Research Yearbook 2013-2014 by ESADE

Research Yearbook 2013-2014 Issue 9

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Coordination & Edition Albert Mesas Knowledge Management Unit Academic Management Francesc Cribillers Knowledge Management Unit Research and Knowledge Vice-Deanship www.esade.edu/web/faculty-research/research

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contents Institutional presentation The Organisation of Research: Research Groups, Centres, Institutes and Chairs

ESADE Research Figures

6 research output

journal articles

Articles in journals with impact factor Articles in refereed and peer reviewed journals Articles in other relevant journals

PhD Program

16 BOOKS and book chapters 20

Supporting Research

22 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Books Book Chapters Other contributions

AND academic congresses

WORKING PAPERS CASES BOOK REVIEWS MONOGRAPHS PhD THESES phd programme contributions directory 113 awards and other acollades

92 96 104 100 104 108 112

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institutional presentation

It is with great pleasure that I present the 2013-2014 edition of the ESADE RESEARCH YEARBOOK. It contains a summary of the contribution to research made by the ESADE academic community over the past year, and includes research information, as well as details on knowledge creation and knowledge improvement in the fields of both management and law. Our commitment to intellectual contribution through education and research centres on training, not only competent, but also socially responsible professionals, on creating knowledge relevant to improving organisations and communities, and on contributing to the social debate with the object of a freer, fairer and more prosperous society. At ESADE, research is one of our most important activities. As always, the ESADE RESEARCH YEARBOOK is aimed at the academic, business and legal communities. I trust that you will find it both useful, and stimulating, and on behalf of ESADE, I would like to thank you for consulting our Yearbook.

Eugenia Bieto Director General ESADE

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DEAN presentation

Research and teaching are the two core activities of academic institutions. New knowledge is generated through research, instilled in the classroom through teaching, and disseminated in the public domain to improve practice. Knowledge often progresses in slow, methodical steps, yet can also leap forward unexpectedly, or even reverse course and contract. Under scrutiny, knowledge is filled with holes, cracks, gaps and fuzzy limits. Scientific boundaries are everything but well-defined, static or certain. It is in this respect that teaching and research are complementary. The most effective educators understand the limitations of their knowledge, the boundaries of their discipline, and the shortcomings of the science. They can simultaneously impart what they know with confidence, and marvel at what is unknown with poise and assurance. This ESADE Research Yearbook is testimony to the hard work of ESADE researchers that explore the frontiers of managerial and legal scholarship and practice. By contributing to the greater social good of knowledge, our research ensure ESADEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued relevance and impact in these rapidly moving fields. I thank you for your interest in ESADE and invite you to explore the exceptional contributions presented in this Research Yearbook.

Jonathan Wareham Dean of Faculty and Research ESADE Business & Law Schools

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the organisation of research Research Groups, Centres, Institutes and ChairS

ESADE BRAND INSTITUTE

ESADE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSTITUTE EEI

INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IIK

Research Group on Brand and Consumption GRECOMAR

Entrepreneurship Research Group GRIE

Research Group on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning GRACO

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION IIS

INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC EVIDENCE AND PROVATIVE LAW IPDP

INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT IGDP

Research Group on Corporate Social Responsability GRRSE

Forensic Evidence and Probative Law Research Group

Research Group in Leadership and Innovation in Public Management GLIGP

INSTITUTE OF LABOUR STUDIES IEL

ESADE CENTER FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY AND GEOPOLITICS ESADEGEO

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE GLEAD

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OBSERVATORY OF SPANISH MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES OEME

CHAIR IN LEADERSHIPS AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE

FUTURE OF WORK CHAIR

THE JEAN MONNET CHAIR AT ESADE RESEARCH GROUP ON LEGAL GUIDELINES AND SOCIAL CHANGE

RESEARCH GROUP ON MEDIATION, ARBITRATION LAW AND FAMILY

RESEARCH GROUP ON TOURISM MANAGEMENT GRUGET

BUSINESS NETWORK DYNAMICS BuNeD

GROUP FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE GREF

RESEARCH GROUP ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING GREC

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Research Groups Business Network Dynamics Research Group (BuNeD)

Research Group on Mediation, Arbitration, Law and Family

The group’s research focuses primarily on the study of how organisations establish, build and manage business networks with their partners and also on the dynamics involved in the development, growth and demise of such networks. The group conducts analysis at different levels (group, company and sector), from a multidisciplinary perspective: operations; supply chain; information systems; marketing; organisational theory. The members of the group use both qualitative and quantitative methods and, in particular, lay emphasis on models and methods developed for social network analysis: multidimensional scaling; cluster analysis; graphic representation techniques; multilevel, redundant analysis.

There are on two major research lines inside the group: New family models and their legal implications: reconstituted or step families; marriage, adoption and homosexuality; family protocol as a necessity in light of the new family models, and the young/elderly in current society. Family mediation: An analysis of the current situation regarding family mediation in our country, potential interregional problems and the skills and competencies of family mediators.

Cristina Gimenez Thompsen, Coordinator

Research Group on Legal Guidelines and Social Change

Economics and Finance Research Group (GREF) This group promotes research in the fields of finance and economics, which cover a wide range of areas of macroeconomics, international economics, corporate finance, risk management and capital markets. GREF’s main objective lies in facilitating the creation and dissemination of highlevel research at ESADE and, at the same time, increasing its visibility and relevance to the academic community in general. Its main areas of research are: market microstructure; accounting research in capital markets; corporate finance; credit risk; differences in productivity; growth and public policies; domestic and international spillovers.

The research group is devoted to field studies on social development in an area determined by the law, exploring empirical indices to diagnose the need, improvement or utility of the law in order to optimise individual and social results. Among other group research interests there are: the critical review of the role and value of traditional institutions for the law, the analysis of the different alternatives of the law with respect to social reality, including historical law and comparative law and the study and advice on improving legal regulations and legal institutions in general. The group hosts the Observatory for Quality and Effectiveness of Laws (OCEL) to promote critical and neutral analysis of the legal system’s maintenance and renewal.

Ariadna Dumitrescu, Coordinator

Sergio Llebaría Samper, Coordinator

Knowledge Engineering Research Group (GREC)

Research Group on Tourism Management (GRUGET)

This research group includes researchers from ESADE and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Since its inception, the group’s multidisciplinary component has enabled it to work both in basic and applied research. Its main activity focuses on research and the development of techniques in the area of artificial intelligence. The objectives of GREC’s research at ESADE revolve around two axes: the development of methodologies related with artificial intelligence in unstructured environments (incomplete, imperfect and/or inaccurate); the application of these methodologies in related fields of decision making, finance and marketing.

This research group aims to create knowledge in the field of sustainable management for businesses and tourist destinations, and to promote exchanges between all the agents involved. The group is multidisciplinary and global in scope and, therefore, external collaborations are international. Its research areas include social marketing, innovation, quality management and management indicators. Transversely, its research is oriented towards the use of information systems, the economic impact on society and on the territory/region in question, and the use of innovative research methodologies such as qualitative reasoning.

Núria Agell Jané, Coordinator

Mar Vila Fernández-Santacruz, Coordinator

Teresa Duplá Marín, Coordinator

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CHAIRS

CENTRES

Chair in LeadershipS and Democratic Governance

ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo)

This Chair takes up the challenge of studying and promoting innovative ways of leadership that are appropriate to our complex environments. It also studies leadership as a means of promoting progress, welfare and cohesion in contemporary society through a threefold entrepreneurial, social and political approach aimed at forging links between these three fields, in addition to analysing the respective institutional frameworks. Many ESADE faculty members participate in this Chair, together with researchers and leading figures involved in business, politics and social initiatives.

The ESADEgeo Center aims to become an international benchmark in the study of economic globalisation and global governance The center produces research and practical knowledge, addressed the various social actors: governments, companies and civil society organizations. It also disseminates and creates opportunities for the application of that knowledge; aimed at institutional strengthening and developing the various actors’ organisational capacities. Fco. Javier Solana Madariaga, President

Angel Castiñeira Fernández, Director Leadership Development Research Centre (GLEAD) Future of Work Chair The FWC main objective is to translate future trends in the world of work into core research, teaching and executive education activities. Also to help organizations transform their culture to support the new trends at work via the development of tools and methodologies to affect culture transformation. The chair will collaborate towards the development of new ideas for enhancing productivity and wellbeing in the new world of work (via research, debates, Talent Laboratory Forum, and other initiatives), and aims to create a global network/ consortium with global business leaders, academics and political leaders. Simon Dolan, Director

The Jean Monnet Chair at ESADE The Jean Monnet Chair at ESADE Law School is a project for teaching, research and social debate on European Union (EU) law and European integration. European Commission, co-funds this Chair. The Chair promotes the internationalisation of ESADE Law School by doing research on this these main lines: Reform of the economic and monetary union and design of a political union. Power distribution models between the EU and its member states. EContract law and European Integration. Also organising debates on current topics such as European contract law, European legal architecture, new norms and institutions of economic governance in the wake of the euro crisis, and the relationship between Spain’s autonomous communities and the EU.

The mission of the centre is to create new knowledge and insight that deepens the understanding of outstanding leadership and the competencies that support it and make people engage wholeheartedly at work. The research lines are: Individual Emotional and Social Competencies, Group Emotional and Social Competencies, and Coaching and Development of Emotional and Social Competencies. Joan M. Batista-Foguet, Director

Observatory on Spanish Multinational Companies (OEME) The OEME studies the opportunities and challenges affecting companies in advanced stages of internationalisation. It also aims to contribute towards identifying and disseminating ‘good practices’, working closely with the companies themselves, and is presented as an open platform for the exchange of experiences and knowledge between companies and institutions that promote foreign investment projects. Xavier Mendoza Mayordomo, Director

José M. de Areilza Carvajal, Director

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INSTITUTES ESADE Brand Institute

Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management (IIK)

The purpose of the Brand Institute works on relevant issues and facilitates decision-making processes that affect brands. Doing that, with the use of solid research and analysis tools to provide practical and effective solutions. The Institute also focuses on creating new knowledge on brands and their management, and on disseminating this knowledge among the business sector and academia. The centre’s research covers two main areas: a more generalist approach to management and brand strategies, on the one hand, and thematic research into their specific application, on the other.

The purpose of this institute is to understand the creation of knowledge and innovation. A crossdisciplinary team dedicated to understanding the sources, mechanisms and consequences of innovation: where it comes from; how it is diffused and adopted; and how it affects individual, social, and economic structures when in use. The main research topics include open innovation, scientific discovery and technology transfer, platform and ecosystem design, sustainable technologies and systems of use, open government and democratizing technologies, as well as a variety of trends within serious games, policy simulation, quasi-experimentation and sociotechnical ethnography.Linked to IIK, Learning, Knowledge and Organization Research Group (GRACO) is doing research on knowledge creation in the areas of research and innovation management; knowledge transfer; knowledge in organisations; research into inter-organisational relationships and networks.

Oriol Iglesias Bedós, Director

ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI) This institute promotes relevant and rigorous research in entrepreneurship. IIE focuses on eight areas of research, which are: entrepreneurship; female entrepreneurs; corporate entrepreneurship; corporate intrapreneurship; creativity; growth and internationalisation; entrepreneurial finance; family businesses. Linked to IIE, the Research Group in Entrepreneurship (GRIE) aims to contribute to producing knowledge on entrepreneurship in the hope of promoting the creation of sustainable and innovative businesses. Luisa Alemany Gil, Director

Institute of Forensic Evidence and Probative Law (IPDP) The IPDP’s aims are to analyze the theoretical and practical aspects of forensic evidence and probative law; to train professionals related with the Administration of Justice in forensic evidence and probative law; to provide informed opinion and propose criteria; to encourage research in this area. The three main research lines are the following: one dedicated to the civil proceedings; a second line on new technologies used in probative law; and, most recently, the third one involved with criminal proceedings. The IPDP publishes a quarterly magazine, Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio. Xavier Abel Lluch, Director

Jonathan Wareham, Director

Institute of Labour Studies (IEL) This research unit focuses its activity on creating scientific and technical knowledge for work environments that facilitate the creation of added value based on individuals’ knowledge. IEL is working on the strategic line of how to produce a shift towards a knowledge society, using an employment model based on professional qualifications, quality of life, respect for the dignity of work and a sustainable growth environment. Carlos Obeso Abalde, Director

Institute for Social Innovation (IIS) The Institute for Social Innovation encourages and supports research aimed at promoting management skills in the third sector. Its various programmes focus on the study of three main lines: the integration of CSR into business strategy and the relationship with stakeholders; leadership and management of NGOs; social entrepreneurships. The Research Group on Corporate Social Responsibility (GRRSE), linked to IIS, investigates the processes involved in strategically redefining the relations between company and stakeholders as the linchpin for the debate on corporate responsibility in society. Ignasi Carreras Fisas, Director

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Institute of Public Governance and Management (IGDP) The Institute focuses its activity on government and public sector organisations. The Institute’s lines of activity include public management training, research and social debate on different areas of management, and public administration. This institute’s mission is based on a marked commitment to innovation in the public sector in terms of modernising and improving public administrations. The Research Group in Leadership and Innovation in Public Management (GLIGP), linked to IGDP, conducts research in the theoretical framework of governance, based on two major themes: public, democratic leadership to enhance institutional development; and the analysis of networks, transversality, collaborations and partnerships in innovation in governance. Albert Serra Matín, Director

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ESADE RESEARCH FIGURES 17

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ESADE RESEARCH FIGURES DISTRIBUTION OF academic output RESEARCH PROJECTS 19 Projects

Type of Funding

PUBLICATION / YEAR

44 PROJECTS

Competitive Non competitive

2 PROJECTS 18 PROJECTS 43 PROJECTS

2009 2010

2010 2011

2011 2012

2012 2013

2013 2014

Articles in Refereed Journals

100

Articles in other Relevant Journals

Books

Books Chapters

Congress Contributions and Conference Proceedings

Conferences and Invited Lectures

101

Working Papers

Cases and Technical Notes

Book Reviews

Monographs

PhD Theses

Articles in Refereed Journals

Source of Funding Public Private Public & Private

45 2008 2009

8 PROJECTS 21 PROJECTS 34 PROJECTS Scope National European International

YEAR

61 2009 2010

70 2010 2011

100

2011 2012

2012 2013

2013 2014

2008 2009

2009 2010

2010 2011

2011 2012

2012 2013

2013 2014

% Articles with IF

33%

57%

44%

55%

67%

66%

Average IF

1.2

2.0

1.7

1.6

2.0

1.9

Articles with IF

esade research figures

19 research units

13 Units recognised as a Catalan Research Group (SGR 2014-2016 - AGAUR - Generalitat de Catalunya)

7 Institutes 6 Research Groups 3 Centres 3 Chairs

research units participants 10 Researcher 39 Research Assistant 107 Professor / Researcher 21 Research Technicians and Managers

funding

External funding

36%

37%

36%

64%

63%

64%

2009 - 2010 7,632,000 €

2010 - 2011 7,367,000 €

Phd THESES

2011 - 2012 7,125,000 €

2009 2010

2010 2011

2011 2012

2012 2013

2013 2014

In-house funding

41%

29%

59%

71%

2012 - 2013 5,735,000 €

2013 - 2014 5,153,000 €

Phd PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS 41

2009 2010

2010 2011

2011 2012

2012 2013

2013 2014

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PhD PROGRAM ESADE research-oriented programmes: MRes and PhD in Management Sciences

ESADE Business School offers two research-oriented programmes: The Master of Research and the PhD in Management Sciences. Student who wish to read for a PhD are initially registered as MRes. The MRes is the foundational coursework for the PhD. There is a specific admission process for students who have already completed the taught part of a PhD (MRes or equivalent). These two degrees are open to graduates from various disciplines (Management, Economics, Engineering, Psychology, Sociology and other disciplines related to Management) who are highly motivated, enthusiastic about the creation of new knowledge, and interested in pursuing an international career in research.

Academic objectives of the research oriented programmes: 1 |

To acquire a solid base in quantitative and qualitative research techniques.

2 | To attain in-depth knowledge and a critical and creative overview of a specific management sciences research field. 3 | To effectively and clearly communicate orally and in writing in research environments.

· Master of Research in Management Sciences (MRes). Full-time one-year programme (60 ECTS credits).

4 | To be trained to manage research projects, groups and research-oriented institutions.

· PhD in Management Sciences. Full-time 3 year programme.

5 | To be equipped to take on intellectually demanding positions in the main academic and research institutions in industry, consultancy and public services.

Our PhD candidates has spent research periods in the following research institutions: University California Berkeley, USC University of South California, Georgia State University, HEC Lausanne, Case Weatherhead School of Management, Wharton- University of Pennsylvania, Carey Business School at Arizona State University and Haas Business School, Berkeley. Our PhD alumni work in top universities, business schools and research institutions around the world. Some of the recent placements have been in Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Instituto de Empresa (Spain), University College London (UK), University of Victoria (Canada) and Vrije University (The Netherlands). This year 9 candidates have been graduated from the MRes programme and 5 PhD candidates graduated from the PhD programme. Candidates on these research programmes are noted for their international and/or multicultural profiles, as can be seen in the following chart:

7% 15 %

50 %

Latin America

Asia

Europe

Africa

USA

21 %

Breakdown of MRes and PhD candidates graduated within 2013-2014 academic year (→)

7% 7% 7%

Spain

Italy Germany

Phd program

MRes and PhD programmes directly involved in ESADE research

ESADE is aware that the quality of a business school’s PhD programme directly influences its reputation. The PhD in Management Sciences has positioned itself as one of Spain’s leading doctoral programmes on management. The Spanish Ministry of Education has awarded ESADE its “Towards Excellence” distinction, which recognises doctoral degree courses at Spanish universities for their scientific, technical and educational excellence. The important points considered to award this distinction are: the efficiency of thesis management, the number and quality of publications derived from theses, the level of internationalisation of the research conducted – including the placement of doctoral students at foreign universities – and the participation of visiting lecturers.

PUBLICATION / YEAR

Thesis defended

BuNeD

Since the 2008-09 academic year, ESADE has been assigning all its MRes and PhD candidates to one of its research units for their research period. This ensures that doctoral theses follow ESADE research lines, and this has a direct effect on thesis quality. Every year, each unit’s research seminar includes close monitoring of the progress of all PhD and MRes candidates research projects. The following chart shows the distribution of current PhD candidates in research units and the thesis defended during the academic year 201213. Doctorate candidates’ participation in research groups and their collaboration in research projects have significantly increased their contribution to ESADE’s scientific production. This has meant a considerable increase in the visibility of our PhD programme in terms of publication of its research results both at congresses and in international journals.

1st year

2nd year

3rd year

ESADEGEO 1

GLEAD GREC

GREF FWC

IGDP

OEME

2 1

IIE

IIS

1 1

GRECOMAR

IIK

+3rd year

5 1

Breakdown of current PhD candidates by research unit and defended theses within 2013-2014 academic year

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SUPPORTING RESEARCH One of the main strategic uses of private contributions is research in the fields of law and management. Promoting the creation of knowledge means contributing to intellectual debate, one of the hallmarks of an academic institution of international excellence. Thanks to all the individuals, companies and organisations which, through their economic support, help to make our research and educational projects possible: assembly of TRUSTEES ABERTIS ACCENTURE AGROLIMEN ALFA CONSULTING ALLIANZ ARAMARK BUDGET BANCO SABADELL BBVA CÁMARA OFICIAL DE COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y NAVEGACIÓN DE BARCELONA CAPRABO CEMENTOS MOLINS COCA COLA IBERIAN PARTNERS CAIXABANK DESIGUAL DANONE DELOITTE

ELECNOR ESADE ALUMNI ESTEVE EVERIS EY FLUIDRA FREIXENET FUJITSU FUNDACIÓN BANCO SABADELL FUNDACIÓN CAJA DE INGENIEROS FUNDACIÓN DAMM FUNDACIÓN JESÚS SERRA / GRUPO CATALANA OCCIDENTE FUNDACIÓN PUIG FUNDACIÓN PWC FUNDACIÓN REPSOL FUNDACIÓN RAMÓN ARECES GAS NATURAL FENOSA

GRUPO MAHOU SAN MIGUEL IBERPOTASH IBM ISS FACILITY SERVICES KPMG METALOGENIA MIGUEL TORRES NESTLÉ ESPAÑA OBRA SOCIAL “LA CAIXA” PENTEO ICT ANALYST REIG PATRIMONIA ROCA CORPORACIÓN EMPRESARIAL SANTANDER SEAT TOUS WERFEN GROUP

Companies and foundations that contribute to research projects and to the foundational purpose Senior Partners AGROLIMEN BBVA ESADE ALUMNI FUNDACIÓN PWC FUNDACIÓN REPSOL OBRA SOCIAL “LA CAIXA” SANTANDER

Partners ABB ABERTIS BANCO SABADELL BID DANONE ECOSYSTÈME EVERIS FUNDACIÓ BARCELONA CULTURA FUNDACIÓ LLUIS CARULLA PROMARCA WISE

collaborators ACCIÓ AEBRAND BCG BCN ACTIVA CAIXABANK CUATRECASAS GONÇALVES PEREIRA DELOITTE DKV FUJITSU FUNDACIÓN RAFAEL DEL PINO

GOOGLE INVEST IN SPAIN KIC INNOENERGY KPMG LEE HECHT HARRISON MERCER MICROBANK RANDSTAD UCH ZURICH INSURANCE GROUP

Other collaborators ANTAI TRADING, APPLUS, CGI, ACRA, AJUNTAMENT DE BARCELONA, ARVATO, COSCO IBERIA, DEPARTAMENT DE BENESTAR SOCIAL I FAMÍLIA, DEPARTAMENT D’EMPRESA I OCUPACIÓ, DEPARTAMENT DE SALUT, DEPARTAMENT DE TERRITORI I SOSTENIBILITAT DG TRANSPORT I MOBILITAT, DIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONA, INDRA, GLOBAL ASIA, HAIER EUROPE TRADING, HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES ESPAÑA, HUAYI COMPRESSOR BARCELONA, ICBC EUROPE, INFORMÁTICA EL CORTE INGLÉS, KEEWAY MOTOR ESPAÑA, KING & WOOD MALLESONS SJ BERWIN, LENOVO SPAIN, KERRY LOGISTICS, MEDTRONIC, MINMETALS ESPAÑA, NET CRAMAN ABOGADOS & ASESORES FISCALES, PACTE REGIONAL, PORT DE BARCELONA, SAINZ RAVENTÓS ABOGADOS Y ECONOMISTAS, SUARA COOPERATIVA, FUNDACIÓ CATALANA PER A LA RECERCA I LA INNOVACIÓ, ZTE SPAINA. Companies and foundations that contribute to the scholarship Programme partners ALLIANZ BUDGET DELOITTE FUNDACIÓN BANCO SABADELL FUNDACIÓN CAJA DE INGENIEROS FUNDACIÓN JESÚS SERRA / GRUPO CATALANA OCCIDENTE REIG PATRIMONIA ROCA CORPORACIÓN EMPRESARIAL

collaborators ALFA CONSULTING, ANUDAL, APAX FOUNDATION, DEUTSCHE BANK, GRUPO ZURICH EN ESPAÑA, IBERDAC, JP MORGAN, LUCTA, METALOGENIA, RESA, RESIDENCIA SARRIA, RWE INNOGY AERSA, TOYOTA MATERIAL HANDLING, DESPACHOS MIEMBROS DEL CONSEJO PROFESIONAL DE LA FACULTAD DE DERECHO

For more information: Corporate Relations & Fundraising · T. +34 934 952 058 · foundation@esade.edu · www.givingtoESADE.com

supporting research

RESEARCH OUTPUT

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JOURNAL articles Articles in journals with impact factor

Aguilera Vaqués, Ruth Corporate governance and investors’ perceptions of foreign IPO value: An institutional perspective Bell, R.G.; Filatotchev, I.; Aguilera Vaqués, R. Academy of Management Journal (2013 IF=4.974; Q1 Bus.; Q1 Manag.; BW20; FT45) Academy of Management (AOM) Vol. 57, no. 1, 02/2014, p. 301-320 This paper investigates stock market responses to the different constellations of firm-level corporate governance mechanisms by focusing on foreign IPOs in the U.S. We build on sociology-grounded research on financial market behavior and suggest a “nested” legitimacy framework to explore U.S. investor perceptions of foreign IPO value. Using a fuzzy-set theoretic methodology, we demonstrate how different combinations of monitoring and incentive-based corporate governance mechanisms lead to the same level of investor valuations of firms. Moreover, institutional factors related to the minority shareholder protection strength in the foreign IPO’s home country represent a boundary condition that affects the number of governance mechanisms required to achieve U.S. investors’ high value perceptions. Our findings contribute to the sociological perspective on comparative corporate governance and the inter-dependencies between organizations and institutions.

Almirall Mezquita, Esteve Lee, Melissa Jo Majchrzak, Ann Open innovation requires integrated competition - community ecosystems: Lessons learned from civic open innovation Business Horizons (2013 IF=1.284; Q3 Bus.) Elsevier Vol. 57, no. 3, 05/2014, p. 391-400 Open innovation has received substantial business attention as a means of providing firms in hyper-competitive environments with the ability to create a stream of new products and services. For open in-

novation, organizing external sources correctly is a critical capability; current literature suggests that external sources should be organized either as collaborative communities or as competitive markets. While firms have generally been slow to adopt open innovation, many cities in the U.S. and Europe have been quick to embrace it-providing needed field-based experience on how to organize external sources. Based on our examination of six cities opening their data for innovation, we found that while cities often started with one or the other approach to organizing their external sources, each approach was inadequate in ways that could potentially be addressed by the addition of the other approach. Thus, we conclude with an integrated approach in which the needs of the entire ecosystem of sources and supporters of innovation are organized to address both competitive and community needs.

Almirall Mezquita, Esteve Public open sensor data: Revolutionizing smart cities Domingo, A.; Bellalta, B.; Palacín, M.; Oliver, M.; Almirall, E. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (2013 IF=0.490; Q4 Eng, Electr & Electron.) IEEE Society on Social Implications on Technology Vol. 32, no. 4, 12/2013, p. 50-56 Local governments have decided to take advantage of the presence of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in their cities to efficiently manage several applications in their daily responsibilities. The enormous amount of information collected by sensor devices allows the automation of several realtime services to improve city management by using intelligent trafficlight patterns during rush hour, reducing water consumption in parks, or efficiently routing garbage collection trucks throughout the city [1]. The sensor information required by these examples is mostly self-consumed by city-designed applications and managers.

journal articles | articles in journals with impact factor

Alsina, Victoria Gascó, Mila Policing opportunities and threats in Europe van den Born, A.; van Witteloostuijn, A.; Barlage, M.; Alsina, V.; Gascó, M.; et,al. Journal of Organizational Change Management (2013 IF=0.744; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 26, no. 5, 09/2013, p. 811-829 This paper aims to take stock and to increase understanding of the opportunities and threats for policing in ten European countries in the Political, Economic, Social, Technological and Legal (PESTL) environment. This study is part of the large EU-funded COMPOSITE project into organisational change. A PESTL analysis was executed to produce the environmental scan that will serve as a platform for further research into change management within the police. The findings are based on structured interviews with police officers of 17 different police forces and knowledgeable externals in ten European countries. The sampling strategy was optimized for representativeness under the binding capacity constraints defined by the COMPOSITE research budget. European police forces face a long list of environmental changes that can be grouped in the five PESTL clusters with a common denominator. There is also quite some overlap as to both the importance and nature of the key PESTL trends across the ten countries, suggesting convergence in Europe. A study of this magnitude has not been seen before in Europe, which brings new insights to the target population of police forces across Europe. Moreover, policing is an interesting field to study from the perspective of organisational change, featuring a high incidence of change in combination with a wide variety of change challenges, such as those related to identity and leadership.

Batista Foguet, Joan M. Substance use across adolescence: Do gender and age matters? Simoes, C.; Gaspar de Matos, M.; Batista Foguet, J.M.; Simons Morton, B. Psicologia: Reflexão & Crítica/Psychology (2013 IF=0.158; Q4 Psychol., Multidiscip.) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Vol. 27, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 1-10

structured interviews with police officers of 17 different police forces and knowledgeable externals in ten European countries. The sampling strategy was optimized for representativeness under the binding capacity constraints defined by the COMPOSITE research budget. European police forces face a long list of environmental changes that can be grouped in the five PESTL clusters with a common denominator. There is also quite some overlap as to both the importance and nature of the key PESTL trends across the ten countries, suggesting convergence in Europe. A study of this magnitude has not been seen before in Europe, which brings new insights to the target population of police forces across Europe. Moreover, policing is an interesting field to study from the perspective of organisational change, featuring a high incidence of change in combination with a wide variety of change challenges, such as those related to identity and leadership.

Batista Foguet, Joan M. Flow dimensions on daily activities with the Spanish version of the Flow Scale (DFS) Rufi, S.; Javaloy, F.; Batista Foguet, J.M.; Solanas, A.; Páez, D. The Spanish Journal of Psychology (2013 IF=0.706; Q3 Psychol., Multidiscip.) Cambridge University Press Vol. 17, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 1-11 A sample of 250 students of psychology with an average age of 20.37 years, answered the Flow Q questionnaire indicating their favorite flow activity, and the Spanish version of the Dispositional Flow Scale (DFS). A confirmatory factor analysis assessed the DFS construct validity of the flow model on daily activities. Both a hierarchical model of eight first order factors reflecting a second order global flow factor, and a model with eight formative first order flow dimensions, showed good fit and discriminant power. Most optimal activities were found to be individual and structured, such as studying, reading and certain forms of individual sports. Leisure activities turned out to be more rewarding than studying. Sports displayed more flow, clear goals, merging of action and awareness, and autotelic experience. Reading also showed more flow, balance of challenge and skills, feedback, merging of action and awareness, and loss of self-consciousness. On the other hand, studying displayed less flow, merging of action and awareness, and autotelic experience.

This paper aims to take stock and to increase understanding of the opportunities and threats for policing in ten European countries in the Political, Economic, Social, Technological and Legal (PESTL) environment. This study is part of the large EU-funded COMPOSITE project into organisational change. A PESTL analysis was executed to produce the environmental scan that will serve as a platform for further research into change management within the police. The findings are based on

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Baur, Dorothea Rahel Arenas Vives, Daniel The value of unregulated business-NGO interaction: A deliberative perspective Business & Society (2013 IF=1.804; Q2 Bus.) Sage Vol. 53, no. 2, 03/2014, p. 157-186 Political theories in general and deliberative democracy in particular have become quite popular in business ethics over the past few years. However, the model of deliberative democracy as generally referred to in business ethics is only appropriate for conceptualizing interaction between business and society that occurs within a context that is more or less institutionalized. It cannot account for ‘unregulated’ interaction between business and civil society. We argue that we need to resort to the so called ‘critical strand’ of deliberative democracy if we want to conceptualize interaction that happens without the involvement of decision-making institutions as political action in a deliberative sense. By adopting this approach we argue that deliberative principles are meaningful for judging unregulated interaction between business and civil society and that there are cases in which unregulated interaction is preferable over institutionalization.

Bell, Roger Can business schools make students culturally competent? Effects of Cross-Cultural Management courses on cultural intelligence Eisenberg, J.; Lee, H.J.; Brueck, F.; Brenner, B.; Claes, M.T.; Bell, R.; et. al. Academy of Management Learning & Education (2013 IF=2.121; Q1 Educ. & Educ. Res.; Q1 Manag.) Academy of Management (AOM) Vol. 12, no. 4, 12/2013, p. 603-621 The rapid increase in courses dealing with cross-cultural management (CCM), brought about by economies’ globalization and increased workforce mobility motivated us to examine the impact of cross-cultural management courses on cultural intelligence. Cultural intelligence (CQ) refers to individual’s abilities and skills to effectively manage interactions in cross-cultural situations. It includes four dimensions: metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioral. In two multinational longitudinal studies using matched samples and pre-postintervention measures, we assessed the effects of academic CCM courses on students’ CQ. We found that after the courses, students’ overall CQ was significantly higher than at Time 1. No effects on CQ were detected in the control group, where students worked in multicultural settings but did not take a CCM course. Cross-cultural management courses

had stronger effects on metacognitive and cognitive CQ than on motivational and behavioral CQ. We found an interesting pattern regarding students’ international experience: While international experience in Time 1 positively related to students’ CQ, at Time 2, this relationship became nonsignificant (Study 1). These findings contribute to understanding the antecedents of cultural intelligence and how educational interventions affect it, with practical implications for designing and developing international management education and training programs.

