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Susana Martínez-Rodríguez

Department of Applied Economics

 University of Murcia, Espinardo Campus, 30100-Spain

  http://www.susanamartinezrodriguez.com

Current position:

Associate Professor (tenure), University of Murcia-Spain (since June 2018)

Mayor Fields of Concentration:

History of Enterprises Forms

Economic History

Business History

Gender History

Law & Economics

Languages: Spanish (native speaker), Portuguese, English

Previous Appointments:

  • 2013-2018: Associate Professor (on tenure track) (May 2013-), University of Murcia
  • 2010- 2013: Assistant Professor, University of Murcia (March 2010, May 2013)
  • 2009-2010: Teaching Fellow, University of York (September 2009, March 2010)
  • 2009: Postdoctoral fellowship, Autonomous University of Barcelona (April 2009, August 2009)
  • 2007-2009: Lecturer, Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • 2006: Postdoctoral fellowship, Centre d´Estudis Demografics, Autonomous University of Barcelona (granted by Spanish Ministry of Education) (February 2006, September 2006)
  • 2005-2006: Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Florence (granted by Spanish Ministry of Education) (May 2005, January 2006)
  • 2005-2001: Ph. Candidate fellowship (granted by Spanish Ministry of Education), University of Santiago de Compostela-Spain.
  • 1999-2001: Ph. Candidate fellowship (granted by Galicia Regional Government), University of Santiago de Compostela-Spain.

Education:

  • 2004: Ph.D., Economic History (cum laudem, nemine discrepante), University of Santiago de Compostela-Spain, October 2004
  • 2001: MA on Migrations and Population, University of Santiago de Compostela-Spain, July 2001
  • 1999: Bachellor is Economy (with honors), University of Santiago de Compostela-Spain, July 1999

Fellowship:

Publications (top ten last 10 years):

  1. Martínez Rodriguez, S. (2019): “Mistresses of Company Capital: Female Partners in Multiowner Firms, Spain (1886-1936), Business History (accepted): [https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1551364]
  2. Hernández-Nicolás, C.M.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S S. (2019): “Guardando un legado, acunando un futuro. Viudas en las sociedades mercantiles en el cambio de siglo (1886-1919)” Revista de Historia Industrial (accepted) [“Preserving the inheritance, rocking the future. Windows in Business at the change of the century (1886-1919)]”
  3. Guinnane, T.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S. (2018) “Instructions not included: Spain´s Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada, 1919-1936”. European Journal of History. [IF: 2017: 023]
  4. Guinnane, T.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S. (2018) “Choosing a Legal Form of Entreprise: Family ties and the Limited Liability Company: The Case of Spain, 1886-1936”. The Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations, 34(1), 1-26. Front page paper. [FI: 2017: 948] 
  5. Martínez-Rodríguez, Susana. (2018). “History of Corporations in Spain in the 20th Century: Towards Europe.” In Wells, Harwell (ed.). Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law, Edward Elgar, 298-323. [Scholarly Publishers Indicators in Humanities and Social Sciences, SPI: 0.921]
  6. Martínez-Rodríguez, S. (2016). “Creating the Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada: The Use of Legal Flexibility in the Spanish Company Law, 1869-1953”. Business History Review 90(2), 227-249. Factor impacto [IF: 2016: 0.425]
  7. Martínez-Soto, A.P.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S. (2015): “Graneries (pósitos): a source of finance for Spain´s small farmers, 1900-1950.” Continuity and Change. 30, 2, 251-277. [IF: 2015: 0.267]
  8. Guinnane, T.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S. (2014): “Flexibility in the Spanish Company Law, 1885-1936.” Revista de Historia Industrial, 56, 81-113. [IF: 2014: 0.290]
  9. Martínez-Soto, A.P.; Méndez, I.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S.; (2012): “Spain´s Development of Rural Credit Cooperatives from 1900 to 1936: the Role of Financial Resources and Formal Education.” European Review of Economic History. 16, 449-468. [IF: 2012: 1.205]
  10. Martínez Rodríguez, Susana. (2012) “Joaquín Antonio Díaz de Rábago y Díez de Mier (1837-1898)”, Diccionario Biográfico Español. Real Academia de la Historia. Madrid. [SPI: 0.018]
  11. Guinnane, T.; Martínez-Rodríguez, S. (2011): “Cooperatives before Cooperative Law:Business Law and Cooperatives in Spain, 1869-1931.” Revista de Historia Económica, 29(1), 67-93. [IF: 2011: 0.250]
  12. Martínez Rodríguez, S. (2008) “O proxecto de creto agrícola e a proposta de redención foral (1886). A resposta liberal de Montero Ríos e Díaz de Rábago á crise finisecular” Revista Galega de Economía, 17, 2, 111-128. [IF: 2008: 0.100]

