EADA Business School (Spanish: Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración) is an international business school located in Barcelona. It was founded in 1957, and became one of the first Spanish institutions to run manager training programs for the business community. EADA Business School is one of the few business schools in Spain which has Financial Times ranking and is a member of CFA Institute partner program. Its degrees are granted by the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia..
Background: The objective of the present study is to analyze if the variables of the Demand-Control-Social Support model moderate between the characteristics of the job position (JDS) and Engagement. Method: The multi-occupational sample of 302 Spanish employees (64.9% men, 35.1% women) was obtained through non-probabilistic sampling and the data collected were processed with the SPSS 27.0 program.Results: Statistically significant correlations were found between the JDS and Engagement factors, as well as between Demands, Control and Social Support and Engagement. Finally, the empirical evidence indicates that Demands, Control and Social Support have a moderating role between some dimensions of the job and the Engagement shown, in the sense that Demands, Control and Social Support (understood as a quantitative variable) affect the intensity of the relationship between the characteristics of the job (predictor variable) and engagement (criterion variable). Conclusions: The best moderators are Demand and Social Support, since they moderate the relationship between various factors of the JDS and the Engagement. This is important because, if workers can improve these characteristics, they will show a higher level of Engagement in their jobs.
This study bridges agroecology and regenerative supply chain management by translating agroecology's practice-based evidence into supply chain design terms for agri-food systems. Drawing on an abductive systematic literature review of 72 peer-reviewed articles, we synthesize four agroecology-informed supply chain practice sets: agroecological production, knowledge transfer and co-creation, embedded and solidarity-based market relationships, and organizing forms for value chain coordination. These practices were conceptualized into four agroecological supply chain configurations—bridged, scaffolded, civic, and territorial—that differ in who coordinates exchange, how demand is structured, and where capabilities and governance reside. We further map the four practice sets to core regenerative supply chain management principles and highlight distributive justice as a cross-cutting condition for durable regenerative outcomes. The study elaborates a developmental logic, which indicates that producer-led, territorially embedded chains supported by local innovation networks and deep producer-consumer integration are positively associated with systemic regeneration.
Consumers typically switch between different alternatives when choosing multiple times from the same product category. Although this phenomenon of variety-seeking has received considerable attention, literature has primarily focused on decisions made by only one person. However, consumers frequently choose jointly with their peers. This situation often implies different decision processes and outcomes compared with individual choices. We address this gap in two studies. The participants chose either in groups of two people (i.e., dyads) or alone. We found that dyads exhibited a higher level of variety-seeking than individuals, with reciprocity working as a key driver of dyadic variety-seeking. Furthermore, the variety behavior of a dyad decreased when the favorite alternatives of both dyad members were the same, positioning preference alignment as a moderator. Finally, the analysis of impression management concerns showed that it was the difference in scores between dyad members, rather than their individual levels, that significantly affected dyadic variety-seeking.
