Research projects
- Funding Agency: Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Justícia i qualitat democràtica.
- Principal investigator: Mar Joanpere
- Execution period: 2025-2026
- Reference: AR2402/25/000013
Aquest projecte analitza l’impacte social de les empreses que incorporen mesures de reconeixement i gestió de la diversitat religiosa i cultural. L’objectiu és identificar pràctiques que no només garanteixen drets fonamentals, com la llibertat religiosa, sinó que també generen beneficis socials mesurables: millora del clima laboral, prevenció de conflictes, inclusió efectiva i connexió amb una societat plural.
Read more: La diversitat cultural i religiosa com a actiu empresarial
- Funding Agency: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain
- Principal investigator: Amado Alarcón; Ana B. Hernández-Lara
- Team members: Amado Alarcón; Ana B. Hernández-Lara; Rosalia Cascón-Pereira
- Execution period: 2022-2026
- Reference: PID2021-122575NB-I00 Plan Estatal I+D+i 2021
ALODIGI, through an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research team, examines how 21st-century literacies affect occupational profiles in the digital age, where the information becomes raw material, tool, and product. Since information is linguistically encoded, literacies become key competencies for companies and working people, as well as for social prosperity. ALODIGI will develop two new databases (BBDD) based on previous research projects (CSO2015-64247-P, RecerCaixa 2017ACUP-00021) and secondary information, which will make it possible to relate literacies with economic and social variables between territories and occupation groups. Both databases will allow cross-analysis between literacies and socioeconomic data in Spain in comparison with other countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and between Autonomous Communities (CCAA).
- Funding Agency: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain
- Principal investigator: Amado Alarcón
- Team members: Maria Martínez-Iglesias; Rafael Böcker; Blanca Deusdad; Iria Vázquez; Miguel Ángel Pradilla; Josiah McConnell Heyman
- Execution period: 2013-2015
- Reference: FFI2012-33316
This project analyzes how language rationalization within business organizations shapes ethnic and gender relations. Language becomes a commodity and it is increasingly evaluated in economic terms. One notable aspect of globalization is the increasing importance of worker’s language skills and abilities. Language becomes a raw material in managerial programs. Decisions concern what language and what language properties and styles are essential to minimize transaction costs within the organization and to improve service quality and customer satisfaction. From a sociological approach, our main goal is to understand to what extent these processes of linguistic rationalization of work tend to reproduce social inequalities.
- Funding Agency: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain
- Principal investigator: Ignasi Brunet
- Team members: Ignasi Brunet; Rafael Böcker; Manuel Ahedo; Carlos Gómez Bahillo; Nuria del Olmo
- Execution period: 2012-2014
- Reference: CSO2011-29410-C03-02
The low level of intermediate skills, compared to OECD mean, and the predominance of small and medium scale companies (SMEs) in the industrial fabric are both important aspects of the Spanish economic model. Training and innovation (as well as relation between both of them) are part of the solution that has to be taken to respond to the current challenges. But how can this response be developed? How is it working nowadays training and innovation system? In which apects can them be improved? This project aims to com up with proposals to answer the previous questions.