Bertini, Marco Price promotion for emotional impact Aydinli, A.; Bertini, A.; Lambercht, A. Journal of Marketing (2013 IF=3.819; Q1 Bus.; BW20; FT45) Amrican Marketing Association (AMA) Vol. 78, no. 4, 07/2014, p. 80-96 Managers and academics often think of price promotions merely as incentives that entice consumers to accept offers they might not have considered otherwise. Yet the prospect of paying a lower price for a product of given quality can also discourage deliberation, in a sense “dumbing down” the purchase encounter by making it less consequential. The authors examine this possibility in a dual-system theory of consumer behavior. Specifically, they argue that price promotion lowers a consumer’s motivation to exert mental effort, in which case purchase decisions are guided less by extensive information processing and more by a quicker, easier, strong conditioner of preference: affect. Field data from a large daily deal company and four controlled experiments support this idea and document its implication primarily for product choice, in turn providing insight into the form and cause of brand switching that manufacturers and retailers can leverage to improve the allocation of promotional budgets and category management.

Bertini, Marco When customers help set prices Bertini, M.; Koenigsberg, O. MIT Sloan Management Review (2013 IF=1.803; Q2 Bus.; Q2 Manag.; FT45) MIT Sloan School of Management Vol. 55, no. 4, 06/2014, p. 57-64 This article is directed at managers who seek to profit from differentiation. If you sense that your company is leaving good money on the table and struggling to convert product differentiation into revenue and profits, then you should consider enlisting the help of unlikely partners: your customers. To be sure, the thought of working with customers on a critical business activity such as pricing can be unnerving for

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managers. However, in the same spirit that companies today are recruiting customers to improve product design and marketing communications, managers need to recognize that it’s those who purchase a company’s products or services who ultimately determine what they are worth. While customers need not have sole discretion over these activities, they can certainly provide important input. It’s critical to recognize that outsourcing pricing to customers isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition: Managers can select pricing models ranging from complete oversight to complete delegation. The trick is to choose an approach that is suited to the characteristics of the market you’re in and that limits the costs, real and potential, that may arise.

among-group and among-outcome consistencies), we point out some complications to achieve those relationships. We conclude by introducing the papers in the special edition that all in some way aim to contribute to our understanding of expatriate outcomes.

Bonache Pérez, Jaime Alfonso Noethen, Daniela The impact of individual performance on organizational success and its implications for the management of expatriates International Journal of Human Resource Management (2013 IF=0.928; Q3 Manag.) Taylor & Francis Vol. 25, no. 14, 01/2014, p. 1960-1977

Bonache Pérez, Jaime Alfonso Exploring expatriate outcomes Brewster, C.; Bonache Pérez, J.; Cerdin, J.L.; Suutari, V. International Journal of Human Resource Management (2013 IF=0.928; Q3 Manag.) Taylor & Francis Vol. 25, no. 14, 08/2014, p. 1921-1937 This editorial article introduces this special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management devoted to the outcomes of expatriate assignments. We set the topic in context. We start by summarizing the traditional view on expatriate outcomes. We then argue that recent developments in the field suggest the need to build a more sophisticated and complex analysis on the topic that incorporates different perspectives (e.g. the organization, the expatriate, their co-workers and their families) and additional types of international experiences and organizations. We then present some difficulties in developing such an analysis. Specifically, using a new typology of complementary relationships among outcomes (i.e. temporal,

In this paper, we present a new but simple typology of international assignments that can help guide the management of expatriates. Applying a well-known job typology by Jacobs, D. (1981,“Toward a Theory of Mobility and Behavior in Organizations: An Inquiry into the Consequences of Some Relationships Between Individual Performance and Organizational Success”, American Journal of Sociology, 87, 684-707) and Baron, J.N., and Kreps, D.M. (1999, Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers, New York: Wiley) to the international arena, we distinguish between star and guardian assignments. The essence of this distinction lies in a difference regarding a crucial relationship: the link between expatriate performance and organizational success. Drawing on two well-known case studies, we analyze the essential characteristics of and differences between star and guardian assignments, and deduct concrete consequences for the employment of specific human resource management policies along the expatriate cycle. The paper concludes with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications.

Institute for Social Innovation Research Proposal: Perceptions and Atributions: Complex Foundations of Emmployee Reactions to CSR Amer Awan, PhD Candidate Pep Mària, Supervisor

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Brinckmann, Jan Beyond environmental scarcity: Human and social capital as driving forces of bootstrapping activities Grichnik, D.; Brinckmann, J.; Singh, L.; Manigart, S. Journal of Business Venturing (2013 IF=3.265; Q1 Bus.; FT45) Elsevier Vol. 29, no. 2, 03/2014, p. 310-326

Canhilal, Sukriye Kubra Exploring the values in the Italian public sector using the tri-axial model Canhilal, S.K.; Borgonovi, E.; Vera, E. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2013 IF=0.855; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 544-558

Although entrepreneurship scholars highlight bootstrapping as a key resource acquisition approach to respond to the inherent resource constraints that nascent ventures face, little is known about what causes nascent ventures to engage in bootstrapping. Theory highlights the environment as an important determinant of bootstrapping activity. Analyzing bootstrapping behavior of 298 nascent ventures, we find that beyond perceived environmental factors, individual characteristics of the nascent entrepreneurs and factors relating to the embeddedness of the entrepreneurs in the environment determine their venture’s bootstrapping behavior. In a more fine-grained analysis we gain insights into how these antecedents shape the use of particular bootstrapping strategies. Findings contribute to our understanding of factors driving resource management approaches in nascent ventures.

The purpose of the paper is to explore the values in the public sector in Italy using the tri-axial model and explore the reasons why these values are important for the Italian public sector. An online questionnaire was prepared in Italian and sent to the public sector employees all over Italy. The findings demonstrate that Italian public sector is 100 percent economic-pragmatic according to the tri-axial model. One of the reasons of this result is the reforms made in the public sector which have stressed the importance of values like efficiency and professionalism. The main limitation of the study is the sample size. Further research should focus on increasing the number of the sample as well as compare the regions in Italy. The conclusions derived from this research suggest that Italian public sector employees perceive themselves as economic-pragmatic. This study is the first study that maps the values in the public sector in Italy using tri-axial model.

Brunswicker, Sabine Chesbrough, Henry A fad or a phenomenon? The adoption of open innovation practices in large firms

Capell, Ben Canhilal, Sukriye Kubra Mapping values in old vs new members of the European Union: A comparative analysis of public sector cultures

Research-Technology Management (RTM) (2013 IF=0.745; Q3 Eng., Ind.; Q3 Manag.; Q3 Bus.) Industrial Research Institute (IRI) Vol. 57, no. 2, 03/2014, p. 16-25 We surveyed 125 large firms in Europe and the United States with annual sales in excess of $250 million to examine the extent to which large firms are now practicing open innovation. Our results showed that open innovation is not a passing fad: 78 percent of the firms report practicing open innovation, none have abandoned it, and 82 percent of those practicing open innovation report that it is practiced more intensively today than three years ago. We also asked about specific practices for “outside-in” and “inside-out” open innovation. We found that customer co-creation, informal networking, and university grants were the three leading inbound practices in 2011; crowdsourcing and open innovation intermediary services were rated lowest in importance. Joint ventures, selling market-ready products, and standardization were the three leading outbound practices; donations to commons and spinoffs were least frequently used. We also found that large firms are more likely to receive freely revealed information than they are to provide such information.

Capell, B.; Canhilal, S.K.; Alas, R.; Sommer, L.; Ossenkop, C. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2013 IF=0.855; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 503-527 The purpose of the paper is twofold. The first purpose is to provide a synthesis of the dominant cross-cultural models and to present the more recent tri-axial model as a promising alternative that responds well to the limitation of prevailing models. Consequently, the second purpose is to employ the model to explore key differences in the culture and values of public service organisations in old and new EU member states. The paper surveyed public sector employees in four different countries, two old EU (OEU) states (Germany, The Netherlands) and two new EU (NEU) states (Estonia, Lithuania). The employees were asked to classify 60 values on the three axes of the tri-axial model and to select the five most important values in their organization. The survey replies were analyzed and mapped to facilitate comparison of

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the tri-axial cultural profile of the two EU clusters. The results show differences in value orientation between the two groups of countries: the public sector in the OEU member states appears to be more ethically and less pragmatically oriented than in the NEU member states. Findings show that in the new member states, value congruence is very high across demographic groups, in contrast to the situation encountered in the OEU member states. Further research should include more countries before generalising the conclusions of this study to the rest of the OEU and NEU countries. Furthermore, although collecting data from a homogeneous unit (e.g. public sector) suggests more valid comparison, in the future, research should strive to also examine additional units, for example private companies. The conclusions derived from this exploratory cultural mapping provide useful knowledge for improving international collaboration across public sector organizations. This study is the first study that maps the values in the public sector using the tri-axial model.

Capell, Ben Public sector values: Between the real and the ideal Gabel-Shemueli, R.; Capell, B. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2013 IF=0.855; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 586-606 The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the core values of the Peruvian public sector in the particular context of recent public management reforms. After distinguishing between traditional private and public sector values, the paper compared the presence of each of these types of values in two very different sources of data: input from employees’ values survey and formal values statements of Peruvian public sector organizations. The analysis includes both a comparison of the presence of traditional public and private sector values in the two sources of data and the identification of the cultural profile of the public sector of Peru using the tri-axial model. The findings indicate a large gap between values at the theoretical level and values at the practical level. While values statements of public organizations in Peru clearly reflect traditional public sector values, in practice, public sector employees appear to follow a mixture of public and private sector values. Strengthening this conclusion is the finding that the cultural tri-axial profile of the sector is purely economic-pragmatic, which suggests that ethical and emotional values are positioned lower on the values hierarchy. This paper provides the first evidence of two important cultural phenomena in the Peruvian public sector: a broad adoption of private sector values and a gap between the values that are proposed as ethical guidelines (ideal) and the values that are followed in practice (real). The combination of these two phenomena suggests a potential risk to the ethical functioning of the public administration. This risk is especially significant in a developing country like Peru, where many of its

poor citizens depend on government support. The paper discusses both the research and practical implications of this study.

Collet, François Vives, Luis From preeminence to prominence: The fall of US business schools and the rise of European and Asian business schools in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings Academy of Management Learning & Education (2013 IF=2.121; Q1 Educ. & Educ. Res.; Q1 Manag.) Academy of Management (AOM) Vol. 12, no. 4, 12/2013, p. 540-563 Rankings have grown in number and influence in the business education field over the past decades. Studies show that US Business School rankings are stable over time. However, we empirically examine the Financial Times Global MBA rankings and find that significant shifts have occurred at the international level: US schools have declined, to the advantage of European and Asian schools. This shift corresponds to an erosion in the salary difference of MBA graduates between the regions. We examine macro factors that may have played a role in this process: aggregate economic demand, overall supply of MBA graduates, student migrations, and shifts in visa policies. We observe that, over time, European MBAs have experienced a sustained rise in graduate salaries despite low aggregate economic demand and a rising supply of graduates. We conclude the article with a discussion on the implications of our findings for Deans, business school administrators and prospective MBA students, and highlight future research avenues.

Collet, François From hot cakes to cold feet: A contingent perspective on the relationship between market uncertainty and status homophily in the formation of alliances Collet, F.; Philippe, D. Journal of Management Studies (2013 IF=3.277; Q1 Bus.; Q1 Manag.; FT45) Wiley Vol. 51, no. 3, 05/2014, p. 406-432 In this study, we reconsider the classical positive association between the level of market uncertainty and an organization’s propensity to form ties with organizations of similar status. Although prior research argues that the greater the uncertainty, the higher the level of status homophily, we suggest that this relationship is contingent upon framing that affects positive or negative valence towards uncertainty. In an up market, organiza-

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tions tend to frame uncertainty as upside risk, and thus will subsequently favour explorative uncertainty-mitigation devices; whereas, in a down market, organizations primarily frame uncertainty as downward risk, and thus will rely on more conservative uncertainty-mitigation mechanisms. We therefore predict that a greater number of status-heterophilous ties will be formed in an up market than in a down market. We discuss the implications of our results for status theory and more broadly for research on strategic decision making under uncertainty.

pragmatic and ethical axes. This study was tested with relatively a large sample size (more than 3,000 observations), thus adding significant and original value to the empirical test of the tri-axial model.

Esteve Laporta, Marc Assessing public sector values trough the tri-axial model: Empirical evidence from Spain

Esteve Laporta, M.; Boyne, G.; Sierra Olivera, V.; Ysa Figueras, T. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2013 IF=2.875; Q1 Publ. Adm.) Oxford University Press Vol. 23, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 927-952

Esteve Laporta, M.; Grau, M.; Cabrera Valle, R. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2013 IF=0.855; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 528-543 The purpose of this study is to examine values among public sector employees. Furthermore, this study will identify differences according to several demographical variables with relevant policy making implications. Once the literature review on public sector values and the description of the tri-axial model is presented, analysis based on a survey of 3,018 public sectors will be undertaken. The sample consists of employees working in the Government of Andalusia, Spain. Results reveal the domination of pragmatic values, as well as values connected to the ethical axis. The study also shows how these values vary according to several demographic characteristics of the respondents, especially when considering their level of education and their respective tenure. When managing employees from public organizations, emphasis should be given to the development of an organizational culture that represents a configuration of both

Esteve Laporta, Marc Sierra Olivera, Vicenta Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Organizational collaboration in the public sector: Do chief executives make a difference?

The purpose of this study is to examine values among public sector employees. Furthermore, this study will identify differences according to several demographical variables with relevant policy making implications. Once the literature review on public sector values and the description of the tri-axial model is presented, analysis based on a survey of 3,018 public sectors will be undertaken. The sample consists of employees working in the Government of Andalusia, Spain. Results reveal the domination of pragmatic values, as well as values connected to the ethical axis. The study also shows how these values vary according to several demographic characteristics of the respondents, especially when considering their level of education and their respective tenure. When managing employees from public organizations, emphasis should be given to the development of an organizational culture that represents a configuration of both pragmatic and ethical axes. This study was tested with relatively a large sample size (more than 3,000 observations), thus adding significant and original value to the empirical test of the tri-axial model.

Business Network Dynamics (BuNeD) Research Proposal: The role of internal integration in the SCI - performanceÂ relationship

Melania Duarte, PhD Candidate Cristina GimĂŠnez, Supervisor

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Gascó Hernández, Mila The role of macro context for the link between technological and organizational change Bayerl, P.S.; Jacobs, G.; Denef, S.; van den Berg, R.; Gascó, M.; et,al. Journal of Organizational Change Management (2013 IF=0.744; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 26, no. 5, 09/2013, p. 793-810 Technology is an important driver of organizational change and often strategically used to facilitate adaptations in organizational processes and cultures. While the link between technological and organizational change is widely recognized, the role of macro-context for this link remains undervalued. Based on data from technology implementations in European police forces the paper aims to illustrate the importance of integrating analyses of the macro-context to understand the complexity of technology driven organizational change. The authors conducted 56 interviews and five focus groups with police officers from 13 countries on two of the major technology trends in European police forces: automatic number plate recognition systems (ANPR) systems and social media. They further conducted site visits to police forces in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to observe technology usage first hand. Comparing accounts across countries they analyzed how macrocontext impacted adoption decisions and implementation processes. In this analysis they concentrated on the five macro-contextual factors in the PESTL framework, i.e. political, economic, social, technological and legal factors. In analyses of ANPR systems and social media the paper details how the macro-context of police organizations impacted decisions to adopt a technology as well as the intra-organizational alignments of processes and structures. Organizational decision makers and implementers need to be aware not only of the strong agency of technology for organizations’ structure and processes, but also of the relevance of the organizational macro-context for the process and impact of technology implementations on the organizational as well as individual level. The paper illustrates the impact of the macro-context of organizations in shaping the link between technological change and organizational change.

Gascó Hernández, Mila Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Fernández Ple, Charlotte Key variables in the strategic management of an interoperability model: Political decision or technological co-optation? Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia (2013 IF=0.070; Q4 Public. Admin.; Q4 Polit. Sci.) Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD) No. 57, 10/2013, p. 93-95 Although the concept of interoperability is not completely new in the public sector, lately, it has become more important. More and more, the classic organizational structure of public administrations has proved to be unable to respond to the emergence of new citizen demands that cannot be addressed by only one organization. As a result, growingly, public administrations are considering the need to work transversely and cooperatively with other public institutions, but also with other agents, with regard to common goals that will improve both political and administrative processes and results. However, despite its important benefits and advantages, technological cooperation is not easy. Often, interoperability initiatives have to address important challenges which are technological but also organizational, legal, or cultural. Given this context, this work aims at presenting the first results of the research “Managing e-government interoperability in the Catalan public administrations”, funded by the Catalan School of Public Administration. The general goal of this study is to identify and analyze those key variables in the implementation of interoperability projects within Catalan public administrations in order to contribute to the development of the conceptual and theoretical field of egovernment, on one hand, and to identify good practices that could be useful to decision makers, on the other. This article addresses two issues: 1) the literature review conducted, which puts emphasis on the meaning of interoperability but, also, on the different approaches that have been used to study it, and 2) the holistic model proposed by the research team, one that has been built under the public management.

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Honey Roses, Jordi Arenas Vives, Daniel Enriching intergenerational decision-making with guided visualization exercises Honey Roses, J.; Le Menestrel, M.; Arenas Vives, D.; Rauschmayer, F.; Rode, J. Journal of Business Ethics (2013 IF=1.552; Q1 Eth.; Q2 Bus.; BW20; FT45) Springer Vol. 122, no. 4, 07/2014, p. 675-680 Seriously engaging with the needs, hardships, and aspirations of future generations is an emotional experience as much as an intellectual endeavor. In this essay we describe a guided visualization exercise used to overcome the emotional barriers that often prevent us from dealing effectively with intergenerational decisions. The meditation and dreaming technique was applied to a diverse group of researchers who engaged in a visualized encounter with future generations. Following the exercise, we concluded that a serious analysis of intergenerational conflict requires us to confront our own mortality. Also, somewhat surprisingly to workshop participants, our desire to become stewards of the planet was driven by our fear of death as well as our egoist yearning for immortality. We posit that imagining the unknown with visioning practices might increase our emotional resilience, and hence improve our ability to confront the burdens of intergenerational responsibility.

Loewe, Nicolas Bagherzadeh Niri, Mehdi Araya Castillo, Luis Andrés Batista Foguet, Joan M. Life domain satisfactions as predictors of overall life satisfaction among workers: Evidence from Chile Loewe, N.; Bagherzadeh, M.; Araya Castillo, L.; Thieme, C.; Batista Foguet, J.M. Social Indicators Research (2013 IF=1.452; Q1 Soc. Sci., Interdiscip.; Q1 Sociol.) Springer Vol. 118, no. 1, 08/2014, p. 71-86 This article examines the subjective antecedents of life satisfaction of workers. Adopting a ‘bottom-up’ perspective, we assessed the unique influence that satisfaction with multiple life domains have on evaluative judgments of overall life satisfaction. Based on a nationwide sample of 530 Chilean workers, we simultaneously tested the effects of seven life domain satisfactions that have been consistently included in extant models of life satisfaction and subjective well-being. These were satisfaction with health, financial situation, social relationships,

one’s self-worth, leisure-time, family, and work. Having controlled for age and gender, results showed that satisfaction with one’s financial situation was the dominant predictor of overall life satisfaction of workers, with a weight of .36. Satisfaction with family, work, and health had effects of .25, .14, and .14, respectively. Interestingly, satisfaction with one’s self-worth, leisure-time, and social relationships did not have statistically significant effects on life satisfaction, although the first two showed t values near the critical value.

Longo Martínez, Francisco Towards a more professional public employment in Central America Longo, F.; Iacoviello, M. Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia (2013 IF=0.070; Q4 Polit. Sci.; Q4 Public. Adm.) Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD) No. 56, 06/2013, p. 5-15 In this paper, based on the results obtained from a recent regional study on civil service professionalization in Central America and the Dominican Republic, and from two other evaluations conducted previously by the very same task force, it is presented the situation of civil services in this region. The contents are organized in the following way. Firstly, it is exposed the conceptual framework and analytical methodology designed for the study. Secondly, it is developed its main results grouped according to five indexes (efficiency, merit, structural consistency, functional capacity and integration capacity) that constitute the main quality measures for an institutional system of public employment, according to the conceptual framework. Thirdly, it is offered a complementary view of the results, this time organized in terms of seven human resource management subsystems, which allow for a more instrumental approach and, therefore, for a more precise diagnosis of strengths and weaknesses of policies and practices in each country. From these results, the main conclusion is that there have been slight advances in human resource planning and meritocratic incorporation of public officers in several countries in the region. Nevertheless, there are still big challenges in terms of performance appraisals, compensation and development management, which make it very difficult to establish effective incentive structures for public employees. The document closes with a series of suggestions of critical issues to consider in order to professionalize civil services in Central American countries.

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Majchrzak, Ann Towards an information systems perspective and research agenda on crowdsourcing for innovation

Manolov, Rumen Single case experimental designs: Introduction to a special issue of neuropsychological rehabilitation

Majchrzak, A.; Malhorta, A. Journal of Strategic Information Systems (2013 IF=2.571; Q1 Comput. Sci., Inform. Syst.) Elsevier Vol. 22, no. 4, 12/2013, p. 257-268

Evans, J.J; Gast, D.; Perdices, M.; Manolov,R. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2013 IF=2.068; Q3 Neuroscience.; Q2 Psychol.) Taylor & Francis Vol. 24, no. 3-4, 06/2014, p. 305-314

Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on open innovation by firms to keep pace with the growing intricacy of products and services and the ever changing needs of the markets. Much has been written about open innovation and its manifestation in the form of crowdsourcing. Unfortunately, most management research has taken the information system (IS) as a given. In this essay we contend that IS is not just an enabler but rather can be a shaper that optimizes open innovation in general and crowdsourcing in particular. This essay is intended to frame crowdsourcing for innovation in a manner that makes more apparent the issues that require research from an IS perspective. In doing so, we delineate the contributions that the IS field can make to the field of crowdsourcing.

The use of social media creates the opportunity to turn organizationwide knowledge sharing in the workplace from an intermittent, centralized knowledge management process to a continuous online knowledge conversation of strangers, unexpected interpretations and re-uses, and dynamic emergence. We theorize four affordances of social media representing different ways to engage in this publicly visible knowledge conversations: metavoicing, triggered attending, network-informed associating, and generative role-taking. We further theorize mechanisms that affect how people engage in the knowledge conversation, finding that some mechanisms, when activated, will have positive effects on moving the knowledge conversation forward, but others will have adverse consequences not intended by the organization. These emergent tensions become the basis for the implications we draw.

Majchrzak, Ann The contradictory influence of social media affordances on online communal knowledge sharing Majchrzak, A.; Faraj, S.; Kane, G.C.; Azad, B. Journal of Computer-Mediated Comunication (2013 IF=2.019; Q1 Commun.; Q1 Inform. Sci. & Libr. Sci.) Wiley Vol. 19, no. 1, 10/2013, p. 38-55 The use of social media creates the opportunity to turn organization-wide knowledge sharing in the workplace from an intermittent, centralized knowledge management process to a continuous online knowledge conversation of strangers, unexpected interpretations and re-uses, and dynamic emergence. We theorize four affordances of social media representing different ways to engage in this publicly visible knowledge conversations: metavoicing, triggered attending, network-informed associating, and generative role-taking. We further theorize mechanisms that affect how people engage in the knowledge conversation, finding that some mechanisms, when activated, will have positive effects on moving the knowledge conversation forward, but others will have adverse consequences not intended by the organization. These emergent tensions become the basis for the implications we draw.

Manolov, Rumen Single-case experimental designs: Reflections on conduct and analysis Manolov,R.; Gast, D.; Perdices, M.; Evans, J.J Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2013 IF=2.068; Q3 Neuroscience.; Q2 Psychol.) Taylor & Francis Vol. 24, no. 3-4, 06/2014, p. 634-660 In this editorial discussion we reflect on the issues addressed by, and arising from, the papers in this special issue on Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) study methodology. We identify areas of consensus and disagreement regarding the conduct and analysis of SCED studies. Despite the long history of application of SCEDs in studies of interventions in clinical and educational settings, the field is still developing. There is an emerging consensus on methodological quality criteria for many aspects of SCEDs, but disagreement on what are the most appropriate methods of SCED data analysis. Our aim is to stimulate this ongoing debate and highlight issues requiring further attention from applied researchers and methodologists. In addition we offer tentative criteria to support decision-making in relation to the selection of analytical techniques in SCED studies. Finally, we stress that large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations, such as the current Special Issue, are necessary if SCEDs are going to play a significant role in the development of the evidence base for clinical practice.

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Martí Ripoll, Margarita Desarrollo y validación de una versión española del Team Climate Inventory: un análisis de invariancia factorial

Murphy, Matthew Vives, Jordi Perceptions of justice and human right protect, respect, and remedy framework

Antino, M.; Gil-Rodríguez, F.; Martí Ripoll, M.; Barrasa, A.; Borzillo, S. Anales de Psicología (2013 IF=0.549; Q3 Psychol., Multidiscip.) Universidad de Murcia (UM) Vol. 30, no. 2, 05/2014, p. 597-607

Journal of Business Ethics (2013 IF=1.552; Q2 Bus. Q1 Eth.; BW20; FT45) Springer Vol. 116, no. 4, 09/2013, p. 781-797

El presente estudio analiza las propiedades psicométricas y la validez de una versión española del Team Climate Inventory (TCI). El TCI es un instrumento para la medición del clima de los equipos de trabajo, que se desarrolla a partir de una teoría de cuatro factores aplicada a la innovación de equipo (West, 1990). El estudio muestra una fiabilidad satisfactoria del instrumento, estimada con índices Alpha de Cronbach y Omega. El análisis factorial exploratorio retuvo cuatro factores más un quinto, tal como se encontró en otras validaciones del TCI. El análisis factorial confirmatorio permitió averiguar que el mejor ajuste a los datos se obtuvo con el modelo de cinco factores. En el estudio, además, se compararon dos muestras (una de equipos de trabajo sanitarios españoles y otra de equipos de trabajo latinoamericanos pertenecientes a una empresa de desarrollo informático) con un total de 1099 participantes, cuya comparación muestra evidencias de invarianza factorial. Finalmente, se aportan evidencias de validez basadas en la predicción del rendimiento de equipo y de la satisfacción de los miembros.

Martí Ripoll, Margarita Task routineness and team performance in nursing teams: The mediating role of team learning Ortega, A.; Martí, M.; Gil, F.; Antino, M.; Martínez, M.T. Revista Mexicana de Psicología (2013 IF=0.436; Q4 Psychol. Multidiscip.) Sociedad Mexicana de Psicología Vol. 31, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 25-32 The aim of this study is to examine the influence of the task routineness on team learning and team performance in nursing teams, also the mediating role of team learning on the relationship between task routineness and team performance. A cross-sectional and quantitative design was employed. Sample comprises 1,110 healthcare professionals working in 229 nursing teams at different public hospitals throughout Spain. Members of nursing teams participated voluntarily by completing a confidential individual questionnaire. The results show a mediating effect of team learning on the relationship between task routineness and team performance. The findings suggest the importance of considering the type of task performed by nursing teams as a key factor for team learning processes and team performance.

Human rights declarations are instruments used to introduce universal standards of ethics. The UN’s Protect, Respect, and Remedy Framework (Ruggie, Protect, respect, and remedy: A Framework for business and human rights. UN Doc A/HRC/8/5, 2008; Guiding principles on business and human rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” framework. UN Doc A/ HRC/17/31, 2011) intends to provide guidance for corporate behavior in regard to human rights. This article applies concepts from the field of organizational justice to the arena of business and human rights for the purpose of operationalizing the UN Framework. This approach facilitates the recognition of gaps between perceptions of justice held by stakeholders versus businesses and/or the State. Such recognition raises the potential for addressing issues that lead to divergent perceptions of justice, thus potentially improving the human rights performance of businesses. The research also shows the potential for complicity of businesses in human rights abuses and exposes a fundamental weakness in the UN Framework, which attempts to draw a sharp distinction between duties of States versus responsibilities of business. We illustrate this approach through analysis of the case of Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in Guatemala; an extractive industry project that affects indigenous communities.

Pless, Nicola Global governance: CSR and the role of the UN Global Compact Voegtlin, C.; Pless, N. Journal of Business Ethics (2013 IF=1.552; Q1 Eth.; Q2 Bus.; BW20; FT45) Springer Vol. 122, no. 2, 06/2014, p. 179-191 The article discusses the role of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) in the emerging global corporate social responsibility infrastructure. It evaluates the debate around the effectiveness and legitimacy of the UNGC alongside the arguments of its supporters and critics and thereby introduces the Thematic Symposium contributions. The article further identifies three theoretical perspectives that are used by scholars to discuss the performance of the UNGC: economic, socio-historical, and normative. It proposes that these perspec-

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tives can serve as generic distinctions with direct relevance for the evaluation of the UNGC. Once the perspective is chosen, it drives towards a certain purpose which implies assumptions and design features with regard to the UNGC. Finally, the article offers a future research agenda, emphasising the research needed on the UNGC in four areas: the identification of processes and influence mechanisms; legitimacy and effectiveness; local networks and regional development; and the interface of the UNGC and responsible leadership.

Ragozzino, Roberto When theory doesn’t meet practice: Do firms really stage their investments? Ragozzino, R.; Moschieri, C. Academy of Management Perspective (2013 IF=2.826; Q1 Bus.; Q1 Manag.; FT45) Academy of Management (AOM) Vol. 28, no. 1, 02/2014, p. 22-37 Theory has often discussed the benefits of adopting a staged investment strategy in mergers and acquisitions when investments hold uncertain prospects. Specifically, firms should enter into a cooperative agreement, such as a strategic alliance, before they eventually decide to buy out a partner. In this paper, we first review the theoretical arguments supporting such an approach and then provide evidence showing that staged investments in mergers and acquisitions are far less frequent than theory predicts. We analyze a sample of 24,495 global transactions that occurred between 1995 and 2010 and find that firms stage mergers and acquisitions in only 1.26% of all deals. This figure changes little after we control for transaction- and environmental-level considerations. We propose several explanations of why staged investments are seldom used in practice, despite their theoretical properties.

Prats Duaygues, Francesc Roselló Saurí, Llorenç Sánchez Soler, Mònica Agell Jané, Núria Using L-Fuzzy sets to introduce information theory into qualitative reasoning Fuzzy Sets and Systems (2013 IF=1.880; Q1 Comput Sci, Theor & Meth. Q1 Math, Appl. Q1 Stat & Probab.) Elsevier Vol. 236, no. 1, 02/2014, p. 73-90 We formally construct the extended set of qualitative labels L over a well-ordered set. The qualitative descriptions of a given set are defined as L-fuzzy sets. In the case where the well-ordered set is finite, a distance between L-fuzzy sets is introduced based on the properties of the lattice L. The concept of the information contained in a qualitative label is introduced, leading to a formal definition of the entropy of an L-fuzzy set as a Lebesgue integral. In the discrete case, this integral becomes a weighted average of the information of the labels, corresponding to the Shannon entropy in information theory.

Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo) Research Proposal: International Governmental Organizations: A Strategic Management Approach

Ryan Federo, PhD Candidate Ángel Saz, Supervisor

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Ragozzino, Roberto Signals and international alliance formation: The roles of affiliations and international activities Reuer, J.; Ragozzino, R. Journal of International Business Studies (2013 IF=3.594; Q1 Bus.; Q1 Manag.; FT45) Palgrave Vol. 45, no. 3, 02/2014, p. 321-337 This paper extends signaling theory to the study of firms’ international alliances. Signals can be valuable in facilitating these collaborations because they reduce the risk of adverse selection surrounding cross-border partnerships. We specifically investigate whether firms’ affiliations with prominent financial intermediaries enable the formation of international collaborative agreements. We also argue and find that the signaling benefits of these affiliations diminish with the firm’s engagement in international activities, which can function as alternative signals by which firms convey the quality of their resources and prospects. Examining firms’ cross-border activities helps to identify new and important signals that are unique to the international setting. Moreover, this also helps contextualize prior theory and findings that exist in the domestic setting on the effects of affiliations with financial intermediaries such as venture capitalists and investment banks. We conclude that signaling theory offers a promising addition to existing theories of international alliances and other cross-border activities. We contrast some of the main arguments and predications of signaling theory with other theories used in international business, and we emphasize the research opportunities that exist for employing this perspective in international business studies in the future.

Ramírez-Alujas, Álvaro Characterizing citizen participation within open government Prieto-Martín, P.; Ramírez-Alujas, R. Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia (2013 IF=0.070; Q4 Public. Admin.; Q4 Polit. Sci.) Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD) No. 58, 02/2014, p. 61-65 The paper delves into the concept of Open Government, analysing and characterising its participatory dimension. It proposes firstly a typology of participatory actions that illustrates the strengthening effect that ICT have on the different participation forms. Secondly, it presents the “Participation Schemas”, a conceptual tool that facilitates the analysis and standardized representation of the most important dimensions of participation. Participation Schemas provide both a categorization model that deepens our critical understanding of participation and a powerful and flexible tool for the evaluation, design and communication of diverse kinds of participatory initiatives.

