Happiness Management: A Lighthouse for Social Wellbeing, Creativity and Sustainability

Rafel Ravina Ripoll / Luis Bayardo Tobar Pesántez /
José Marchena Dominguez (eds)

Happiness Management:
A Lighthouse for
Social Wellbeing, Creativity
and Sustainability

Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Oxford

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This publication has been funded by the
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ISBN 978-3-0343-3628-4 (Print)

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DOI 10.3726/b15813

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About the editors

Rafael Ravina Ripoll is a Business Organization professor at Cádiz University and coordinator of the Iberoamerican Group of Multidisciplanary Studies on Happiness in the Salesian Politecnic University of Ecuador. His research and publications focus on happiness management.

Luis Tobar teaches and researches in the areas of SMEs and is coordinator of the Iberoamerican Group of Multidisciplanary Studies on Happiness in the Salesian Politecnic University of Ecuador. His research interests also include finace and credit.

José Marchena Dominguez holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the University of Cádiz where he is a full professor. He specializes in the History of ideas, society and culture.

About the book

The mystery of happiness has occupied human beings from ancient times until the present day. Philosophers, economists, historians, artists, and psychologists have offered different definitions of what happiness is and how to measure and develop it in various fields.

In this regard, the group of researchers from six countries: Spain, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Brazil and Ecuador, present their fourth joint work in this new book titled “Happiness Management: A Lighthouse for Social Wellbeing, Creativity and Sustainability”, which contains twelve contibutions about different knowledge areas, all based on the approach to happiness.

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Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Rafael Ravina-Ripoll, Eduardo Ahumada-Tello and Araceli Galiano-Coronil

First chapter. The role of social networks in academic performance and perception of corporate happiness of students from the University of Cádiz

Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez and Bárbara Castillo-Abdul

Second chapter. Keys to improving effectiveness in work teams: Communication and emotionality as the key to happiness management

Estela Núñez-Barriopedro, Carolina Martínez-Infante Salazar and Luis Bayardo Tobar-Pesántez

Third chapter. Happy and ethical consumption in a globalized world

Pedro Cuesta-Valiño, Azucena Penelas-Leguía and Lorena Bezares

Fourth chapter. What is more creative than advertising? We spread happiness and fidelity through sports

Andrés Salas Vallina and Alma Rodríguez Sánchez

Fifth chapter. Solving the puzzle of happiness at work: New trends and opportunities for future research

Antonio Rafael Fernández Paradas

Sixth chapter. The development of creativity through mindfulness: Applications in the history of art←5 | 6→

Manoli Pozo Hidalgo, Rafael Fernandez Guerrero
and Richard D. Evans

Seventh chapter. Talent management and competitive advantage: An integrative reflection towards employee well-being

José Marchena Domínguez

Eight chapter. Happiness and environmental sustainability: Rediscovering nature from the past to the present

María Adelina Georgina Cortés Sierra, María Jesús Delgado Rodríguez and Manuela Ortega Gil

Ninth Chapter. Happiness, territory and sustainable wellbeing in the OCDE countries

Cristina Simone and Marcelo Enrique Conti

Tenth chapter. From creativity to innovation by knowledge re-combining. The case of an Italian food company

Lorenzo Revuelto-Taboada, Teresa Canet-Giner and Francisco Balbastre-Benavent

Eleventh chapter. Fostering creative and intrapreneurial behaviours through human resource practices: A human centered perspective

Azucena Penelas-Leguía, José María López-Sanz and Pablo Gutiérrez Rodríguez

Twelfth chapter. Measure of the subjective well-being, through the satisfaction, in the rural tourism. Relations with the destination image and the new intentions to visit the place again

Notes on Contributors←6 | 7→

Contributors

Ph.D. Alma Mª Rodriguez Sánchez

Universitat Jaume I (Spain)

Ph.D. Andrés Salas-Vallina

University of Valencia (Spain)

Ph.D. Antonio Rafael Fernández

University of Granada (Spain)