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The purpose of this research is to analyse the level of knowledge about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of pre-service teachers in Early Childhood and Primary School Education at the University of Valencia (Spain) and the origin of this knowledge over several academic years, as well as to compare it with that of students of the Degree in Environmental Sciences at the same university.

A questionnaire was designed, validated and administrated to 1,040 students of Degree in Early Childhood Education, Primary School Education and Environmental Science of the University of Valencia to analyse their knowledge of the SDGs and their evolution over three academic years (2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22).

Statistical analysis shows that most of the participants are either unaware of the SDGs and their importance or have insufficient knowledge of the SDGs and their linkages.

The need to continue promoting teaching resources to favour the implementation of education for the SDG in initial teacher training is highlighted.

Pre-service teachers can become agents of change if they understand the magnitude and complexity of the socio-environmental crisis and get involved through their educational action in the required measures to advance in the construction of more sustainable societies.

This study aims to emphasize the necessary training and involvement of students of the Degree in Early Childhood Education, Primary School Education and Environmental Science at the University of Valencia to advance in the transition to Sustainability.

This paper aims to explore the impact of face-to-face and online social interactions on coworkers’ perception of performance in coworking spaces (CWS) compared to working from home (WFH). CWS are work environments where different actors compete and collaborate. The impact of such interactions on performance remains unclear. Building on the conceptual framework of “coopetition” (Bengtsson et al., 2016) and the theory of hyperpersonal interactions (Walther, 1996), this research attempts to bring light into the discussion.

The study hypothesizes that frequent face-to-face community events negatively affect coworker performance compared to WFH. Conversely, digital platforms connecting CWS users are expected to enhance performance. The authors use a data set of 135 CWS users. Linear regression models are fitted using self-rated performance in the CWS compared to performance when WFH as dependent variable.

This study’s analysis shows that the frequency of face-to-face events is negatively associated with perceived performance at CWS compared to performance at WFH. Furthermore, CWS digital platforms do not show a significant relationship with performance in CWS compared to WFH.

This study adds to the literature on “coopetition” with specific reference to the case of CWS. It broadens the activity school perspective highlighting that coworking offline and online interactions have different performance implications. The paper also contributes to the theory of hyperpersonal interactions by studying the role of online communication. Findings help CWS managers to make informed decisions about the perceived outcomes of the services they provide. The analysis reveals the need to reconsider the frequency of face-to-face social events to avoid dysfunctional effects.

This study analysed the extent to which differences in personality traits and coworking experiences affect coworkers’ satisfaction with coworking spaces (CWS).

The present study is based on employee-workplace alignment theory (Appel-Meulenbroek et al., 2021). This approach addresses people’s ability to do their jobs in a certain work environment and studies job satisfaction as an outcome variable. We used a dataset of 135 CWS members grouped in the Spanish Association of Flexible Office Spaces, Prowork Spaces. The regression models were fitted using satisfaction with coworking as the dependent variable.

The findings support the idea that some psychological traits of coworkers, such as extroversion and agreeableness, have a significant influence on their satisfaction with coworking. Our study also shows that the relationship between coworking experience and satisfaction is curvilinear.

This study contributes to the advancement of employee-workplace alignment theory by showing that some personality traits are relevant variables for person-organisation fit in CWS. While extroversion and agreeableness are traditionally associated with prosocial outcomes, we found that agreeable coworkers were not more satisfied with CWS. In addition, the study identified a nonlinear relationship between experience and satisfaction with CWS, which has not been detected in previous studies.

本研究擬探討共同工作空間用戶的性格特質和使用共同工作空間的經驗會如何影響他們對共同工作空間的滿意度, 進而了解這影響的程度.

研究人員基於員工工作場所調整理論 (Appel-Meulenbroek et al., 2021) 進行分析和探討。這個研究理念用來了解人們在某種工作環境裏完成工作的能力, 並探討作為結果變數的工作滿意度。研究人員使用的數據集, 包括西班牙柔性辦公空間、團隊協同空間協會 (此為直譯) 內被分類的135個共同工作空間成員, 研究人員以對共同工作空間的滿意度為因變數而設置回歸模型.

研究結果確認了共同工作者的諸如外向性和友善等的心理特徵會顯著地影響他們對合作辦公的滿意度。研究結果亦顯示, 合作辦公的經驗與滿意度成曲線的關聯.

本研究會幫助推進員工工作場所調整理論, 因研究結果顯示, 有些性格特質, 就共同工作空間的人與組織間之可容納性而言是相關的變數。研究人員發現, 雖然外向性和友善在傳統上被認為與親社會結果有所關聯, 但友善的共同空間用戶對共同工作空間不是更為滿意的; 而且, 研究人員確認了一個過去的研究均未曾探測過的關聯, 那就是合作辦公的經驗與對共同工作空間的滿意度之間的關聯是非線性的.

This chapter discusses the control of women's bodies and minds through the daily practices of menstrual control apps. Based on Michel Foucault's concepts (2003, 2006, 2013), the research is based on women's relationship with their own bodies. Still, it is wider than the body per se since the central theme is the construction of subjectivities. This paper embraces power modalities and explores disciplinary and discursive practices and regimes of truth, biopower, biopolitics and governance. The paper frames the fundamental points of Michel Foucault's analysis of power and how they are associated with strategies used for menstrual tracking apps. It looks at how apps act on the subjectivity of being a woman, shaping ways of thinking and acting. It looks at how disciplinary practices, knowledge–power and surveillance, as Foucault tells us, relate to themselves and medicine. The text highlights that monitoring data and corporate surveillance by menstrual apps poses unprecedented challenges to feminist politics. Therefore, we argue that the technology of menstrual tracking apps acts subtly and uninterruptedly to docilise female bodies and make them useful. Trying to find new paths and solutions from a feminist and critical perspective, we offer suggestions for further research on the topic, disregarding liberal approaches which rely on media literacy exclusively rather than a holistic comprehension of technology and women's rights.

