Prof. dr Nela Filimon Costin
At present, she is Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the Business Department, Universitat de Girona – Spain, in the Marketing and Market Research area. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2004).
Her main research interests are related to consumer research, marketing strategies in cultural and creative industries, cultural consumption and wellbeing, digital consumption, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) uses in consumers’ decision making and in education and learning, and quantitative research methods. More recently, she started working on food marketing issues. Her research was published in peer reviewed journals and in books edited in Spanish and English by editorials such as Routledge, Elsevier, Omnia Science, and Atelier, among others.
During the academic career, she participated in more that thirty national and international congresses and workshops, was a team member of various research projects financed by Spanish financing agencies in competitive calls and acted as a reviewer for peer reviewed journals. She was also a visiting researcher at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, (Glasgow University), Arts Science and Kulture (ASK) Centre (Bocconi University), and University of Valencia (marketing department), among others.
She is member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Arts and the Market (ESCI, Scopus), since its foundation, and Frontiers in Communication (ESCI, Scopus), in the Advertising and Marketing Communication area. In 2017 she has obtained the Literati Outstanding Reviewer Award (Emerald Publishing) for the journal Arts and the Market. She is also an affiliated member of the Spanish Association of Academic and Professional Marketing (AEMARK) and of the International Society for the Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).
In period 2013-2018 she was part of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Studies and Cooperation with Latin America (CECAL, Barcelona), a not-for-profit association that is publishing the Spanish journal “Guaraguao. Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana” (Guaraguao. Journal of Latin American Culture) since 1996, and from 2017 to 2018 she acted as journal’s managing director.
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Bibliography (selected)
1) Filimon, N., López-Sintas, J., Pádros-Reig, C. (2011). A test of Rosen's and Adler's theories of superstars. Journal of Cultural Economics, 35 (2):137-161.
2) López-Sintas, J., Filimon, N., García-Álvarez, E. (2012). A social theory of internet uses based on consumption scale and linkage needs. Social Science Computer Review, 30 (1):108-129.
3) López-Sintas, J., Cebollada À., Filimon, N., Gharhaman, A. (2014). Music access patterns: a social interpretation. Poetics, 46:56-74.
4) Bartosik-Purgat, M; Filimon, N.; Kiygi-Calli, M. (2017). Social media and higher education - an international perspective. Economics and Sociology, 10:181-191.
5) Cuadrado-García, M., Filimon, N., Montoro-Pons, J. (2018). Picturing Spanish filmgoers: motives, barriers and film theatres. Regional Science Inquiry, vol. X (2):45-60.
6) Filimon N. (2019). Reading habits and literary preferences of Spaniards' book readers: a multidimensional perspective. Cuadernos Económicos de ICE, 98: 63-87.
7) Bartosik-Purgat, M., Filimon, N. (eds.). (2022). European Consumers in the Digital Era: Implications of Technology, Media and Culture on Consumer Behavior (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263685
8) Carreras-Simó, M., Codinach-Segura, S., Filimon, N., Fusté-Forné, F. (2023). Exploring consumer preferences for local food: The case of traditional coastal fishmongers in Costa Brava (Catalonia, Spain). Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 11: 1-11.
9) Filimon, N., Fusté-Forné, F. (2023). Exploring tourists and local consumers' attitudes on service automation in restaurant industry: the Spanish fast-food experience. In: Medina, X.F., Conde-Caballero, D., Mariano-Juárez, L. (eds.), Food, Gastronomy, Sustainability, and Social and Cultural Development. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (chapter 6), Elsevier. ISBN: 9780323959933
10) Alsheyab, M., Filimon, N., Fusté-Forné, F. (2023). Hospitality management in times of crisis: a corporate social responsibility perspective. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 16(5): 873-891.
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