Paloma Fernández Pérez

Full professor

Knowledge area: Història i Institucions Econòmiques

B.A. in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona in 1987, Master of Arts in History (1989) and Ph.D. in History (1994) by the University of California at Berkeley of the United States ... + info

Research group: Economic History and Development (Industry, Business, Sustainability)

Teaching Innovation Groups: Grup d'Innovació Docent en Història Econòmica, Política i Social

Contact Information
Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy and World Economy
Avenida Diagonal 690
934024477
palomafernandez(a)ub.edu

More Information: Paloma Fernández - CV complet (http://www.ub.edu/histeco/pdf/CV-pfernan.pdf)

Academic training

Geografia e Historia . Universidad de Barcelona . 1987 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

M.A. in History . University of California Berkeley, USA . 1989 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Ph.D. in History . University of California at Berkeley, USA . 1994 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted (last 5 years)

Història de l'Empresa Internacional (Bachelor's degree) - International Business - Universidad de Barcelona.

Empresa Familiar, Innovació i Globalització (University Master's Degree) - Creación y Gestión de Empresas Innovadoras y de Base Tecnológica - Universidad de Barcelona.

Family Business, Innovation and Globalization (University Master's Degree) - Erasmus Mundus Master Program GLOCAL 'Global Markets, Local Creativities' - Universidad de Barcelona.

Història Econòmica de l'Empresa (University Master's Degree) - Historia Económica - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Business History

History of Health Industries and Hospitals

Innovation in family buisiness

Internationalization and Globalization

Spain and Latin American History

Participation in Projects (last 6 years)

Entrepreneurial Management for Fostering Innovation and Talents (EM4FIT) . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.872618 . Unió Europea . PI: Paloma Fernandez Perez

Emprendimiento colectivo, innovación e internacionalización en las empresas españolas de servicios (1900-2017) . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.PGC2018-093971-B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Paloma Fernandez Perez; Elena Cristina San Roman Lopez

Trabajo sobre historia económica del mutualismo y en concreto un proyecto de investigación para "los cien años de Mutual Médica" desde su Fundación en 1920 hasta 1939 . 2021 - 2022 . Ref.311257 . Fundación Mutual Médica . PI: Paloma Fernandez Perez

Ajut per incentivar i consolidar la recerca d'excel·lència ja existent a les universitats públiques de Catalunya. Programa ICREA Academia 2013 . 2014 - 2018 . Fundació Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) . PI: Paloma Fernandez Perez

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications - last 6 years)

Fernández-Pérez, P. (2019). Pioneers and Challengers in the Global Plasma Protein Industry, 1915-2015. Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 44(4), pp. 75 - 95 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0172-6404

Donzé, P.Y.; Fernández, P. (2019). Health Industries in the Twentieth Century. Introduction. Business History, 61(3), pp. 385 - 403 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0007-6791

Fernández, P. (2020). Partners in a journey to the centre of the world: Spanish and Japanese knowledge transfer and alliances in the Spanish healthcare industries (1960s-1980s). Business History, 62(7), pp. 1202 - 1230 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0007-6791

Fernández, P. (2021). The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s . Emerald Publishing . ISBN: 9781787699908 . URL (https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/The-Emergence-of-Modern-Hospital-Management-and-Organization-in-the-World-1880s1930s/?k=9781787699908)

Fernández, P. (2019). Health Industries and Services . In Da Silva-Lopes, T.; Lubinski, C.; Tworek, H.J.S., eds., The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business . (pp. 349 - 362) . Routledge . ISBN: 9781138242654 .

Conferences and Participations in Congresses (last 6 years)

Fernández, P. (2021). New patterns of modern hospital organization and management in the world,1900s-1930s: a comparative perspective. (Speech) . 2nd World Congress in Business History / 24th Congress of the European Business History Association . JAPAN

Fernández, P. (2021). Desafios para a história empresarial do século XXI (Retos para la Historia empresarial del siglo XXI). (Invited conference) . XIV Congresso Brasileiro de História Econômica & 15ª Conferência Internacional de História de Empresas . BRAZIL

Fernández, P. (2021). Apuntes para una historia empresarial de los hospitales de América Latina en el siglo XX. (Invited conference) . Seminario interno del CEEED . Buenos Aires . ARGENTINA

Fernández, P. (2021). Historia de la moderna organización y gestión de grandes hospitales en América Latina en el primer tercio del siglo XX. (Invited conference) . Seminarios de la Universidad del Pacífico . Lima . PERU

Fernández, P. (2021). Traditional values in a capitalist world: the Physicians Union (Sindicat de Metges) of Catalonia, 1920-1936. (Presentation of communication) . International Conference CFP: Health, Body, and the Profit Motive: Medicine as a Business in History . Tokyo . JAPAN

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports (last 6 years)

Sonnet, F . (2021) . Structural Change and Innovation in the East German Chemical Triangle between 1989 and 2020?. Erasmus Mundus Master International Program GLOCAL Global Markets, Local Creativities. Trabajo de fin de master. 2021. En coordinación con co-directores de Universidad de Glasgow y Universidad de Göttingen (Master's Thesis) . Göttingen University.

Parvaiz, O.A . (2021) . How Digital Platforms Ecosystems Disrupt the Global Economy: the Case of Extreme Commerce from Pakistan. Erasmus Mundus Master International Program GLOCAL Global Markets, Local Creativities. Trabajo de fin de master. 2021. En coordinación con co-directores de Universidad de Glasgow y Universidad de Göttingen (Master's Thesis) . Göttingen University.

Bradley, A . (2021) . A Pandemic and a Battle for Equality: The 1918 Influenza and its role during the ensuing struggle for racial equality in the Red Summer Riots of 1919 in the United States. Erasmus Mundus Master International Program GLOCAL Global Markets, Local Creativities. Trabajo de fin de master. 2021. En coordinación con co-directores de Universidad de Glasgow y Universidad de Göttingen (Master's Thesis) . Göttingen University.