Mirta Diaz Fernandez

Mirta Diaz Fernandez serves as a University Professor in the Department of Business Organization and Marketing at the Faculty of Business Sciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. She teaches core courses including Human Resources Management for Business Administration degrees, Organizational Theory for Finance and Accounting programs, and specialized instruction in capability development for the Master's in Strategic Human Resources Management.

Her research centers on Human Resource Management systems and organizational dynamics, with particular emphasis on leadership-competency linkages, innovation processes, and sustainability integration. Recent work explores AI-driven competency frameworks, psychological capital in entrepreneurship, and ambidextrous strategies in technology transfer offices. She employs rigorous quantitative methodologies including panel-data analysis to examine how HRM practices drive firm performance and social outcomes.

Analysis of her publications (2015-2025) reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) Human capital mechanisms linking leadership to organizational learning, (2) Internationalization drivers for academic spin-offs through relational and psychological capital, and (3) Sustainability-HRM integration examining alignment between employee competencies and social outcomes. Her work consistently applies Spanish contextual analysis while addressing global organizational challenges.

Professor Diaz Fernandez supervises Master's theses in Strategic Human Resources Management and leads the R&D&I project "Digital Transformation and Human Resource Competencies: The Path to Sustainability" (2022/00249/001), investigating how digital competencies enable sustainable business transformation.