This paper aims to mitigate the subjective nature of wine rating by introducing statistical and optimization tools for analysis, providing a unique approach not found in existing literature.

The research uses an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, k-means, to cluster wines based on their chemical characteristics, followed by the application of the PROMETHEE II multicriteria decision-making model to rank the wines based on their sensorial characteristics and selling price. Lastly, a linear programming model is used to optimize the selection of wines under different scenarios and constraints.

The study presents a method to rank wines based on both chemical and sensorial characteristics, providing a more comprehensive assessment than traditional subjective ratings. Clustering wines based on their characteristics and ranking them according to sensorial characteristics provides the user/consumer with meaningful information to be used in an optimization model for wine selection.

The proposed framework has practical implications for wine enthusiasts, makers, tasters and retailers, offering a systematic approach to ranking and selecting/recommending wines based on both objective and subjective criteria. This approach can influence pricing, consumption and marketing strategies within the wine industry, leading to more informed and precise decision-making.

The research introduces a novel framework that combines machine learning, decision-making models and linear programming for wine ranking and selection, addressing the limitations of subjective ratings and providing a more objective approach.

This paper aims to evaluate the evolution of the organizational field in the Colombian coffee industry between 1960 and 2020 and explain how peripheral actors influenced institutional change.

The methods analyze historical processes from a hermeneutical and interpretative perspective. The authors used data collection techniques through interviews, archive data, publications and media reports, embracing an interdisciplinary and qualitative documentary approach. This approach helps the authors unravel the temporal dimensions of the historical discourse related to coffee and the involvement of various actors within organizational structures.

The authors found that, unlike the literature regarding the change in organizational fields, recently, within the coffee sector in Colombia, the institutional work of peripheral actors (small producers, local associative groups and coffee women, among others) is changing the field as follows: (1) women are changing traditional behaviors moving from hierarchical family structures and lack of gender awareness, to empowered, horizontal and sustained relationships, (2) indigenous people include rituals and other traditional practices in coffee production and (3) ex-guerrilla members are helping to strengthen the peace process implementation in Colombia through coffee production.

The authors did not conduct statistical or computational analysis to simulate the emergence of new organizational forms. Instead, the authors attempted to elucidate narratives and discourses that reflect the tensions between central and peripheral actors from a historical perspective.

This study seeks to help leaders and managers overcome processes or organizational change in which peripheral actors are crucial. From that perspective, allocating resources and capabilities can become more effective.

This paper offers a new perspective of change within organizational fields from the roles of peripheral actors, which are fundamental in change processes within organizational fields, especially in the global south, where tensions between elites and vulnerable people are familiar.

This study proposes and tests a model to analyse whether achievement, social and immersion motivational affordances embedded in gamified review platforms motivate consumers to altruistically create content in the post-consumption stage.

We used data from a sample of 343 reviewers and employed SmartPLS to test the research model.

Findings revealed that, while achievement affordances (i.e. points, levels and badges) have no significant effect, immersion affordances (i.e. avatars) and more especially, social affordances (i.e. receiving helpful votes from readers and having followers) are key for review platforms, as they drive consumers to develop pure, reciprocal and competitive forms of altruism, which, in turn, motivate them to create content.

This study examines the antecedents and consequences of altruistic purpose in the context of gamified review platforms by proposing research questions aimed at eliciting the effects of achievement, social and immersion affordances on altruism, and by providing the first empirical evidence for these paths.

This study provides practical guidance on how review platforms can implement social and immersion affordances to foster altruism and, ultimately, promote user-generated content in the form of comments, photos and videos.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the current study is the first to develop a model to predict whether gamification affordances promote forms of altruism that result in user-generated content. The findings will improve practitioners’ strategies by focussing on social and immersion motivational affordances.

This study aims to identify and map the problems of participatory processes in policymaking through a Service Design approach.

First, 50 semi-structured interviews were conducted with experts in the field of citizen participation. This was followed by a comparative analysis of how backstage and frontstage stakeholders perceived the identified problems. Secondly, a Service Blueprint model was proposed as a means of mapping the identified problems within the broader framework of a service experience of participation. Finally, a brainstorming session was held with the aim of proposing design solutions to the problems from a human-centred perspective.

Fifteen problems of participatory processes in policymaking were identified, and some differences were observed in the perception of these problems between the stakeholders responsible for designing and implementing the participatory processes (backstage stakeholders) and those who are called upon to participate (frontstage stakeholders). The problems were found to occur at different stages of the service and to affect different stakeholders. A number of design actions were proposed to help mitigate these problems from a human-centred approach. These included process improvements, digital opportunities, new technologies and staff training, among others.

Public managers, politicians and designers of participatory processes can use this study to design participatory processes based on the real needs and expectations of the different stakeholders involved.

This research adds to the literature on citizen participation and Service Design by shedding new light on the problems of participatory processes through a human-centred approach.