SUMMARIZED CURRICULUM

Alfonso VARGAS (Huelva, Spain, 1962) holds a degree and is a doctor (PhD) in Business Administration from the University of Seville (Spain). Also, he has a Diploma in Upper Management of Universities from the Antonio de Nebrija and Politécnica de Cataluña Universities, and the Certificate of Specialization in Tourism Destination Planning awarded by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

At present, he is a full professor at the University of Huelva, in its Management and Marketing Department.

Since 1985/1986, when he started his career in higher education, he has taught different subjects in the field of Business Economics and Strategic Management, both in degree courses and postgraduate courses and doctorate programs. He has been distinguished by the University of Huelva with the 2002/2003 Teaching Excellence Diploma, and the 2006/2007 Teaching Excellence & Quality Award as a member of the online teaching group of the Faculty of Labour Studies.

His basic research is oriented towards Strategic Management, which is complemented with applied research focused, as main lines, on Social Economy (management of agrarian co-ops), and, currently, tourist companies.

Supervisor of many doctoral theses, he is (or has been) in charge of a number of R&D contracts and projects. Besides, he is the promoter and academic coordinator of several Erasmus/Socrates bilateral agreements -in Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Ireland & UK-; and beyond Europe, in Brazil and USA, particularly in the "Global Village" program by the Iacocca Institute (Lehigh University), in which also serves as a facilitator.

Since 2004, he is in charge of the CEPSA Professorship and head the Research Group named "Innovation and Development Strategies in Tourist Firms" (GEIDETUR), included in the Andalusian Government's Plan of R&D. He also belongs to the School of Co-operative Studies' researchers team at the Complutense University of Madrid, and to the Advisory Board of WACRA, serving, besides, as a member of scientific committees of various national and international events & publications.

From different positions, he also serves to a number of national and international scientific journals, and as a reviewer of many others: AEDEM-Bibliométrica; REVESCO; Visión de Futuro; INUAF-Studia; Encontros Científicos-Tourism & Management Studies; Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento-Journal of Tourism and Development; Revista Brasileira de Docência, Ensino e Pesquisa em Administração; Revista Brasileira de Docência, Ensino e Pesquisa em Turismo; Sinergie, rivista di studi e ricerche; International Journal of Case Method Research & Application (also in its Spanish version, "Revista Internacional de Investigación y Aplicación del Método de Casos"); Journal of Hospitality Application & Research.

He has had several books published, among them (in chronological order): "Decision-Making Aid Techniques: Theoretical Basis" (in collaboration, 1990); "Practical Cases in Business Decision-Making" (in collaboration, 1990); "The Co-operative Oil Mills of Huelva. A Proposal of Action to Face the Crisis" (1993);  "Keys for Developing Agrarian Cooperativism. Entrepreneurial Amalgamation and Associationism" (1995); "Strategic Management of the Company. Basis for Formulating the Strategy" (1999); "Strategic Management. Analysis and Diagnostic" (2002 and 2004); "Origins, evolution and perspectives of agrarian cooperativism in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2002); "Guide of Good Environmental Practices. Tourism Sector" (in collaboration, 2003 - Download full text, in Spanish); "Tourism and environment. Environmental diagnosis of the rural lodgings in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2004 - Download full text, in Spanish); "Values in the workplace and university education..." (in collaboration, 2004 - Download full text, in Spanish); "Strategic Management. Theoretical and scientific foundations" (2004); "Sustainability of the hotel company: indicators for its measurement" (in collaboration, 2006 - Download full text, in Spanish); "Industrial tourism in the province of Huelva: present and future" (in collaboration, 2007); "Tourism and the wine-making industry: perspectives and proposals for development in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2008); "Mining tourism in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2009); Dirección Estratégica / Strategic Management (2009); Assessment od professional competencies (in collaboration, 2010)..

He is also the author of a lot of articles published in journals and other scientific means, such as: Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing; European Journal of Information Systems; Human IT; Journal of High Technology Management Research; Technology Analysis & Strategic Management; International Journal of Case Method Research & Application; Tourism & Management Studies; Journal of Tourism and Development; International Journal of Business Environment; Journal of Travel Research; Journal of Sustainable Tourism; Tourism Management; among others. Moreover, he has presented numerous papers in national and international conferences.

Prof. VARGAS has carried out academic activities, both in researching and teaching, in different Universities and higher education institutions around the world, in countries such as -in alphabetical order- Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, France, Ireland, Italy, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Portugal, Slovenia, Taiwan, UK, USA, ...

In 2005 he was appointed as Coordinator of the Huelva University's strategic plan and Head of its Strategic Management Unit, being in charge until 1 October 2009, when he took up his new post as Director of "La Rábida" campus, at the International University of Andalusia. Also, on 21 May 2010, he has been nominated as Visitng Professor of York St John University (UK).

His condition as ex-Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies, and ex-Head of the Management and Marketing Department, at the University of Huelva, deserves also to be mentioned.

Furthermore, he is the representative of Huelva University at the UNWTO (World Tourism Organization) and CUEIM (Consorzio Universitario di Economia Industriale e Manageriale).

He belongs to the scientific following associations (in alphabetical order): Academy for Creative Teaching & World Association for Case Method Research and Application (ACT-WACRA); Association of Co-operative Studies  (AECOOP); Centre of Research and Information in Public, Social and Co-operative Economy  (CIRIEC); European Academy of Experts, Researchers and Actors in Tourism (EAT); European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM); Iberoamerican Forum on Communication Strategies (FISEC); Spanish Accounting and Business Administration Association (AECA); Spanish Association on Regional Science (AECR); Spanish Association of Scientific Experts on Tourism (AECIT).

He is a founder member of the University Association for the Promotion of Social Economy (AUFES), of the Spanish-Portuguese Network of Researchers on Tourism (REINTUR),  and of the Iberian Circle of Business Economy (CIBECEM, network of Spanish and Portuguese Universities). CIBECEM is headed by Prof. Vargas since its formal launch in 2005.

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Gaudeamus Igitur

 "Cognitio Potestas Est"

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