Research projects (last 10 years):

  1. Reference: COST Action. Underground Built Heritage as Catalyser for Community Valorization. Chair: GIUSEPPE PACE. Funding organization: European Unión- H2020. Lenght: 01/03/2019 – 31/12/2023 Funding received (euros): 150.000,00. (per year, circa). Role: Vice-chair [http://underground4value.eu/] [https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18110/#tabs|Name:overview]
  2. Reference: FEMEM: Women and Firms in Spain (1850-2015). Triangulating History, Economy and Society  RTI2018-093884-B-I00. Principal Investigator: SUSANA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ. Funding organization: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidad – Agencia Española de Investigación – FEDER. Lenght: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021 Funding received (euros): 15.000,00. Role: Main Researcher.
  3. Reference: SUPER PROJECT-Supporting eco-innovations towards international markets. [https://www.interregeurope.eu/SUPER/] Principal Investigator: Ostergotland (Suecia). Funding organization: Programa Europeo INTERREG EUROPE-Fondo de Desarrollo Regional Europeo. Lenght: 01/04/2016 – 01/04/2021. Rol: Stakeholder in representation of University of Murcia. Funding received (euros). 1,2 millones (for all the members of the Project)
  4. Reference: HAR2016-81991-REDT. Title: Red Española de Historia del Trabajo. Principal Investigator: LLORENC FERRER ALÒS. Funding organization: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (Programa Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, Subprograma Estatal de Generación del Conocimiento). Lenght: 01/01/2016 – 31/12/2017 Funding received (euros): 20.000,00. Role: Researcher.
  5. Reference: HAR2013-42103-R. Title: The Impact of Limited-Liability Business Organizations across the Mediterranean: Italy, turkey and Spain (1445-2010). Principal Investigator: SUSANA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ. Funding organization: Min. Economía y Competitividad- Proyecto Estatal de I+D+i/Retos. Lenght: 01/01/2014 – 01/01/2017. Funding received (en euros): 42.000,00
  6. Reference: 15147/PHCS/10 Title: ESME: Evolución de las Sociedades Mercantiles Españolas (1886-1936) Principal Investigator: SUSANA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ. Funding organization: Fundación SENECA- Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia. Proyecto Regional de I+D+i. Lenght: 01/01/2011 – 01/01/2016. Funding received: 31.000,00E
  7. Title: Spanish Firms: data (1886-1936). Principal Investigator: Timothy Guinnane. Funding organization: Programa de Historia Económica de la Universidad de Yale. Lenght: 01/01/2010 – 01/01/2011. Funding received: 3.000,00$. Role: Researcher.
  8. Title: Catalunya un país de cooperativas. Recuperación y digitalización del patrimonio cooperativo de Cataluña: El Archivo Histórico del Gobierno Civil de Barcelona. Principal Investigator: SUSANA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ & APOSTA-Escola de Cooperativisme. Funding organization: Generalitat de Catalunya-Departament de Treball (Catalonia Regional Goverment). Lenght: 01/01/2010 – 31/12/2010. Funding received (en euros): 10.000,00. Role: Researcher.
  9. Title: The development of enterprise forms in Spain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Principal Investigator: Timothy Guinnane. Funding organization: Centro McMillan- Yale Lenght: 01/01/2009 – 01/01/2010. Funding received: 10.000,00$. Role: Researcher.
  10. Title: Niveles de vida, salud y alimentación. España en perspectiva histórica. Principal Investigator: JOSEP PUJOL. Funding organization: Ministerio de Educación. Lenght: 01/01/2008 – 31/12/2010. Funding received (euros): 36.000,00. Role: Researcher.
  11. Title: Catalunya un país de cooperativas. Recuperación y digitalización del patrimonio cooperativo de Cataluña: El Archivo Histórico del Gobierno Civil de Cataluña. Principal Investigator: SUSANA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ (Researcher) & Aposta. Escola de Cooperativisme (Management). Funding organization: Departamente de Traball – Generalitad de Catalunya. Lenght: 01/06/2010 – 31/12/2010. Funding received (euros): 12.000