Romero Velasco, Margarida Usart Rodríguez, Mireia Supporting Human Capital development with Serious Games: An analysis of three experiences Earp, J.; Ott, M.; Popescu, M.; Romero, M; Usart, M. Computers in Human Behavior (2013 IF=2.273; Q2 Psychol., Exp.; Q1 Psychol., Multidiscip.) Elsevier Vol. 30, 01/2014, p. 715-720 Serious Games (SGs) are increasingly being used in formal educational settings and it is almost universally acknowledged that they have strong potential for bringing innovation to education and for enhancing learning, this way also contributing to the development of Human Capital. This paper proposes some reflections on the usefulness and effectiveness of SGs when used in formal learning contexts. The considerations are derived from a set of SG-based educational experiences carried out in three European countries: Italy, Spain and Romania. The paper briefly summarizes the key aspects of the three research experiences and, by referring to the main lessons learnt, it also draws some general conclusions as to the potential of SGs to support the development of Human Capital both from the cognitive and from the affective/behavioural standpoint.

Roselló Saurí, Llorenç Allowing agents to be imprecise: A proposal using multiple linguistic terms Falco, E.; García-Lapresta, J.L.; Roselló, L. Information Sciences (2013 IF=3.893; Q1 Comp. Sci., Syst.) Elsevier Vol. 258, 02/2014, p. 249-265 In this paper we propose a decision-making procedure where the agents judge the alternatives through linguistic terms such as ‘very good’, ‘good’, ‘acceptable’, etc. If the agents are not confident about their opinions, they can use a linguistic expression formed by several consecutive linguistic terms. To obtain a ranking on the set of alternatives, the method consists of three different stages. The first stage looks for the alternatives in which the overall opinion is closer to the ideal assessment. The overall opinion is developed by a distance-based process among the individual assessments. The next two stages form a tie-breaking process. Firstly by using a dispersion index based on the Gini coefficient, and secondly by taking into account the number of best-assessments. The main characteristics of the proposed decision-making procedure are analyzed.

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Roselló Saurí, Llorenç Sánchez Soler, Mònica Agell Jané, Núria Prats Duaygues, Francesc Mazaira Font, Ferran-Antonio Using consensus and distances between generalized multi-attribute linguistic assessments for group decision-making Information Fusion (2013 IF=3.472; Q1 Comput Sci, Artif Intell. Q1 Comput Sci, Theor & Meth.) Elsevier Vol. 17, no. 1, 05/2014, p. 83-92 This paper proposes a mathematical framework and methodology for groupdecision-making under multi-granular and multi-attributelinguistic assessments. It is based on distances between linguistic assessments and a degree of consensus. Distances in the space of qualitative assessments are defined from the geodesic distance in graph theory and the Minkowski distance. The degree of consensus is defined through the concept of entropy of a qualitatively-described system. Optimal assessments in terms of both proximity to all the expert opinions in the group and the degree of consensus are used to compare opinions and define a methodology to rank multi-attribute alternatives.

Ruíz VegaS, Francisco Javier Agell Jané, Núria Gait identification by means of box approximation geometry of reconstructed attractors in latent space Sama, A.; Ruiz, F.J.; Agell Jané, N.; Pérez-López, C.; Català, A.; Cabestany, J. Neurocomputing (2013 IF=2.005; Q1 Comput. Sci., Artif. Intell.) Elsevier Vol. 121, 12/2013, p. 79-88 This paper presents a novel gait recognition method which uses the signals measured by a single inertial sensor located on the waist. This method considers human gait as a dynamical system and employs a few singular values obtained by means of Singular Spectrum Analysis applied to scalar measurements from the inertial sensor. Singular values can be interpreted as the approximate edge length of the bounding box wrapping the attractor in the latent space. Effects of different parameters on the gait recognition performance using patterns from 20 different subjects are analysed.

Saló Mayolas, Albert Vila Fernández-Santacruz, Mar Fluvià Font, Modest Do implicit prices for hotels and second homes show differences in tourists’ valuation for public attributes for each type of accommodation facility? Saló Mayolas, A.; Garriga, A.; Rigall Torrent, R.; Vila Fernández-Santacruz, M.; Fluvià Font, M. International Journal of Hospitality Management (2013 IF=1,837; Q1 Hosp., Leis., Sport. & Tour.) Elsevier No. 36, 01/2014, p. 120-129 Tourism accommodation comprises a bundle of private attributes (e.g. star rating, swimming pool or sports facilities) located in a specific physical environment (municipality, in this paper). The literature has argued that the price of accommodation takes into account this bundle. Because tourist profiles are likely to be different for different types of accommodation, tourists could value differently the relevant and common public attributes that surrounds them. Using a database constructed from brochures of hotels and second homes for 2004 (with prices and private characteristics) in the Costa Brava (Spain), this paper uses hedonic regressions to clarify the role of both private a location-related attributes for two types of tourism accommodation: hotels and second homes. We find that the effects on price of some characteristics related to location differ for hotels and second homes. This finding has important implications for private managers and public policy makers I the hospitality industry.

Solana, Javier Juan Rojo: The surface science and science politics maker in Spain Mascaraque, A.; Rodríguez de la Funete, O.; González-Barrio, M.A.; Solana, J.; Oro, L.; Crespo, A. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2013 IF=2.223; Q2 Phys., Condens. Mat.) IOP Publishing Vol. 25, no. 48, 12/2013, p. 1-4 This special section in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter is dedicated to Professor Juan Rojo (Sevilla, 1943) on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Disciples, friends, collaborators, and close co-workers have been happy to contribute to this special section. The contents accurately reflect the wide scope of his scientific career and the sincere affection of his many colleagues who are honoured by his friendship. We believe that this special section is a fitting, though modest, tribute on behalf of the Spanish physicochemistry community to a scientist we greatly admire and to whom we all are indebted.

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Spender, John Christopher Intangibles: Theory, categories, and the Kozminski matrix Spender, J.C.; Bednarz-Luczewska,P.; Bordianu, A.; Rohaert, S. Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2013 IF=0.683; Q1 Inform. Sci. & Libr. Sci.; Q4 Manag.) Palgrave Vol. 11, no. 2, 05/2013, p. 101-111

Trullén Fernández, Jordi Bonache Pérez, Jaime Alfonso Factors helping the HR function gain greater acceptance for its proposals and innovations: Evidence from Spain International Journal of Human Resource Management (2013 IF=0.928; Q3 Manag.) Taylor & Francis Vol. 24, no. 20, 10/2013, p. 3794-3811

Analyzing the strategic significance of a firm’s intellectual capital separates tangible assets from intangible assets, and demands close attention to how the latter are valued. Conventional methods based on cost or market value are of little relevance. Ultimately, the analysis turns on who makes the estimate and to what end. We argue for a third source of estimates, the same managers whose application of strategic assets sets the value-adding processes of the firm in motion. This is a constructivist approach that raises important theoretical and methodological questions about the nature of the firm and its value-creating capabilities. Objective measures cannot grasp these capabilities, and current efforts to establish such metrics are deeply counter-productive. We propose the ‘business model’ as the firm-specific natural language within which the future value of the intangible assets can be estimated.

On the basis of the sense-making and sense-giving literature, this study addresses factors helping the HR function gain greater acceptance by employees for its proposals and innovations. Using an original sample of 298 employees from nine firms in Spain, we find that HR department credibility is only one of the factors that influence employees’ acceptance. Other essential elements are top management and supervisor support. We also investigate the consequences that differential levels of support from supervisors and top managers can have for the acceptance of HR innovations, and we find that supervisor support carries more weight than that of top managers. Finally, we explore variations in the importance of the HR function credibility as an acceptance enabler under different organizational innovation climates. The results suggest that HR credibility plays an essential role independently of climate.

Thiel, Jana Protecting growth options in dynamic markets: The role of strategic disclosure in integrated intellectual property strategies

Valls Giménez, Josep F. Sureda Pascual, Joan Attractiveness analysis of European tourist cities

Peters, T.; Thiel, J; Tucci, C. California Management Review (2013 IF=1.944; Q2 Bus.; Q2 Manag.; FT45) Berkeley University of California Vol. 55, no. 4, 07/2013, p. 121-142 Given recent developments in information technology and intellectual property (IP) legislation, technology firms may benefit from an integrated IP strategy that combines patenting with strategic disclosure. This article presents a series of cases that introduce various aspects of strategic disclosure and provide a framework for how and when such practices may be merited as part of an integrated IP strategy. To help CEOs decide on the economics and efficiency of the practice, practical guidelines are provided for when it might be a useful complement to the firm’s other IP management practices.

Valls Giménez, J.; Sureda Pascual, J.; Valls Tuñon, G. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing (2013 IF=0.695; Q3 Hosp., Leis., Sport. & Tour.) Routledge Vol. 31, no. 2, 02/2014, p. 178-194 Starting from the field work in seven European countries, the paper identify Europeans’ attitudes towards and preferences for European cities. The purpose here is to show whether a city’s tourist attraction is linked solely with a given holiday format (city-break; 1-2 night stay; short holiday; 3-4 night stay; long holiday; 8-night stay or longer) or not. The results helped in the interpretation of contemporary urban tourism flows in Europe, offering a broader vision of such flows and furnishing useful data for city strategic planning to boost competitiveness.

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Van Cranenburgh, Katinka Arenas Vives, Daniel Strategic and moral dilemmas of corporate philanthropy in developing countries: Heineken in Sub-Saharan Africa Journal of Business Ethics (2013 IF=1.552; Q1 Eth.; Q2 Bus.; BW20; FT45) Springer Vol. 122, no. 3, 07/2014, p. 523-536 This case study illustrates the dilemmas facing multinational companies in meeting social challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa (especially healthrelated ones). It also discusses the purpose, responsibilities and limitations of business involvement in social development. From a business standpoint, social challenges in developing countries differ greatly from those in nations where governments or markets effectively provide for the populationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health needs. The case illustrates what led a multinational to set up a corporate foundation and focuses on three strategic and operational dilemmas it ran up against. The case discussion shows that the ethical issues intertwined with these dilemmas are best understood using a variety of ethical approaches. We also show that Ethics of Care are just as relevant to analysing corporate social responsibility and corporate philanthropy as the Deontological and Utilitarianism theories commonly used in business ethics.

Van Cranenburgh, Katinka Management responses to social activism in an era of corporate responsibility: A case study Van Carnenburgh, K.; Liket, K.; Roome, N. Journal of Business Ethics (2013 IF=1.552; Q2 Bus. Q1 Eth.; BW20; FT45) Springer Vol. 118, no. 3, 12/2013, p. 497-513 Social activism against companies has evolved in the 50 years since Rachel Carson first put the US chemical industry under pressure to halt the indiscriminate use of the chemical DDT. Many more companies have come under the spotlight of activist attention as the agenda social activists address has expanded, provoked in part by the internationalization of business. During the past fifteen years, companies have begun to formulate corporate responsibility (CR) policies and appointed management teams dedicated to CR, resulting in a change in the way companies interact with social activists. This paper presents findings from a longitudinal case study of managerial responses to social activism targeted at a company with relatively well-advanced CR practices and reputation. The case describes the unfolding of the internal processes over an 8-year period, including the role played by different managers and the tensions in the decision-making processes. The findings emphasize how values and beliefs in the company interact with

economic arguments and how those are mediated through functions and relationships in the company and beyond. The paper shows how critical managersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; understanding of the motivations of activists behind the campaign is in shaping their actions. It reveals the paradoxical outcomes that can result from social activism at the level of the firm, the industry, and the field.

Vanhaverbeke, Wim Patterns of R&D internationalisation in developing countries: China as a case Jin, J.; Wang, Y.; Vanhaverbeke, W. International Journal of Technology Management (2013 IF=0.492; Q4 Oper. Res. & Manag. Sci.; Q3 Eng., Multidiscip.; Q4 Manag.) Inderscience Enterprises Vol. 64, no. 2, 02/2014, p. 276-302 Some developing countries are emerging as nexuses in the globalisation of innovation activities, serving as the location for crucial R&D activities from developed multinational firms (DMFs), which are headquartered in developed countries, and spawning emerging multinational firms (EMFs), which are headquartered in developing countries and conduct some of their R&D in developed countries. This paper proposes a framework and a methodology to identify international patterns of innovation at the firmlevel as well as at the national level. According to a reconstruction of the R&D owner-inventor structure, we develop the analytical framework as a 3 x 3 matrix and identify three different patterns for both EMFs and DMFs in the organisation of their R&D internationalisation activities. We derive from this matrix three patterns at the national level to describe the ways how a developing country can reach the global innovation stage. We use China as a case to verify this framework.

Vanhaverbeke, Wim Chesbrough, Henry Open innovation: The next decade West, J.; Salter, A.; Vanhaverbeke, W.; Chesbrough, H. Research Policy (2013 IF=2.598; Q1 Manag; Q1 Plan. & Dev.) Elsevier Vol. 43, no. 5, 06/2014, p. 805-811 We review the contribution and evolution of open innovation since the publication of Chesbroughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2003 Open Innovation book, and suggest likely directions going forward. We link the articles of this special issue to three key trends in open innovation research: better measurement, resolving the role of appropriability and linking that research to the management and economics literature. From this, we identify other trends and suggest opportunities for future research.

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Vanhaverbeke, Wim Managing open innovation projects with science-based and market-based partners Du, J.; Leten, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W. Research Policy (2013 IF=2.598; Q1 Manag; Q1 Plan. & Dev.) Elsevier Vol. 43, no. 5, 06/2014, p. 828-840 This paper examines the relationship between (outside-in) open innovation and the financial performance of R&D projects, drawing on a unique dataset that contains information on the open innovation practices, management and performance of 489 R&D projects of a large European multinational firm. We introduce two types of open innovation partnerships - science-based and market-based partnerships and examine their relationships with project financial performance. In addition, we investigate whether the open innovation project performance relationships are influenced by the way how R&D projects are managed. Our results show that R&D projects with open innovation partnerships are associated with a better financial performance providing that they are managed in the most suitable way. Market-based partnerships are positively correlated with project performance if a formal project management process is used; however these partnerships are associated with a lower performance for loosely managed projects. In contrast, science-based partnerships are associated with higher project revenues for loosely managed projects only.

Vanhaverbeke, Wim The effect of R&D novelty and openness decision on firms’ catch-up performance: Empirical evidence from China Wang, F.; Chen, J.; Wang, Y.; Ning, L.; Vanhaverbeke, W. Technovation (2013 IF=2.704; Q1 Eng., Ind.; Q1 Oper. Res. & Manag. Sci.) Elsevier Vol. 34, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 21-30 This paper explores the strategic dimensions of R&D decisions toward novelty and openness in explaining the performance of latecomer firms in a developing economy. A structural equation model of R&D decision-making is formulated using survey data from 279 Chinese firms. The dimension of R&D novelty is defined as the degree of technological newness found in firms’ R&D projects, while R&D openness describes the degree to which technologies are acquired from external sources. Our results indicate that firms’ R&D decisions regarding novelty and openness are associated with demand opportunities, market competition, technological capability, and external networks. Greater R&D novelty contributes positively to innovative output but does not affect sales growth. Greater R&D openness contributes positively to sales growth but negatively to innovative output.

Vanhaverbeke, Wim How fast do Chinese firms learn and catch up? Evidence from patent citations

Vanhaverbeke, Wim Mind the gap balancing alliance network and technology portfolios during periods of technological uncertainty

Wang, Y.; Roijakkers, N.; Vanhaverbeke, W. Scientometrics (2013 IF=2.274; Q1 Inform. Sci. & Libr. Sci.) Springer Vol. 98, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 743-761

Gilsing, V.; Vanhaverbeke, W.; Pieters, M. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2013 IF=1.959; Q2 Bus.; Q1 Plann. & Dev.) Elsevier Vol. 81, 01/2014, p. 351-362

There is a wealth of research on technological learning in developing countries, but few scholars have clearly addressed the issue of learning time in an empirical way. This paper aims to fill this void by presenting an empirical investigation of the time needed by Chinese firms to learn from the technologies that they have in-licensed. Furthermore, we analyzed in detail the antecedents leading to an acceleration or deceleration of the learning process among Chinese licensees. The results of an event history analysis indicate that recipient firms take on average 5.8 years to learn from their in-licensed technologies. The absorptive capacity and firm age of the licensees, the technology licensing scale, the age of the licensed technology, and the desorptive capability of the licensor firm all play a role in shortening the learning time.

While clique-embeddedness is generally considered to enhance firm performance, there are also reasons to expect that under conditions of technological turbulence clique-membership is less beneficial or might even become a liability. To address this, we study the innovative performance of clique members during periods of both technological change and technological stability. We find support for the idea that companies’ ability to adapt their alliance network (i.e. forming ties beyond the scope of the clique) and their ability to adapt their technology portfolios (i.e. access to novel technological knowledge) positively influences their innovative performance during technologically turbulent periods.

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Vanhaverbeke, Wim Open innovation practices in SMEs and large enterprises

Villegas Sรกnchez, Carolina Men, women, and machines: How trade impacts gender inequality

Spithoven, A.; Vanhaverbeke, W.; Roijakkers, N. Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal (2013 IF=1.641; Q2 Bus.; Q1 Econ.; Q2 Manag.) Springer Vol. 41, no. 3, 10/2013, p. 537-562

Juhn, C.; Ujhelyi, G.; Villegas Sรกnchez, C. Journal of Development Economics (2013 IF=2.411; Q1 Econ.) Elsevier No. 106, 01/2014, p. 179-193

Few studies on open innovation (OI) address OI practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and the resulting benefits differ from those of large enterprises. The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the same time this shortage is cited as a motive for looking beyond organisational boundaries for technological knowledge. We investigate how OI dimensions impact the innovative performance of SMEs in comparison to large companies. The key finding is that the effects of OI practices in SMEs often differ from those in large firms. SMEs are more effective in using different OI practices simultaneously when they introduce new products on the market, whereas this is less the case for large firms. Turnover from new products in SMEs is driven by intellectual property protection mechanisms, while large firms in this case benefit more from their search strategies.

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender inequality. We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity and workers are differentiated by skill as well as gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New technologies involve computerized production processes and lower the need for physically demanding skills. As a result, the relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a panel of establishment level data from Mexico exploiting tariff reductions associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Consistent with our theory we find that tariff reductions caused new firms to enter the export market, update their technology and replace male blue-collar workers with female blue-collar workers.

Leadership Development Research Centre (GLEAD) Research Proposal: Identifying Emotional and Social Competency Profiles of Successful MBA Graduates

Roy Mouwad, PhD Candidate Joan Manuel Batista, Supervisor

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Visnjic, Ivanka Steering manufacturing firms towards service business model innovation Visnjic, I.; Van Looy, B.; Neely, A. California Management Review (2013 IF=1.944; Q2 Bus. Q2 Manag.; FT45) University of California Press Berkeley Vol. 56, no. 1, 09/2013, p. 100-123 Increasingly, manufacturing firms are turning to services as a new way of creating and capturing value. Despite its potential benefits, many new product-service providers struggle to deploy service activities effectively, not least because they fail to reflect the presence of service activities in their performance management systems. This article reports the results of an in-depth case study, which examines how manufacturers can steer the transition towards services. It shows that manufacturing firms need to emphasize two separate but related dimensions of the market performance of service activities: “service adoption,” reflecting the proportion of customers who purchase the manufacturer’s services; and “service coverage,” signaling the range of service elements or the comprehensiveness of the service contract that customers opt for. These two indicators, reflecting service market performance, should be supplemented with a “complementary index” designed to disclose whether the relationship between products and services is reinforcing or substitutive. When combined, these indicators allow manufacturing firms to deploy a service-based business model in an integrated and sustainable.

Wareham, Jonathan Cano Giner, Josep Lluís Technology ecosystem governance Wareham, J.; Fox, P.; Cano Giner, J.L. Organization Science (2013 IF=3.807; Q1 Manag.; FT45) Informs Vol. 25, no. 4, 07/2014, p. 1195-1215 Technology platform strategies offer a novel way to orchestrate a rich portfolio of contributions made by the many independent actors who form an ecosystem of heterogeneous complementors around a stable platform core. This form of organising has been successfully used in smartphone, gaming, commercial software, and industrial sectors. Technology ecosystems require stability and homogeneity to leverage common investments in standard components, but they also need variability and heterogeneity to meet evolving market demand. Although the required balance between stability and evolvability in the ecosystem has been addressed conceptually in the literature, we have less understanding of its underlying mechanics or appropriate governance. Through an extensive case study of a business software

ecosystem consisting of a major multinational manufacturer of enterprise resource planning software at the core and a heterogeneous system of independent implementation partners and solution developers on the periphery, our research identifies three salient tensions that characterize the ecosystem: standard-variety, control-autonomy, and collective-individual. We then highlight the specific ecosystem governance mechanisms designed to simultaneously manage desirable and undesirable variance across each tension. Paradoxical tensions may manifest as dualities, where tensions are framed as complementary and mutually enabling. Alternatively, they may manifest as dualisms, where actors are faced with contradictory and disabling “either ... or” decisions. We identify conditions where latent, complementary tensions become manifest as salient, contradictory tensions. By identifying conditions in which complementary logics are overshadowed by contradictory logics, our study further contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of technology ecosystems, as well as the effective design of technology ecosystem governance that can explicitly embrace paradoxical tensions toward generative outcomes.

Wiengarten, Frank OHSAS 18001 certification and operating performance: The role of complexity and coupling Lo, C.; Pagell, M.; Fan, D.; Wiengarten, F.; Yeung, A. Journal of Operations Management (2013 IF=4.478; Q1 Oper. Res. & Manag. Sci.; Q1 Manag.; FT45) Elsevier Vol. 32, no. 5, 07/2014, p. 268-280 Today, manufacturing firms encounter pressure from multiple stakeholders to manage occupational health and safety issues properly, systematically and transparently. While manufacturing firms commonly use internally developed Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, there is growing pressure to adopt externally certified system such as OHSAS 18001. However, there are conflicting views and little empirical evidence that examines the linkage between OHSAS 18001 certification and operating performance. Hence, this paper examines the impact of OHSAS 18001 on operational performance through three theoretical lenses: Institutional Theory, Normal Accident Theory, and High Reliability Theory. We also investigate how complexity and coupling moderate the relationship between OHSAS 18001 and operational performance. Based on a sample of 211 U.S. listed manufacturing firms with OHSAS 18001 certification, we find that certification leads to significant increases in abnormal performance on safety, sales growth, labor productivity, and profitability and that these benefits increase as complexity and coupling increase.

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Wiengarten, Frank The importance of contextual factors in the success of outsourcing contracts: The role of risk and complementary factors Wiengarten, F.; Pagell, M.; Fynes, B. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (2013 IF=2.916; Q1 Bus. Q1 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 18, no. 6, 10/2013, p. 630-643 Purpose: Although outsourcing has emerged as a key business practice in global supply chain management it has not always been successfully adopted. Since the reasons for outsourcing success and failure are underexplored this research aims to investigate the role of contractual completeness and complementary enforcement practices such as cooperation and monitoring and sanctioning practices under varying risk scenarios. Critically, these relationships are examined in the context of two serious risks: legal risk in the guise of rule of law and supplier non-conformance risk. Design/methodology/approach: Cross-country, survey data was collected through the global manufacturing research group and combined with secondary data from the World Bank. The authors carried out a series of regression analysis to explore their research questions. Findings: The results indicate that risk is a critical component of outsourcing success with legal risk reducing outsourcing performance on both cost and quality and supplier risk reducing outsourcing performance on quality. The results also indicate that these outcomes can be mitigated in some settings via complete contracts and complementary practices. These findings are likely to be generalized throughout the supply chain and are of relevance beyond the dyad. Originality /value: In the realm of supply chain practices this study presents a comprehensive attempt to assess the importance of risk and complementary practices for the success of outsourcing contracts. Furthermore, it assesses the role of contextual factors such as risk and the rule of law.

Wiengarten, Frank Giménez Thomsen, Cristina Do a country’s logistical capabilities moderate the external integration performance relationship? Wiengarten, F.; Pagell, M.; Ahmed, M.; Giménez Thomsen, C. Journal of Operations Management (2013 IF=4.478; Q1 Manag.; FT45) Elsevier Vol. 32, no. 1-2, 01/2014, p. 51-63 Companies have reacted to the opportunities and threats of globalization through numerous production practices that have increased supply chain complexity. One of the ways companies have been able to manage this increased level of complexity is by integrating their supply chains. Logistical capabilities at the company level play a key role in integrating global supply chains, but logistical capabilities need not be company specific. In this study we explore the role of a country’s logistical capabilities for supply chain integration. Our results indicate that plants situated in countries with superior levels of logistical capabilities adopt significantly lower levels of supply chain integration. Additionally, plants situated in countries with superior logistical capabilities do not gain the same performance benefits from increased supply chain integration as plants situated in countries with relatively low levels of logistical capabilities.

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Abel Lluch, Xavier Algunas reformas en la regulación de la prueba pericial en la Ley 1/2000, de Enjuiciamiento Civil Anuario da Facultade de Dereito da Universidade da Coruña Universidad de la Coruña (UDC) No. 17, 12/2013, p. 519-551 El presente estudio analiza la regulación de la prueba pericial en la Ley 1/2000, de 7 de enero, de Enjuiciamiento Civil. Como es sabido se trata de una de las instituciones que sufrió un mayor cambio en su regulación legal con respecto a la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil de 1881. Se ha pasado de una pericial única, oficial e intrajudicial, a un modelo dual de pericial que admite los dictámenes a instancia de parte y los dictámenes de los peritos de designación judicial. La prueba pericial ha sido objeto de diversos estudios doctrinales, e incluso ya de alguna propuesta de reforma, en orden a la simplificación de su regulación legal, tales como la aportación de los dictámenes, los sistemas de designación de peritos, las listas de peritos, la capacidad del perito, la aceptación del cargo, la provisión de fondos, los derechos y deberes del perito, el reconocimiento, emisión y contradicción del dictamen pericial y, finalmente, su valoración. En el análisis de estos aspectos se efectúan propuestas de lege ferenda. El estudio concluye recogiendo de forma ordenada las distintas propuestas de lege ferenda, con la finalidad de ofrecer una visión más completa de la regulación de la prueba pericial.

Arjona Sebastià, César Amorality explained. Analysing the reasons that explain the standard conception of legal ethics Ramón Llull Journal of Applied Ethics Herder Editorial No. 4, 02/2014, p. 51-66 The standard conception of legal ethics, based on the principles of partisanship and neutrality, affirms that lawyers must adopt an ‘amoral’ attitude with respect to their client’s cause. After reviewing this widely discussed paradigm, the paper identifies and explores the

three main factors that have contributed to its success. Firstly, statecentred legal positivism, as the dominant paradigm in contemporary Western legal theory. Secondly, the adversary context, presumed to be the environment where lawyers typically perform their function as professionals. Thirdly, the agency model, as the controlling metaphor describing the relations between lawyers (agents) and their clients (principals). As all these elements carry with them problems of their own, this paper concludes by highlighting the limits of ‘amorality’ as a general theory of legal ethics. Although moral neutrality is probably a justifiable position for the criminal defendant, it is difficult to extend its justificatory scope to many other areas of legal practice, especially in a globalised post-Westphalian world where lawyers typically act in ways that escape the traditional legal monopoly of the nation-state.

Bakici, Tuba Almirall Mezquita, Esteve Wareham, Jonathan A smart city initiative: The case of Barcelona Journal of the Knowledge Economy Springer Vol. 4, no. 2, 07/2013, p. 135-148 Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the city infrastructure and services. This paper draws on the city of Barcelona and intends to analyse its transformation from a traditional agglomeration to a twenty-first century metropolis. The case of Barcelona is of special interest due to its apparent desire, reflected by its current policies regarding urban planning, to be considered as a leading metropolis in Europe. Hence, an assessment of the Smart City initiative will cast light on the current status of Barcelona’s urban policy and its urban policy of Barcelona and its future directions. This article analyses Barcelona’s transformation in the areas of Smart City management; drivers, bottlenecks, conditions and assets. First, it presents the existing literature on Barcelona’s Smart City initiative. Then, the case study analysis is presented with the Barcelona Smart City model. After describing this

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model, we further explore the main components of the Smart City strategy of Barcelona in terms of Smart districts, living labs, initiatives, e-Services, infrastructures and Open Data. This paper also reveals certain benefits and challenges related to this initiative and its future directions. The results of the case study analysis indicate that Barcelona has been effectively implementing the Smart City strategy with an aim to be a Smart City model for the world.

Beltran de Heredia Ruiz, Ignacio ¿Indemnización por despido versus compensación por daños y perjuicios?

asumiendo (internalizando) la totalidad de los perjuicios que provoca con su conducta. En este sentido, esta configuración de la naturaleza jurídica de la indemnización legal tasada y de la nueva regulación de la LJS (en concreto, arts. 286.2 y 281.2) permiten sostener que un modelo de compensación alternativo que acerque la indemnización a los daños efectivamente padecidos por el trabajador es posible. O, dicho de otro modo, que la indemnización legal tasada por despido improcedente es jurídicamente compatible con una indemnización de daños y perjuicios.

Bisbe Viñas, Josep Cano Giner, Josep Lluís Santander MIS America

Aranzadi Social: Revista Doctrinal Aranzadi Vol. 6, no. 5, 09/2013, p. 83-110

The Case Research Journal North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Vol. 33, no. 3-4, 10/2013, p. 45-66

El Derecho del Trabajo, desde sus orígenes, ha considerado que la judicialización de los conflictos laborales y, particularmente, el despido injustificado era una amenaza para la rápida compensación del trabajador. Circunstancia especialmente preocupante en aquellas situaciones en las que el despedido no tiene acceso a ningún tipo de prestación por desempleo. En este contexto, el principio de economía procesal se ha convertido en el factor precipitador de una sucesión de cambios normativos dirigidos a agilizar el proceso laboral en caso de despido, con el objeto de ofrecer una compensación económica por los daños sufridos lo más rápida posible y sin necesidad de su prueba y cuantificación. En contrapartida, el Derecho del Trabajo, por un lado, ha conferido al deudor incumplidor de la prestación (el empresario) la opción – poco frecuente - entre cumplir la prestación in natura (readmisión) o por equivalente (indemnización). Y, por otro lado, ha limitado el importe de la indemnización por despido injustificado. Tasación que si bien permite cuantificar ex ante el “precio de salida injustificada”, también se ha traducido en situaciones de infracompensación. Lo que ha redundado en un uso excesivo de esta vía extintiva, pues, el responsable no está

In February 2005, Jesús Cepeda, Director of Grupo Santander’s Management Control Area, reviews a Chilean pilot test of a new management information system, MIS America. Grupo Santander, a global financial institution, had grown rapidly through acquisitions in recent years, giving rise to a great need for reliable, timely information to help Santander managers compare performance across globally distributed units and make better strategic and operational decisions. The pilot test in Chile had suffered numerous delays. Cepeda had to decide what to do next regarding MIS America. The original plan had specified that following the Chile pilot, the new system would be rolled out throughout Latin America, but Cepeda was not sure if he was ready to authorize the rollout. This case study highlights the information systems challenges associated with rapid growth via acquisition. Top executives had an urgent need for both consolidated and precisely disaggregated information. The case also examines questions of centralized versus decentralized control in a corporate MIS that addresses different needs in different Latin American countries, while

Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management (IIK) Research Proposal: Open Innovation Crowdsourcing

Albert Armisen, PhD Candidate Esteve Almirall, Supervisor

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responding to Grupo Santander’s own needs at the corporate level. The challenges presented by this large and complex project are applicable to many IT projects in other industries and geographic settings.

Casabayó Bonás, Mònica Agell Jané, Núria El gran potencial de la lógica difusa

se centra en que los equipos deben contar sólo con miembros de alto rendimiento. Y un cuarto afirma que todo equipo debe tener un líder claro. Pero, en realidad, es posible que equipos que no se amoldan a estas características logren buenos desempeños mediante el seguimiento de un protocolo de actuación bien organizado, que dedique el tiempo suficiente a cada una de las fases del proyecto.

Costa Guix, Gerard Vila Fernández-Santacruz, Mar Valdés Gandarillas, Susana Marketing social corporativo en el sector hostelero: una revisión sistemática

Harvard Deusto Business Review Deusto No. 234, 05/2014, p. 50-57 El tsunami de datos que manejan las empresas puede ser una potente solución para mejorar la toma de decisiones. Ahora bien, esta cantidad y complejidad de datos se convierte en un problema indescifrable si no nos equipamos con técnicas de conversión, estudio e interpretación eficientes. La lógica difusa ha demostrado tener un papel clave en el análisis de datos e interpretación de resultados. En la toma de decisiones es la ventaja competitiva.

