Associate Professor in the Department of Business Policy
URL Associate Professor
Executive Director, University Programmes Unit
Academic training
Doctor of Philosophy. Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Master of Philosophy. Robert F.Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Licenciado en Ciencies Empresariales y Máster en Dirección de Empresas. ESADE
Licenciado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas. ESADE - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Interest Areas
Strategic Management
Public-Private Partnerships
Public Management and Nonprofit Organizations
Social Entrepreneurship
The Managerial Function in Public Administrations
Biography
He is a member of the Institute of Public Management (IDGP) and also collaborates with the Institute for the Individual, Corporations and Society (IPES). He co-directs the courses The Managerial Function in Non-Governmental Organizations, and Leadership and Social Innovation, with the collaboration of Fundació "la Caixa".
He currently manages the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) research at ESADE, led by the Harvard Business School and supported by Fundación Avina. He has published various articles and books on management in the third sector. He is a co-author of "La gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas" (Deusto, 1998), "Los retos en la gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas" (Granica,
2004), "Nonprofit Organizations: Challenges and Collaboration" (Palgrave, 2006) and "Effective Management of Social Enterprises" (Harvard University, 2006).
In recent years he has collaborated on strategic planning tasks with Intermón-Oxfam, Medicus Mundi, the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya and the Fundació Jesuïtes Educació. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fundació Catalana de l'Esplai (Barcelona) and of the Fundación Lealtad (Madrid). Since 2002 he has formed part of the Social Council of the Inditex Group (Arteixo, Galicia).
Arenas, D.; Bruni, J.; Marquez, P. & Vernis, A. (2008). Strategy in social enterprise of business and civil society organizations in Iberoamerica. In J. A. Robinson, J. Mair & K. Hockerts (Ed.). International perspectives on social entrepreneurship (pp. 183-207). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.[ISBN: 978-0-230-54315-7]
Saz-Carranza, A. & Vernis, A. (2007). Leadership in interorganizational networks . In C. Wankel (ed.) (Ed.). 21st century management: A reference handbook: Volume II (pp. 291-300). Thousand Oaks, Calif. (U.S.): Sage.[ISBN: 978-1-4129-4972-9]
Saz-Carranza, A. & Vernis, A. (2006). The dynamics of public networks: A critique of linear process models. International Journal Of Public Sector Management, 19(5), 416-427.
Austin, J.; Gutiérrez, R.; Ogliastri, E.; Reficco, E.; Arenas, D.; Vernis, A. & et al. (2006). Effective management of social enterprise: Lessons from business and civil society organizations in Iberoamerica. Cambridge, Mass. (USA): Harvard University Press. [ISBN: 0-674-02123-1].
Vernis, A.; Iglesias Pie, M.; Sanz Corella, B. & Saz-Carranza, A. (2006). Nonprofit organizations: Challenges and collaboration. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. [ISBN: 978-1-4039-8635-1].
Vernis, A. (2005). Asociaciones entre lo público y lo privado: en búsqueda de la complementariedad. Revista del CLAD 'Reforma y Democracia', (33), 61-100.
Vernis, A.; Iglesias Pie, M.; Sanz Corella, B. & Saz-Carranza, A. (2004). Los retos en la gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas: claves para el fortalecimiento institucional del tercer sector. Barcelona: Granica. [ISBN: 84-7577-717-1].
Vernis, A.; Iglesias Pie, M.; Sanz Corella, B.; Solernou, M.; Urgell, J. & Vidal García, P. (1998). La gestión de las organizaciones no lucrativas. Bilbao: Deusto. [ISBN: 84-234-1602-X].
Contact
alfred.vernis@esade.edu
Phone: +34 932 806 162 Ext. 2484
Fax: +34 932 048 105
Av. de la Torre Blanca, 59 E-08172 Sant Cugat
