Research

I have published more than 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 70 papers in national and international conferences, and I have supervised more than 10 doctoral theses. I have taken part in competitive research projects, most recently the H2020 project Morphotype Ecosystem (2017–2018). My research has received awards such as the Emerald Literati Award (2019), and one of the doctoral theses I supervised received the Fundación AENA award for the best air transport research (2015).

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AQU CatalunyaPositive research assessment (2005–2010, 2011–2016)

Latest journal articles

  1. López, M., Perramon, X., Simo, P. & Marco, J. (2026). Job perception and expectations scale: insights from engineering students. Journal of Technology and Science Education, 16(1), 209–232. doi:10.3926/jotse.4054
  2. López, M., Simo, P. & Marco, J. (2025). Job perception and expectations scale: a new scale for assessing self-perceived employability, job quality, and gender equity. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, 829. doi:10.1057/s41599-025-05133-y
  3. Vidal, R.M., García Álvarez, M.E. & Simo, P. (2024). Knocking on knowledge's door: mapping university to business marketing literature. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education. doi:10.1080/08841241.2024.2323429
  4. López, M., Simo, P. & Marco, J. (2023). Understanding STEM career choices: a systematic mapping. Heliyon, 9(6), e16676. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16676
  5. Trullas, I., Simo, P., Fusalba, O.R., Fito, A. & Sallan, J.M. (2018). Student-perceived organizational support and perceived employability in the marketing of higher education. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 28(2), 266–281. doi:10.1080/08841241.2018.1488334

Most cited (according to Google Scholar)

  1. Fernandez, V., Simo, P. & Sallan, J.M. (2009). Podcasting: A new technological tool to facilitate good practice in higher education. Computers & Education, 53(2), 385–392. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.02.014
  2. Keskes, I., Sallan, J.M., Simo, P. & Fernandez, V. (2018). Transformational leadership and organizational commitment: Mediating role of leader-member exchange. Journal of Management Development, 37(3), 271–284. doi:10.1108/JMD-04-2017-0132
  3. López-Domínguez, M., Enache, M., Sallan, J.M. & Simo, P. (2013). Transformational leadership as an antecedent of change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Business Research, 66(10), 2147–2152. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.02.041
  4. Lordan, O., Sallan, J.M., Simo, P. & Gonzalez-Prieto, D. (2014). Robustness of the air transport network. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 68, 155–163. doi:10.1016/j.tre.2014.05.011
  5. Bravo, E., Amante, B., Simo, P., Enache, M. & Fernandez, V. (2011). Video as a new teaching tool to increase student motivation. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 638–642. doi:10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773205

Latest conference papers

  1. Vidal, R.M., Simo, P. & García Álvarez, M.E. (2025). TECNIO és innovació!: descobrint les tensions paradoxals del sistema. 4t Congrés d'Economia i Empresa de Catalunya.
  2. Vidal, R.M., García Álvarez, M.E. & Simo, P. (2023). Marketing strategies and research groups lost in connection: the voice of principal investigators. Triple Helix Conference, p. 86.
  3. Vidal, R.M., García Álvarez, M.E. & Simo, P. (2022). TECNIO as a political action on TH model in Catalonia: A commercial mismatch between government's policy and technology generators' reality. Triple Helix Conference, pp. 122–123.

Books and book chapters

  • Fernandez, V., Sallan, J.M. & Simo, P. (2015). Past, present, and future of podcasting in higher education. In M. Li & Y. Zhao (Eds.), Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (pp. 305–330). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55352-3_14
  • Simo, P., Sallan, J.M. & Rajadell, M. (2013). Compromiso organizativo y empresa familiar: estado del arte. In V. Fernandez (Ed.), Nuevas investigaciones sobre la gestión de la empresa familiar en España (pp. 55–68). OmniaScience. doi:10.3926/oms.14
  • Fernandez, V., Simo, P., Sallan, J.M. & Enache, M. (2012). Organizational forgetting/unlearning: the dark side of the absorptive capacity. In H.T. Hou (Ed.), New Research on Knowledge Management Applications and Lesson Learned (pp. 155–170). InTech. doi:10.5772/33850
  • Bravo, E., Amante, B., Simo, P., Enache, M. & Fernandez, V. (2011). Utilización de videos de bajo coste como una herramienta docente para incrementar la motivación de los estudiantes.
  • Simo, P., Salan, N., Algaba, I. & Fernandez, V. (2009). Video streaming: integració de vídeos docents de baix cost a ATENEA com a nova eina d'ensenyament-aprenentatge per a l'estudiant d'enginyeria. Consell Social UPC.

Research awards

  • Emerald Literati Award (2019) for Keskes, Sallan, Simo & Fernandez (2018), Journal of Management Development.
  • Fundación AENA Luis Azcárraga Award for the best air transport research (2015) to the doctoral thesis of Oriol Lordan (supervisors: J.M. Sallan and P. Simo).
  • Best paper award, III Workshop of the Strategic Management Section of ACEDE (2011).
  • UPC Extraordinary Doctoral Award (2008).

Last updated: 31 October 2026

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