Correa Domenech, Marc Cuatro mitos sobre la gestión de equipos Harvard Deusto Business Review Deusto No. 227, 10/2013, p. 58-68 Crear grupos de trabajo eficientes nunca ha sido tarea fácil, pero la persistencia de determinados mitos sin fundamento científico en torno a qué hace que los equipos sean más efectivos dificulta aún más la gestión de los mismos. El primero de estos mitos es que para crear un equipo sólo se requiere juntar a varias personas. Otro reza que los equipos grandes funcionan mucho peor que los pequeños. Un tercero

Apuntes de Ciencia & Sociedad Universidad Continental Vol. 3, no. 2, 12/2013, p. 159-164 Determinar la incidencia de las diferentes vertientes del marketing social corporativo en el sector hostelero. Investigación realizada con una metodología cualitativa de revisión sistemática de las investigaciones previas. Las peculiaridades del sector hostelero han sido ampliamente investigadas en términos de responsabilidad social empresarial; pero su potencial utilización como ventaja competitiva y las tipologías posibles de actuación estructuradas por varios autores en forma de marketing social corporativo son más recientes y desarrolladas en menor grado. Los principales resultados muestran que las actividades se centran en gran parte en el área de las prácticas empresariales socialmente responsables y en aquellas vinculadas a aspectos medioambientales, con un amplio espectro de actividades adicionales a realizar. Las empresas del sector hostelero tienen la oportunidad y el desafío de utilizar sus actividades de responsabilidad social empresarial como una ventaja competitiva. Por esta razón, sin duda será necesario profundizar mediante investigaciones empíricas en el uso y los resultados de las políticas de marketing social corporativo en el sector hostelero en el futuro.

Business Network Dynamics (BuNeD) Research Proposal: Control and Governance in Digital Platforms: The Case of the Video Game Industry

Alexander Chekanov, PhD Candidate Joan Rodon, Supervisor

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Costa Guix, Gerard Vila Fernández-Santacruz, Mar Shared value: cómo compartir el valor creado para generar una nueva ventaja competitiva Harvard Deusto Business Review Deusto No. 230, 01/2014, p. 46-56 Dos años después de la aportación de Michael Porter sobre el concepto de estrategia de “shared value”, se puede empezar a analizar cómo esta se está implantando en España y de qué forma puede llegar a convertirse en una opción efectiva para los directivos “game changer”, esas personas cuyas ideas sobresalen de lo habitual y permiten generar acciones competitivas innovadoras. ¿Cómo se desarrolla una estrategia de este tipo y quién debería aplicarla?.

Dávila Blázquez, Juan Francisco Casabayó Bonás, Mònica Influences in children’s materialism: A conceptual framework Young Consumers Emerald Vol. 14, no. 4, 12/2013, p. 297-311 Purpose: This paper aims to answer two questions: According to research carried out in the last decades, what are the factors that influence materialism in children? And, can these factors be classified in a comprehensive conceptual framework?. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reviews the most cited articles on the topic published in academic journals during the last 35 years, as well as a selection of articles in specific journals published during the last ten years. Findings: A conceptual framework is provided which classifies the factors in three groups: individual factors, semi-contextual factors (family related) and contextual factors (external influences). Practical implications: The classification helps to understand how the factors relate to each other, and is intended to be a tool for parents, educators and policy makers willing to understand how to deal effectively with materialism in children. Originality/ value: As far as is known, this paper is the first attempt to classify the factors that influence materialism in children in a conceptual framework.

Dolan, Simon The value of work in the public sector: The case of organizational values in the public sector in Peru Gabel Shemueli, R.; Yamada Fukusaki, G.; Dolan, S. Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones = Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology Vol. 29, no. 2, 08/2013, p. 83-90 This exploratory study examines organizational values in the Peruvian public sector. These values were classified and rank ordered according to the tri-axial model under three main axes: ethical, economic, and emotional. A sample of 338 public servants in mid to high level positions participated in this study. The main results show that 42 out of the 62 values were classified in the three axes mentioned above and that all of the 5 dominant values belonged to the pragmatic axis. In addition, some variations in the classification of values due to demographic and organizational factors were identified. The conclusions and recommendations highlight the importance to continue studying the topic of values in the public sector, in order to understand their potential practical implications for people management.

Ginés Castellet, Nuria Impugnación de acuerdos sociales y abuso de derecho: algunas reflexiones para el ordenamiento jurídico español a la luz de la experiencia francesa Revista de Derecho de Sociedades Aranzadi No. 40, 06/2013, p. 273-315 La invocación de la doctrina del abuso de derecho y de otras construcciones jurídicas más o menos próximas, tales como el abuso o la desviación de poder, la infracción del deber del respeto a la buena fe o incluso el fraude a la ley no es algo extraño en la formulación y resolución de los conflictos por parte no solo de los Tribunales (que los ventilan directamente) sino también por parte de los autores (que, evidentemente, no los resuelven de forma directa, pero intentan contribuir a ello con el ofrecimiento de análisis y soluciones). El propósito de este trabajo es adentrarse en este intricado panorama desde una visión más apegada al elemento abuso de derecho.

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Iglesias Bedós, Oriol Estrategias de cocreación: cómo conseguir que los clientes sean parte clave del equipo de innovación

Jain, Tanusree The impact of financial crisis on Corporate Social Orientations: A comparative analysis of U.S., German and Indian companies

Harvard Deusto Márketing & Ventas Deusto No. 119, 11/2013, p. 6-11

Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society International Association for Business and Society (IABS) Vol. 24, no. 1, 10/2013, p. 30-40

La innovación es la palanca clave para lograr el crecimiento sostenido de cualquier organización. Ahora bien, las estrategias y los procesos tradicionales de innovación tienen ratios de fracaso extremadamente elevadas que, según diversos estudios, se sitúan cerca del 80%. Por este motivo, según constata el último IBM Global CEO Study, el 63% de los máximos ejecutivos de las compañías quiere potenciar las estrategias colaborativas de innovación y, en particular, las estrategias de cocreación de nuevos productos y servicios con los clientes. Pero ¿qué es exactamente la cocreación? ¿Cómo debería gestionarse un proyecto de estas características?

Iglesias Bedós, Oriol Ind, Nicholas Jonathan Alfaro Faus, Manuel The organic view of the brand. A brand value co-creation model Journal of Brand Management Palgrave MacMillan Vol. 20, no. 8, 09/2013, p. 670-688 The evolution of brand management has led to a new approach that views brands as social processes involving multiple stakeholders. However, there is still a lack of empirical research about how brand value is co-created within stakeholder networks. Based on the fieldwork, this article presents an organic view of the brand (OVB), and a resulting brand value co-creation framework that develops earlier brand models. The OVB takes into account the perspectives of different business settings, ranging from fast moving consumer goods, to services and business-to-business. According to the OVB, brand value is conversationally co-created by many different stakeholders in a fluid space subject to constant negotiation and often develops beyond the strategic aims set by brand managers. One consequence of this is that managers will need to develop a new leadership style that is more humble, open and participatory.

This paper addresses two main issues. First, it develops a systematic mechanism to examine corporate social orientation (CSO) by contextualizing the research around the 2007 global financial crisis and second, it applies this mechanism to compare the CSOs across the U.S., Germany and India. Using a 7-code index of CSO on a sample of financial companies across the three countries, this paper captures the dissolution of loose couplings between corporate private intentions and corporate public pretentions thereby exposing the de-facto CSOs. The results provide evidence of country of origin effects on CSO and capture the dynamic aspect of CSO, not yet shown in previous studies.

Longoni, Annachiara The role of New Forms of Work Organization in developing sustainability strategies in operations Longoni, A.; Golini, R.; Cagliano, R. International Journal of Production Economics Elsevier Vol. 147, Part A 01/2014, p. 147-160 This paper aims to study whether Human Resource Management and the organizational practices related to New Forms of Work Organization (NFWO) (e.g., teamwork, training, and employee involvement) should be implemented to attain higher environmental and social sustainability performance. This potential connection is analyzed using the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey 2009 database containing data on the assembly industry. Several hierarchical regression models are used to study the direct impact of the considered practices on sustainability performance and their interactions with sustainability action programs. The results show that some of the practices related to NFWO are linked to sustainability performance. In particular, training has a direct positive effect on environmental and social sustainability performance and creates a positive interaction between social sustainability action programs and performance. Additionally, employee involvement and incentives have a direct positive impact on social sustainability performance. Finally, teamwork is a relevant practice for the successful implementation of environmental sustainability action programs. This paper contributes by empirically

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extending the knowledge on the role of organizational practices and the understanding of environmental and social sustainability achievement at the operational level. Moreover, we highlight the complexity of these relationships within different sustainability dimensions, showing the need for more qualitative studies about this topic.

Mària Serrano, Josep F. Murillo Bonvehí, David The promotion of CSR in SMEs by support organizations. A case study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ramón Llull Journal of Applied Ethics Herder Editorial No. 4, 02/2014, p. 143-172

Longoni, Annachiara Developing sustainability in global manufacturing networks: The role of site competence on sustainability performance Golini, R.; Longoni, A.; Cagliano, R. International Journal of Production Economics Elsevier Vol. 147, Part B 01/2014, p. 448-459 Environmental and social sustainability are becoming sources of competitive advantage for multinational companies. Consequently, they need to understand how to manage their global manufacturing networks to enhance both environmental and social performance. Results from an international survey show that site competence—that is, having competences in operations beyond the production activities—is an antecedent of the adoption of environmental and social sustainability programs and, in turn, of higher performance improvement. Moreover, site competence provides also a direct contribution to performance achievement especially to pursue social sustainability.

Maak, Thomas Pless, Nicola Developing responsible global leaders Maak, T.; Pless, N.; Borecká, M. Advances in Global Leadership Emerald Vol. 8, no. 1, 06/2014, p. 339-364 Two major trends have shaped the international business field over the past decade: globalization and the quest for responsible leadership. Yet, what are the qualities that predispose business leaders to act responsibly in an increasingly complex, interlinked world, and thus to meet new social, environmental, and political responsibilities? How can organizations develop these qualities in their current and future leaders? In this chapter, we provide tentative answers to both questions by fleshing out some of the qualities global leaders need to succeed in a connected world and by comparing three innovative executive development programs that use international service learning assignments as a way to instill these qualities in their executives. These programs are PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Ulysses Program, Pfizer’s Global Health Fellows Program, and IBM’s Corporate Service Corps.

The CSR of SMEs in developing countries is difficult to promote mainly for two reasons: the characteristics of SMEs ni these areas, and the special context (deficits in infrastructures and a weak State) where such SMEs operate. One oslution to address these problems is the creation or enforcement of SME networks, where trust and relational contracts replace impersonal market exchanges and legal contracts. This paper investigates the role of support organizations in the promotion of SME networks and of their socially responsible behaviours. It presents the case of CADICEC, a support organization for SMEs in thew Deomocratic Republic of the Congo. CADICEC edevelops its mission based on transparency and the enforcement of public institutions, in a business and political context invaded by secret chapels that promote under the table particular and ethnic interests.

Martí Ripoll, Margarita Montalvo García, Adolfo Conflict at MRW: The new employee’s pregnancy The Case Research Journal North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Vol. 33, no. 3, 06/2013, p. 101-114 MRW is a courier firm based in Barcelona (Spain). In 2010, it was consolidating internationalization of its business. It is against this background that the case raises a highly sensitive, emotional issue: What to do about Sonia, a recently-hired manager (still in her probationary period) who suddenly reveals that she is pregnant. Moreover, her pregnancy is a high-risk one, likely requiring an early medical leave. The new manager’s post involves setting up Information Technology (IT) systems, which are vital to the firm’s business, internationalization and invoicing. The case explores two standpoints: (1) a company weathering the economic crisis, in which it is contrary to the firm’s ‘belt-tightening’ measures to hire a replacement for an employee on leave; (2) the company’s track record in the CSR field including its promotion of opportunities for women. The case aims to create a dilemma for students. Some will defend Sonia’s right to a maternity leave and to continue working in MRW, especially in light of her trials and tribulations with fertility treatment and the fact that the pregnancy is a risky one. Others will defend the company’s interests, arguing that the situation in the firm is critical and that MRW’s internationalization is vital for the company’s

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business development. The latter group will focus on Sonia’s essential role in launching the internationalization project. The question of what to do about Sonia’s pregnancy is a critical one for both the Technology Department and for Sonia. Dealing with it requires great care.

Planellas Arán, Marcel La esencia de la estrategia

Moodie, Scott William Dolan, Simon Exploring the causes, symptoms and health consequences of joint and inverse states of work engagement and burnout: The specific case of nurses in Spain

La esencia es la naturaleza de las cosas. Es lo invariable. Lo que queda. Es aquello que hace que alguien o algo sea lo que es. En este sentido, la búsqueda de la esencia de la estrategia es todo un reto. Determinar lo más importante, la quinta esencia de la estrategia, requiere extractar y concentrar su sustancia. Para esta tarea se necesitan dos componentes básicos: una mirada histórica sobre la evolución de la estrategia y una propuesta de organización del proceso de gestión de la estrategia que sea de utilidad para la empresa. Revisar lo que queda, los modelos que continúan en pie después de la prueba de la práctica, y mirar el futuro, proponer una aproximación para la gestión de la estrategia en los próximos años. Recuperar la esencia para proyectarla al futuro.

Moodie, S.; Dolan, S.; Burke, R. Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management Emerald Vol. 12, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 4-22 The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between the positive and negative psychological states of work (i.e. engagement and burnout, respectively) and their effects on an individual’s mental and physical health. This study analyzes their separate and joint manifestations. In total, 2,094 nurses were segmented into quadrants that represent a 50/50 median split on both engagement and burnout. The four resulting quadrants were then examined in a series of analyses including logistic regression and ANOVA. This is a cross-sectional study based on a very large survey (> 2,000 people) in Spain. Data were collected from nurses in collaboration with the official nurses corporations in half a dozen provinces in Spain. Data were analyzed in stages which included zero-item correlations and ANOVA to determine their independence and suitability for predicting states of engagement and burnout. This was followed by a series of binary logistic regression analyses. The findings suggested that engagement and burnout were generally inversely related (67 per cent of the sample) which is the conventional wisdom in this regard, but 33 per cent of the sample manifested concurrently at either extreme. Burnout was chiefly driven by work demands, as both quadrants of low burnout had lower demands and both quadrants of high burnout had higher demands. Engagement was primarily driven by resources and affinity. Social support acted independently (perhaps as a moderator) by aligning with states of burnout. Worker health was primarily driven by burnout, wherein both states of low burnout exhibited better health and both states of high burnout exhibited poorer health. Much of the current research on this topic considers engagement and burnout to be linear dimensions and focuses on building structural models of the precise relationships between variables. That approach is to be encouraged, but there is also a need to jointly deconstruct dimensions and relationships in a tactile manner that can inform future structural models. The secondary benefit of this approach is that these findings can be submitted directly to managers to provide an easily understood approach for assessments and interventions.

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Pless, Nicola Comparative analysis of international service learning programs Pless, N.; Borecká, M. Journal of Management Development Emerald Vol. 33, no. 6, 06/2014, p. 526-550 International service learning is a new trend in management development and a new field of research. International Service Learning Programs (ISLP) are experiential corporate volunteering initiatives designed to give employees the chance to work for a short spell abroad (often in a developing or emerging market) on a service assignment with a partner from the social sector (e.g. NGO, social enterprise). The service assignment is a project defined with a social-sector partner on which the corporate employee works full-time on a pro-bono basis and contributes his/her knowledge and expertise in exchange for a rich learning experience. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the use of ISLP in business firms and conducts a comparative analysis of six programs set up by multinational corporations from three industries (health, technology, and accounting and professional services). It identifies characteristics and similarities among programs, discusses differences, offers criteria for program classification and areas for future research. As such, it is an important starting point for quantitative studies. This is a qualitative study based on six ISLP. The data were gathered through desk research, interviews with program representatives and a structured questionnaire containing closed and open-ended questions. Regardless of the stated aims (which usually stress value for the participants, the company and the communities), most programs had one clear focus (two programs in the area of leadership development, two in

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the area of community development) while two showed closely linked foci (with slightly greater emphasis on organization development than on the other areas). The authors suggest that the type of ISLP has an effect on the learning outcomes. Since companies are still testing usefulness and outcomes of these programs, academic research that provides comparative quantitative data on the outcomes of such programs is of great value for business practice. This systematic overview and classification of ISLP is a starting point for empirical program comparisons as well as for the evaluation of different service learning approaches. This could prove very useful for other companies planning to set up or refine their own ISLP to achieve certain outcomes. This is the first paper that compares ISLP run by multinational corporations. It identifies a number of category areas in which they differ (e.g. in placement length, nature of the assignment – individual or in teams, learning methods used) and provides a typology for program classification (leadership development, organization development or community development).

Roig Navarro, Carlos Cambio de paradigma: desarrollo del “back end” logístico para competir en “e-commerce” Harvard Deusto Márketing & Ventas Deusto No. 123, 04/2014, p. 12-18 Las oportunidades de negocio en Internet son proporcionales a los retos derivados de un suministro complejo y exigente. Sin embargo, tanto las nuevas empresas digitales como las tradicionales que se inician en este canal de comercialización, a menudo, se olvidan de desarrollar un back end logístico que responda a las demandas de los clientes. El potencial comercial que ofrece Internet suele “deslumbrar” a las nuevas empresas de ‘e-commerce’, que, con frecuencia, olvidan que el comercio electrónico solo es viable si el cliente lo percibe como una opción segura, fiable y, sobre todo, cómoda. Operar en la red facilita el acceso a un mercado tan amplio como atomizado. Supone atender nuevas necesidades de suministro donde la logística, cada vez más, se convierte en un diferenciador crítico.

Roig Navarro, Carlos Desarrollo de modelos de negocio a través de la excelencia en operaciones Spender, John Christopher The business school model: A flawed organizational design?

Harvard Deusto Business Review Deusto No. 232, 03/2014, p. 52-59 En un entorno y en unos mercados cada vez más complejos y competitivos, aparte de la gestión del talento, la innovación y la fidelización de clientes, la excelencia operativa es también uno de los principales retos que asumen las empresas globales. Se trata, principalmente, de enfocar las operaciones a la mejora de los resultados y a su sostenibilidad a través de los procesos de decisiones, ya sea a nivel estratégico operativo o táctico. Para ello, el artículo propone un mapa de ruta que permite visualizar tres estadios operativos complementarios y los mecanismos de tránsito que se producen entre ellos, así como las herramientas básicas que facilitan la excelencia operativa.

Journal of Management Development Emerald Vol. 33, no. 5, 05/2014, p. 429-442 There has been considerable discussion recently about business schools’ shortcomings and how their curriculum should be changed. Many presume discipline-wide agreement that managing is a rational and model-able decision-making practice. But practitioners are not convinced and often suggest rationality-dominated business schools are teaching impractical ideas. The purpose of this paper is to look at

Future of Work Chair Research Proposal: The Future of Work: Inclusion of Values, Culture and Sexual Minority Employees

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this discussion’s micro foundations and offers a novel approach that presumes managerial judgment is crucial to firms’ processes and, indeed, is the reason firms exist. The paper combines discussion of the conceptual nature of firms and managing them with data about business schools’ growth and curriculum evolution. If we presume firms are rational apparatus for achieving known goals, managing is little more than computing; and if Knightian uncertainty is taken seriously, managerial judgment becomes the core of the analysis. But schools that attempt to train students’ judgment are extraordinarily difficult to manage, especially in the current academic environment. While many are aware of Knight’s influential thinking, it has not yet been brought into a theory of the firm or of managing. The paper works toward a novel theory of the managed firm (TMF) in which management’s uncertainty-resolving judgments are key.

Valls Giménez, Josep F. Sureda Pascual, Joan Parera Olm, Antoni Radiografía del nuevo consumidor: se imponen la racionalidad y los precios bajos Harvard Deusto Márketing & Ventas Deusto No. 124, 05/2014, p. 38-47 Tras la emergencia de la era ‘low cost’ y el encumbramiento de las marcas baratas en la primera década de los años 2000, los consumidores consolidan hoy un escenario de racionalidad y de exigencia de precios baratos. Y es que la difícil coyuntura económica de los últimos cuatro años ha producido importantes e interesantes transformaciones en la forma en que los consumidores toman y ejecutan sus decisiones de compra. Transformaciones que se muestran en todas las tipologías de compradores.

Spender, John Christopher A rumination on managerial judgment Revue Française de Gestion Lavoisier Vol. 40, no. 238, 01/2014, p. 19-32

My opening assumption is that managing is not usefully defined as an abstraction, a computer-like decision-making activity; rather it should be defined by the nature of the managerial task – being shaped by the nature of the thing being managed (the firm) with needs only its managers can address. But what is “the firm” that thereby defines “managing”? Management and organization theorists take “the firm” pretty much for granted – IBM exists, just as Facebook and Alitalia, exist for the moment. We have ample evidence that firms exist – just ask people which they work for. Likewise the basic nature of “business management” is generally assumed – firm-related decision-making, idealized as “rational” but certainly presumed key to the firm’s practices. Assuming firms exist, we organization theorists discuss making rational decisions about their structure, process improvement, hiring, payment systems, marketing, alliances, product mix, IT needs, culture, relative performance, and so on. The firm’s existence seems as obvious as the goods and services it produces – only the selection and direction of the firm’s various investments and activities seems problematic, non-rational to the extent managers fail to see the firm’s truly rational nature.

Valls Giménez, Josep F. Sureda Pascual, Joan Attractiveness analysis of European tourist cities Valls Giménez, J.; Sureda Pascual, J.; Valls Tuñon, G. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing Routledge Vol. 31, no. 2, 02/2014, p. 178-194 Starting from the field work in seven European countries, the paper identify Europeans’ attitudes towards and preferences for European cities. The purpose here is to show whether a city’s tourist attraction is linked solely with a given holiday format (city-break; 1-2 night stay; short holiday; 3-4 night stay; long holiday; 8-night stay or longer) or not. The results helped in the interpretation of contemporary urban tourism flows in Europe, offering a broader vision of such flows and furnishing useful data for city strategic planning to boost competitiveness.

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Van Cranenburgh, Katinka Arenas Vives, Daniel Goodman, Jennifer Religious organisations as investors: a Christian perspective on shareholder engagment

Varela, Jordi Reducir actividades que no aportan valor: la reforma structural pendiente Revista de Calidad Asistencial (RCA) Elsevier Vol. 28, no. 6, 11/2013, p. 327-328

Van Cranenburgh, K.; Arenas Vives, D.; Goodman, J.; Louche, C. Society and Business Review Emerald Vol. 9, no. 2, 05/2014, p. 195-213 The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about religious organisations’ (ROs) potential to practise their faith by means of their investments, rather than keeping both issues separate.The authors adopted a qualitative exploratory approach using seven cases of social shareholder engagement (SSE) by Christian organisations. It focused on creating knowledge from best practices. Within the three Christian organisations studied, the authors identified three significant features that relate to their religious nature and affect their SSE: having a structured belief system, a grassroots network and a longterm perspective. These features can be instrumental in impacting company behaviour and society at large. The authors chose three ROs for their relevance and comparative features, but this limited sample size makes it hard to generalise the research findings. This paper invites ROs to review their potential for actively owning their shares to be consistent with their faith and create change in business and society at large. Besides, ROs, with their unwavering belief system, extensive grassroots networks and long-term approach, are a force in the shareholder engagement field to be reckoned with by business. The paper presents multi cases of ROs active in using their investments to create change in companies and society at large.

Según varios autores, se podría estimar que las actividades sanitarias que no aportan valor a la salud de las personas podrían representar una cifra alrededor de 25% en los presupuestos de los sistemas sanitarios. Parece obvio que en épocas de restricciones, políticos, gestores y profesionales deberían ponerse de acuerdo para averiguar dónde se esconden las lagunas de efectividad clínica, porque lo que es evidente es que los recortes transversales y las reducciones salariales lineales no producen reformas estructurales, ya que sólo sirven para cuadrar presupuestos complicados.

Vedina, Rebekka Dolan, Simon Elder employees’ well-being following organizational restructuring: Testing the direct and the moderating effects among Spanish workers Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health Routledge Vol. 29, no. 2, 04/2014, p. 143-174 This explorative study aims at finding the effects of organizational restructuring on older workers’ well-being. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in companies in the Catalonia region in Spain, which have implemented restructuring prior to the study. The sample consists of 89 respondents, 46 of whom are age 50 and older (26 males, 20

Business Network Dynamics (BuNeD) Research Proposal: Sustainable Supply Chains: the Suppliers’ Perspective

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females) and 43 of whom are younger than age 50 (19 males and 24 females). The Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure was used for measuring burnout and scales developed by Arsenault and Dolan were used for measuring anxiety and depression. It was found that layoffs contributed significantly to the respondents’ burnout and depression levels. This effect diminished if the respondent had a managerial position but was not as much influenced by managerial and coworkers’ support as was expected. In this data set social support does not play a substantial mitigating role in the impact of the layoffs, besides some modest contributions at certain levels. Coworkers’ general support is highly positively correlated with coworkers’ handling of the change and negatively correlated with anxiety only among the younger employees, though negatively related to physical burnout only among elder employees. Elder employees tend to perceive implementation of changes more negatively than their younger counterparts, which may be reflected in their higher anxiety level.

Villegas Sánchez, Carolina Did trade liberalization help women? The case of Mexico in the 1990s Aguayo-Tellez, E.; Airola, J.; Juhn, C.; Villegas Sánchez, C. Research in Labor Economics Emerald No. 38, 12/2013, p. 1-35 With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women’s relative wage increased, particularly during the period of liberalization. Both between and within-industry shifts also favored female workers. With regards to between-industry shifts, tariff reductions expanded sectors which were initially female intensive. With regards to within-industry shifts, we find a positive association between reductions in export tariffs (U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods) and hiring of women in skilled bluecollar occupations. Finally, we find suggestive evidence that household bargaining power shifted in favor of women. Expenditures shifted from goods associated with male preference, such as men’s clothing and tobacco and alcohol, to those associated with female preference such as women’s clothing and education.

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Abel Lluch, Xavier La renuncia a la prueba admitida Diario La Ley. Especial Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio Madrid: La Ley No. 8187, 11/2013, p. 23-24 Comentario a la sentencia del Tribunal Supremo, Sala Primera (civil), de 13 de mayo de 2012 en el que se defiende la irrenunciabilidad a la prueba admitida, ofreciendo sugerencias tanto a los letrados como al juez.

Abel Lluch, Xavier ¿Puede el juez al amparo del art. 429.1, II de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil sugerir la práctica de una prueba pericial?

Abel Lluch, Xavier La exigencia de la “lógica y la razón” interpretada conforme a las reglas de la sana crítica Diario La Ley. Especial Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio Madrid: Wolters Kluwer. La Ley; ESADE. Instituto de Probática y Derecho Probatorio (IPDP) No. 8261, 02/2014, p. 15-17 Comentario a la sentencia del Tribunal Supremo, Sala 1ª, de 12 de junio de 2013 donde se analiza el alcance de la necesidad de motivar las resoluciones judiciales conforme a las exigencias de la “lógica y razón”, tal como exige el artículo 218 de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil.

Diario La Ley. Especial Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio Madrid: La Ley No. 8187, 11/2013, p. 26-28

Abel Lluch, Xavier Requisitos y criterios para poder aplicar la ficta admissio en el interrogatorio del representante de una persona jurídica

Comentario a la sentencia del Tribunal Superior de Cataluña, sala civil y penal, de 17 de diciembre de 2012. Se analiza si el juez puede al amparo de la normativa del artículo 429.1, II LEC sugerir la práctica de una prueba pericial cuyo momento procesal ha precluido.

Diario La Ley. Especial Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio Madrid: Wolters Kluwer. La Ley; ESADE. Instituto de Probática y Derecho Probatorio (IPDP) No. 8261, 02/2014, p. 17-18

Abel Lluch, Xavier Preferencia del dictamen de la parte actora, ratificado en el acto del juicio, sobre el informe médico-forense

En esta sentencia se analiza los requisitos y criterios para poder aplicar la ficta admissio en el interrogatorio de las partes, que no puede aplicarse respecto a un legal representante de una persona jurídica que no ha tenido intervención personal en los hechos enjuiciados.

Diario La Ley. Especial Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio Madrid: La Ley No. 8187, 11/2013, p. 25-26

Abel Lluch, Xavier Momento procesal para aportar los dictamenes periciales en el juicio verbal

Comentario a la sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Baleares, sección 3ª, de 1 de febrero de 2013 en el que se analizan los motivos por los que se actora preferencia al dictamen de la parte actora ratificado en el acto del juicio, sobre el informe médico forense.

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En esta ocasión se analiza si el demandado en juicio verbal puede presentar los dictámenes periciales en el acto de la vista o debe aportarlos cinco días antes de la vista, optándose por la primera solución.

up slightly in 2014, to a forecasted level of 3.6%. This improvement will be seen both in developed and emerging economies, which are expected to grow by around 2% and 5%, respectively.

Cano Giner, Josep Lluís Big data: nuevos perfiles profesionales

Comajuncosa Ferrer, Josep Economic Overview. June 2014

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En el mundo de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación, surgen nuevos términos que usualmente provocan la incredulidad de unos y la admiración de otros, entre ellos los directivos, por las nuevas expectativas que presentan. Uno de estos términos es big data, que requiere un nuevo perfil profesional a caballo entre un analista, un informático, un explorador y un contador de historias.

The Spanish economy will grow by roughly 1% in 2014. This figure is towards the top of the range forecast in the January edition of ESADE’s Economic Report. In the First Quarter of 2014, GDP grew by 0.4%. Household consumption rose by 0.3%. This confirms the change in trend noted in the Fourth Quarter of 2013, when consumption rose by 0.5% — breaking a run of falling consumption over the previous three years. Investment also rose in the First Quarter, maintaining the pace begun in 2013, in which companies’ plant purchases rose by 9.5% over the year. This offset falling house purchases. As a result, internal demand grew by 0.2% both in the Fourth Quarter of 2013 and in the First Quarter of 2014. While this is good news, it also reveals that growth is still very weak.

Comajuncosa Ferrer, Josep Análisis y previsión de la coyuntura económica Informe Económico Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía No. 16, 01/2014, p. 7-32

Comajuncosa Ferrer, Josep Economic Overview. January 2014 Informe Económico Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía No. Sepcial issue, 01/2014, p. 1-21

The global economy slowed down slightly in 2013 with an annual growth rate of 2.9%, somewhat lower than the rates of 3.9% and 3.2% seen in 2011 and 2012, respectively. This slowdown was seen both in developed and emerging economies, which grew by 1.2% and 4.5%, respectively (again, a few tenths of a percentage point lower than in previous years). Worldwide economic growth is expected to be

Comajuncosa Ferrer, Josep Nota de coyuntura económica Informe Económico Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía No. 17, 06/2014, p. 7-14

En el año 2014 la economía española crecerá alrededor del 1%. Esta previsión se sitúa en la banda alta de la que realizábamos el pasado mes de enero, en el anterior número de nuestro Informe Económico. En el primer trimestre de 2014 el PIB ha crecido un 0,4% en términos trimestrales. El consumo de las familias ha aumentado un 0,3%, confirmando el cambio de tendencia del último trimestre de 2013, en que creció un 0,5%, después de casi tres años de descensos continuos. También la inversión creció positivamente en este primer trimestre, manteniendo la pauta iniciada el pasado 2013, en que la mejoría de la compra de bienes de equipo por parte de las empresas, que creció un 9,5% a lo largo de todo el año, compensó la caída de la inversión residencial. Como resultado de todo ello, la demanda interna creció un 0,2% en términos trimestrales, tanto en el último trimestre del pasado 2013 como en el primero de este 2014. Son cifras positivas, pero que evidentemente muestran aún un crecimiento muy débil.

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Costa Guix, Gerard Tercera revolución: con alma tecnológica Revista Equipos & Talento Barcelona: Custommedia No. 104, 05/2014, p. 72-72

En estos momentos, complicadísimos para la economía española, con unos índices de paro elevadísimos y sin visible mejora, resulta interesante añadir a la coctelera del enmarañado futuro, sobretodo para los jóvenes, la previsión del sociólogo y economista estadounidense Jeremy Rifkin. Rifkin afirma sin ambages que la tercera revolución industrial está aproximándose de forma inexorable.

Costa Guix, Gerard Vila Fernández-Santacruz, Mar De líderes empresariales que deben juzgar a sus clientes Directivos y Empresas Siglo XXI Madrid: Directivos y Empresas No. 121, 11/2013, p. 76-77 El desarrollo sostenible de nuestra economía es hoy uno de los mayores retos para los directivos. Es un concepto complejo, y constituye un reto que les exige un nuevo control de gestión, en base a un triple balance.

Costa Guix, Gerard Vila Fernández-Santacruz, Mar España como marca: toca mejorar el país Directivos y Empresas Siglo XXI Madrid: Directivos y Empresas No. 123, 01/2014, p. 90-92

Tan pronto una crisis se consolida, las organizaciones y sus managers acuden al marketing como opción para alcanzar sus objetivos: probémoslo, ya no podemos perder nada. Ahora que nuestra new normal económica ya tiene forma y cifras, como un 25% de paro a recuperar en veinte años, aparece el concepto mágico: Marca España. Un santo grial que nos hará más fuertes.

