Nominations for admittance to or continuance in the National System of Researchers (SNI) ratify the excellence, innovativeness, and transcendence of the work carried out by the institution’s researchers.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Twenty-three professors from EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey were recognized in the 2020 Call for admittance to or Continuance in the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt).

“Congratulations to our professors for these well-deserved achievements that will undoubtedly contribute to the consolidation of their careers as researchers and ratify the excellence, innovativeness, and transcendence of their academic work,” said Osmar Zavaleta, Associate Dean of Research, EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

The academics who received recognitions were:

Admitted:

• SNI-Candidate Level: From EGADE Business School, Dr. Carlos Alberto Vargas Castolo (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics), Dr. Fernando Andrés Moya Dávila (GIEE – Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Dr. Iván Adolfo Valdovinos Hernández and Dr. Rolando Fuentes Bracamontes (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics), and from the Undergraduate Business School, Dr. Alicia Fernanda Galindo Manrique (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics), Dr. Christian Yarid Ayala Millán (GIEE - Leadership), Dr. Cristian Granados Sánchez (GIEE - Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Dr. Dante Benito Castro Solano (GIEE - Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Dr. David Rebollo Catalán, Dr. Diana Kolbe (GIEE - Consumer Behavior and Conscious Marketing), Dr. Eduardo Armando (GIEE – Organizational Strategy and Management in Emerging Economies), Dr. Evodio Kaltenecker Retto De Queiroz and Dr. Jorge Rubén Keith Islas.

Readmitted:

• SNI-Level I: From EGADE Business School, Dr. Claudia María Quintanilla Domínguez (GIEE - Consumer Behavior and Conscious Marketing) and Dr. Martha Corrales Estrada (GIEE - Entrepreneurship and Innovation), and from the Undergraduate Business School, Dr. Montserrat Reyna Miranda (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics).

Promotions:

• From SNI-Level I to SNI-Level II: From EGADE Business School, Dr. Edgar Antonio Centeno Velázquez (GIEE - Consumer Behavior and Conscious Marketing).

• From SNI Candidate Level to SNI-Level I: From EGADE Business School, Dr. Eduardo Saucedo de la Fuente (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics), and from the Undergraduate Business School, Dr. Andreas Michael Hartmann Ehlich (GIEE - Organizational Strategy and Management in Emerging Economies) and Dr. Felipe Abelardo Pérez Sosa (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics).

Continuance:

• SNI-Level II: From EGADE Business School, Dr. Laura Esther Zapata Cantú (GIEE - Organizational Strategy and Management in Emerging Economies).

• SNI- Level I: From the Undergraduate Business School, Dr. Alejandro Alvarado Herrera (GIEE - Consumer Behavior and Conscious Marketing).

One-year extension:

• SNI-Level Candidate: from EGADE Business School, Dr. Eduardo Enrique Aguiñaga Maldonado (GIEE – Social Innovation).

With these new admissions, readmissions, promotions, continuances, and extension, which will come into effect in January 2021, the recognition of EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School professors by the National System of Researchers has been consolidated, growing from 70 to 83 professors recognized by SNI, of whom 42 belong the Candidate Level, 26 to SNI Level I, 12 to SNI-II, and three to SNI Level III.

Additionally, a total of 11 EGADE Business School graduates of the Doctorate in Administrative Sciences and the Doctorate in Financial Sciences obtained SNI admission or continuance (8 at the Candidate Level and 3 at Level I) in the 2020 Call of the National System of Researchers.