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Folguera Bellmunt, Conxita
Education
- Doctora en Administración y Dirección de Empresas. ESADE - Universitat Ramon Llull
- Master in Management Development. The Euro-Arab Management School
- Licenciada en Ciencias Empresariales y Master en Dirección de Empresas. ESADE
- Licenciatura en Administración y Dirección de Empresas. ESADE - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Areas of interest
- SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
Biography
Conxita is a senior lecturer in organisational behaviour in the Department of People Management and Organisation.
She holds a PhD in management Esade - Universitat Ramon Llull and a master in management development Euro-Arab Management School.
She served as director of the People Management and Organisation Department 2007-2014 at Esade and as director of the Esade Educational Innovation Support Unit USIP 2002-2007.
Her current research interests are in two interrelated fields: Diversity and inclusion. Special focus on inclusion of people with disabilities in the open labour market. Work-life balance and working time organisation.She directed the project 'El gènere en la gestió de la diversitat. Una aproximació inter-disciplinària per a la creació de materials docents adreçats a la formació en ciències empresarials i alta direcció' [Gender in diversity management. An interdisciplinary approach to the creation of educational materials aimed at senior executive business studies] with funding from the Catalan Institute for Women Generalitat de Catalunya. She is also co-author of 'Treball i vida: experiències de conciliació de la vida laboral amb la vida personal en empreses i organitzacions' [Work and life: experiences of reconciling working life with personal life in companies and organisations], funded by University Ramon Llull's Ethos Chair 2006. This work has been reviewed with a view to developing teaching materials 2008. She has published papers in the area of organisational learning and the use of ICT in learning processes together with lecturers Daniel Arenas and Josep M. Lozano, and has presented papers at several conferences on educational innovation. The book entitled 'Danone en Ultzama' 2005 MSD Award for Research in Business Ethics, written jointly with Dr Josep M. Lozano, is the result of her interest in the area of corporate social responsibility CSR and the case research method. Her interest in CSR has also been applied to the field of diversity management the core of her current research. In her role as director of the Educational Innovation Support Unit USIP, she led various projects European Higher Education Area - Bologna Process; preparation of teaching materials; use of virtual spaces mainly in joint learning projects.
Her work on intercultural issues builds on her experience as a participant in the Euro-Arab Management School funded by the European Union and the Arab League, and supported by the Spanish Government. She was a member of the research team involved in the research project 'Small business training and competitiveness: building case studies in different European cultural contexts', funded by the European Commission and led by lecturer Alfons Sauquet.
Selected publications
- Fernández Marín, X., Folguera Bellmunt, C. & LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. (2021). Working time preferences among women: challenging assumptions on underemployment, work centrality and work life balance. International Labour Review, 160, pp. 431-451. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12193.
- Anca, C. d., Folguera Bellmunt, C., Hekoten, B., Martí, I. & Navarro Sánchez, S. A. (2019). Gestión de la diversidad en las empresas.
- Fernández Marín, X., Folguera Bellmunt, C. & Batista-Foguet, J. (2018). Measuring the impact of an organizational intervention on absence of employees with disabilities: A quasi-experimental design 157 4, 723-742. International Labour Review, 4, pp. 723-742.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C., Fernandez-í-Marin, X. & Batista-Foguet, J. (2018). Measuring the impact of an organizational inclusion programme on absence among employees with disabilities: A quasi-experimental design. International Labour Review, 157 (4), pp. 651-669. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12124.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. (2014). Women with disabilities: Inclusion, forgetting and vindication in an organizational setting. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-04-2012-0034.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. (2014). Understanding time in context: Shift work in a precast concrete factory. ESADE working paper (79796).
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. (2014). Working more, working less, working differently. ESADE working paper (79796).
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. (2014, July). You see what they are not able to do. I see what they are able to do. Questioning the argument of the business case in disability inclusion [Paper presentation]. 30th EGOS Colloquium.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. (2013, July). Stages in an enabling process: Inclusion of people with disabilities at city gardens [Paper presentation]. 6th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference EDI 2013.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. (2013, March). Entrepreneurial projects and realities: narratives of men and women with disabilities [Paper presentation]. 5th Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research, Barcelona 2013.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & Zhang Zhang, Y. (2011, March). Fozy in China: Cultural factors [Case study].
- Folguera Bellmunt, C., LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. & Obeso Abalde, C. (2009, July). The discourses on gender and work at Ferrofet Catalana: Why do we not learn from best practices? [Paper presentation]. 25th EGOS Colloquium.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. (2009, June). Ferrofet Catalana, Grup Pujol [Case study].
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & LAMOLLA KRISTIANSEN, L. (2009, June). Novartis - El projecte 'Trébol' [Case study].
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & Lozano, J. (2006). Ethical exits: French food group Danone shows how companies can close down production plants without damaging the social fabric of the region.
- Folguera Bellmunt, C. & Lozano, J. (2003). Danone en Ultzama.