Dolan, Simon Brillo, João Coaching por valores de inovação: a fórmula 40-30-30 do modelo tri-axial de valores para situações complexas e caóticas Revista Circuito São Paulo (Brasil): Folha da Cidade Ano 18, no 60, 08/2014, p. 26-27 Vivemos num mundo em constante mudança e transformação. Alguns acreditam que neste contexto é quase impossível cons truir precisamente cenários e planos estratégicos eficazes. Diante detantas transformações, as organizações precisam inovar e se renovar constantemente. Para tal, Chesbrough (2003) sugere o processo de inovação aberta, no qual organizações envolvem atores externos (cientistas, fornecedores e clientes) para cocriar novos produtos e serviços, utilizando ferramentas comuns para integração dos usuários finais na geração de ideias criativas sustentáveis, conceitos e protótipos.

Dolan, Simon Raich, Mario Leading towards change of ethics and caring: Resisting temptation and reaping the benefits Eisler, R.; Dolan, S.; Raich, M. The European Business Review The European Business Review No. November 2013, 11/2013, p. 4-8 Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic and environmental crises. In this article, Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan and Mario Raich suggest that profitability and caring business decisions can support each other. Below, the authors argue that businesses that care for all stakeholders can be even more successful than those that do not, and describe ways that business leaders can develop more responsible policies and practices.

Laborda Coronil, Anna El proceso de reestructuración bancaria en España Informe Económico Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía No. 17, 06/2014, p. 15-32 En enero de 2014 concluyó el programa de asistencia financiera, acordado en julio de 2012. El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), organismo elegido por la Comisión Europea (CE) y el Banco Central Europeo

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(BCE) para realizar los informes de seguimiento a lo largo del programa, indicó en el último de ellos que se cumplían las condiciones recogidas en el Memorando de Entendimiento y que todos sus objetivos se habían alcanzado. Este programa de asistencia financiera ha sido un paso crucial dentro de un proceso aún no finalizado, que se inició con aquellos problemas de liquidez que, en el principio de la crisis, parecían ser los únicos que afectaban a nuestro sólido sistema bancario.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Somos móviles: el m-commerce desde el neuromarketing Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 181, 07/2014, p. 90-92 Costco opens El neuromarketing orienta las estrategias desde la empatía y la personalización, teniendo en cuenta la cultura y las costumbres de los consumidores. Después del lanzamiento del iPhone (2007) y, por primera vez en la historia, desde la primavera de 2014 en el mundo hay más teléfonos inteligentes (smartphones) que teléfonos móviles (Gartner 2014).

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Esto no quedará así. Una interpretación de Costco en España Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 180, 06/2014, p. 80-82 Costco opens their first warehouse club shop format in Spain (Seville) and in Europe. In this article there is an understanding of the retail implications of such decision, from three angles: the retail company, the Sevilian customers, the retail competitors, and the suppliers. The article starts explaining the specific characteristics of this new shop format (warehouse club), both in the front-end and in the back-end (e.g. the financials), because this is new to Spain and Europe.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Manos que hablan. Interpretación del “Hazlo tú mismo” Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 179, 05/2014, p. 114-116

tipo de actividades hechas a mano. Los 150 expositores no paraban de atender a personas altamente involucradas en temáticas como “patchwork”, coser con máquina, “scrap”, cuidar un huerto urbano, cocinar, tejer, montar muebles, crear juegos, dibujar, decorar, etc.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Un vegetariano para no vegetarianos. Una interpretación del Restaurante Teresa Carles Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 174, 09/2013, p. 90-93 ¿Qué hace un restaurante vegetariano en el puesto 24º de Tripadvisor entre los 4.600 restaurantes de Barcelona? Teresa Carles. Es un vegetariano que rompe esquemas, que no adoctrina, ni impone. Gusta por su sorpresa y creatividad, no por hacer alarde de militancia alguna. Como la mayoría de modelos de negocio de éxito, empezó de forma humilde en 1979.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Cookiteca: una fórmula de retail rompe-gremios America Retail (web) Santiago de Chile (Chile): America Retail No. 10/13, 10/2013, p. 1-3 Estamos delante de una fórmula de retail rompe-gremios: Es al mismo tiempo una tienda de menaje de cocina, librería especializada, escuela de cocina, restaurante, y tienda de alimentación. Y a veces también es una empresa de organización de eventos.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Cultivar clientes: métricas claves en el retail America Retail (web) Santiago de Chile (Chile): America Retail No. 09/13, 09/2013, p. 1-3 Si las empresas en retail se autopercibieran como “agricultores de clientes”, muchas disputas interdepartamentales desaparecerían, y lo más importante: los clientes sentirían más empatía con la cadena, que a partir de una promoción del 3x2.

Del 25 al 27 de abril de 2014, 20.000 personas visitaron el Handmade Festival Barcelona, un evento dedicado exclusivamente a todo

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Martínez Ribes, Lluis Innovación en retail. Tres días y medio de inmersión conceptual y experimental MK Marketing + Ventas Madrid: Wolters Kluwer No. 290, 09/2013, p. 74-82

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Un nuevo ser: la persona “OnOff” America Retail (web) Santiago de Chile (Chile): America Retail No. 11/13, 11/2013, p. 1-3

Ya no basta con que las tiendas sean bonitas o tengan buenos precios, deben ser más humanas, pensadas a partir de cómo las personas toman decisiones. La experiencia multisensorial tiene que ser empática, y la compra, más promovida por la imaginación que por una promoción 3x2.

La persona OnOff está empoderada porque disfruta de los beneficios de la digitalización desde su teléfono móvil con acceso a Internet, sin darse cuenta de cuándo está on-line o cuando off-line. De aquí el término OnOff.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis El propósito de la innovación en retail

Martínez Ribes, Lluis ¿Para qué se hace la fiesta? El propósito de la innovación en retail

America Retail (web) Santiago de Chile (Chile): America Retail No. 12/13, 12/2013, p. 1-3

La innovación no suele ser fruto de un momento aislado, sino de un proceso dilatado (normalmente dura varios meses) con el objetivo de lograr un retail más efectivo. En una economía de mercado el paradigma de eficacia es lograr que el shopper elija tu tienda de forma continuada, y su preferencia te permite lograr un beneficio.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Un nuevo ser: la persona “OnOff”. Impacto de los teléfonos inteligentes Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. Congreso AECOC, 10/2013, p. 224-226 El acceso masivo a la digitalización es una de las mayores revoluciones de la historia humana. Permite a cualquier persona realizar muchas cosas, como crear textos o imágenes, editarlos, enviarlos o recibirlos en cualquier momento y lugar, de forma fácil e inmediata. Y prácticamente a coste cero. Eso cambia la mayor parte de procesos sociales y comerciales. Clientes OnOff; sus procesos de compra son más complejos y no lineales: pueden empezar en la tienda física, seguir en el teléfono y finalizar en el pc o a la inversa.

Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 175, 12/2013, p. 104-106 Innovar es un ejercicio de creación, de creatividad y de transformación de la realidad actual. Innovar es idear un trozo de futuro que ahora no existe. La innovación en retail es un tema candente. Estos tres ejemplos hablan por sí solos: la Comisión Europea nos ha pedido a un grupo de expertos de innovación en retail medidas para fomentar este tipo de innovación en Europa para 2014; en las dos últimas ediciones de los “3,5 días de inmersión en innovación en retail” en Esade (2012 y 2013) vinieron directivos de Australia, Corea, China, Suiza, UK, USA, Polonia, España, Argentina, Puerto Rico y Guatemala; si buscas retail innovation en Google, aparecen 139 millones menciones.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Interpretando Papabubble. Una dulce cadena de retail internacional Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 178, 04/2014, p. 102-1074 At Papabubble, they are experts in applying creativity to confectionery, constantly reinventing and reimagining sweets. In their case, product development is a key part of their business model. They dedicate a lot of investment and time to the discovery of new aromas, flavours and shapes, as well as improving and innovating in terms of the production process. The result is highly original sweets with genuine flavours, produced with craftsmanship and loving care. Premium sweets.

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Martínez Ribes, Lluis Tómese una vez cada tres años. Interpretando Euroshop 2014 Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 177, 03/2014, p. 120-122 If you are interested in retail, at some point, you are sure to have made a pilgrimage to Euroshop, the first-rate international trade fair held in Düsseldorf every three years. Which gives us an opportunity to take the pulse of international retail. To understand what is going on now, one method that is often useful is comparing the latest developments with trends that were detected some time ago. We can then identify aspects that were previously at the embryonic stage that have now matured.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Manos que hablan America Retail (web) Santiago de Chile (Chile): America Retail No. 06/14, 06/2014, p. 1-3

Del 25 al 27 de abril de 2014, 20.000 personas visitaron el Handmade Festival Barcelona, un evento dedicado exclusivamente a todo tipo de actividades hechas a mano. Los 150 expositores no paraban de atender a personas altamente involucradas en temáticas como “patchwork”, coser con máquina, “scrap”, cuidar un huerto urbano, cocinar, tejer, montar muebles, crear juegos, dibujar, decorar, etc.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Interpretando Euroshop 2014

Mirosa Martínez, Pere Algunas cuestiones de derecho probatorio en el arbitraje

America Retail (web) Santiago de Chile (Chile): America Retail No. 04/14, 04/2014, p. 1-3

Diario La Ley. Especial Cuadernos de Probática y Derecho Probatorio Madrid: La Ley No. 8261, 02/2014, p. 1-7

Si usted está interesado en el retail, seguro que habrá peregrinado a Euroshop, la feria internacional por excelencia, que Dusseldorf (Alemania) recibe cada tres años y que permite seguir el pulso del retail internacional.

El autor analiza los límites a la libertad de procedimiento probatorio en el arbitraje, para profundizar en las comprometidas cuestiones que plantea su aplicación a la iniciativa probatoria arbitral, en especial en lo relativo a su interacción con el principio de justicia rogada y la carga de la prueba, para finalizar con el análisis del momento procesal para el ejercicio de la iniciativa probatoria arbitral, proponiendo su expresa previsión en el calendario arbitral cuando los árbitros lo estimen conveniente.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Los dos ángulos del neuromarketing Código 84: la Revista de AECOC Barcelona: AECOC No. 176, 02/2014, p. 104-106

Around a decade ago, somebody searched for the term ‘neuromarketing’ on Google for the very first time in history. Since then, interest in the topic has grown to such an extent that the main risk today comes from misunderstanding, misuse or confusion. To give a simple explanation, neuromarketing is the discipline that strives to improve the effectiveness of marketing based on neuroscience knowledge.

Oller Sala, Maria Dolors El desafío de la democracia deliberativa Sociedad y Utopía: Revista de Ciencias Sociales Madrid: Fundación Pablo VI; Universidad Pontifícia de Salamanca. Facultad de Ciencia Políticas y Sociología (UPSAM) No. 42, 11/2013, p. 161-174 El proceso de globalización, al haber difuminado fronteras, ha hecho entrar en crisis a la política, al Estado-nación y a la propia democracia. El poder se ha hecho difuso y hoy vivimos en una poliarquía donde es difícil exigir responsabilidades. Urge gobernar la globalización con una nueva arquitectura democrática internacional, que promueva la participación ciudadana, pues la democracia liberal representativa se revela insuficiente para la consecución del bien común. Numerosos filósofos y politólogos defienden la democracia deliberativa como el procedimiento conveniente para decidir con equidad. Ello comporta una nueva lógica y exige tiempo para la mutua comunicación. La Doctrina Social de la Iglesia (DSI) está en sintonía con dicha aproximación, al partir de la concepción de la persona como ser en relación con los demás.

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Raich, Mario Dolan, Simon The essence of cyberness: Implications for sustainable future Raich, M.; Eisler, R.; Dolan, S. Effective Executive UIP Publications Vol. 16, no. 3, 09/2013, p. 47-52 Cyberness is an important step in the development journey of the biological intelligence. The alliance with the entities based on artificial intelligence and the cyberwizards is an important step in this direction. Whether we can and will achieve a full state of cyberness is still an open issue. It is the journey towards cyberness which is important. Different people will make different progress towards cyberness, but humanity as a whole needs to move in this direction.

Ramis Pujol, Juan The human reality of mortgage evictions from a multidisciplinary perspective Homeless in Europe Brussels (Belgium): European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless (FEANTSA) No. Summer, 09/2013, p. 7-9

The basic objective of this study was to generate knowledge rooted in the reality of those persons who are evicted or in the process of being evicted in a mortgage related case. We developed a multidisciplinary perspective based on the fields of economics, management, sociology and psychology. The methodological approach based on case studies was fundamental to solving the contradictions that appear between different disciplines and, therefore, to generating new and different knowledge about the phenomenon studied. Here we present a summary of the original paper. The main questions that we tried to answer through this research were the following: 1) How is the process experienced by victims of an eviction like? 2) How and why do the emotions and feelings noted develop during the eviction process? 3) How, in-depth, do the victims experience this process? 4) How do the agents in the environment help the victims during the process? 5) What impacts are observed at the end of the process?

Ramis Pujol, Juan Buscando líderes de verdad Directivos y Empresas Siglo XXI Madrid: Directivos y Empresas No. 126, 03/2014, p. 70-71

Ha habido ciertamente muchas noticias de calado en el 2013 pero hay una que destaca por sus implicaciones sobre los liderazgos: la muerte de Nelson Mandela. La historia de este gran mandatario siempre nos llama la atención precisamente porque sólo de tanto en cuanto aparecen en nuestro mundo líderes que destaquen considerablemente al compararlos con los demás.

Recio Figueiras, Eugenio La reciente evolución económica y social de Alemania Informe Económico Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía No. 16, 01/2014, p. 51-67 El segundo mandato del canciller Gerhard Schröder (2002-2005), como indicábamos en un artículo anterior estuvo muy agitado por la necesidad de llevar a la práctica reformas estructurales en el mercado de trabajo y en la seguridad social para mejorar la situación económica. Aquel artículo concluía refiriendo la necesidad de convocar la Comisión de Intermediación, establecida por la Constitución alemana, para resolver los conflictos entre ambas cámaras legislativas cuando una ley aprobada por la Cámara de los Representantes (Bundestag), en este caso la reforma conocida como Hartz IV, era rechazada por el Senado (Bundesrat). Se trataba de una de las propuestas de la llamada «Agenda 2010», que fue la declaración institucional con la que el canciller Schröder presentó en el Senado, el 14 de marzo de 2003, algunas de las conclusiones de los equipos de trabajo, presididos por Peter Hartz y Bert Rürup, para estudiar, respectivamente, las reformas necesarias en el mercado de trabajo y en la seguridad social.

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more available at the right time. The two promises overlap some and are often confused, but they differ. KM is always hostage to what was not anticipated about the realities of practice. As long as IT systems are operating properly, they simply do what they are told, what has been fully anticipated.

Informe Económico Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía No. 16, 01/2014, p. 33-50

La unión bancaria deberá incluir un Sistema Único de Regulación (Single Rule Book) y tres mecanismos: un Mecanismo Único de Supervisión (Single Supervisory Mechanism), un Mecanismo Único de Resolución (Single Resolution Mechanism) y un Esquema de Protección de Depósitos (Deposit Guarantee Scheme). El Parlamento Europeo aprobó el 12 de septiembre de 2013 un reglamento por el cual el Mecanismo Único de Supervisión (MUS) residirá en el Banco Central Europeo (BCE, en Frankfurt), a pesar de que la Autoridad Bancaria Europea (European Banking Authority) tiene su sede en Londres, y que entrará en vigor el 1 de noviembre de 2014. El MUS afectará a todos los bancos de la eurozona (5.925 entidades) y el BCE tendrá una responsabilidad de supervisión directa sobre los bancos con unos activos mayores de treinta billones de euros o que constituyan al menos un 20% del PIB del Estado o bien que hayan solicitado o recibido asistencia financiera del Fondo Europeo de Estabilidad Financiera o del Mecanismo Europeo de Estabilidad (MEDE).

Spender, John Christopher Bridging context and best practice KMWorld Magazine Camden, N.J. (U.S.): KMWorld Vol. 23, no. 3, 03/2014, p. 12-13

Spender, John Christopher Management’s role in the theory of the managed firm (TMF) Kindai Management Review Osaka (Japan): Kinki University Vol. 2, 03/2014, p. 12-13 The Frank Knight intuited a link between uncertainty and profit. Unfortunately none of today’s handful of theories of the firm grasps Knightian uncertainty well enough to say much about how managers might pursue profit rather than equilibrium. Melding Knight’s work with Coase’s questions and intuitions about the nature of the firm shows that coupling managerial judgment to uncertainty builds a bridge towards the TMF, a theory of the firm in which managerial judgment is crucial to both the creation of the firm and to its ongoing management. Entrepreneurship, strategizing, and leadership of others’ judgment are drawn together into a profit seeking practice. Since it is not framed in a positivist epistemology the TMF is not a theory in the positivist sense. Rather it guides the practice of those whose judgments help resolve the entrepreneur’s chosen uncertainties – and thereby create the possibility of profit.

The real promise of KM is better business practice. IT’s promise is different, more efficiently meeting technical specifications, delivering better value than a legacy system, better metrics about more data being

Research Group on Knowledge Engineering (GREC) Research Proposal: MCDA Disaggregations Techniques to Improve Knowledge Extraction in Machine Learning Systems Mohammad Ghaderi, PhD Candidate Nuria Agell, Supervisor

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Abel Lluch, Xavier (coord.) Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables

Abel Lluch, Xavier (coord.) Tratado pericial judicial Madrid: La Ley, 06/2014 551 p.

Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 904 p. La obra que el lector tiene entre manos recoge las aportaciones más relevantes del Congreso Unijes 2013, convocado por las Facultades de Derecho de las universidades de Deusto, Pontificia Comillas de Madrid y ESADE-URL, y que bajo el título “Los medios de prevención de conflictos en contextos económicos inestables” tuvo por objetivo una reflexión jurídica sobre las vías de prevenir y anticipar los conflictos jurídicos y evitar, de esta manera, su judicialización. No cabe duda de que en el contexto de las sociedades de la Unión Europea, sacudidas por una fuerte crisis económica, la conflictividad ha experimentado un incremento considerable y con ello el incremento de reclamaciones ante los Juzgados y Tribunales, cuya carga de trabajo aumenta exponencialmente ante las diversas pretensiones que se sustancian ante sus órganos. Es por ello que las universidades convocantes, y dada la imprevisibilidad de la duración de la crisis económica, se han propuesto reflexionar sobre las vías no judiciales de resolución de controversias entre particulares y entre particulares y la Administración. Dado el enfoque transversal y multidisciplinar que ha caracterizado los Congresos Unijes el lector podrá encontrar aportaciones propias del ámbito tributario y financiero, penal, laboral, mercantil y societario, familiar y sucesorio, internacional, administrativo, contractual e hipotecario con ponencias tan sugestivas y actuales como, a título de ejemplo y entre otras, la necesaria colaboración entre empresas y la administración tributaria para la resolución de conflictos, la importancia del asesoramiento preventivo al inversor por abogados especializados, la mediación penal en el ámbito de la violencia de género, la mediación laboral individual como alternativa para la solución de conflictos, las prohibiciones de suceder mortis causa como posible prevención de conflictos, el arbitraje como medida preventiva y alternativa de control judicial de la actividad de las administraciones públicas, los compliance programmes en el derecho de la competencia como medidas preventivas de futuros procedimientos sancionadores, o las medidas urgentes de protección de deudores hipotecarios y la dación en pago.

La promulgación de la Ley 1/2000, de 7 de enero, de Enjuiciamiento Civil, modificó sustancialmente la regulación de la prueba pericial, desde una pericial judicial, intrajudicial y oficial a una pericial de las partes, habiéndose publicado ya numerosas monografías centradas exclusivamente en la prueba pericial. La novedad de este Tratado Pericial Judicial es que se recogen hasta nueve modalidades distintas de prueba pericial -tales como la informática, la arquitectónica, la médica, la caligráfica, la económico-financiera, la científica, en materia de compliance, la psicológica, y la psicológica en materia de familia, menores y penal-. Para ello se ha reunido a un grupo de peritos de reconocido prestigio en su especialidad que han abordado cuestiones tan diversas como la titulación del perito, sus cualidades, las materias más frecuentes objeto del dictamen pericial en su especialidad, las operaciones periciales necesarias para la emisión del dictamen, las metodologías o técnicas más comunes, las fuentes del dictamen, la redacción y contradicción del dictamen o los parámetros para cuantificar los honorarios profesionales; todo ello con la finalidad de ofrecer al lector y reunir en una sola obra un conocimiento detallado y profundo sobre las singularidades de cada modalidad de prueba pericial.

Abel Lluch, Xavier La valoración de la prueba en el proceso civil Madrid: La Ley, 04/2014 224 p. Temas (La Ley)

La decisión judicial resolviendo un proceso pone fin al mismo y, dentro de ella, ocupa un papel decisivo la valoración probatoria. Aun cuando es muy difícil comprender el proceso mental de la decisión judicial, puede afirmarse que, idealmente, comprende tres fases: 1ª) la interpretación de los resultados probatorios, en la que el juez entra en contacto con los medios de prueba para oír y comprender qué dicen las partes o los

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testigos, leer los documentos, extraer las máximas de experiencia técnicas aportadas por el perito, o percibir un lugar, objeto o persona; 2ª) la valoración de los medios de prueba, en la que el juez aplicará reglas, tasadas o libres; y 3º) la motivación del juicio de hecho, en la qu eel juez plasmará en la resolución las razones que ha tenido en cuenta para estimar probados unos hechos y desestimar, como no probados, otros tantos e imputar, en su caso, la deficiencia probatoria. En la presente obra, y teniendo en cuenta las aportaciones del Derecho Probatorio, de la Filososfía del Derecho y de la Teoría de la Argumentacón, se analizan profundamente cada una de las fases del proceso decisorio del juez, con la finalidad de ofrecer pautas y reflexiones que ayuden a sistematizar este proceso, y puedan ser de utilidad a todos los operadores jurídicos para situarse ante el mismo. La ida subyacente es, por una parte, prevenir frente a los errores de interpretación de los resultados probatorios, y por otra parte, ofrecer criterios y pautas para una correcta valoración de los medios de prueba y para una adecuada expresión de las buenas razones que justifican la decisión judicial.

Castiñeira Fernández, Àngel (dir.) Anuari dels valors 2013. Temps de regeneració, temps de reconnexió

Areilza Carvajal, José María Poder y Derecho en la Unión Europea

viden a reconnectar amb els valors.

Madrid: Civitas, 03/2014 275 p. Estudios Civitas

Este ensayo es una exploración sobre la vida política y jurídica de la Unión con el fin de formular un nuevo europeísmo para el siglo XXI. Estudia los aspectos esenciales de la evolución del ejercicio del poder europeo y de las normas que lo regulan, tanto en su dimensión horizontal (instituciones) como vertical (distribución de competencias entre la Unión y sus Estados). Ofrece una teoría del poder para entender, justificar y criticar con un fundamento sólido el desarrollo del Derecho comunitario. Pone el acento en el contexto histórico en el que han evolucionado las normas y las distintas visiones políticas con las que se ha justificado la transferencia de poder al nivel europeo y se pregunta por el modelo de democracia de la Unión y la relación entre la política y sus políticas. Incluye asimismo un análisis de las estrategias políticas y las bases jurídicas con las que España se ha desarrollado como Estado miembro. En su capítulo final, ofrece una narrativa para entender el éxito histórico de la integración europea hasta principios de este siglo, el agotamiento de la utopía soñada por la generación Monnet y el impacto de la crisis del euro sobre una Unión que sufre fatiga política. A partir de ahí, propone entrelazar tres elementos básicos desde los que formular una nueva utopía europea, en la que el poder europeo se legitime en cuanto a tal poder y no solo por ser una valiosa contribución a la vida económica, social y política de sus componentes nacionales.

Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 06/2014 114 p. Col·lecció Observatori dels Valors Anuari dels valors Vivim un temps convuls. Les economies occidentals estan patint crisis financeres i immobiliàries d’efectes socials devastadors. El poder de les noves tecnologies ha mostrat la cara ombrívola a partir de casos d’espionatge. L’estela de la corrupció s’ha estès als partits polítics, les empreses, la justícia i les institucions. La reclamació sobiranista de la ciutadania catalana ha persistit en la voluntat de redefinir el contracte polític amb l’Estat espanyol. La mort de Mandela i Thatcher o el nomenament del nou papa Francesc ens fa preguntar-nos sobre la solidesa dels nostres líders... En aquest escenari es tracta de saber què és el que ens pertoca fer, quines són les prioritats d’ara, amb quins valors volem actuar i orientar les nostres vides. Els temps de crisi són temps d’aprenentatge i de nous propòsits i, si ho volem, són temps transformacionals, de compromís i de regeneració. Temps que ens con-

del Rey Guanter, Salvador (dir.) Estatuto de los trabajadores: comentado y con jurisprudencia (3ª ed.) Madrid: La Ley, 09/2013 1941 p.

Esta nueva edición del Estatuto de los Trabajadores, comentado y con jurisprudencia, incorpora todas las importantes reformas acaecidas en los últimos años incluido el reciente RDL 11/2013, de 2 de agosto. Reformas que no sólo han alterado profundamente la redacción de preceptos clave de la norma estatutaria, sino que también han modificado el contexto jurídico en que dicho Estatuto se desarrolla. La metodología de trabajo empleada en esta ambiciosa obra sigue centrando sus esfuerzos en ofrecer unos comentarios prácticos de cada uno de los preceptos del Estatuto, con una altísima calidad expositiva. Junto al comentario técnico de cada precepto, se aporta el resumen de los pronunciamientos judiciales más relevantes de los últimos años y una breve reseña de la bibliografía de interés.

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Dolan, Simon Cyberness: The future reinvented Raich, M.; Eisler, R.; Dolan, S. London (U.K.): CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 07/2014 142 p.

Gascó, Mila Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Longo Martínez, Francisco Fernández, Charlotte La gestió de la interoperabilitat en govern electrònic a les administracions públiques catalanes

Cyberness is a new term referring to a positive state of the future. Cyberness is a vision of a new world, including a new way to look at society, at the economy, and the forms to which we need to harness Cyber-Age. The fundamental principles of Cyberness are partnership, care and creation. Cyberness describes future living, where we blend real and virtual worlds, we embed artificial intelligence for creating a sustainable de-

Barcelona: Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya (EAPC), 12/2013 87 p. Estudis de recerca digital; ; nº 8

cent life for all inhabitants on the planet. Cyberness is not a Utopia – it is a call for society to shift gears and adapt new paradigms in order to secure the planet for generations to come. Cyberness is an urgent call to get out of the comfort-zone.

zat per l’Institut de Governança i Direcció Pública d’ESADE «La gestió de la interoperabilitat en govern electrònic a les administracions públiques catalanes», finançat per l’Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya. Aquesta recerca respon a la voluntat d’identificar els factors crítics que condicionen l’èxit dels processos d’implementació d’iniciatives d’interoperabilitat a Catalunya i de contrastar la hipòtesi que, tot i que la interoperabilitat s’ha abordat tradicionalment des del punt de vista de la tecnologia, apareixen altres variables de tipus estratègic, polític, de gestió, institucional o legal que realment incideixen en aquests processos.

Duplá Marín, Teresa Mediación familiar. Aspectos teóricos, jurídicos y psicosociales Duplá Marín, T.; Marí Puget, E. Madrid: Dykinson, 12/2013 190 p. Colección Práctica de Mediación La mediación forma parte de los denominados, en el mundo anglosajón, Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) o Resolución alternativa de conflictos (RAL) en nuestro país. El libro presenta una primera parte de teoría general de la mediación, técnicas y proceso; una segunda centrada en la teoría del conflicto y en concreto del conflicto familiar y una tercera en la que se analizan los principales aspectos económicos y jurídicos de la mediación familiar.

Galeano García, Isabella Remuneraciones de consejeros en entidades financieras Barcelona: ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social, 10/2013 70 p. El nivel de participación de los accionistas en la determinación de la retribución de los consejeros ha emergido en los últimos años como uno de los debates más intensos en el ámbito del gobierno corporativo moderno. Debate que tiene su origen en el movimiento say on pay, cuyo objetivo es garantizar el derecho de los accionistas de emitir un voto sobre las políticas de retribuciones de los consejeros en las juntas generales de accionistas.

El present informe recull les premisses i els resultats de l’estudi realit-

Longoni, Annachiara Sustainable operations strategies: The impact of human resource management and organisational practices on the triple bottom line New York, N.Y. (U.S.): Springer, 08/2014 52 p. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology / PoliMI SpringerBriefs This book provides detailed guidance on how sustainability, in terms of the triple bottom line, can be developed in operations strategies via human resource management (HRM) and organizational practices such as teamwork, training and employee involvement. The impacts of HRM and organizational practices on environmental and social sustainability, trade-off optimization and the triple bottom line are carefully analyzed, with attention to aspects including organizational responsibility and worker commitment to sustainability. Valuable tips are offered on formulation and implementation of sustainable operations strategies and in addition the alignment of lean manufacturing and the triple bottom line is addressed in a dedicated section.

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Lozano Soler, Josep M Albareda Vivó, Laura Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Roscher, Heike Marcuccio, Manila Governments and corporate social responsibility: Public policies beyond regulation and voluntary compliance

Massons Rabassa, Joan Finanzas para profesionales de márketing y ventas (libro electrónico) Barcelona: Deusto, 02/2014 451 p. Finanzas y contabilidad

Beijing (China): CNIPR, 01/2014 195 p. Translation into Chinese from: Governments and corporate social responsibility: public policies beyond regulation and voluntary compliance. Basigstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. This book places the analysis of CSR public policies beyond regulation and voluntary compliance and presents an analytical framework for understanding how governments develop and design CSR policies. The research analyses and compares CSR public policies in 15 European Union countries. As a result of this research the authors have defined four models of CSR public policies which exist in the European Union. The agendas of themes and instruments implemented by governments to promote CSR are analyzed from a relational perspective. This encompasses the relationships between all the various stakeholders (governments, businesses and civil society) taking into account the socioeconomic context in which these relationships stand.

Un libro que es capaz de puntualizar los elementos de conflicto entre el marketing y las finanzas, por fuerza requiere una experiencia práctica en el tema. Joan Massons ha demostrado por años que es el indicado para hacerlo. Finanzas para profesionales de marketing y ventas recoge mucha de la experiencia que el autor ha desarrollado tanto como ejecutivo, como consejero y consultor, y la traduce en un texto ágil, práctico y con mucho humor.

Montaña Matosas, Jordi Moll Mendoza, Isa El poder de la marca. El papel del diseño en su creación Barcelona: Profit Editorial, 10/2013 264 p. El Poder de la marca es un libro eminentemente práctico, aunque con potentes aportaciones teóricas. Tiene dos partes claramente diferenciadas, pero interconectadas entre sí. La primera expone los principios que rigen la gestión de la marca para obtener notoriedad y renombre, así como una imagen de marca valorada por los consumidores. Destaca la aportación del diseño y de su gestión para crear los elementos de identidad de la marca. En la segunda parte los autores aportan 54 ejemplos vividos personalmente de empresas e instituciones de toda clase. La interrelación clara entre teoría y práctica (aunque no hay mejor práctica que una buena teoría) convierten este libro en único en su especialidad.

Leadership Development Research Center (GLEAD) Research Proposal: Understanding the Cognitive-Affective Processing through a Coaching Experience: The Impact of Coaching on Positive and Negative Affect, Goal Directed Thinking and Ideal Self Leticia Pilar Mosteo Chagoyen, PhD Candidate Joan Manuel Batista, Supervisor

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Picó Junoy, Joan (dir.) Principios y garantías procesales. Liber Amicorum en homenaje a la profesora Mª Victoria Berzosa Francos Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 10/2013 600 p. Principios y garantías procesales constituye una excelente aportación al debate crítico del derecho procesal dirigido a mejorar la efectividad del derecho a la tutela judicial.En esta obra encontramos novedosos estudios sobre el proceso civil, que abarcan desde la problemática constitucional del actual sistema de tasas judiciales, a temas tan complejos como la intervención provocada de terceros, la delimitación del objeto del proceso y el alcance de la cosa juzgada en relación con el art. 400 LEC, la nulidad de actuaciones, o la ineficacia de la ejecución y sus posibles soluciones. De igual modo, se examinan los principios rectores de los procesos concursal y arbitral tras sus últimas reformas normativas. Y especial atención merecen también los estudios dedicados a los principios y garantías del proceso penal, que adquieren especial relieve en el momento actual en el que se está elaborando un nuevo Código Procesal Penal. Los principios de legalidad y oportunidad, el principio acusatorio, la relación de la presunción de inocencia y la regla probatoria de in dubio pro reo, entre otros aspectos del enjuiciamiento criminal, constituyen objeto de estudio de esta obra. Esta obra rinde homenaje a la querida profesora María Victoria Berzosa Francos por parte de sus discípulos, amigos y admiradores, pues la profesora Berzosa constituye un magnífico modelo a seguir de honesta y desinteresada entrega a la Universidad.

