Jorge Villagrasa Guarch
RESEARCH GATE
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
ORCID
UV
Jorge Villagrasa Guarch currently works as a researcher and full-time lecturer at EDEM-Escuela de Empresarios. He is part of the Department of Business Management, teaching Strategic Management, Customer Needs and Business Management Studies, and is also the academic head of the Final Degree Projects developed by students in the final years of the degrees in Business Administration and Management and Business Engineering and Management. He studied a degree in Economics and a master's degree in Business Strategy at the University of Valencia. In addition, he developed his PhD in the Department of Business Administration and Management at the same institution, analyzing how the characteristics and perceptions of management teams about the performance of their organizations affected their results and their decisions to change.
Jorge has also completed several postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics and the Polytechnic University of Valencia, as well as an executive MBA at EDEM-Escuela de Empresarios. During his education, he received several awards such as the national end-of-degree prize from the Ministry of Education, the prize for university academic excellence from the Generalitat Valenciana, the extraordinary bachelor's and master's degree prize from the University of Valencia, the collaboration grant from the Ministry of Education, the international finance chair prize from Banco Santander, the national research prize from the Banco Sabadell Foundation, the national university teacher training grant from the Ministry of Education, two national mobility grants for excellent junior researchers from the Ministry of Education, and the future leaders prize from the Rafael del Pino Foundation.
Similarly, Jorge has developed his professional career in various institutions such as the University of Connecticut (USA), the University of Antwerp (Belgium), the University of Valencia (Spain) and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), publishing a total of 10 articles and 10 book chapters, attending +70 international conferences and obtaining the best paper award in 5 of them. He has also been a member of 12 research projects and has organized 2 international conferences (EURAM 2014 and STEP Global Family Business Summit 2023).
Department: Business Management
Research articles:
- Donaldson, C., Villagrasa, J., & Neck, H. (2023). The impact of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on student entrepreneurship financing: a signaling perspective. Venture Capital, 1-36.
- Donaldson, C., & Villagrasa, J. (2023). Searching for role models: The case of Malferida the healthy cola with nothing to hide. Industry and Higher Education, 37(5), 731-750.
- Donaldson, C., Liñán, F., Alegre, J., Villagrasa, J. (2022). Multiple Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Individual Case Study, Global Business Review, 09721509221085362
- Donaldson, C., Villagrasa, J. & Sánchez, F. (2021). Learner Profile Mapping: Stimulating Autonomous Motivation in Entrepreneurship Education, Industry and Higher Education, 35(4), pp. 384-402.
- Villagrasa, J., Donaldson, C., López, C. (2022). Twitter as a tool to monitor attitudes: the strategic usage of social media. Journal of Management and Business Education, 5(4), 392-423.
- Villagrasa, J., Buyl, T. & Escribá, A. (2018). CEO satisfaction and intended strategic changes: The moderating role of performance cues, Long Range Planning, 51(6), pp. 894-910.
- Marín, A., Pastor, J.M. & Villagrasa, J. (2016). The TurningPoint application as a transformational learning tool in the educational processes. @tic, 16, pp. 20-29
Book chapters:
- Villagrasa, J. & Donaldson, C. (2022). Strategic management for entrepreneurial firms. In Neck, H. (Eds.), Babson College Syllabus Book. Babson College publishing
- Donaldson, C. & Villagrasa, J. (2022). The “place” of culture in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. In Newbery, R., Rusk, M. & Bell, C. (Eds.), Entrepreneurial Place Leadership. Emerald.
- Villagrasa, J. & Donaldson, C. (2021). From challenge to reality: the magic to make a business flourish. In Neck, H. & Liu, Y. (Eds.), Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education. Edward Elgar.
- Donaldson, C., Villagrasa, J. & Sánchez, F. (2021). Tracking the entrepreneurial journey: from inspiration to perspiration. In Neck, H. & Liu, Y. (Eds.), Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education. Edward Elgar.
- Villagrasa, J. & Sánchez, F. (2020). Learnings from a pandemic: the logic of compulsive buying. In EDEM (Ed.), Compendium. A multidisciplinary vision on COVID-19 (pp. 39-44). Valencia, Spain: EDEM Publisher.
- Villagrasa, J. (2020). The logic of 'test, test, test' in companies. In EDEM (Ed.), Compendium. A multidisciplinary vision on COVID-19 (pp. 50-53). Valencia, Spain: EDEM Publisher.
- Gumbau-Albert, M., García-Cárceles, B., Marín, A., Pastor, J.M. & Villagrasa, J. (2016). Personal response devices in the university classroom. In Sánchez, C. (Ed.), Updated ICT for a new university teaching (pp. 361-373). Madrid, Spain: McGraw Hill.
Degree in Business Administration and Management
Strategic Management
Business Management Studies
Engineering and Business Management
Customer Needs
- jorgevillagrasa5@gmail.com
- EDEM Escuela de Empresarios, Plaça de l’Aigua, nº 1, 46024 València (España)