evaluate these dimensions. Despite the unive...

Este artículo ofrece una visión general existente sobre discapacidad intelectual y su relación con las tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TIC) y con el objetivo de dar una perspectiva global a través de la revisión sistemática de la literatura qué estudios se han realizado sobre discapacidad intelectual y el uso de las TIC como forma de inc...

The purpose of this work is to analyze the influence of psychological variables and the family environment in theformation ofentrepreneurial intentions. In thecurrentsociety ofchange,characterized byan expansion of training time and a constantly changing working environment, parenting models are configured as fundamental variables, for understandin...

Dear Colleagues, Following the conceptualization of bounded rationality by Herbert Simon in 1947, management scholars started investigating how people—managers and entrepreneurs—really make decisions within (and for) organizations. Taking into consideration the effect on organizational choices (e.g., new product development, market entry, merger a...

In recent years, research on the family role and entrepreneurship has increased noticeably, consolidating itself as a valid and current subject of study. This paper presents a systematic analysis of academic research, applying bibliometric indicators, and cluster analysis, which define the state of research about the relationship between family rol...

Entrepreneurial intention presumes that new business formation is a deliberately designed behavior and is the first step in new business formation. What is the basis of these intentions? In this review chapter, the authors consider spirituality has been seen as a strong predictor of a successful entrepreneur, who bases the company on personal value...

The percentage of female entrepreneurs is far below the level of males, although it has increased over the past several years. Based on the theory of planned behavior, the purpose of this article is to specify a model in which the relationship among entrepreneurial potential, gender and entrepreneurial intention are explored, by analyzing how perce...

Las investigaciones indican que la exposición a los modelos de rol constituye una influencia significativa y positiva en la intención emprendedora, especialmente entre los estudiantes universitarios. Utilizando como modelo teórico la teoría de la conducta planificada (TCP) de Ajzen, analizamos la fuerza explicativa que tienen la actitud emprendedor...

There is a need to evaluate entrepreneurial education programs (EEPs) to see the impact they have on a country’s development. Previous work has focused mostly on entrepreneurial intentions, mainly in a university context. Additionally, literature reviews on the impact of entrepreneurial education have not yet been conclusive, mainly due to the use...

Esta investigación tiene por objetivo hallar la relación entre el burnout, el estrés laboral, la satisfacción laboral y el conflicto trabajo-familia en controladores de tráfico aéreo, como variables diferenciales: edad, sexo, estado civil, permanencia laboral, tipo de contrato y presencia o ausencia de hijos. Esta investigación es de tipo descripti...

Purpose This paper aims to study the effects of cross-border psychological determinants among students of two Iberian universities (Portugal and Spain) on entrepreneurial intentions. Design/methodology/approach Based on previous literature, the studies do not include any model that simultaneously uses self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity and pr...

Data collected in the north and south channels of the main sill of the Strait of Gibraltar (Camarinal sill) have been used to investigate processes connected to the internal hydraulics of the exchange through the Strait at tidal frequencies. They strongly suggest the setting up of hydraulic jumps at both the western and eastern flank of the sill, t...

RESUMO No contexto internacional, diversos países têm procurado integrar o tema do empreendedorismo nos currículos escolares. Neste contexto, pretende-se responder a uma lacuna empírica em termos de investigação, analisando o papel da educação para o empreendedorismo nas intenções de autoemprego dos cidadãos. Para este propósito, recorreu-se a uma...

Recently, the topic of green entrepreneurship, even green nascent entrepreneurship, has been gathering momentum and emerging as a reality, which may play a major role in the development of a more sustainable global economy. This article focuses exclusively on the so-called green-green companies, therefore on companies that were conceived with an ec...

Entrepreneurial Intention is commonly attributed to the interaction of cultural values and attitude; however, cultural values vary according to the context in which they are developed. The following study intends to show how Subjective Norms affect intentions of self-employment, as both, a direct factor and mediated through attitudinal values: Perc...

Lagrangian experiments of particle tracking were carried out in the semi-enclosed Bay of Algeciras attached to the Strait of Gibraltar in order to investigate the flushing patterns. A high resolution three-domain-nested hydrodynamic model provided the velocity fields from a 61-d hindcast, with the aim of analyzing the flushing efficiency of eight d...

The pathways and transformations of dense water overflows, which depend on small-scale interactions between flow dynamics and erosional-depositional processes, are a central piece in the ocean's large-scale circulation. A novel, high-resolution current and hydrographic data set highlights the intricate pathway travelled by the saline Mediterranean...

p>La incertidumbre y ambigüedad en el empleo es una realidad en muchas sociedades actuales, por lo cual la idea de auto emplearse ha comenzado a tomar un rol más activo, no solo por necesidad, sino por los prospectos que trae de innovación y mejoría a las sociedades. Ante esta situación social nos asalta la pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos potenciar el espí...

Entrepreneurial intention as a psychological process has been investigated from several points of view which, although employing similar methodologies, have used different variables. Our aim here is to explain the reasons why some individuals tend more towards entrepreneurship than others. For these explanations we look towards Schwartz’s Theory of...

The focus of this chapter is to show the importance of entrepreneurial education for students at all nonuniversity educational levels in order to foster enterprising skills. We also take into account the need to train other groups, such as parents and teachers, and encourage joint training. With this goal in mind, we collected information about spe...

The focus of this chapter is to show the importance of entrepreneurial education for students at all non-university educational levels in order to foster enterprising skills. We also take into account the need to train other groups, such as parents and teachers, and encourage joint training. With this goal in mind, we collected information about sp...

Entrepreneurial intention as a psychological process has been investigated from several points of view which, although employing similar methodologies, have used different variables. Our aim here is to explain the reasons why some individuals tend more towards entrepreneurship than others. For these explanations we look towards Schwartz's Theory of...

Since work organizations became the subject of scientific research, how to operationalize and measure dimensions of work design has been an issue, mainly due to concerns about internal consistency and factor structure. In response, Morgeson and Humphrey (2006) built the Work Design Questionnaire –WDQ–, an instrument that identifies and measures the...

Temperature and salinity series near the seafloor at Espartel Sill (Strait of Gibraltar) have been used to analyze the thermohaline variability of the Mediterranean outflow. The series shows temperature drops by the end of most winters/early springs, which are the remote response to Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW) formation events in the Gu...

The present study addresses the hypothesis that the Western Alborán Gyre in the Alborán Sea (the westernmost Mediterranean basin adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar) influences the composition of the outflow through the Strait of Gibraltar. The process invoked is that strong and well-developed gyres help to evacuate the Western Mediterranean Deep W...

Title Real intention Tweet Very few people are willing to be #entrepreneurs and fewer are those having the right approach to success Real intention Under the assumption that the entrepreneurial process is initiated by an act of human will and happens at the individual level, the role of the entrepreneur in this process is undeniable, as it recogniz...