Santiso Guimarás, Javier Banking on democracy: Financial markets and elections in emerging countries Cambridge, Mass. (U.S.): MIT Press, 09/2013 317 p.

Politics matter for financial markets and financial markets matter for politics, and nowhere is this relationship more apparent than in emerging markets. In Banking on Democracy, Javier Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance in countries that have recently experienced both economic and democratic transitions. He focuses on elections, investigating whether there is a “democratic premium” -- whether financial markets and investors tend to react positively to elections in emerging markets. Santiso devotes special attention to Latin America, where over the last three decades many countries became democracies, with regular elections, just as they also became open economies dependent on foreign capital and dominated bond markets. Santiso’s analysis draws on a unique set of primary databases (developed during his years at the OECD Development Centre) covering an entire decade:

more than 5,000 bank and fund manager portfolio recommendations on emerging markets. Santiso examines the trajectory of Brazil, for example, through its presidential elections of 2002, 2006, and 2010 and finds a decoupling of financial and political cycles that occurred also in many other emerging economies. He charts this evolution through the behavior of brokers, analysts, fund managers, and bankers. Ironically, Santiso points out, while some emerging markets have decoupled politics and finance, in the wake of the 2008--2012 financial crisis many developed economies (Europe and the United States) have experienced a recoupling between finance and politics.

Sardá Borroy, Rafael (coord.) Valls Giménez, Josep F. (coord.) Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas Sardá Borroy, R.; Pintó Fusalba, J. & Valls Giménez, J. (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 196 p. Documenta; no. 35.1 Las playas son sistemas naturales sometidos en la actualidad a una gran presión humana y climática. Al igual que otros sistemas costeros desempeñan múltiples funciones ecológicas, siendo tres las más relevantes: actuar como depositarios de biodiversidad, ofrecer protección a la costa, y satisfacer las necesidades de ocio humanas. Una larga lista de servicios para la sociedad se pueden asociar al desempeño de esas tres funciones. En las playas coinciden en base a lo anterior tres factores interrelacionados: el factor biofísico, que condiciona la productividad del ecosistema y la defensa costera; el socioeconómico, que garantiza el ocio de las personas y la generación de bienestar; y el de ordenación territorial, que a su vez determina diferentes tipologías de gestión, su gobernanza (Fernandez, Mtsuda y Subade, 2000). Lo ideal es que estos tres factores se potencien en harmonía para que todas las funciones que albergan las playas puedan ser realizadas sin comprometerse entre sí. Sin embargo, en los últimos cincuenta años, los sistemas de playa han estado sometidos a dos fenómenos importantes de cambio global; por un lado su antropización, un crecimiento de población a su alrededor y ligado a esto, su uso intensivo como generador de actividades turísticas, por otro, una pérdida biofísica del sistema como consecuencia de procesos erosivos generalizados y degradación de su medio natural.

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Spender, John Christopher Business strategy. Managing uncertainty, opportunity, and enterprise

Spender, John Christopher Strategic conversations: Creating and directing the entrepreneurial workforce

Oxford (U.K.): Oxford University Press, 01/2014 352 p.

Spender, J.C.; Strong, B. Cambridge (U.K.): Cambridge University Press, 05/2014 256 p.

What is strategy? For many it is the application of a theory, model or framework. In this book Spender develops a different creative approach. Emphasizing that firms face uncertainties and unknowns (knowledge gaps) he argues that the core of strategic thinking and processes rests on the organization’s leaders developing newly imagined solutions to the opportunities that these uncertainties open up. Drawing on a wide range of ideas from strategy, economics, entrepreneurship and philosophy he stresses the importance of judgment in strategy, and argues that a key element of the entrepreneur and executive’s task is to engage chosen uncertainties, develop a language to express and explain the firm’s particular business model for dealing with these, and thus create innovation and value. At the same time he shows how the language the strategist creates to do this gives the firm identity and purpose, and communicates this to its members, stakeholders, and customers. In an accessible and engaging style Spender introduces these ideas, and reviews the strategy tools currently available from consultants and academics. Throughout he stresses the uncertainties or knowledge absences that pervade business and make effective strategizing both necessary and valuable. He outlines a structured practice that managers and consultants might chose to follow, not a theory. With appendices on casework, teaching strategy, current strategy texts, and further reading this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the field and practice of strategy, opening up new approaches for managers, consultants, strategy teachers and students.

Solà Montserrat, Roser Cuando el norte encuentra el sur: experiencias profesionales transformadoras en América Latina Barcelona: ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social, 3/2013 145 p. En 2003 ESADE crea el Servicio Universitario para el Desarrollo (SUD) y con él institucionaliza la colaboración con instituciones universitarias de América Latina en el ámbito de la cooperación al desarrollo. Y dentro del SUD nace el programa Prácticas Profesionales Solidarias como herramienta formativa: estancias profesionales en organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro en América Latina. ¿Cómo se estructuró el programa? ¿Qué impacto ha tenido en los alumnos participantes? ¿Y en las instituciones receptoras de los pasantes?

Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees’ knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book, J.-C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees. These ‘strategic conversations’ make employees partners in the strategy development process, engaging them to help shape the organization’s future. The result is transformational: instead of strategy being a dry, periodic planning exercise for the few, it becomes a dynamic and continuous act of co-creation enriched by the many. Case studies illustrate how leading organizations have used strategic conversations to build sustained competitive advantage, create innovative business models, make better decisions under uncertainty, reduce the need for change management, and enhance employee engagement. The book will appeal to managers, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and teachers and students in schools of business and public administration.

Torrecilla Gumbau, Carlos El Plan B. Cuando falla el plan A, sólo los mejores tienen un plan B Barcelona: Planeta, 01/2014 256 p. Prácticos Los empleos y las empresas ya no son para siempre: necesitas un plan B ¿Qué es el plan B? ¿Te has planteado alguna vez qué harías si perdieras tu fuente principal de ingresos? Tu empleo, tu principal cliente, los trabajos y las empresas ya no son para siempre. Inquietante, ¿verdad? Todos necesitamos un plan B. Hay muchas opciones de plan B, pero todas tienen en común una serie de riesgos y elementos que debes saber. Este libro se compone de 64 capítulos independientes, fáciles y rápidos de leer que te ayudarán a caminar y construirte un futuro mejor. Es un compendio de experiencias y aprendizajes muy útiles para emprendedores, pero también para inversores, autónomos, ahorradores, parados, trabajadores y directivos. Carles Torrecilla es profesor de Esade y experto en marketing, creación y gestión empresarial. El plan B es un conjunto de buenas prácticas empresariales para varios propósitos: saber invertir en un nuevo negocio, elegir el sector adecuado, aprender a posicionarse y conservar el negocio. Los consejos que nos ofrece Torrecilla se aplican a cualquier sector y tamaño empresarial. En tiempos de inestabilidad, El plan B se erige como una hoja de ruta fundamental, de consulta continuada para los nuevos emprendedores.

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Valls Giménez, Josep F. Estrategias y tácticas de marketing

Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Albareda Sanz, Adrià Governance of addictions. European public policies

Barcelona: Profit Editorial, 03/2014 260 p.

Producir y vender frente a gestionar clientes. Éste ha sido el dilema en los más de cien años del marketing que no se ha podido resolver hasta ahora. La ciencia del management hay que abordarla como un corpus doctrinal al servicio del éxito en los negocios, en clave de aprovechar las oportunidades del mercado para obtener mejor rentabilidad. Así ocurre desde el origen de las empresas contemporáneas a principios del siglo XX. Schumpeter (1911), el menos interesado de todos los gurús por el beneficio, pone en manos de los productores la capacidad de impulsar el crecimiento económico de la sociedad y enfatiza el valor social de la emprendeduría. Chandler (1962) parte del análisis de los casos de éxito para concebir la estrategia como camino del éxito. Michael Porter (1985) se adentra en el análisis de las fuerzas competitivas del mercado para alcanzar aquellas ventajas que conducen a una mejor rentabilidad de la inversión.

Ysa Figueras, T.; Colom, J.; Albareda, A.; Ramon, A.; Carrión, M.; et al. Oxford (U.K.): Oxford University Press, 05/2014 272 p. Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Series Why is governance of addiction so difficult? What can we learn from recent experiences and efforts in Europe? Governance of Addictions analyses the multidisciplinary research which has been used as a framework for understanding how governments formulate and implement addiction policies in 27 European Union member states plus Norway, looking in detail at four substances: heroin, cannabis, alcohol and tobacco. Presenting the methodological design for the study research, this book comprehensively analysing international trends, with a special focus on the role of the EU and its governance of addictions modes, this volume sheds light on the current situation of the governance of addictive substances and behaviours and facilitate new approaches to dealing with addiction. Based on the research from ALICE RAP (Addiction and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe, Reframing Addictions Project), a unique project studying the place of addictive substances and behaviours in contemporary European society, Governance of Addictions is essential reading for policy-makers, public managers, practitioner and stakeholders influencing policy for addictive substances and behaviours, as well as academics and public health professionals.

Institute for Social Innovation Research Proposal: How Organizations Redefine Themselves: Transformation from Nonprofit to Earned Income

Solange Hai, PhD Candidate Daniel Arenas, Supervisor

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Abel Lluch, Xavier La contradicción del dictamen pericial In Principios y garantías procesales. Liber Amicorum en homenaje a la profesora Mª Victoria Berzosa Francos J. Picó i Junoy (dir.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 10/2013 p. 219-232 El presente estudio analiza el alcance y las manifestaciones del principio de contradicción en la prueba pericial, a partir de su regulación en la Ley 1/2000, de 7 de enero, de Enjuiciamiento Civil. Se delimita conceptualmente el principio de contradicción y se abordan separadamente las manifestaciones del principio de contradicción en la prueba pericial, esto es, 1) en la aportación de dictámenes periciales; 2) en la impugnación de los dictámenes; 3) en la intervención de peritos en el acto del juicio (del juicio ordinario) o de la vista (juicio verbal); 4) en las conclusiones formuladas por los abogados. También se efectua una propuesta de lege ferenda de simplificación del contenido del art. 347 LEC, que regula la contradicción en el acto del juicio.

Añoveros Terradas, Beatriz González Beilfuss, Cristina Compensatory consumer collective redress and the Brussels I regulation In Cross-border class actions A. Nuyts & N.E. Hatzimihail (eds.) Munich (Deutschland): Sellier, 12/2013 p. 241-258 One way to facilitate fair access to justice in cross-border consumer disputes is “collective redress”, a mechanism which would allow a large number of individuals to aggregate their similar claims in one action sharing the costs of the proceedings. Collective redress would also be an adequate means to protect the “public” interests that might be at stake. Infringements of consumer rights that affect a very large number of individuals may create distortion in markets, which would be inadequately addressed by individual action.

Ayats Vergés, Miró Triviño Prieto, Fernando Javier Bonet León, Jaume Propuestas para reducir la litigiosidad en el ámbito tributario In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 57-70 ¿Cuál es el estado actual de la justicia tributaria? ¿Por qué se halla en esta situación? Si somos capaces de responder adecuadamente a estos dos interrogantes, podremos avanzar en propuestas de mejoras que sean efectivas. Este es nuestro objetivo, siendo conscientes, como lo somos, que las limitaciones de alcance de este tipo de trabajos, sólo nos permite apuntar algunas pautas y generar algunos puntos de reflexión o debate para poder desarrollar en el futuro.

Bartlett Castella, Enric R. Tsunamis financieros, valores sociales y derecho In Cross-border class actions A. Nuyts & N.E. Hatzimihail (eds.) Munich (Deutschland): Sellier, 12/2013 p. 241-258 Sucinto análisis de las causas y responsabilidades individuales y colectivas de la crisis financiera que estalla con la caída de Lehman Brothers el 15.09.2008, para seguir con un comentario sobre los valores sociales subyacentes, así como del papel del Derecho para evitar el colapso del sistema financiero en aquel momento. Se concluye con la propuesta de diversas medidas jurídicas que se podrían adoptar para prevenir la repetición de circunstancias como las acaecidas. El texto publicado fue presentado en el 8º Congreso UNIJES de Facultades de Derecho, celebrado en Deusto el junio de 2012.

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Beltran de Heredia Ruiz, Ignacio Principio de economía procesal y limitación de la responsabilidad contractual por despido injustificado

han modificado el contexto jurídico en que dicho Estatuto se desarrolla. Además, esta obra tiene el honor de seguir contando con la participación de profesionales de reconocido prestigio, provenientes del mundo universitario, judicial y de la práctica de la abogacía. Esta diversidad garantiza un examen de la Ley muy próximo a la realidad cotidiana, desde todas las perspectivas posibles.

In La responsabilidad civil por daños en las relaciones laborales: XXIII Congreso Nacional de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social Madrid: Ediciones Cinca, 10/2013 p. 1-16 La presente obra publica los estudios presentados al XXIII Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social (AEDTSS), celebrado los días 16 y 17 de mayo de 2013 en Girona bajo el título genérico de “La responsabilidad civil por daños en las relaciones laborales”. En papel se reproducen íntegras las ponencias presentadas a dicho Congreso y en formato CD se adjunta la totalidad de las comunicaciones presentadas al mismo. La tradicional separación entre el Derecho del Trabajo y el Derecho Civil está hoy en “vías de revisión”.

Beltran de Heredia Ruiz, Ignacio Artículo 6. Trabajo de los menores In Estatuto de los trabajadores: comentado y con jurisprudencia (3ª ed.) S. del Rey (dir.) Madrid: La Ley, 09/2013 p. 195-203 Esta nueva edición del “Estatuto de los Trabajadores: comentado y con jurisprudencia” incorpora todas las importantes reformas acaecidas en los últimos años incluido el reciente RDL 11/2013, de 2 de agosto. Reformas que no sólo han alterado profundamente la redacción de preceptos clave de la norma estatutaria, sino que también

Beltran de Heredia Ruiz, Ignacio Ley 3/2012, desistimiento y derecho al trabajo In Constitución Española y relaciones laborales ante el actual escenario económico y productivo: XXXI Jornadas Universitarias Andaluzas de Derecho del Trabajo y Relaciones Laborales, celebradas en Cádiz los días 13 y 14 de diciembre de 2012 J. Garrido Pérez (coord.) Sevilla: Consejo Andaluz de Relaciones Laborales, 11/2013 p. 101-114 La resolución es una forma de ineficacia del contrato, en la que se constata una desigualdad o una grave desproporción en las prestaciones de ambas partes. Frente a otros supuestos de ineficacia contractual (como la revocación o la rescisión) la resolución adquiere especial relevancia en la configuración de la estabilidad en el empleo, especialmente, porque en la ineficacia del contrato no ha intervenido la voluntad conjunta de las partes – inicial o sobrevenida - (lo que lo distingue de la revocación) y porque se refiere a circunstancias que no estaban presentes en el momento de conclusión del contrato (que lo diferencia de la rescisión), convirtiéndola en el supuesto de ineficacia más importante y numeroso. En definitiva, es la fuente de inestabilidad contractual más común y, por ende, más amenazante.

Research Group on Brand Management (GREMAR) Research Proposal: Brand Co-Creation

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Calzada Oliveras, Elisabet Artículo 52. Extinción del contrato por causas objetivas

Castiñeira Jerez, Jorge ¿Existe (o debe existir) un deber de renegociar los contratos?

In Estatuto de los trabajadores: comentado y con jurisprudencia (3ª ed.) S. del Rey (dir.) Madrid: La Ley, 09/2013 p. 1221-1255

In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 821-828 En el capítulo se aborda en qué circunstancias y con qué propósito puede imponerse la renegociación de un contrato. En particular, se analiza si, ante la alteración sobrevenida de las circunstancias, una de las posibles soluciones podría consistir precisamente en la renegociación de los términos del contrato. También se analiza el posible pacto consistente en la renegociación del contrato en determinados supuestos previstos por las partes en el momento de perfeccionar el negocio.

Análisis del precepto de derecho positivo indicado (art. 52 ET), con especial émfasis en las implicaciones jurídicas de las novedades introducidas por la reforma laboral de 2012 (RDL/2012, Ley 3/2012) y en la interpretación de los Tribunales de dichas novedades.

Carreras Boj, Pilar Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos insestables de crisis. El mercado alternativo bursátil – segmento de empresas en expansión (MAB) como mecanismo alternativo de financiación y obtención de crédito. El valor de sus normas In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 293-304 El Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB) y más concretamente la apertura del segmento para empresas en expansión (MAB-EE) se va apuntalado paulatinamente como una nueva opción para las empresas de reducida capitalización. Esta pausada consolidación lleva necesariamente al planteamiento de algunas incongruencias, evidentemente, pendientes de resolver o como poco de analizar. En un entorno como el presente Congreso se nos brinda la doble opción, por un lado, de tratar de exponer aquellas incógnitas a las que nos referimos, consecuencia directa de la difusión de este medio, y por otro, la de someter a debate su crecimiento o progreso como una nueva opción para las empresas y la posible obtención de soluciones plausibles en tiempo de crisis.

Domínguez Tristán, Paula Una reflexión sobre la mediación como instrumento de prevención de conflictos interculturales en España In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 689-708 El objeto del presente estudio, como refleja su título, aconseja, en primer término, aclarar y delimitar, brevemente, conceptos tan relevantes como pluralismo cultural, multiculturalismo e interculturalidad, pues es evidente que dichas nociones constituyen punto de partida ineludible en cualquier trabajo que, como éste, aborde algunos aspectos de la mediación intercultural (en adelante, MI).

Duplá Marín, Teresa Bardají Gálvez, Lola Hacia un régimen matrimonial europeo: participación en ganancias. Especial referencia al Libro II del Código Civil de Catalunya In Globalización y derecho: desafíos y tendencias F. Gómez; M. Enciso & A. Emaldi (eds.) Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 08/2013 p. 77-82 Serie Maior El libro II del Código Civil Catalán, relativo al derecho de personas y de familia, incluye una modificación de la figura de la compensación por razón del trabajo que acerca el régimen de separación al de participación en ganancias de gran impulso en los ultimos años en el ámbito europeo.

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Escutia Abad, Mar Los poderes preventivos: la condición de eficacia como elemento determinante de una tutela alternativa In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 389-396 Con la Ley 25/2010, de 29 de julio, se aprueba el libro II del Código civil de Cataluña y se regula por primera vez en Cataluña los poderes preventivos. Si bien dicha regulación guarda cierta semejanza con la ya contenida en el artículo 1732 CCE, dichos poderes pasan a estar regulados en Cataluña en sede de tutela como no podía ser de otro modo pues hasta la fecha carecemos de regulación propia en sede de mandato.

Fernández Fernández, Rodolfo Controversias mercantiles: competencia objetiva y arbitraje In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 777-792 Las controversias mercantiles que se acaban judicializando han crecido de forma exponencial en los últimos años, al socaire de la actual crisis económica. Se ha producido una judicialización creciente de la vida empresarial y ello se percibe tanto en las relaciones internas –acciones de los socios contra la sociedad o sus administradores-, como también externas –conflictos derivados de incumplimientos contractuales o de su denuncia, por competencia desleal de los competidores o de los propios empleados-.

García Solé, Marc Martí Garcia-Milà, Núria Justicia restaurativa: la circunstancia atenuante del art. 21.5 Cp de reparación del daño ocasionado a la víctima

víctima prevista en el art.21.5 CP. El citado precepto señala como circunstancia atenuante, “la de haber procedido el culpable a reparar el daño ocasionado a la víctima o a disminuir sus efectos en cualquier momento del procedimiento y con anterioridad a la celebración del juicio oral”.

Ginés Castellet, Núria Añoveros Terradas, Beatriz Los pactos en previsión de ruptura matrimonial como mecanismo de prevención y solución de posibles conflictos intraconyugales: una perspectiva sustantiva y conflictual In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 397-420 Desde los años 1970 es práctica relativamente habitual en los Estados Unidos de América y más recientemente se está abriendo camino en distintos países europeos la celebración de pactos prematrimoniales. La cuestión que surge en el contexto en el que ahora nos hallamos es, sin embargo, si se trata realmente de un instrumento útil para la prevención y, en su caso, solución del conflicto si finalmente se acaba desatando la crisis matrimonial para la que fue previsto. Ante la pregunta de si el pacto en previsión de una ruptura matrimonial sirve para prevenir, en el sentido de evitar un riesgo, el conflicto de pareja, la respuesta ha de ser negativa. Si lo que nos preguntamos es si ayuda a la prevención, en el sentido de preparación y disposición que se hace anticipadamente para ejecutar algo, del conflicto, la respuesta requiere mayores matices, y a ello se destina fundamentalmente el trabajo. En todo caso, el análisis es realizado tomando como modelo normativo de referencia el relativamente reciente e innovador desarrollo legislativo llevado a cabo en el Libro II del Código Civil de Cataluña (en adelante, CCCat), porque se trata de una experiencia jurídica próxima y vanguardista, en la que, sin lugar a dudas, cabe apreciar la inspiración en fuentes del Derecho norteamericano (así, la Uniform Premarital Agreements Act y los principios sobre la disolución de la familia del American Law Institute).

In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 107-122 El presente trabajo tiene la pretensión de abordar de forma esquemática el estudio dogmático, político-criminal y jurisprudencial de la circunstancia atenuante de reparación del daño ocasionado a la

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Llebaría Samper, Sergio Las prohibiciones de suceder mortis causa como posible prevención de conflictos: ¿remedio o enfermedad? In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 347-358 La libertad de testar, así como si más amplia base que es la libertad de disponer, en tanto que manifestaciones de la autonomía privada de la persona se hayan reconocidas y especialmente protegidas por los ordenamientos. Como manifestación que es de la autonomía privada, su vulnerabilidad puede venir explicada por tres distintas causas cuyo origen es también desigual: causas intrínsecas, extrínsecas, deslegitimadas y extrínsecas legitimadas. Las causas intrínsecas pertenecen al propio sujeto que pretende formar su voluntad, yendo asociadas a las naturales limitaciones que, por razones de edad o de enfermedad, no tiene más remedio que padecer toda persona (general la edad, eventual la enfermedad).

Lozano Soler, Josep M. What companies does the world need? What world do companies build? In The shared value debate: Academic visions on corporate sustainability Zollo, M. & Mele, R. (eds.) Milán (Italia): Egea, 10/2013 p. 47-54 Among the many topics covered by CSR and sustainability, the subjects currently run the risk of being trapped in their own agenda. This is neither a bad thing, nor is it contemptible; on the contrary. Much of their impact on business management has to do with developing practical tools to further develop and refine how these issues are dealt with. From accountability to philanthropy; from corporate volunteering to reconciliation; from environmental management to the requirements of the supply chain; from human rights policies to incentive policies and careers criteria; from... let’s leave it there, shall we - Because, in the end, what is becoming increasingly clear is that changes can be made ¿ and significant changes at that - in many of these areas without altering the entrepreneurial spirit, the company vision or the frame of reference based on which their priorities are set. In other words, it is possible to have a company policy that talks about sustainability and CSR which, deep down, is in fact little more than a schedule adapted to new social demands, but one that is managed from a totally conventional corporate mentality. So the real debate, sometimes blocked by the CSR and sustainability rhetoric itself, is the debate as to the purpose of the company: who it is serving; what its contribution is; how it is governed; how it assumes the challenges

facing society; how it responds to these same challenges. It is no longer merely a question of impacts and business practices. It is about the place and contribution of businesses in the emerging new society: A society that cannot emerge without companies; but one which may not be able to emerge depending on the dominant and winning business model.

Maak, Thomas Pless, Nicola Leader mindfulness and decision-making Eisenbeiss, S.; Maak, T.;Pless, N. In Advances in Authentic and Ethical Leadership Neider, L. & Schriesheim, C. (eds.) Charlotte, N.C. (U.S.): Information Age Publishing (IAP), 07/2014 p. 191-208 The ancient Buddhist concept of mindfulness increasingly becomes popular in Western management practice. In the present chapter, we introduce the mindfulness concept into the leadership literature and offer a preliminary analysis of its importance in the context of leader ethical decision making. To explain how leader mindfulness affects leader ethical decision making, we draw on findings in clinical psychology and delineate the processes triggered by mindfulness: the metamechanism of reperceiving and the additional direct effects of (a) compassion and interbeing, (b) cognitive flexibility and insight, and (c) integrated functioning. These processes are argued to help leaders develop an integrative stakeholder-oriented, values-based original solution when faced with an intricate moral dilemma. We illustrate our argumentation by drawing on the Levi Strauss case of child labor in Bangladesh.

Oller Sala, Maria Dolors Cooperación internacional In Pensamiento social cristiano abierto al siglo XXI. A partir de la encíclica Caritas in veritate Sols Lucia, J. (ed.) Santander: Sal Terrae, 01/2014 p. 339-370 Presencia Social El concepto cooperación internacional aparece con fuerza en las encíclicas sociales de los años 60 del siglo pasado, cuando se empieza a vislumbrar la clara interconexión del mundo y la responsabilidad que tiene el mundo rico para con el pobre. A la luz del desafío global, la Caritas in veritate (CV), en continuidad con la tradición eclesial precedente, sitúa el desarrollo humano como eje central, concibiéndolo como desarrollo de los pueblos, un concepto que va más allá del simple crecimiento económico.

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Oller Sala, Maria Dolors Constitución económica, cohesión social y democracia: los derechos humanos y su indivisibilidad

que actualmente impiden el adecuado funcionamiento de la Administración de Justicia ocupa un lugar destacado el progresivo e imparable incremento de asuntos que se registran en los Juzgados, incremento que ha sido especialmente notable en la jurisdicción mercantil y en la jurisdicción social, como consecuencia del impacto de la crisis económica, que ha colocado en situación de saturación, próxima al colapso, a muchos de los Juzgados de lo Mercantil y de lo Social.

In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 871-886 En las Constituciones de los estados democráticos de los Derechos Humanos tienen un lugar destacado. Por lo que respecta a Europa, podemos decir que forman parte de la cultura política de los estados que la integran. Sin embargo, el legado histórico que supone el Estado Social como construcción europea está siendo hoy cuestionado por el proceso de globalización, lo que se ha hecho más evidente en esta época de grave crisis económica.

Pose Vidal, Sara Maria La mediación laboral individual como alternativa para la solución de conflictos Pose Vidal, S.; López Álvarez, M. In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 233-246 Asistimos en los últimos tiempos a un creciente protagonismo de los medios alternativos y/o complementarios de solución de conflictos frente a los cauces jurisdiccionales clásicos. Fundamentalmente, ello obedece a razones de orden práctico. Así, entre los múltiples problemas

Ramis Pujol, Juan Sardá Borroy, Rafael Responsabilidad, complejidad e integración en la gestión de las playas Martí Llambrich, C.; Ramis Pujol, J.; Sardá Borroy, R. In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 123-138 Documenta; no 351 Se efectúa un análisis institucional de los esquemas establecidos de gestión de playas a partir de lo observado en ocho poblaciones de la Costa Brava (Girona, España). El análisis ratifica que el énfasis actual de la gestión de playas se centra en la función recreativa de ésta y evidencia el abandono en la gestión de otras funciones que el sistema socioecológico playa igualmente desempeña. De forma generalizada, la gestión de carácter proactivo solo se desarrolla durante la temporada de baño y, únicamente, cuando aparecen condiciones muy negativas pueden ponerse en marcha planes de acción de carácter reactivo. Urge identificar procesos y estrategias de gobernanza que permitan una gestión moderna e integrada para estos sistemas, para paliar los procesos de erosión y de degradación natural de las playas.

Business Network Dynamics (BuNeD) Research Proposal: Termination of Strategic Alliances

Ali Kazeminia, PhD Candidate Cristina Giménez, Supervisor

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Richard González, Manuel La protección de los consumidores en el comercio electrónico. Las propuestas de regulación de sistemas de arbitraje electrónico en la UE y en UNCITRAL In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 525-544 La protección jurídica del consumidor probablemente sea una de las cuestiones de mayor importancia en el momento presente. Podemos decir que el hombre del siglo XXI se define, entre otras cuestiones, como consumidor de una infinidad de productos que puede adquirir desde su hogar, o desde cualquier lugar, mediante un simple acceso telemático a la Red Global. Esta es una realidad que se ha impuesto en los países más desarrollados, pero también en otros muchos entornos sociales menos favorecidos que, sin embargo, cada vez más conocen y utilizan los medios de comunicación globales.

Sardá Borroy, Rafael Expectativas de los usuarios y necesidades de una gestión diferencial a lo largo de la Costa Brava: playas urbanas vs. Playas naturales protegidas Lozoya, J.P.; Sardá, R.; Jiménez, J.A. In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 31-50 Documenta; no 351 Las playas son sistemas socioecológicos donde las dimensiones físicas, ecológicas, sociales y económicas interactúan, ofreciendo diversas funciones y servicios ecosistémicos que conducen a mejorar el bienestar humano. Si bien estos sistemas pueden brindar distintas funciones (por ejemplo protección, recreación, natural), tradicionalmente los gestores solo han priorizado la recreación. Esto ha llevado a la homogeneización de las prácticas de gestión de playas, que en la actualidad están poco adaptadas a las distintas características de las playas y sus usuarios. Mientras la participación pública ha sido largamente recomendada, la toma de decisiones en gestión de playas suele involucrar solo un actor, siguiendo un escrito en orden jerárquico.

Sardá Borroy, Rafael Un esquema metodológico para facilitar el uso de la gestión de riesgos en playas Lozoya, J.P.; Sardá, R.; Jiménez, J.A. In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 87-104 Documenta; no 351 En este trabajo se propone un esquema metodológico para introducir el análisis de riesgos en la gestión integral de playas. La gestión de playas se ha concentrado tradicionalmente en los usos recreativos de éstas sin tener en consideración sus procesos geomorfológicos ni otros valores medioambientales, lo que da lugar a que muchas situaciones de riesgo queden excluidas de los procesos directos de gestión. Para superar esta situación, se ha estudiado el desarrollo de un enfoque sistémico integrado que evalúa al unísono las dimensiones sociales y las dimensiones ecológicas de eventos potenciales de riesgo. En una primera fase, el esquema propone la definición del perfil de riesgo de la playa, donde a partir de la construcción de relaciones causa-efecto se vinculan los posibles eventos de riesgo y se identifican los servicios del ecosistema-playa implicados.

Sardá Borroy, Rafael Erosión en las playas y gestión desintegrada: la problemática actual de la playa de S’Abanell Sardá, R.; Conde, R.; Casadesús, M.; Sánchez, A.; Lozoya, J.P.; Pintó, J.; et. al. In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 51-72 Documenta; no 351 La erosión costera es un problema de ámbito global que se muestra en toda su crudeza en las playas. El problema suscitado en la playa de S’Abanell es el de una disminución de su superficie como consecuencia de una evolución morfológica en la que predominan los procesos de pérdida de sedimentos (erosión) sobre los procesos de ganancia de los mismos (acreación). En este capítulo se describe la evolución del problema a lo largo del tiempo y su empeoramiento en la última década. S’Abanell nos muestra un claro ejemplo de gestión de la zona costera reactiva y desintegrada donde, en vez de optar por un planteamiento estratégico sobre un estado deseado (una visión consensuada), se opta por ir resolviendo (parcheando) los problemas que cada vez son más graves e irreversibles.

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Sardá Borroy, Rafael Fluvià Font, Modest El índice de calidad de playas (BQI) Sardá, R.; Ariza, E.; Jiménez, J.A.; Valdemoro, H.; Villares, M.; Pintó, J.; et. al. In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 105-122 Documenta; no 351 Considerando las playas como sistemas socioecológicos y la Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras (GIZC) como la herramienta básica para alcanzar un desarrollo sostenible en la zona costera, en este trabajo se desarrolla un índice de calidad integral de playas (Beach Quality Index, BQI) que responde a un análisis funcional de éstas. El índice está pensado como herramienta para promover la aplicación del concepto de sistemas de gestión medioambiental integrados para la gestión específica de las playas. El BQI está formado por trece indicadores parciales agrupados en las tres funciones básicas que realizan las playas (recreativa, natural y de protección).

Sardá Borroy, Rafael Valls Giménez, Josep F. Un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas Sardá, R.; Valls Giménez, J.F.; Pintó, J. In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 167-183 Documenta; no 351 Las nuevas políticas internacionales sobre la gestión de mares y costas enfatizan la necesidad de desarrollar estrategias de sostenibilidad que apliquen los principios de la gestión ecosistémica. En el presente trabajo se describe la estructura y funcionamiento de un nuevo modelo de gestión (Ecosystem-Based Management System – EBMS) que pretende servir de ayuda para implementar dicha estrategia. Aunque este modelo ha sido inicialmente pensado para su utilización en la Directiva Europea de Estrategias Marinas, en este trabajo describimos cómo podría utilizarse en la gestión de playas. El EBMS se estructura sobre tres pilares. El pilar de gestión es la base del sistema, está constituido por un sistema formal de gestión ambiental clásico al que se incorpora a su vez un marco de gestión de riesgo. Los pilares de información y participación proporcionan los aspectos necesarios para asegurar los principios del enfoque ecosistémico.

