Numerary Member
Social Sciences: PhD in Economics and Business
Date of admission: June 28, 2023
Admission speech: «Socioemotional Wealth: A Key Factor in Family Business Research»
Reply speech: Dr. Francisco González de Posada, PhD in Civil Engineering, Theology, Philosophy, Sociology, Medicine, and Hispanic Philology
Outstanding career: Expert in entrepreneurship, knowledge management and corporate social responsibility. He is a leading figure in the study of entrepreneurial behaviour and organizational competitiveness.
DR. FELIPE HERNÁNDEZ PERLINES
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- Full Professor of Business Organization in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, Toledo.
- Specialist in University Teaching.
- PhD in Economics and Business from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (1993).
- Degree in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Valladolid (1987).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Member of research groups in national and international universities: Castilla-La Mancha, Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico), Valencia, Rey Juan Carlos, Jaén, Andrés Bello (Chile) and Vermont (USA).
- Main research areas: family business, social economy, tourism, competitiveness, and sustainability.
- Included in the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists (Stanford University, John P. A. Ioannidis) in 2022, 2024, and 2025 editions.
- Speaker at more than 180 national and international scientific conferences.
- Organizer and lecturer in knowledge transfer programs.
- President of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the XVII International Congress of Researchers in Social and Cooperative Economy, the XXXI Hispano-Lusitan Scientific Management Conference, and the XXXVIII Annual Congress of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM).
- Researcher in 26 competitive projects (EU, national and regional: FEDER, National R&D Plan, Integrated Actions, European Commission ALFA Program).
- Member of scientific committees of international journals such as Journal of Innovation and Knowledge and European Journal of Family Business, as well as the editorial board of CIRIEC-Spain.
- Associate Editor of European Research on Management and Business Economics (ERMBE) (JCR IF 2024: 6.4; Q1).
- Guest Editor in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research.
- Coordinator of the Family Business Section of AEDEM.
- Member of the Management and Administration Commission of AECA.
- Scientific and Advisory Committee Member of the CIRIECSTAT Social Economy Statistical Portal.
- Director of the Social Economy Statistical Portal of Castilla-La Mancha.
- Vice President for Institutional Relations of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM).
- Member of scientific associations: AEDEM, CIRIEC, ACEDE, and AECA.
- Regular reviewer for indexed journals (JCR and SJR).
- Supervisor of 13 doctoral theses (two with international distinction) and 4 in progress.
- More than 65 master’s and bachelor’s theses supervised in official programs.
- Continuous teaching since 1988 in undergraduate and master’s programs at universities in Verona, Turin, Lisbon, Mexicali, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Monterrey, Passau, Linz, and Chile.
- Research stays in European and American universities, coordinating international mobility programs with universities in the USA (North Carolina and Muskingum) and Italy (Bologna, Turin, and Verona).
- Director of the Chair of Cooperative Studies and the Manuel Díaz Ruiz Unit of the Family Business Chair at UCLM.
- Author of chapters in the collective works of the RAED: “Digital Nomads: A New Way to Understand Work in a Globalized World” (2024) and “Digital Transformation: New Labor Profiles and Economic Inequality in the Digital Era” (2025).
- Contributor to the drafting of Laws 20/2002, 11/2010, and 4/2017 on Cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha.
- Member of the Regional Council for Social Economy of Castilla-La Mancha (2006–present).
- Curator of the exhibitions “Art of Loving” and “Yanes. Art as Inspiration” by Joyeros Yanes in Toledo.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of 29 books and 44 chapters in international publishers such as Emerald, Springer, Thomson Reuters, and NOVA.
- Coordinator of the White Paper on the Social Economy of Castilla-La Mancha (2020) and Case Studies of Success in the Social Economy (2021), published by CIRIEC-Spain.
- Principal Investigator of the audiovisual project En Tierra de Gigantes, on the Social Economy of Castilla-La Mancha.
- Over 100 research articles published in journals indexed in JCR and Scopus.
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AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- 12 international research awards, including:
- Elsevier Best Paper Award, XVI ACIEK Conference 2022 (University of Seville).
- Highly Commended, Emerald Literati Awards 2019, for