Seminar and International Conference Presentations (last 5 years)

  • 2019: Nanterre University (February and December), Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University.
  • 2018: World Economics History Conference (Boston), European Social Science History Conference (Belfast).
  • 2017: Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Historia Económica (Salamanca), Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (Madrid), University of Utrecht (seminar).
  • 2016: European Social Science History Conference (Valencia), First Business History Conference (Bergen), Annual Conference of the Association of Business Historians (Berlin), University Complutense of Madrid (seminar), University of Seville-Seminario Ramón Carante (seminar), Worshop Underground Cultural Heritage as a Driven for Regeneration (Naples).
  • 2015: World Economic History Conference (Kyoto), IX International Research Workshop based on Global Enterpreneurship Monitor (Murcia), Seminar on History, Law and Business Organizations (Murcia).
  • 2014: Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (Málaga).
  • 2013: Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (Granada).

Awards:

  • 2008: XVI Premio Jacint Dunyo (finalista)- Premio Regional Periodístico sobre Cooperativismo (Fundació Roca i Galés, Barcelona)
  • 2007: Premio de Doctorado en Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
  • 2007: Premio Real Academia de Doctores de España. Modalidad Humanidades
  • 2001: Xohana Torres Award on Feminist Essay
  • 2001: Deputación de Pontevedra Prize- Research

Other services:

  • 2017 –  Reviewer of the Nacional Science Agency of Netherlands.
  • 2016 – Education expert and member of the evaluation panel for the program ERASMUS + SEPIE (Servicio Español para la Internacionalización de la Educación).
  • 2014 – Expert and referee of the Nacional Science Agency of Spain (AEI). Referee for research projects
  • Reviewer – JCR journals: Business History Review (JCR) (2016), Historia Agraria (JCR) (2017). 
  • Books´s Reviews JCR journals – Feminist Economics, Economic History Review, Revista de Historia Agraria.

Research Grants (ad personam):

  • 2017 (July): Promotion of the Internationalization, funded by University of Murcia
  • 2012: Scholarship to visit Economic Growth Center- Yale University, funded by Fundación Esteban Romero (Murcia – Spain).
  • 2012: Scholarship to attend a specialized cours on Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, bunded by Fundación Rafael del Pino (Madrid –Spain).
  • 2011 (March to June): Postdoctoral-Movility Grant “José Castillejo”, funded by Spanish Ministry of Education
  • 2008 (April) – 2009 (September): Postoctoral Fellowship Reseacher (Autonomous University of Barcelona), funded by Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • 2005 (May) – 2006 (October) Postdoctoral Fellowship Reseacher (University of Florence and Autonomous University of Barcelona), funded by the Spanish Ministry  of Education
  • 2001 – 2005:  Fellowship as Training Universitary Lecturer (“FPU” fellow), funded by the Spanish Ministry  of Education.
  • 2000: Scholarship to support posgraduate studies: Master Degree “Population and Migrations”, funded by Caixa Galicia Fundation (Galicia – Spain).
  • 1999 – 2001: P.h.D Candidate (2 academic years) (“Tercer Ciclo” fellow”, funded by the Secretary of I+D of Galician Government (Spain).
  • 1998 – 1999: Fellowship in the History and Economic Institutions (USC) during the last course of the Bachellor in Economy.