María Josefa Álvarez Gil

Founding member, Internal Board

I am Professor of Business Organization at UC3M since 2002, specializing in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Since 1994 I have been the teaching coordinator of Operations Management in undergraduate and graduate studies at UC3M. Between 1994-1995 and 2003-2004 I was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences (UC3M), responsible for Business Administration and Management, Business Administration and Management and Law, and Business Sciences. Between 1999 and 2001 I was Secretary of the aforementioned Faculty. I have developed research stays at the universities of Stanford (1992), Arizona State University (1997) and Goethe Universität Frankfurt (2004 to 2007). Between 2018 and 2020 I was Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Cooperation at the International University of Andalusia, responsible for its Equality Unit, and f for the development of its CSR initiatives, obtaining important grants from the State Pact for the fight against gender violence (2019) and the AACID for the study of sustainability practices in Cuban university education (2019). I have been part of doctoral thesis committees, commissions for University Tenures and Chairs, international juries (King Jaume I International Award for Economics and Entrepreneurs, 2019-2023), and I evaluate research projects for regional, national, South American and European research agencies. In 2022 I chaired the Commission that has evaluated the applications for six-year research periods in Social Sciences, field 8 of ANECA. (Spanish Agency or the Quality of Academic Research) and external evaluator for the access of undergraduate and postgraduate study plans of University gf Guadalajara, Mexico, within the Grana International Evaluation and Certification Program.

I belong to the Francisco de Vitoria (Institute of International and European Studies) and Conde de Campomanes (Institute of Entrepreneurial and Family Business) research institutes, where I analyse the relationships between CSR and ESG, the Collaborative Economy and the Circular Economy and their impact on global supply chains. Currently, as a researcher of the NEXT Generation project called “TED2021-130344B-I0,: Challenges and challenges of the management of climate change innovations” I am very involved in the study of the European directive 2022/2464 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 December 2022, amending Regulation (EU) No 537/2014, Directive 2004/109/EC, Directive 2006/43/EC and Directive 2013/34/EU. Specifically, in the presentation of corporate information on sustainability and the analysis of sustainable social innovation initiatives in the areas of Diversity, Equality, Inclusivity, and Belonging (DEI&B), with a special emphasis on non-discriminatory contracting on the basis of gender and/or religion in the domains of global supply chains. Some of the recent results are the following book chapters in Tirant Lo Blanch: “The World Intellectual Property Organization and the SDGs: the path to 2030” in AAVV, Challenges of Industrial Property in the Climate Change Environment, (2023, in press), “Sustainable Fashion: A Business Challenge”, in AAVV, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Collaborative Economy and Regulatory Compliance, (2023, in press), ) “Circular economy, IPR and the fashion industry: is IPR need to be reviewed?”, AA VV (dir.) Industrial property in times of COVID-19. (2022), “Ethics, sustainability and CSR: strategic marketing tools in Spanish hotels?”. In AAVV Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): collaborative economy and regulatory compliance (2019), or “Some reflections on the Fashion Industry, the Covid19 pandemic, and the Sustainable Development Goals: Transparency and the Circular Economy as necessary conditions”, in AAVV New dimensions of sustainable development and economic, social and cultural rights by Thomson-Aranzadi (2021). I should mention as well the chapter “Climate and pandemic: sustainable finance, between two emergencies” in Von-Rosing (Ed). The-sustainability-handbook”, Vol II, Chapter 20, In press (Elsevier).

I have recently obtained funding as a researcher for national projects (2023-2026) from the Spanish State Research Agency “Regulatory gaps and progressive development of the 2030 Agenda and the principle of sustainability. Special relevance for Spain”, and “A study of the evolution of the SDGs in the context of the supply chain and the role played by institutional investors”. have also deserved a strategic action from UC3M whose title is: the “Strategic Action on Sustainable Horizons, Supply Chains, Human Rights and DEIB (nº UXXI 2023/00010/001)”. Other previous Research Projects are: 2020-2023 “Supply chains in building a sustainable and resilient future: A study of asymmetries and dynamics with suppliers”. (Agency: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities), and 2016-2020 “Corporate responses to climate change: Focusing on carbon management practices and their contribution to the circular economy. (Agency: Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation) and “Eco-innovación y economía circular en el sector servicios” (2018-2022)

I have four six-year research periods and I am currently in an active six-year term. I have supervised a dozen doctoral theses with excellent qualifications, which have created research groups with an outstanding international presence. As a result of this research, numerous publications have been published in top-level JCRs like Journal of Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Services Technology and Management, the International Journal of Production Research, OMEGA, ,International Journal of Production Economics, R&D Management, Journal of Business Research, Scandinavian Journal of Management, as well as other non-JCR journals like Economía industrial, Papeles de Economía Española, Revista de Estudios Regionales, Revista Asturiana de Economía, Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, among others. I am the co-author of text-books and manuals in Spanish specialized in Operations Management and Supply Chain and some of my publications in the fields of tourism and “smart cities” have become an obligatory reference, with high citation rates.

I have tutored about fifty bachelor’s and master’s thesis, several of which have been published as book chapters by relevant publishers, such as Springer and Elsevier.

I have more than 38 years of extensive and interdisciplinary teaching experience, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, in the different areas of managerial accounting, corporate finance, introduction to business, operations management, supply chain management and quality management, emphasizing the European dimension of these disciplines. I have also played the roles of. Director, coordinator, and member of scientific committees of specialization courses, summer courses, debates, seminars and international congresses and conferences, some of which have been held annually for more than a decade.