Inés Alegre

Assistant Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences at IESE Business School

Biography

IESE Business School

Inés Alegre holds a PhD in Management from IESE and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

Before joining IESE, Alegre was an assistant professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and at the UPC.

Her research focuses on new organizational forms in the sharing economy such as collaborative consumption platforms, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and social enterprises. Her dissertation looked at how social enterprises manage their social and economic goals.

Education

  • PhD in Management IESE Business School - University of Navarra (2009 — 2013)
  • Master on Research in Management IESE Business School (2007 — 2009)
  • Industrial Engineer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1998 — 2004)
  • Course on Management Research Real Colegio Complutense - Harvard University (2010 — 2010)
  • International Faculty Program IESE Business School - University of Navarra (2012 — 2012)
  • Course Col·legi d'Economistes de Catalunya (2011 — 2011)
  • Ingenieria Gestionale Politecnico di Milano (2002 — 2003)

Companies

  • Assistant Professor IESE Business School (2016)
  • Assistant Professor Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) (2013 — 2016)
  • External collaborator IESE Business School (2012 — 2016)
  • Lecturer Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) (2013 — 2013)
  • Assistant Professor Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2010 — 2013)
  • Lecturer ESCI-UPF (2010 — 2010)
  • Lecturer Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) (2009 — 2010)
  • Lecturer UPC - Industrial Engineering (2008 — 2010)
  • Packaging Engineer Nutrexpa (2005 — 2007)

Areas of interest

  • Crowdfunding
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Non-profits
  • Quantitative methods for decision-making
  • Big data

Publications

*Journal Articles *

PASTORIZA, DAVID, D., ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2021). Conditioning the effect of prize on tournament self-selection. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY, 86.

ALEGRE, I., MOLESKIS, M. (2021). Beyond financial motivations in crowdfunding. a systematic literature review of donations and rewards. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 32, 276–287.

MASSA SALUZZO, F., ALEGRE, I. (2021). Supporting entrepreneurs. The role of third-party endorsement in crowdfunding platforms. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 162, Article 120402. BERBEGAL-MIRABENT, J., ALEGRE, I., GUERRERO, A. (2020). Mission statements and performance. an exploratory study of science parks. Long Range Planning, 53 (5), Article 101932.

BERBEGAL-MIRABENT, J., ALEGRE, I., OLAYA-ESCOBAR, E. S. (2020). Exploring the relationship between service quality of technology transfer offices and researchers' patenting activity. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 157.

ALEGRE, I., BERBEGAL-MIRABENT, J., GUERRERO, A. (2019). Mission Statements: What University Research Parks Tell Us About Timing. Journal of Business Strategy, 40 (5), 46 - 53.

MOLESKIS, M., ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2019). Crowdfunding Entrepreneurial or Humanitarian Needs? The Influence of Signals and Biases on Decisions. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48 (3), 552 - 557.

GALLO, I., TOWNSEND, C., ALEGRE, I. (2019). Experiential Product Framing and Its Influence on the Creation of Consumer Reviews. Journal of Business Research, 98, 177 - 190.

CABALLERO MORENO, W. G., ALEGRE, I., ARMENGOU, J., AGUADO, A. (2019). Self-construction in informal settlements. a multiple-criteria decision-making method for assessing sustainability of floor slabs in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 34 (1), 195 - 217.

ALEGRE, I., BERBEGAL-MIRABENT, J., GUERRERO, A., MAS-MACHUCA, M. (2018). The Real Mission of the Mission Statement: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of Management & Organization, 24 (4), 456 - 473.

Working Papers

MOLESKIS, M., ALEGRE, I. (2018). Crowfunding: a short past and long future. N'GUESSAN, M. N., ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Crowdfunding In Africa. An Empirical Study Of Kiva Platform Users In Sub-Saharan Africa (WP-1172-E). Barcelona: IESE. ALEGRE, I., MOLESKIS, M. (2016). Crowdfunding: A Review and Research Agenda (WP-1142-E). Barcelona: IESE.

Articles in other publications

ALEGRE, I., VALOR SABATIER, J. (2021). Fake News, un gran reto para las empresas en el S.XXI. Harvard Deusto Business Review, 315, pp. 52-60.

ALEGRE, I., CANELA, M. Á. (2018). 'Marketing intelligence', una evolución necesaria de los sistemas BI que demanda competencias clave. Harvard Deusto Márketing y Ventas (152), pp. 38 - 45.

ALEGRE, I., ARIÑO, M. A., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Big Data: Where To Begin?. How To Get The Most Out Of Data Analysis. Alumni Magazine (145), pp. 22 - 25.

ALEGRE, I., ARIÑO, M. A., CANELA, M. Á. (2017). Big data: ¿Por dónde empezamos?. Cómo sacar partido del análisis de datos. Revista de Antiguos Alumnos (145), pp. 26 - 29.

BERBEGAL MIRABEN, J., ALEGRE, I., GIL, D. (2016). La innovación en las empresas sociales. B-UIC (7), pp. 3 - 7.

Books

CANELA, M. Á., ALEGRE, I., IBARRA, A. (2019). Quantitative Methods for Management: A Practical Approach. Berlin: Springer.

Book Chapters

CANELA, M. Á., GUÇLU, B., ALEGRE, I. (2019). An Exploratory Analysis Using Co-Authorship Network: Trends in Risk Behavior. In Dileep Kumar G. (Ed.), Machine Learning Techniques for Improved Business Analytics (pp. 166 - 200). Hershey, PA: Igi Global.

N'GUESSAN, M. N., ALEGRE, I., BERBEGAL MIRABEN, J., MAS-MACHUCA, M. (2018). Crowd lending: A global phenomenon arrives to Sub-Saharan Africa. In Nezameddin Faghih (Ed.), Globalization in Developing Economies. Berlin: Springer. BERBEGAL MIRABEN, J., ALEGRE, I., RIBEIRO-SORIANO, D. (2018).

Entrepreneurship in Middle East and North Africa: A bibliometric Analysis. In Nezameddin Faghih, Mohammad Reza Zali (Eds.), Entrepreneurship Education and Research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Dynamics in Trends, Policy and Business Environment (pp. 273 - 290). Berlin: Springer.

ALEGRE, I., BERBEGAL-MIRABENT, J. (2017). Gourmet Products from Food Waste: Rethinking Food Management and Social Justice. In Dhiman S., Marques J. (eds), Handbook of Engaged Sustainability (pp. 1 - 20). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

BERBEGAL MIRABEN, J., GIL, D., ALEGRE, I. (2017). Why would you ever want to become an academic entrepreneur?. In Ana Tur-Porcar and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano (Ed.), Inside the Mind of the Entrepreneur: Cognition, personality traits, intention and gender behavior (pp. 33 - 45). Berlin: Springer.

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