{"id":10,"date":"2026-05-28T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:23:02","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Publications &amp; Working Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carrera, C.<\/strong>, Mart\u00ednez-de-Alb\u00e9niz, V., &amp; Sosa, M. E. (2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/mnsc.2022.04141\">The Bright Side of Lower Quality: Evidence from Restaurant Exploration<\/a>. <em>Management Science<\/em>, 72(5), 3847\u20133864.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carrera, C.<\/strong>, Duran, S., Atasu, A., &amp; Van Wassenhove, L. N. (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4424516\">Clean Energy, Material Scarcity and Urban Mining<\/a>. INSEAD Working Paper No. 2025\/38\/TOM. <em>Major revision at Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Carrera, C.<\/strong>, Atasu, A., Van Wassenhove, L. N., &amp; Ciocan, D. F. (2025). Diffusion in Circularity: The Missing Link in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carrera, C.<\/strong>, &amp; Berenguer, G. (2026). Keep, Donate,\u2026 or Sell? Charities&#8217; Survival in Second-Hand Apparel Markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research in Progress<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carrera, C.<\/strong>, Sa\u00e9z de Tejada, A., &amp; Stavrou, M. (2026). (Un)Prepared for a Changing World: Adaptive Responses to Geopolitical Disruptions in Critical Mineral Supply Chains.<\/li>\n<li>Vercammen, A., <strong>Carrera, C.<\/strong>, &amp; Boute, R. (2026). When is Remanufacturing Worth It? Minimizing Costs under the Right-to-Repair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Funding<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/strong>, 2026\u20132028.\n<ul>\n<li>Project: <em>RETHREAD (REthinking The Humanitarian Resale Ecosystem for Apparel Donations)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Supervisor: Victor Mart\u00ednez de Alb\u00e9niz.<\/li>\n<li>Amount: \u20ac194,074.56.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Articles for Practitioners<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;How recycling could solve the shortage of minerals essential to clean energy,&#8221; <em>The Conversation<\/em>, September 6, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-recycling-could-solve-the-shortage-of-minerals-essential-to-clean-energy-211474\">[link]<\/a> \u2014 based on the <em>Urban Mining<\/em> paper.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cheap and cheerful? Why low online ratings can actually produce better experiences,&#8221; <em>IESE Insight<\/em>, November 20, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iese.edu\/insight\/articles\/ratings-reviews-quality-expectations\/\">[link]<\/a> \u2014 based on the <em>restaurant exploration<\/em> paper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications &amp; Working Papers Carrera, C., Mart\u00ednez-de-Alb\u00e9niz, V., &amp; Sosa, M. E. (2026). The Bright Side of Lower Quality: Evidence from Restaurant Exploration. Management Science, 72(5), 3847\u20133864. Carrera, C., Duran, S., Atasu, A., &amp; Van Wassenhove, L. N. (2025). Clean Energy, Material Scarcity and Urban Mining. INSEAD Working Paper No. 2025\/38\/TOM. Major revision at Manufacturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/carrera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}