Organisation

Full Professor of Business Organisation at Public University of Navarre since 2019, Martin Larraza Kintana (Arbizu, Navarre, 1970), has a degree in Business Administration (1992) and a Bachelor’s degree in Management and Business Administration (1994) by Public University of Navarre. He earned his Doctoral degree in Economics from the Carlos III University of Madrid (2000), achieving the highest distinction. During his doctoral studies, he was a recipient of a grant from the Sectoral Programme for the Training of University Teaching Staff and Research Personnel of the Ministry of Education and Science. After a brief period as an assistant professor at Carlos III University of Madrid, he joined Public University of Navarre in 1999 in the same role. After holding different positions as a teacher and researcher at UPNA, he was granted his full professorship in 2019. He has undertaken research stays at University of Essex, Arizona State University, and Cranfield University.

Throughout his long academic career, he has consistently taught in the field of Business Organisation, delivering various undergraduate and postgraduate (Master’s and doctoral) courses.

His research reflects his interest in studying individuals' decision-making behaviour, particularly that of people working within companies. Building on this, his research over more than 20 years has allowed him to contribute to the international scientific debate in the fields of human resource management, strategic management, family-owned business, and entrepreneurship. This work has resulted in over 50 academic articles, some of which have been published in some of the most prestigious academic journals in the field of business organisation, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Small Business Economics, or Human Resource Management. In addition, he has published 4 book chapters, supervised six doctoral theses, given seminars at both Spanish and foreign universities, and has contributed to more than 80 national and international conferences. His academic work has been recognised with various awards, notably the Prize for Best Scientific Contribution in Social Sciences for the 2009-2010 period and the Research Career Award in the area of Human, Social, Legal, and Economic Sciences, both awarded by Public University of Navarre.

He has participated in numerous publicly funded research projects, most notably as the main researcher of 5 projects under the National R&D Plan, as well as Project Manager for a knowledge alliance project funded by the Erasmus programme of the European Commission. He has also been involved in business transfer projects and has been responsible for the Business Organisation Research Group for several years. In this field, it is also worth mentioning his role as an expert for the Ministry of Education and Science in evaluating research projects under the National Plan.

In the area of academic management, before taking up the position of Vice-Chancellor in 2019, Martín Larraza served as Secretary of the Faculty of Economics and Business and as General Coordinator of Admissions at Public University of Navarre. He was a member of the working group that developed the Economics degree programme adapted to the European Higher Education Area and was the subject coordinator for the Business Administration and Management degree, as well as a member of the Quality Assurance Commission of the Faculty of Economics and Business. He is currently still a member of the Joint Monitoring Committee of the Family-owned Business Chair at Public University of Navarre. He has been a member of the Board of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, where he held the positions of secretary, treasurer, and vice-president, and served for over 4 years as the editor-in-chief of the international academic journal Management Research.

David Astrain Ulibarrena
Telephone: 948 16 9311
E-mail: area.investigacion@unavarra.es

Doctor in Industrial Engineering from UPNA since 2002, David Astrain is currently a University Professor with 4 research six-year periods, 1 transfer six-year period, and 5 five-year periods of teaching. He has been leading the Thermal and Fluid Engineering Research Group since 2010.

Throughout his research career, which has focused on thermal engineering, and thermoelectric generation and cooling, he has participated in a total of 72 research projects, 37 of which are competitive projects. He has been the main researcher (IP) of 14 of these, including 6 from the State Research Plan, in which he participated in two Antarctic scientific campaigns. Additionally, he has been the main researcher of significant technology transfer contracts with companies such as BSH, Azcoyen Industrial, Acciona Energía, Ingeteam, Siemens-Gamesa, Liebherr, Exkal, and others. Over the last 10 years, he has secured over €1.5 million in competitive projects as main researcher and €800,000 in contracts with companies. He is the inventor of 6 patents (3 international and 3 national), 5 of which are owned by the multinational Bosch-Siemens, and in 2024, he received the award for the best technology transfer project. His dissemination of scientific results includes a total of 102 publications in international journals, 58 of which are in the first quartile (47 in the first decile) of the JCR and 19 in the second quartile, as well as 3 book chapters and more than 130 contributions to international conferences, including 6 plenary lectures and 5 best contribution awards. 14% of his publications are among the top 10% most cited in the world. David Astrain has supervised 11 doctoral theses (4 of them international) and has been a tutor for 3 FPI and one FPU (doctoral training personnel).

In terms of management roles, David Astrain has been the Technical Director of the Chair in Renewable Energy from January 2010 to 2024 and a member of the scientific committee of the Association of Refrigeration Sciences and Techniques since 2009, as well as an evaluator and commissioner for the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and CENAI in the evaluation of six-year periods. He has also served as Secretary of the Department of Engineering, Deputy Director of the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications, Director of the Department of Engineering, and an elected member of the Governing Council and the University Senate.

Santiago Sánchez Alegría
Tel: 948 41 7846/948 41 7802
E-mail: direccion.areacampustudela@unavarra.es

Santiago Sánchez Alegría, professor at the Department of Business Management of Public University of Navarre (UPNA), is Doctor in Accounting by Public University of Navarre, with a thesis which was unanimously granted Very High Pass Cum Laude.

Apart from teaching on external and internal accounting in the various bachelor's and master's degrees of UPNA’s Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Santiago Sánchez Alegría has been the Academic Head of the Master's degree in Process-based Management with Integrated Information Systems (ERP), and Master's degrees in Business Management. He has also taken part in several teaching innovation projects, and has collaborated in the editing of the manual “Financial statements: drafting, analysis and interpretation (Estados contables: elaboración, análisis e interpretación)” (publisher: Pirámide). 7 editions have been published of this work. 

Regarding his management tasks, the new Area Director of Tudela Campus has been the Secretary of the Department of Business Management and Coordinator of the Accounting area for over 8 years.

Likewise, Santiago Sánchez Alegría is a researcher at UPNA’s INARBE (Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics) Institute, where he is working on the quality analysis of accounting information and on the auditing report and its use for decision making. He has recently broadened his research lines to the study of operations carried out by venture capital companies - particularly those called “Leverage buyout (LBO)”, and the analysis of models for predicting business failure.

In 2010, he was granted the ASEPUC (Spanish Association of University Accounting Professors), mention for the best communications, and a year earlier, the Carlos Cubillo award for short research papers in accounting and auditing from the Institute of Accounting and Auditing (ICAC). 

As part of his scientific work, he has taken part in numerous national research projects and more than 25 national and international conferences, and has been the main researcher in several research contracts. He also has fourteen articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, all of which are indexed in the JCR. Likewise, he has carried out several researching stays at universities such as Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and Norwegian School of Economics (Norway). 

Finally, he has spread the outcome of his research work in professional publications such as “Research log (Cuadernos de investigación)” of UCEIF Foundation (University of Cantabria Foundation for the Study and Research of the Financial Sector) and the Bulletin of the Accounting and Accounts Audit Institute (ICAC).