Raúl León Soriano

Raúl León is an assistant lecturer at the University of Zaragoza (UZ). He has taught courses in Financial Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business since 2013, and at the Jaume I University from 2010 to 2013. His research is focused on the generation and use of financial, environmental and social information in the context of business management and financial markets, with special interest in concepts such as sustainability, corporate social responsibility, the circular economy and the Sustainable Development Goals
He has been a visiting researcher and Erasmus lecturer in different European universities: University of Oslo (Norway), Private University College of Economic Studies (Czech Republic) and the University of Bucharest (Romania).
 
Research topics:
Financial and non-financial information
Financial assessment
Sustainability management and Corporate social responsibility
Credit rating agencies and sustainability ratings
Selected Publications:
“Environmental performance assessment in the Apparel Industry. A materiality-based approach” (with Idoya Ferrero and María Jesús Muñoz), Lecture notes in business information processing, 2016, 254, pp. 51 - 60. 
 “Is Corporate Governance Related to Corporate Social Responsibility? The Case of South Africa” (with Elena Escrig, María Ángeles Fernández, Idoya Ferrero and María Jesús Muñoz), Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Markets Focus, 2015, pp. 437 - 473. 
“Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in Logistics throughout Horizontal Cooperation” (with Angel A. Juan), Managing Global Transitions, 2014, 12 - 1, pp. 79 - 93. 
“Using fuzzy logic and neural networks to classify socially responsible organisations” (with Elena Escrig, María Ángeles Fernández, Idoya Ferrero and María Jesús Muñoz), Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2013, 56 - 2, pp. 238 - 253. (SSCI Environmental studies, JCR Impact Factor 2013: 1.455).
“Methodology for sustainability strategic planning and management” (with Ricardo Chalmeta and María Jesús Muñoz Torres), Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2010, 110 - 2, pp. 249 - 268. (SCI Engineering, JCR Impact Factor 2010: 1.569).