Saz Carranza, Angel Longo Martínez, Francisco Coping with competing institutional logics in public-private alliances In Managing Public-Private Strategic Alliances Das, T.K. (ed.) New York, N.Y. (U.S.): Information Age Publishing (IAP), 11/2013 p. 171-188 Research in Strategic Alliances Cross-sector inter-organizational partnerships, alliances and networks have become extremely popular. Such phenomena bring together diverse actors with differing, and often competing, institutional logics. Understanding how these logics interact and often hinder the collaborative is important for the management of the alliance. The management of competing institutional logics is central to alliance success. Competing logics are of particular relevance in alliances bring together public- and private-sector actors, as actors from these different sectors draw on very dissimilar premises, assumptions and valid rules. This chapter describes how competing institutional logics are present in public-private joint ventures, and proposes some managerial practices that allow participants in public-private joint ventures to successfully manage competing logics. The chapter draws on a case study of a private economic development company, PTB, set up by various town halls, a savings bank and a small group of leading local entrepreneurs near Barcelona, Spain.

Sierra Olivera, Vicenta Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Context in governance networks: Complex interactions between macro, meso and micro: A theoretical exploration and some empirical evidence on the impact of context factors in Taiwan, Spain and The Netherlands Klijn, E.H.; Sierra Olivera, V.; Ysa Figueras, T.; Berman, E.; Edelenbos, J.; et. al. In Context in public policy and management: The missing link? Pollitt, C. (ed.) Northampton, Mass. (U.S.); Cheltenham (U.K.): Edward Elgar Publishing, 12/2013 p. 233-257 In the discussion about governance it is very interesting to explore the meaning of context since context in many ways has an important position in that discussion (Emerson et al., 2012). After all, practically every conceptualization of governance emphasizes that because the context in which governments operate has changed (Agranoff, 2011) this has consequences for the social patterns in which concrete decision

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processes and service delivery takes place. Thus one could say that at the macro level, relation between society and government changes, which has consequences for the meso level (the patterns of social relationships) and that has impact on the concrete strategic interactions (policy making and service delivery, thus the strategic level and the outcomes). This is reflected, or should be, when authors draw normative conclusions in the way governments try to solve societal problems.

Valls Giménez, Josep F. Rucabado Aguilar, Josep Sardá Borroy, Rafael La playa como elemento estratégico de la gobernanza de las poblaciones de costa españolas

de ocio desde la perspectiva de la recreación que hacia otras funciones, como las de ser depositaria de la biodiversidad u ofrecer protección a la costa. En la proyección futura, el escenario que reproducen los municipios mantiene la dualidad actual, pero se advierten tres innovaciones relevantes. La primera, que la playa se asocia con cultura y patrimonio, gastronomía, eventos y ecoturismo para mejorar su capacidad de atracción y su competitividad. La segunda, que existe interés por reducir la presión sobre las playas, ampliando un poco el número de metros cuadrados de arena por bañista. La tercera, que la presión poblacional estacional se reduce frente a la permanente. Estos tres aspectos deseables por la mayoría de los municipios costeros mejorarían las funciones de ser depositaria de la biodiversidad y de ofrecer protección a la costa, frente a la predominante en la actualidad: la de la dedicación intensiva a la recreación.

Valls Giménez, Josep F. La planificación estratégica de los destinos turísticos

In Hacia un nuevo modelo integral de gestión de playas R. Sardá Borroy, J. Pintó Fusalba & J.F. Valls Giménez (coords.) Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 12/2013 p. 139-166 Documenta; no 351 A partir del trabajo de campo realizado en 150 municipios españoles de litoral (en España contamos con 439) se han generado dos índices, el de Calidad Recreativa de Playas, y el de Calidad de Gobernanza, y dos factores, el de Proximidad en la Gestión de Playas, y el de expectativas de Recursos Turísticos, que se presentan como elementos de gran utilidad para la identificación de los modelos de gobernanza de los municipios con playa. En el estudio, se constata que los municipios valoran mejor los aspectos hard de sus playas -calidad de las playas, accesos y aparcamientos, vigilancia y seguridad, e instalaciones- que los soft -protección de la naturaleza, certificaciones de calidad, planificación estratégica, coordinación supramunicipal y con el sector privado, y estacionalidad de la temporada. Esta situación evidencia que la visión estratégica actual está más enfocada hacia la función de la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas

Valls Giménez, J.; Neve, J. In Manual de gestión de destinos turísticos J. Romero González (dir.); D. Flores Ruíz (coord.) Valencia: Tirant Humanidades, 04/2014 p. 63-95 Colección crónica Un destino turístico sostenible es aquel que adopta un conjunto de medidas globalizadoras realizables de planificación duradera, que se extienden a todas las fases del ciclo de vida en los ámbitos económico, sociocultural y medioambiental. Su desarrollo reclama el consenso de todos los agentes que intervienen: el sector público, el sector privado, la ciudadanía y los distintos tipos de turistas. El destino se enfrenta a un mercado cada vez más competitivo, a medida que los países y las regiones descubren las oportunidades que ofrecen los recursos de toda índole al servicio de la atracción turística, y la presión de la competencia aumenta entre la oferta

Leadership Development Research Centre (GLEAD) Research Proposal: Promoting Human Dignity: Positive Organizational Ethics in Practice

Delia Mannen, PhD Candidate Thomas Maak, Supervisor

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generalista y la especializada, la obsoleta y la innovadora. En este contexto, “una empresa solo puede obtener mejores resultados que sus rivales si consigue establecer una diferencia que pueda mantener. Debe ofrecer un valor mayor a sus clientes, o un valor igual a un coste inferior, o ambas cosas” (Porter, 2003: 46). El objetivo es alcanzar la diferencia, que es lo que aporta valor al cliente. La planificación estratégica es el marco de referencia donde los recursos se transforman en productos/marcas que atraen a clientes, desarrollando ventajas competitivas sostenibles. Dentro de ella, se requiere la definición de las estrategias de marketing, capital humano, tecnológicas, logísticas, urbanísticas y fiscales para ofrecer satisfacciones, y se estructuran el ente coordinador, la inteligencia de mercado y los instrumentos de control para desarrollar la gestión.

Villalobos Castillo, Griselda La prevención de conflictos en los programas de cooperación para el desarrollo y la protección de los derechos humanos In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 197-214 La prevención, el manejo, la transformación y la resolución de conflictos, en el amplio ámbito de la cooperación para el desarrollo, están intrínsecamente vinculados con la paz, la seguridad humana y la protección de los derechos humanos. En los Estados, con regímenes democráticos, cuyas instituciones no han sido sólidamente constituidas, los más afectados y vulnerables son los individuos o grupos excluidos de la sociedad, carentes de voz y poder.

Wiengarten, Frank Creating business value through e-business in the supply chain Humphreys, P.; Fynes, B.; Wiengarten, F. In Handbook of strategic e-business management F.J. Martínez-López (ed.) Springer, 02/2014 p. 237-254 Progress in IS The use of e-business applications has reshaped the structure of organizational supply chains. E-business applications have enabled supply chain organisations to collaborate with each other in order to meet performance goals. Although recent studies have identified that e-business applications support and enable supply chain management and improve an organisations’ performance, the interrelationship between the applications and performance is still a relatively underexplored research area. In addition, it has been questioned in recent literature whether or not e-business applications directly improve organisational performance. Researchers are frequently emphasising the importance of complementary factors that are essential for e-business applications to create value within an organisation and its supply chains. This chapter proposes a model of the relationship between e-business applications, organizational factors and performance within the context of supply chain management. Based on a literature review and the theoretical underpinnings from the resource-based view (RBV) and contingency theory we provide a novel perspective that expands our understanding of the necessary conditions and underlying mechanisms for firm resources to create business value within the supply chain environment.

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Arjona Sebastià, Cesar Prólogo In Remuneraciones de consejeros en entidades financieras Galeano García, I. Barcelona: ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social, 10/2013 p. 6-8

Bartlett Castellá, ENRIC R. Prólogo Ávila Orive, J.; Navarro Mendizábal, I.; Bartlett Castellá, E. In Las medidas preventivas de conflictos jurídicos en contextos económicos inestables Abel Lluch, X. (coord.) Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor, 07/2014 p. 37-38

Losada Marrodan, Carlos Presentación In Cuando el norte encuentra el sur: experiencias profesionales transformadoras en América Latina Solà Montserrat, R. Barcelona: ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social, 03/2013 p. 6-9

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Batista Foguet, Joan M. Sipahi Dantas, Alaide Serlavós Serra, Ricard Measuring competencies: A guide to the development and validation of a competency based questionnaire for Spanish-speaking context

Canboy, Basak Emmerling, Robert Buganza González, Carmen Integrating interdisciplinary project work with the development of emotional and social competencies in higher education: A pilot study

Batista Foguet, J.; Sipahi Dantas, A.; Guillén, L.; Martínez Arias, R.; Serlavós Serra, R. 14th EURAM Annual Conference 2014 European Academy of Management (EURAM); Universidad de Valencia Valencia, 04/06/2014 - 07/06/2014

Canboy, B.; Montalvo, A.; Buganza, C.; Emmerling, R. 14th EURAM Annual Conference 2014 European Academy of Management (EURAM); Universidad de Valencia Valencia, 04/06/2014 - 07/06/2014

Most questionnaires used for managerial purposes have been developed in Anglo-Saxon countries and then adapted for other cultures. However, this process is controversial. This paper addresses the methodological issues that scientists and practitioners face in the development of human resource questionnaires. First, we present a competency model development process specifically targeted to Spanish-speaking countries. Second, we address the validation process by guiding the reader through testing the questionnaire’s construct validity. We performed two studies: a first study with 274 experts and practitioners of competency development and a definitive study with 482 members of the general public. Our results support a model of nineteen competencies grouped into four higher-order factors. To assure valid construct comparisons we have tested the factorial invariance of gender and work experience. Subsequently, we have found that women self-rate themselves significantly higher than men on only two of the nineteen competencies, empathy and service orientation. The effect of work experience was significant in twelve competencies, in which less experienced workers rated themselves higher relative to more experienced workers. Finally, we derive theoretical and practical implications based on our findings.

Universities nowadays have to endow their students not only with technical knowledge but also with practical experience, skills, and competencies. At a Spanish master’s programme, an interdisciplinary project work in teams to promote experiential learning was combined with a personal development programme based on Boyatzis’ Intentional Change Theory to create a framework of self-directed change. In addition to eight workshops and various tutorials, students are offered three individual coaching sessions to ensure the best possible alignment of personal and team goals. Emotional and Social Competencies (ESC) are measured twice during the academic year with a multi-rater assessment instrument: first, after 3 months into the programme and then again at the end of the academic year. Despite the small sample size of 18 volunteers, results show promising indications that the suggested framework can help students develop ESC in higher education within one academic year. Further research is needed to confirm these tentative findings.

Canboy, Basak Emmerling, Robert Buganza González, Carmen What’s law got to do with it? Introducing emotional and social competencies at a master in law program Canboy,B.; Montalvo, A.; Emmerling, R.; Buganza, C. 4th International Congress on Emotional Intelligence (ICEI 2013) International Society for Emotional Intelligence (ISEI) New York, N.Y. (U.S.), 08/09/2013 - 10/09/2013 This presentation proposal shares the case of the transition of a Master in Law program which added an interdisciplinary project to the curriculum combined with the framework of Intentional Change Theory. Learning is expected

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to take place in two dimensions: On the one hand, working groups generate their own knowledge and skills through action learning on an interdisciplinary project which is applicable and useful to the professional reality. At the same time, each person enhances emotional and social intelligence competencies, to ensure the success of their personal development and, consequently, also that of the practical project. This module is distributed over the whole academic year and offers eight workshops which continuously interchange the focus between the external learning through the interdisciplinary project and the internal learning through self-knowledge exercises or evaluation tools. Students are offered three individual coaching sessions to ensure the best possible alignment of personal and team goals and enhance the desired personal change. Emotional and Social Intelligence Competencies are measured twice during the academic year with the ESCI-U: First after a period of 3 months into coursework in order to enable students to get to know each other and thus deliver valid peer evaluations; and second at the end of the coursework. Positive change on emotional and social intelligence competencies established as individual development objectives is expected. Feedback on this course from students, professors, coaches and other stakeholders can help define possibilities of improvement for the next cohorts. This new curriculum can be applicable to any other faculty or program.

Canboy, Basak Batista Foguet, Joan M. Mosteo Chagoyen, Leticia Pilar Understanding the cognitive-affective processing through a coaching experience: The impact of coaching on positive and negative affect and Goal directed thinking 4th International Congress on Emotional Intelligence (ICEI 2013) International Society for Emotional Intelligence (ISEI) New York, N.Y. (U.S.), 08/09/2013 - 10/09/2013 The broaden-and-build theory posits that experiences of positive emotions broaden people’s momentary thought-action repertoires, which in turn serves to build their enduring resources, ranging from physical and intellectual resources to social and psychological resources. Intentional change theory conceptualizes the iterative, cyclical stages of desired, sustained change, and how recurrent arousal of positive and negative emotion characterizes these stage transitions. By combining both theories, this study aims to unveil how a coaching experience within a Leadership Development Program at a European Business School may impact the MBA students’ affective processing in terms of their levels of positive-negative emotions, agency thinking and pathways thinking. A total of 15 students participated in this pilot study with a pre-post design around a coaching session. Preliminary analyses showed that the coaching experience has a positive impact on goal directed energy (in terms of agency thinking and pathways thinking) and positive affect. Additionally, results revealed less polarized levels of negative affect after the coaching session. Despite the limitations given by a small sample, this pilot study exposed interesting findings with implications for further research.

Canboy, Basak Loewe, Nicolas Batista Foguet, Joan M. Mosteo Chagoyen, Leticia Pilar Trüninger de Albuquerque, Margarida Friends, relatives, and couples’ perspectives on multisource assessments of emotional and social competencies 4th International Congress on Emotional Intelligence (ICEI 2013) International Society for Emotional Intelligence (ISEI) New York, N.Y. (U.S.), 08/09/2013 - 10/09/2013 This article examines whether extending rater sources beyond the traditional organizational setting provides complementary feedback for a manager through 360° assessments. Using 14 emotional, social, and cognitive competencies, we compared 358 MBA students’ ratings from supervisors, work-peers, subordinates, friends, relatives, and spouses. Results show that personal and professional sources were similarly suited to evaluate these competencies. While differences among co-workers’ ratings were found not to be statistically significant, personal sources’ ratings were higher than co-workers’ assessments across most of the competencies. We advocate that, in spite of a leniency bias, including personal sources in 360° assessments can increase managers’ acceptance of the feedback.

Duplá Marín, Teresa Bardají Gálvez, Lola La mediación y las ADR en la formación jurídica Duplá Marín, T.; Bardají Gálvez, L.; Pilia, C.; Moreno Salamanca, E. Encuentro Internacional de Mediación: Innovación y desarrollo Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Madrid, 20/01/2014 - 21/01/2014 La difusión y desarrollo de los medios alternativos de resolución de conflictos en los últimos años en nuestro país suponen una necesaria adaptación de la formación jurídica de nuestros estudiantes sea cual sea el nivel de aprendizaje en el que éste se encuentre. En este sentido, desde la Universidad se abre un reto importante para el que debemos estar preparados y que supone, in fine, la apertura del monopolio de la Administración de justicia por parte de los Tribunales a otras modalidades de prevención o resolución de los conflictos.

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Domínguez Tristán, Paula Duplá Marín, Teresa A blended teaching experience in the Spanish University

Ginés Castellet, Nuria Langue et Code civil en Catalogne: l’identité culturelle à l’heure européenne

Panero Oria, P.; Domínguez Tristán, P.; Duplá Marín, T.; Lázaro Guillamón, M.C.; Polo, E.M. 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2014) International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED) Valencia, 10/03/2014 - 12/03/2014

La langue et le droit- Law and Language Université de Fribourg. Faculté de Droit Fribourg (Suisse), 07/11/2013

This report is born as a result of a need to the teaching Innovation Group in order to analyze the most relevant aspects of implementing a blended course using two techniques, face to face classroom teaching and student’s self-learning. Starting from an ECTS methodology, and having examined, previously, this teaching method, it is necessary to analyze the experience carried out in the first year of Law Degree, in particular in the Roman Law course. This way we will be able to know the students satisfaction level, if the adjustment of the in-person classroom hours to the subject content is correct, if the use of the on-line campus is right, the adequacy of the support materials used through the intranet, the activities to be performed by students, etc.

Folguera Bellmunt, Conxita You see what they are not able to do. I see what they are able to do. Questioning the argument of the business case in disability inclusion 30th EGOS Colloquium European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS); Erasmus University; Rotterdam School of Management Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 03/07/2014 - 05/07/2014 Although research on disability inclusion has increased in recent decades, it is still considered scarce. Disability continues to be one of the under-researched areas in diversity inclusion (Özbilgin et al., 2011; Connel, 2009; Hardcourt et al., 2005). Disability affects 15% of the world population (WHO, 2011). At the European level, employment rates in 2008 were 73.6 % for people without disabilities but only 45.8 % for people with disabilities (ANED, 2011). The difference is also similar in other areas of the world (WHO, 2011).While inclusion in the labour market is encouraged in legislation and public policies, the approach when dealing with disability in organizations is rather on what impairment may prevent from doing rather than on what people with disabilities may contribute (Baldridge & Veiga, 2001; Campolieti, 2009; Cunningham, James & Dibben, 2004, (Kulkarni & Lenginick-Hall, 2011; Williams-Whitt & Taras, 2010). The research presented here proposes an alternative approach to disability inclusion policies which is captured in the sentence “You see what they are not able to do. I see what they are able to do.

La Catalogne, qui actuellement fait partie de l’Espagne, a toujours eu une forte identité, qui se réaffirme jour à jour. Sans vouloir entrer dans la polémique actuelle sur l’encaissement de la Catalogne dans l’Espagne ou directement son décaissement, j’ai essayé de lancer quelques réflexions sur deux des facteurs qui traditionnellement ont été considérés comme des éléments clés d’identité et des instruments de cohésion sociale: la langue catalane et le droit civil de la Catalogne. Dans l’intervention, on essayé de relater cette interconnexion entre identité, langue et droit civil au cours de l’histoire récente de la Catalogne.

Goodman, Jennifer Shareholder dialogue behind the scenes: Addressing the bulk of the iceberg Goodman, J.; Hebb, T.; Hoepner, A. 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014 The ever-growing literature on shareholder engagement has, understandably, focused much of its attention on the most visible aspects of engagement despite claims that this represents only the tip of the iceberg. Behind-the-scenes engagement remains largely unexplored. Dialogic and participatory approaches have become widely supported in stakeholder engagement. However, the behind-the-scenes nature of much of shareholder engagement and the privacy on which it is said to depend for its success appear to conflict with these approaches. This large-scale, in-depth study of behind-the-scenes engagement investigates how participatory and dialogic practices are used, with whom, and at what stage of the engagement process. Through a discourse ethics lens we use the motifs of Habermas’ ideal speech situation to interrogate the responses of shareholder members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). We find evidence of participative and dialogic practices at different stages of engagement, which is facilitated by ICCR. However, there is a perceived trade off between having direct conversations with companies and inviting broader societal participation in engagement; the latter is feared to erode the trust relationship built up through direct conversation between the company and engager over time. We claim that is it not participation per se which erodes trust and argue in support of greater participation in direct dialogue.

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Goodman, Jennifer Arenas Vives, Daniel A discourse ethics approach to social shareholder engagement: Developing a normative perspective 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014 Increasing attention has been drawn in recent years to social shareholder engagement (SSE), the phenomenon of shareholders engaging with companies on social, environmental and ethical issues. Different approaches have been used to address the different mechanisms of SSE, each strongly influenced by different theoretical underpinnings. These approaches are mapped here into agency, stakeholder, institutional and societal approaches. However, they have not dealt with the ethics of SSE. This article proposes an alternative, normative lens based on discourse ethics. While already widely used in the stakeholder democracy literature it is as yet unexplored in the SSE literature. We use discourse ethics to develop an ethical, normative standard for SSE shareholders which responds to calls for the development of normative theory in company and civil society interactions (Baur and Arenas 2014) and more specifically for the need for a credible and legitimate engagement process (Dhir 2012) and norms and standards in SSE (McLaren 2004). This poses considerable challenges to activists as well as to researchers. The key motifs of discourse ethics in relation to SSE are explored and propositions for ethical SSE are developed initiating a discussion on normative standards for SSE.

Mària Serrano, Josep F. Ogola, Fredrick Onyango Conflict community investment of firms in developing countries 26th EBEN Annual Conference European Business Ethics Network España (EBEN); EDHEC Business School Lille (France), 12/09/2013 - 14/09/2013 Community investment consists of a firm’s investment in communities where the object of this investment is not directly related to the firm’s day-to-day operations. One central benefit for a firm of this investment is increased legitimacy in the community; the main benefits for the community are the enhancement of its capacity and the development of its voice. Nevertheless, these benefits are not necessarily attained in contexts where the community holds attitudes of negative engagement towards the firm. The paper develops a model of community engagement that includes both negative and positive engagement behaviours by local communities; and illustrated this model with two activities of community engagement by a Western mining firm operating in the DR of Congo: the activities of its Community Department, and the design and performance of a Social Community Fund, where local stakeholders are invited to decide with the firm the allocation of funds destined to the community.

Moll Mendoza, Isabel Herrmann, Kathrin Varela Otero, Ana Maria Montaña Matosas, Jordi Marketing to women, a potential paradigm shift. Drivers for effective communication to women in the European Automotive Industry 43th Annual Conference European Marketing Academy (EMAC 2014) European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Valencia, 03/06/2014 - 06/06/2014 Fierce competition and increasing customer sophistication have given birth to the idea of Gender Marketing to more appropriately address the needs of one target group. Based on the idea that there actually are gender differences that matter - marketing had to rethink its strategies, historically based mainly only on men’s needs. As women are becoming an increasingly affluent consumer group, Marketing to Women is gaining significance; however, in some industries, such as the automotive industry, the concept is widely avoided. This study is an initial exploratory attempt to investigate the topic in the automotive industry communication in Europe. Therefore, it functions as a first stepping-stone to further the understanding of how to tackle women in automotive communication, identifying the current approach and potential drivers for more effective advertising to women.

Moll Mendoza, Isabel Montaña Matosas, Jordi Herrmann, Kathrin Desing drivers for effective communication to women in the automotive industry 43th Annual Conference European Marketing Academy (EMAC 2014) European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Valencia, 03/06/2014 - 06/06/2014 Despite women’s greater importance in the purchasing process, there is evidence of the gender bias in Europe car communication. Historically, the inclusion of the female needs has been seen rather as a threat of alienating the core target group. Nevertheless, considering that emotional advertising is becoming increasingly appealing to both target groups, by including female insights in a new and more suited approach might be achieved. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how design can help to refine the approach of advertisement in the automotive industry in order to address both segments efficiently. At last, it will be a way to promote Marketing to Women in this typical masculine context.

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Noethen, Daniela Makarevich, Alex Bonache Pérez, Jaime Alfonso We’re different but we share. The effect of knowledge-relevant difference on knowledge sharing Noethen, D.; Makarevich, A.; Biemann, T.; Voelpel, S.; Bonache Pérez, J. 14th EURAM Annual Conference 2014 European Academy of Management (EURAM); Universidad de Valencia Valencia, 04/06/2014 - 07/06/2014 Diversity research has been guided by two competing theoretical approaches, the social categorization perspective and the information/ decision-making perspective (Williams & O’Reilly, 1998). The former suggest a negative effect of diversity on group processes and performance due to individuals preference to interact with similar others, while the latter claims a positive effect due to broader skills and knowledge base within heterogeneous groups. Empirical analyses remain inconclusive, possibly because the two approaches interact rather than contradict each other (van Knippenberg, De Dreu, & Homan, 2004). Following a combined approach, we thus assume that diversity affects the way team members deal with their diverse knowledge base. Using original data on work teams within German public administration we examine how work team diversity affects knowledge sharing. In line with the diversity faultlines approach, we test the combined effect of differences between individuals in three knowledge-relevant diversity dimensions (education, job experience, and work autonomy) on knowledge transfer at the dyadic level. We find that that larger differences lead to less knowledge sharing. This effect is buffered, but not reversed by group cohesion. Implications for the integration of the two approaches are discussed.

Ruiz Vegas, Francisco Javier Agell Jané, Núria Granular computing for gait recognition through singular spectrum analysis Samà Monsonís, A.; Ruiz Vegas, F.; Agell Jané, N. 16th Congrés Internacional de l’Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial (CCIA 2013) Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligencia Artificial (ACIA); Universitat de Vic (UVIC) Vic, 23/10/2013 - 25/10/2013 Gait Recognition is a biometric application that aims to identify a person by analyzing his/her gait. It is based on the fact that people often feel that they can identify a familiar person from afar simply by recognizing the way the person walks. In this paper, a Granular Computing approach is applied to the accelerometers signals obtained from gait. This approach involves information granules based on density measures and collected from a reconstructed attractor filtered using Singular

Spectrum Analysis. Granular computing allows to recognize interesting regularities in the data at different levels of granularity. The performance of the method is evaluated on a set of 12 people. The results of this evaluation is presented and analyzed.

Sánchez Hernández, German Agell Jané, Núria Aguado Chao, Juan Carlos Natural language-based automatic qualitative description of clusters 16th Congrés Internacional de l’Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial (CCIA 2013) Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligencia Artificial (ACIA); Universitat de Vic (UVIC) Vic, 23/10/2013 - 25/10/2013 In this paper the design of a natural language generation (NLG) system is introduced to describe qualitatively the most important characteristics of each class or cluster previously defined by means of a classification or clustering process. An adaptation of a generic architecture for data-to-text systems consisting of four stages is proposed. It includes the detection of the most relevant patterns of the data and the definition of a grammar that generates the natural language description of the considered clusters. A case study addressing a challenge in a marketing environment is included. The study takes place in a business-to-business (B2B) environment, in which a firm distributes its products via other firms.

Saz Carranza, Angel Albareda Sanz, Adrià Fernández Marín, Xavier The determinants of network administrative organizations design Saz Carranza, A.; Albareda Sanz, A.; Fernández Marín, X.; Salvador, S. 35th EGPA Annual Conference 2013 European Group for Public Administration (EGPA); University of Edinburgh Edinburgh (Scotland), 11/09/2013 - 13/09/2013 The emergence and existence of Public Goal Directed Networks (PGDN) is a profoundly researched arena, however some crucial dimensions remain still to be explored. Among them, the governance of PGDN deserves a salient position. With the exception of contributions by Provan and Milward (1995) and Provan and Kenis (2008), the literature reveals that network has, at best, been considered implicitly but has most often been neglected. Moreover, although Provan and Kenis’ (2007) triad of network governance forms represents a sound blueprint towards a theory of network governance, there is still much to uncover about the design and functioning of the mechanisms and structures enacted to effectively govern, manage and operate a PGDN.

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Thiel, Jana Brinckmann, Jan Developing entrepreneurial expertise: Cognitive entrenchment and decision incongruence Thiel, J.; Ming Kim, S.; Brinckmann, J. 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014 Recent research has produced concern about incongruence (the gap between conveyed and actual decision rationale) in strategic opportunity evaluation. Such incongruence can lead to inefficient decision-making, ineffective learning and will subsequently have performance implications in the entrepreneurial process. In this article we build on cognitive theory to investigate individual differences in opportunity-related decisions incongruence. Our assertion is that decision congruence is in large part based on the salience of the decision makers’ opportunity schema— formed through cognitive entrenchment—that is facilitated or impeded by individuals’ images of self. In a study on 146 individuals with in total 7,008 opportunity decisions we investigate how images of vulnerability and capability affect opportunity decision congruence. The results indicate that the images of vulnerability negatively impact congruent decision making, while images of capability have a U-shaped effect on decision incongruence. Our findings extend prior literature on cognitive reasoning in opportunity evaluation and entrepreneurial expertise.

Trullén Fernández, Jordi The contribution of the HR department to the effective implementation of HR practices: A comparative case study Trullén Fernández, J.; Stirpe, L. 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014 Effective implementation of HR practices is being recognized as critical for firm performance and it is opening a new frontier for research on HRM. Yet much of this research has focused so far on line managers’ role as HR implementers at the neglect of other critical actors. In this study we aim at moving forward by illuminating how the HR department may contribute to the effective implementation of HR practices. Analyzing twenty-seven cases of HR policy implementation processes, we found that the HR department is able to make significant contributions at different stages of the implementation process. Specifically, our analysis suggests that the HR department may influence implementation outcomes through its decisions on practices’ design, its advocacy strategies for the practices, and its ability to take advantage of the windows of opportunities provided by the organizational context. An emerging model articulating our findings is proposed.

ESADE Entrepreneurship Institure (EEI) Research Proposal: Beyond Strategic Alliance Termination: An Exploration of Knowledge Outcomes

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Trullén Fernández, Jordi Letting your true self shine through: Antecedents and consequences of authenticity at work Reis, G.; Trullén Fernández, J.; Story, J. 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014 The idea of being authentic at work is gaining track on both academia and organizations. Drawing from a sample of 192 participants we tested whether four types of organizational culture (hierarchical, clan, market, and adhocracy) influence employees’ authenticity at work and whether behaving more authentically influences the extent to which employees are engaged with their jobs. Results indicate that as a whole, an environment that is more inclusive, participative, and that incentivizes individual and group autonomy (i.e. clan and adhocracy cultures) is positively associated with employees behaving more authentically at work. Cultures emphasizing stability order and control (i.e. hierarchy and market culture), on the other hand, negatively influence authenticity. In addition, our results confirm that employees that behave more authentically at work are more engaged with their jobs. Limitations and directions for future research conclude this article.

leadership literature on general management. In this sense, we first focus on Public Goal-Directed Networks, which are by nature mandated and funded by a public institution. We rely on the three ideal modes of network governance proposed by Provan and Kenis (2008): Shared Governance, Lead-organisation and Network Administrative Organisation (NAO). We further expand Provan and Kenis’ model by considering the literature on dual leadership. This literature includes variables such as participants’ previous knowledge, trust, shared vision and complementarity between leaders (Pearce and Sims, 2002; Pearce, 2004; Alvarez and Svejenova, 2005; Carson, Tesluk and Marrone, 2007; Arnone and Stumpf, 2010; Ramuthun and Matkin, 2012). In order to answer the research question, how leadership affects network governance form, we conducted a survey. We based our questionnaire on an existing Dutch survey on network management (see Klijn et al., 2010a and b). We analyzed a large strategic research project, Alice Rap (Addictions and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe), an EUfunded international consortium with a 10 million euro budget, and over 150 participants involved from public, private and non-profit organizations. The unit of analysis is the whole network. We combined a regression analysis to determine the mode of network governance, and a social network analysis (SNA) to present centrality degree and betweenness among network participants.

Valencia Silva, Maika Detection model of mafia firms in Italy Ysa Figueras, Tamyko Dual leadership in public-private network governance 2013 IPMN Conference International Public Management Network (IPMN); University of Siena Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy), 05/09/2013 - 07/09/2013 We assess how the role of leadership affects network governance form. The paper is based on theory-driven empirical research. Our theoretical framework is twofold: On the one hand, the study is based on network literature on public management and, on the other hand, on shared, dual and co-

Ravenda, D.; Argilés Bosch, J.; Valencia Silva, M. 14th EURAM Annual Conference 2014 European Academy of Management (EURAM); Universidad de Valencia Valencia, 04/06/2014 - 07/06/2014 This paper develops a model that can contribute to the detection of legally registered firms defined as criminal due to having been confiscated by authorities, in relation to alleged connections with Italian organized crime. The results reveal that our model is able to correctly classify 76.41% of firms within a matched sample of 852 firm-years including criminal firms

Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo) Research Proposal: Essays on Sovereign Wealth Funds: Managerial Implications

Javier Capapé, PhD Candidate Javier Santiso, Supervisor

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and lawful firms. We present a detailed analysis of financial statement characteristics of singular firms which are both socially irresponsible and private with incentives, modus operandi and legal financial statement formats that differ from those of public listed companies. Furthermore, we show that analysis of specific accruals and earnings management proxies may provide more insight into accounting manipulation patterns of these criminal firms. Finally, our paper can help practitioners and regulators identify accounting signals in firm management that can be used in risk assessment models or in the prevention of criminal infiltrations.

Villanueva Aguila, Jaume The emergence and salience of an entrepreneurial identity in academic entrepreneurs Bojica, M.; Villanueva Aguila, J.; Fuentes, M. 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014 In this exploratory study, we examine the factors that underlie the emergence and salience of an entrepreneurial identity in academics involved in the creation of spinoffs. The emergence and salience of an entrepreneurial identity matters because it has been linked to a number of relevant entrepreneurial processes and outcomes, although academics rarely adopt it. Data from in-depth interviews with 26 academic entrepreneurs occupying stable positions at public universities reveals that academics experience role identity conflicts when involved in new venture creation activities and that they tackle this conflict by engaging in three types of distinct resolution strategies. We find that the level of involvement in the spinoff formation activities associated with each of the three conflict resolution strategies, along with the self-assessments of their entrepreneurial traits, seems to influence the emergence and salience of an entrepreneurial identity and the hierarchical position of this identity in a hybrid combination. These results offer useful insights for policy makers interested in promoting spinoff formation.

