Global Economic Interconnectedness: International Trade and Finance

Javier Martínez Falcó is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Alicante. In the research field, he focuses his interest on issues related to the Strategic Management of the Company, specifically in the areas of Knowledge Management and Corporate Sustainability of wine companies, on which he has written several publications in the form of articles, book chapters and contributions to conferences. He has also participated in several national research projects and teaches Strategic Management in business degrees. Eduardo Sánchez García works as Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) in the Department of Business Organisation at the University of Alicante, as an Assistant (LOU). He holds a PhD with international mention in the area of Business, Economics and Society. His research is in the field of strategic business management, specifically in the analysis of industrial agglomeration in territorial clusters, and its effect on the social capital, absorptive capacity and innovative performance of companies. In addition, he has carried out several works in collaboration with other researchers specialised in the study of industrial districts and entrepreneurial capabilities. He is a member of the research group “Strategic Management, Knowledge and Innovation in a Global Economy (DECI-GLOBAL)”. He has published several articles in indexed journals, as well as several book chapters, and has made numerous presentations at national and international scientific conferences. In relation to teaching, he teaches the subject of Strategic Management of the Company in the Degree in Business Administration and Management, and the double degrees in TADE, DADE and I2ADE. Bartolomé Marco-Lajara (PhD) is Professor at the University of Alicante. His research interests are strategic management and tourism management. He is the author of several books, book chapters and international articles related to the areas above mentioned. He is a member of the Tourism Research Institute at the University of Alicante since its foundation and the main researcher of the European project ‘Next Tourism Generation Alliance’ at his University, as well as of the public competitive project for the creation of the Tourist Observatory of the Valencian Community (Spain). He has taken part in others public and private projects, such as the development of the strategic plan of the Alicante province for the period 2010-2020. He is the Head of the Department of Management at the University of Alicante, and previously was the Assistant Dean of the Economics Faculty for the Business Degree.