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WORKING PAPERS Ballabriga Clavería, Fernando Euro zone crisis: Diagnosis and likely solutions Barcelona: ESADE, 02/2014 ESADE working paper; no. 253 16 p. This brief provides a short guiding tour to the Euro zone crisis. It looks at the current situation, the context in which the zone has to deal with such a situation, the way we got here, and the possible way out. The latter outlines a set of minimum steps required to make the euro sustainable.

Capell, Ben Dolan, Simon Tzafrir, Shat Explaining sexual minorities’ disclosure: Analysis anchored on trust embedded in Legal & HR practices configuration Barcelona: ESADE, 10/2013 ESADE working papers; no. 249 28 p. Prior research on the disclosure decisions of sexual minorities at work has mostly overlooked the moderating and mediating role of employees’ trust in their supervisor and organization at large. The absence of trust from this field of study limits organizational efforts to foster inclusion at work. Thus, this paper presents a framework for examining the multiple linkages between employees’ trust in their organization hierarchies and the disclosure decision. Trust is proposed to be embedded in work and non-work context both in terms of the legal framework and the HR policies and practices. The paper concludes with recommendations that can help promote diversity management efforts and ultimately contribute to employees’ wellbeing and to positive organizational outcomes.

Cuneo Zuñiga, Andrés Ricardo Private label brands purchase and lifestyles: A consumers latent segmentation Alarcón del Amo, C.; Cuneo Zuñiga, A.; López Belbeze, P. Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 12/2013 Documentos de Trabajo de la Cátedra Fundación Ramón Areces de Distribución Comercial (DOCFRADIS); no. 07201 32 p. Private label brands (PLB) have experienced fast growth in almost every market, capturing the attention of academics and practitioners. Using a latent segmentation, this paper studies consumers¿ brand choice of shampoos, according to their values and lifestyles. Results signal the emergence of a segment characterized by a polarized buying behavior, that purchases both toptier brands and PLB. They value advertising but also search for promotions and offers, showing a smart buying behavior. Confronted to this segment there are other two very sensitive to brands, where there is no room for PLB.

Dolan, Simon Children’s gamification and storytelling as tools for understanding and instilling values: A guide for coaches, educators and parents in the use of “value of values” and “magic carpet and the islands of values” Garti, A.; Dolan, S. Barcelona: ESADE, 03/2014 ESADE working paper; no. 254 14 p. This paper intends to serve as a guide to parents, educators and professional coaches in instilling values in children via game playing (gamification), storytelling and tales. The central piece of the paper is a tale that has been carefully crafted to provide an interesting adventurous journey that capture children´s attention. Albeit its simplicity, the story is very empowering: it is about three young children, members of the same family, who join a magic flying carpet into three different islands. At the end of each journey/island, the children learn an important lesson about some values. At the end, they learn a lot about each other, and about the need to balance values in life in order to be happy and healthy (economically, socially and emotionally). The “value of values” card game, as well as

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the “Magic Carpet and the Islands of Values,” is based on many years of research into the world of values and its underlying “Es Tri-axial model” (Dolan et al., 2006; Dolan, 2011).

Spender, John Christopher The business school model: A flawed design?

Planellas Arán, Marcel In search of the essence of strategy, a model for strategic management in three stages

The business school business has grown rapidly over recent decades and is now firmly embedded in the top tier recruitment process. But business schools are still unsure of why they teach what gets taught. The curriculum drives the business school’s design, and vice versa. Both are fairly standardized around the world but have little connection with management practice or firms’ design. Decades of anxiety about this rigor and relevance gap have generated little change. This paper suggests the curriculum’s fundamental weakness derives from its implicit theory of the firm, or rather the absence of a viable theory. In spite of most business school members being perfectly comfortable about what they presume a firm to be Ronald Coase’s famous questions about the ‘nature of the firm’, posed in 1937, have yet to be answered. Herbert Simon’s 1967 paper on the design of the business school is worthy of close reconsideration and shows today’s emphasis on analysis badly needs to be complemented by helping students synthesize the disparate materials they are being fed. The present paper urges that rhetoric be restored to the center of the curriculum and that case teaching be used to develop the students’ rhetorical and synthesizing skills.

Barcelona: ESADE, 11/2013 ESADE working papers; no. 250 28 p. The essence of something is what makes something what it is. The search for the essence of strategy is a challenging task. Determining which are the most important aspects, or the quintessence, of a strategy requires extracting and concentrating its substance. For this task we need two basic elements: firstly, an historical perspective on the evolution of the strategy; and secondly, a practical proposal for managing strategy. This means reviewing those models that have remained credible after practical tests; and then proposing an approach for managing strategy. We must recover the essence of strategy and project it into the future. Organisations can learn. The strategic management process can be seen by an organisation as a source of constant learning. This comprehensive strategic process goes through three stages and resembles a wheel. In the centre is the raison d’être of the organisation: its mission, vision, and values. The three stages of the comprehensive strategic process are: analysis, decision, and implementation. These stages are interrelated and form a strategic continuum; however, complex processes do not always require complex models. It helps an organisation if the rules and models are easily understood by everyone. Simplicity is often the greatest sophistication.

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Spender, John Christopher Strategizing under uncertainty

Ballabriga Clavería, Fernando Euro zone crisis: Diagnosis and likely solutions

Barcelona: ESADE, 10/2013 ESADE working paper; no. 252 28 p.

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The business strategy field covers business practice and academic research - but the two are not strongly related. A history of the topic is presented and two views are contrasted. One is the academic discipline’s view that strategizing is the rigorously driven pursuit of optimal performance. The other, a practitioner’s view, sees strategizing as addressing the “What do we do now?” question, that is ever-present as business strategists inhabit uncertain situations. We follow Knight’s intuition that profit only arises as strategists engage real world uncertainties through their firm’s practice.

Southern euro countries are in a situation of vulnerability due to three factors: their high debt levels, their eroded competitiveness and their difficulties to restart growth. Together, these factors generate a vicious circle which is difficult to exit and which can even degenerate into a self-fulfilling economic downward spiral. This policy brief provides a short guiding tour to the euro zone crisis. It looks at the current situation, the full context conditioning the solutions to the situation, how we got here, and the possible way out. The latter section outlines a set of minimum steps required to make the euro sustainable.Paper available in English only.

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Murillo, David Understanding Korean capitalism: Chaebols and their corporate governance

Tiefengraber, Daniel Non-state actors & global health: Eradicating polio in Pakistan

Murillo, D.; dal-Sung, Y. Barcelona: ESADE. Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo), 09/2013 ESADEgeo position paper; no. 33 12 p.

Barcelona: ESADE. Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo), 11/2013 ESADEgeo position paper; no. 34 13 p.

Chaebols, Korean big business conglomerates, have had a huge influence in the global economy and in Korean society and politics. Some stress the significant contribution chaebols have made to the unprecedented rapid development of the Korean economy, while others highlight their concomitant problems such as cronyism, corrupt relations with government, and economic concentration. Although such problems seem to have been reduced in recent years thanks to institutional pressures enacted by the Korean government after the financial crisis of 1997, the pending reforms of the chaebol system are still important issues that permeate political and economic debate in Korea. In what follows, we will explore the unique characteristics of the chaebols, their relations with government, and the virtues and vices of this Korean capitalist model that does not operate along the lines of its European and Anglo-American counterparts.

Polio has returned to the spotlight on the global health stage. In Eastern Syria, thirteen cases of patients with acute paralysis, the hallmark of this highly infectious disease, were confirmed in November. This resurgence is alarming, especially as polio holds great potential to follow smallpox as the second communicable disease to ever be fully eradicated. Since 1988, the number of cases of polio across the globe has been reduced by more than 99%. However, the enormous benefits of eliminating the disease can only be reaped if immunization coverage is universal. This paper analyses the problems in achieving this coverage in Pakistan, where the weak state and health system, ongoing conflict, drone strikes and instrumentalisation of health campaigns by security and intelligence agencies are posing grave obstacles to the supply of a global public good.

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CASES Cano Giner, Josep Lluís Caso Cosmetics Cano Giner, J.; Nicolás Espín, J. Boston, Mass. (U.S.): North American Case Research Association (NACRA), 10/2013 14 p. In March 2010, Ana Vilaltella, Human Resources Manager of Cosmetics was asked to prepare a project plan for the implementation of a Human Resources module for an ERP. Her department has had different problems, so she had to ensure a success in the implementation. She only has 15 days to prepare a proposal and she has to present to COSMETICS¿s President and Board of Directors.

Correa Domenech, Marc Caso DAN Tras-os-Montes (A) Liderando la banca de particulares Barcelona: ESADE, 01/2014 07 p. El caso presenta a Javier, el nuevo DAN de Tras-os-Montes, que acaba de llegar a la DAN y su DT le pide que prepare un Plan de Acción para la DAN y para las Oficinas. Para ello cuenta con la descripción del entorno de la DAN, así como con información de cada una de las Oficinas a analizar [Primera hoja del IEG (Anexo 1), Resumen de retos (Anexo 2), Reto de Altas de Comercios (Anexo 3), Reto de captación de Ingresos (Anexo 4), Reto de Depósito Estrella (Anexo 5), Reto de Extracomisión (Anexo 6), Reto de Planes de Pensiones (Anexo 7), Alta de clientes nuevos e Indicadores de vinculación (Anexo 8), Informe de Contactos (Anexo 9), Ventas por Centro (Anexo 10), Índice de Efectividad Comercial (Anexo 11), Seguimiento del Modelo de Atención de Banca de Particulares (Anexo 12) y Resumen del Mystery Shopper (Anexo 13)]. Este caso pretende abordar la necesidad de definir la estrategia competitiva asentada en la Propuesta de Valor de CaixaBank, presentar un modelo de análisis de la Oficina asentado en tres ámbitos interrelacionados (Ámbito de Resultados, Ámbito de Procesos y Ámbito de Personas) y señalar la necesidad de incidir en el modelo de atención de Banca de Particulares.

Correa Domenech, Marc Caso DAN Tras-os-Montes (B) Desarrollando al equipo de la Oficina 1001 Barcelona: ESADE, 01/2014 10 p. El caso presenta la Oficina 1001 de la DAN de Tras-os-Montes. La Oficina no está funcionando del todo bien y Javier, el DAN, se dirige allí tratar de resolver la situación. Por el camino Javier va analizando cómo está la Oficina y qué puede hacer él. Los objetivos que el caso pretende cubrir son: abordar cómo incidir sobre los Directores/Subdirectores en relación a Banca Particulares, presentar el modelo de estilos de aprendizajes, discutir la forma y el fondo de los Planes de Mejora (y de los Planes de Gestión de Perfiles Comerciales) así como afrontar la dificultad de enseñar a vender a alguien que no sabe vender.

Correa Domenech, Marc Caso DAN Tras-os-Montes (C) Role Play: Alcanzando compromisos durante la visita a Oficina Barcelona: ESADE, 01/2014 71 p. El caso presenta 6 oficinas, y para cada una de ellas se provee de la descripción del role del DAN y del Director de la Oficina, así como la primera hoja del IEG, el modelo de atención de Banca de Particulares y el mystery shoper. El objetivo de este role-play es reproducir una visita del DAN a una Oficina, para trabajar todos los aspectos relacionados con las habilidades de interacción DAN-Director, así como la manera como estructurar dicha visita.

Martínez Ribes, Lluis Sky air, their way to the market Martínez Rives, Ll.; Casanova, M. Beds (U.K.): European Case Clearing House (ECCH) 05/2013 18 p. In the early 2000’s a major change occurred in the airline industry. With the consolidation of the low cost model and derived from the inability of traditionalairlines to offer lower prices, a gap between traditional carriers and low cost competitors appeared. Even if prices had not been set at such low levels, they were considerably reduced, generating a loss of margins.

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The only way to manage the gap and bring margins up, involved decreasing costs and increasing ancillary revenues. On the basis of these strategic moves, the companies’ strategies were clearly reoriented towards the final customer, and the commercial activities were modified to promote direct sales and reduce costs coming from intermediaries. Along with these measures, some actions were directed towards promoting the sale of complementary products in theairlines own websites, in an attempt to increase non-operational revenues. All these actions together were considered by travel agencies as an example of unfair competition, and caused a conflict. Sky Air was one of many traditional airlines that had to deal with this situation and face the trade-off that implied supporting one or another channel. The situation went as far as finding itself involved in a boycott led by travel agencies and having the agencies ask for the commercial director’s dismissal. Sky Air was put in the dilemma of having to choose between bowing to travel agencies’ demands or continuing to support their ‘conflictive’ commercial policies.

on the planet, through products and services, films and trailers, videos, documentaries, travel, websites, scientific geographical areas and so on. Clients are those who actually buy products and services from Google, such as Google AdWords, Google AdSense and YouTube banners or advertisements. The need that Google satisfies in its users is access to information relevant to a specific subject at zero cost. The need it satisfies in its clients is an increase in their website traffic, enabling them to sell more through that channel. In terms of products and services, Google began with a search engine and has now expanded the range to areas of communication, social networking, mobility and mobile technology.

Montaña Matosas, Jordi Moll Mendoza, IsabeL Santa & Cole. Person, city and planet (reviewed 2014) Barcelona: ESADE Case Collection, 02/2014 14 p.

Montalvo García, Adolfo Valls Giménez, Josep F. Franch Bullich, Josep Parera Olm, Antoni Google and the worldwile travel market Boston, Mass. (U.S.): North American Case Research Association (NACRA), 02/2014 25 p.

Santa & Cole defines itself as a ‘design editor’ and sells home furnishings, street furniture (including trees and shrubs), as well as books. The company was founded in 1985 and has a very distinct and creative strategy. This case was prepared during a major crisis and the founder and chairman of the company describes the company philosophy and future plans.

Any successful value proposition needs to identify its target client, to understand the problem or need he or she has and to propose a business solution with specific products or services. On the first point, Google differentiates between a user and a client. Users are the consumers of all free products and services, including the search engine itself, Gmail, Google maps, Youtube and Google Docs. Users search, compare, and finally find the information they need from anywhere

Observatory of Spanish Multinational Companies (OEME) Research Proposal: Impact of International Diversification on the Performance of Spanish Multinationals: The Moderating Role of the Geographical Focus and the Type of Industrial Sector Luís Araya, PhD Candidate Xavier Mendoza, Supervisor

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book reviews Soto, Augusto China engages Latin America: Tracing the trajectory by Adrian Hearn and José Luis León-Manríquez Boulder, Colo. (U.S.); Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011. 325 p. Book review in: Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 32, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 484-485

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un canal cada vez más importante de estructuración y solución de las crecientes demandas e iniciativas de la sociedad civil.

Barcelona: ESADE; Workplace Pride, 09/2013 16 p.

In May 2013 the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights published a report on the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the E.U. and Croatia. Data from over 93,000 LGBT individuals make evident an uncomfortable truth concerning the reality of sexual minorities in Europe. Despite progress in some areas, many LGBT individuals still experience discrimination and hostility in various life domains. These findings are paralleled by reports from other countries that show similar unfortunate patterns. Fortunately, there are also winds of change. Government and private and public organisations in multiple countries have begun to recognize the social and economic imperative of LGBT inclusion. Efforts of such organisations help raise awareness of the need to increase societal openness for LGBT people. Naturally, many of these efforts are focused on creating a more inclusive workplace environment. By now, thanks to such projects, we know more about the challenges LGBT individuals face at work and what companies can do to support them.

Carreras Fisas, Ignasi La reacción del Tercer Sector Social al entorno de crisis Barcelona: Fundación PwC; ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social; Obra Social “la Caixa”, 04/2014 75 p. Publicación que analiza la evolución de los ingresos del tercer sector en España. Segundo estudio como continuidad del realizado el curso anterior. En este también se analiza cómo está reaccionando el sector y se aportan datos de una encuesta y de un panel de directivos del sector. Tal y como expresábamos en el “Estudio sobre el presente y futuro del Tercer Sector Social en un entorno de crisis”, que os presentamos en el año 2013, el Tercer Sector es un actor clave en el desarrollo social y económico de nuestro país,

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Comajuncosa Ferrer, Josep Sayeras Maspera, Josep M. Recio Figueiras, Eugenio Informe Económico. Enero 2014 Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía, 01/2014 74 p. ESADE. Informe económico; no 16 La economía española va a experimentar en 2014 un crecimiento positivo pero demasiado débil. Será, pues, el séptimo año consecutivo de recesión o estancamiento económico.En el Informe Económico de hace un año dibujábamos un escenario en que se abría una ventana de oportunidad al crecimiento de la economía española para este 2014. Tal como explicamos en el presente número, finalmente este crecimiento será muy débil (anémico). Pero, si se cumplen determinadas condiciones, en 2015 podría darse el principio de una recuperación económica más sólida. Para ello será necesario que se mantenga el mejor escenario a nivel europeo y que se solucionen problemas concretos de la economía. A nivel europeo, es imprescindible que el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) mantenga su disponibilidad para mantener los costes de financiación de los países a niveles razonables (el programa de OMT) y se debe, además, seguir adelante con la unión bancaria. Los aspectos de esta que implican algún tipo de mutualización de riesgos (el mecanismo único de resolución bancaria y el esquema de protección de depósitos) son los que presentan más dificultades para llegar a un acuerdo. Pero son precisamente estos aspectos los que darán la señal más clara del compromiso de los estados con el buen funcionamiento futuro de la moneda única europea. A nivel español, la prioridad es recuperar el flujo de crédito hacia las familias y, sobre todo, las pequeñas y medianas empresas viables. Sin ello no se recuperarán el consumo y la inversión. Y parece imposible crecer de forma sostenida solo con el impulso de las exportaciones. Una vez saneados los balances bancarios, si el crédito no vuelve a fluir, el BCE debería estudiar medidas concretas para impulsarlo.

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Comajuncosa Ferrer, Josep Laborda Coronil, Anna Informe Económico. Junio 2014

Pascual Ramsay, Ángel Saz Carranza, Angel Garcia Garcia, Irene The support network for the economic internationalization of the Sao Paulo region

Barcelona: ESADE. Departamento de Economía, 06/2014 38 p. ESADE. Informe económico; no 17

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El crecimiento económico ha vuelto desde hace un año a la zona euro, pero se trata de un crecimiento débil, que no alcanza el 1% en términos anuales. Además, con el índice de precios aumentando tan solo un 0,5% en términos anuales, existe un evidente peligro de deflación. Si esta amenaza se hiciera realidad, la economía volvería a la recesión y se produciría un aumento de la carga real de la deuda en unas economías que ya están muy endeudadas. El Banco Central Europeo (BCE) tiene el mandato legal de mantener la estabilidad de precios y, por tanto, debe luchar a toda costa contra la deflación. Al cierre de la edición de este informe, el BCE acaba de anunciar importantes medidas de política monetaria que van en esta dirección. El tipo de interés oficial se ha reducido hasta el 0,15% y los depósitos que los bancos tienen en el BCE se remunerarán a un tipo negativo del –0,1%, con el objetivo que estos hagan fluir la liquidez obtenida del banco central. Pero, sin duda, la medida más importante ha sido poner a disposición de las entidades financieras de la zona 400.000 millones de euros, que estarán condicionados a que concedan con ellos créditos a la economía real. Además, esta liquidez se proporciona a un tipo de interés prácticamente cero y a un plazo de cuatro años. Con ello, el BCE realiza un cambio de estrategia y se adentra en el terreno de las medidas monetarias no convencionales utilizadas desde hace ya algunos años por otros grandes bancos centrales, especialmente la Reserva Federal estadounidense. Esta inyección de liquidez condicionada tiene la ventaja de estar especialmente diseñada para permitir la recuperación del flujo de crédito, algo muy necesario en las economías del sur de la zona euro.

This report, commissioned by the Brookings Institution and developed by ESADE Business School, describes the existing economic internationalization institutional support system of Sao Paulo. Under its Global Cities Initiative (GCI), Brookings decided to explore how other relevant metros in the world organized their international investment and trade support systems. Sao Paulo was chosen as one of the in-depth case studies. ESADE was contracted by Brookings to identify and analyze the Sao Paulo’s support network for economic internationalization and to analyze the comparable system in Los Angeles, U.S. The findings of both reports-highlighting similarities and differences across these two systems-will be used as part of the Global Cities Initiative to help US metropolitan areas extend their global reach. Many of these findings will be shared at the first Global Forum in Sao Paulo in November 2012 and in other forums held in the U.S.

Santiso Guimaras, Javier Fondos soberanos 2013 Barcelona: ESADEgeo; KPMG; ICEX, 11/2013 110 p.

Este informe Fondos Soberanos 2013 es el segundo realizado por ESADEgeo, con el apoyo de KPMG e INVEST IN SPAIN, ahora parte del ICEX. Quisiéramos empezar agradeciendo a ambas instituciones el

Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management (IIK) Research Proposal: Inter-Organizational Collaborative Dynamics: The Coevolution of Competitive and Cooperative Interaction Styles Mehdi Bagherzadeh, PhD Candidate Ann Majchrzak, Supervisor

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apoyo recibido, que hace realidad este segundo informe anual sobre fondos soberanos. Queremos agradecer también muy especialmente a Elena Pisonero, entonces en KPMG y ahora presidenta de Hispasat, sin cuyo entusiasmo y visión esta iniciativa no habría visto la luz. Además, agradecemos a Javier Capapé y a Tomás Guerrero su excelente trabajo de análisis y coordinación del informe; por último, Samuel Granados, por el diseño de gráficos e infografías de primer nivel internacional.

Saz Carranza, Angel Garcia Garcia, Irene The support network for the economic internationalization of the Los Angeles region Saz Carranza, A.; Garcia Garcia, I.; Wagner, J. Barcelona: ESADE. Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo), 09/2013 165 p. In early 2011, the Brookings Institution partnered with organizations in the Los Angeles region to develop a Los Angeles Regional Export Plan as part of the Metro Export Initiative. Brookings worked with a group of local export support institutions to develop this bottom-up, data-driven plan. Some of the findings in the Export Plan indicated that export service providers in the Los Angeles region/Southern California cooperate regionally but do not operate under a wellcoordinated system. The Export Plan also concluded that small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are new-to-export (NTE) and new-to-market firms require more customized support. In response to these and other detailed findings, one core strategy of the Export Plan was to establish the Los Angeles Regional Export Council (LARExC), an effort now underway. The mission of LARExC is to “directly address the fragmentation and gap issue with its core roles being to tie all federal, state, and local programs together into a responsive and flexible regional network; fill critical gaps in the comprehensive export system; and better leverage the network to generate a larger, more consistent pipeline of export ready companies.

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Van Cranenburgh, Katinka Arenas Vives, Daniel From stewardship to power: Religious organizations and their investment potentials Van Cranenburgh, K.; Louche, C.; Arenas Vives, D. Barcelona: ESADE. Instituto de Innovación Social; The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS), 05/2014 37 p. Although limited in numbers and details, religious teachings are available to guide religious investors or organizations wishing to invest according to their faith. While some Religoius Organizations (RO) are very active in their attempts to integrate their beliefs into their investment decisions, other refrain from doing so and perceive their financial assests as secular resources to support their sacred core mission. This report provides insight into the teachings of several faith traditions as well as into the practical challenges and opportunites facing religious entities investing in line with their beliefs.

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phD THESES Alegre de Miguel, Jorge Llebaría Samper, Sergio (dir.) La anticresis: función y finalidad en el Código civil español y en el Código civil de Cataluña

Arroyo Díez, Alfonso Tornos Mas, Joaquín (dir.) El ámbito subjetivo en la normativa española de contratación del sector público: las fundaciones y las cámaras de comercio

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El presente trabajo constituye un estudio sobre el contrato de anticresis planteado de formar comparativa entre la regulación establecida en el CCE y la más reciente del CCCat. El estudio persigue examinar esta figura contractual de manera íntegra, analizando todos sus elementos y las obligaciones que de él se derivan tanto para el acreedor como para el deudor. El estudio se centra fundamentalmente en determinar la verdadera naturaleza jurídica de este derecho, bien como derecho real de garantía, que es la consideración tradicional que se le ha atribuido, o bien como derecho de goce, que es la postura que venimos a defender aunque de forma más precisa hayamos acabado por determinar que su función jurídica y económica es la de un derecho de goce en función de pago. Y definido este carácter también hemos acabado por concluir que ni en la anticresis del CCE debe entenderse comprendida a favor del acreedor la facultad de enajenación o ius distrahendi, ni en la regulación del CCCat debiera haberse reconocido tal facultad, puesto que al hacerlo se altera esa función jurídica y económica dejando ese contrato vacío de toda utilidad práctica. Profundizar en esa función es lo que nos ha permitido su diferenciación respecto de otras figuras que generalmente se consideran afines como son el propio pacto anticrético, la prenda inmobiliaria o el usufructo en garantía. Y en definitiva será esa función liquidativa de la deuda la que puede hacer que la anticresis tome relevancia como derecho real que encauce el cumplimiento de las obligaciones, permitiendo al acreedor percibir el cobro de la deuda y al deudor hacer frente a ellas mediante el uso por aquel de su patrimonio inmobiliario, no siendo pues un derecho de reacción ante el incumplimiento que permita atacar el patrimonio del deudor y oponiéndose de esta forma a los derechos reales de garantía con los que tradicionalmente ha sido entremezclado.

El objetivo principal del presente trabajo de investigación se centra en determinar el nivel de sujeción a la normativa de contratación del sector público de las fundaciones y de las Cámaras de Comercio, Industria y Navegación. Dentro del elenco de entidades fundacionales, se ha mostrado especial interés por las del sector público —tanto estatales, como autonómicas—, las fundaciones públicas sanitarias, las fundaciones en mano común y las que vamos a denominar “fundaciones stricto sensu”. La necesidad de extraer unas conclusiones rigurosas del tema va a requerir del análisis previo de la normativa comunitaria reguladora de la contratación pública, y en concreto de la definición de “poder adjudicador” contenida en el artículo 1.9 de la Directiva 2004/18 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo de 31 de marzo, sobre coordinación de los procedimientos de adjudicación de los contratos públicos de obras, de suministro y de servicios. Para su precisa delimitación conceptual se ha acudido a la jurisprudencia del Tribunal europeo como instrumento esencial en la comprensión de términos nada fáciles de interpretar como “necesidades de interés general”, “carácter industrial o mercantil”, “control en la toma de decisiones” o “financiación mayoritariamente pública”. A partir de aquí, se ha procedido al estudio del ámbito subjetivo contenido en el Real Decreto Legislativo 3/2011, de 14 de noviembre, mediante el cual se aprueba el Texto Refundido de la Ley de Contratos del Sector Público y sus distintos niveles de sujeción a la normativa de contratación del sector público, mostrándose especial interés por el de máxima intensidad —el de Administración Pública—, el intermedio —poder adjudicador, no Administración Pública— y el mínimo, correspondiente al resto de entidades del sector público. La correcta integración de los entes regulados en el Derecho nacional en cualquiera de los niveles de sujeción a la norma exige de un análisis exhaustivo de las características previstas en las distintas disposiciones sectoriales y un correcto entendimiento del complejo y extenso artículo 3 del citado Texto Refundido. La difícil interpretación que se deriva del citado precepto, eje central del ámbito subjetivo, procede, entre otras circunstancias, de la utilización de la misma definición en la delimitación de dos conceptos, el de entidad del sector público contenido en la cláusula residual, letra h) del artículo 3.1 y el de poder adjudicador referido en el artículo 3.3, letra b). Tras el examen pormenorizado del citado artículo 3,

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será cuando podremos fijar con exactitud el nivel de sujeción del elenco de entidades fundacionales seleccionadas, siendo necesario para ello determinar su naturaleza pública o privada; el tipo de necesidades que satisfacen y el control público al que se encuentran sometidas. En este particular extremo, será esencial delimitar el alcance del control que ejerce el Protectorado sobre las fundaciones stricto sensu. La sujeción a la normativa de contratación del sector público de las Cámaras de Comercio, Industria y Navegación requerirá del mismo ejercicio analítico que la de los entes fundacionales, siendo determinante su carácter de Corporación de Derecho Público, las necesidades que satisfacen, y el control público al que se encuentran sometidas, circunstancia, esta última, que exigirá de un estudio exhaustivo tras la supresión del recurso cameral permanente.

Bravo Orellana, Edgardo Ricardo Rodón Mòdol, Joan (dir.) Entrepreneurial capability: Examining opportunity pursuit in multiple contexts Rodón Mòdol, J.; Santana Ormeño, M. (dirs.) Universitat Ramon Llull (URL). ESADE 12/2013 Si bien la relación entre tecnología y desempeño humano ha sido estudiada por décadas, la práctica refiere que los beneficios esperados de la tecnología aún no se materializan del todo. En ese contexto, esta tesis ha detectado tres oportunidades para contribuir a una mayor comprensión de esta relación. Primero, la literatura previa se ha desarrollado en vertientes separadas poniendo énfasis sea en el componente humano —como la psicología industrial— o en el componente tecnológico —como los modelos de impacto de la tecnología sobre el desempeño— con escasos puntos de encuentro entre ambas. Sin embargo, la perspectiva de sistemas reconoce que el desempeño debe ser explicado de manera multidimensional, a través de factores vinculados a los distintos componentes. En esa medida, es necesario conocer qué factores de los distintos componentes —y sus interrelaciones— inciden sobre el desempeño. Segundo, los modelos de impacto de la tecnología han considerado el sistema de información sobre todo en su rol de proveedor de información y, en esa línea, estudian factores como la calidad del sistema o la calidad de la información para explicar la utilidad de un sistema. Sin embargo, diversos autores señalan que la provisión de información no es el único rol de un sistema, pues este cumple además el rol de automatizar tareas, rol que también puede incidir en su utilidad. Por ello, es necesario conocer si factores derivados del rol automatizar inciden sobre la utilidad. Tercero, los modelos de impacto de la tecnología consideran relaciones directas entre sus antecedentes (calidad del sistema y calidad de la información) y su utilidad; sin embargo, una relación directa puede limitar la comprensión acerca del mecanismo mediante el cual los antecedentes se relacionan con la utilidad. Algunos autores sugieren que el tipo de uso o rol de un sistema puede mediar esta relación. Por tanto, es necesario conocer si variables mediadoras derivadas de los distintos roles pueden ayudar a entender con mayor profundidad esta relación.

Canboy, Basak Batista Foguet, Joan M. (dir.) Emotional and social competencies: Developing and measuring emotional and social competencies in higher education Universitat Ramon Llull (URL). ESADE 05/2014 During the last three decades, research on emotional intelligence (EI) has continuously increased in order to understand its nature and its effects on diverse life variables including outstanding performance, leadership or life satisfaction. In parallel and independently from the different competing models of EI and the subsequently applied measurement tools, research has shown that in each of these approaches EI can be developed. However, evidence on how and how effectively this is done in higher education is still scarce. After covering the areas of the theoretical models, the three paper sections of this doctoral thesis focus on establishing construct validity among different measures of emotional and social competencies (ESC) and on the possibilities of developing them in higher education: The first study taps into some of the major criticisms on the concept of EI, mainly referring to the quality of previous empirical studies due to the lack of construct or incremental validity of some of the measurement instruments. Here, a closer look is taken at two different instruments used to measure ESC: the Emotional and Social Competencies Inventory - University Edition (ESCI-U) as a multi-rater questionnaire and the Critical Incident Interview (CII) Informant results of the 360 degree questionnaires are compared to the results from the CIIs for 87 students. Results show significant correlations among colleagues’ assessments of teamwork and spouses’ assessment of developing others with the results from the CIIs. Findings suggest the presence of social desirability in some indicators for achievement orientation. Some competencies seem more difficult to assess through external observers. Significant correlations were also found between some competencies as measured through the self-assessments and the CIIs, which indicates that selfassessments might be more “realistic” than expected. The second study shares how interdisciplinary project at a masters’ program at a Spanish law school is introduced. This pedagogical innovation rose from the need to better prepare students for the expectations of their future employers which required the development of competencies. The curriculum of a new course called “Module 9” was framed according to Experiential Learning Theory (ELT). While student teams worked on self-selected projects, their learning processes were accompanied by workshops and tutorials. Coding of learning memoranda showed that each team applied each learning mode during the different stages of the projects. While evaluations about the experience were generally positive, awareness of the learning process itself could be increased throughout the course. Reflections from professors included the need to improve the support system for students to manage the emotions during the learning process. This led to changing the curriculum design for the following cohort by including the assessment and development of emotional and social competencies. The third study

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describes how Boyatzis’ Intentional Change Theory (ICT) is combined with the interdisciplinary project work in teams with the objective of creating a framework for self-directed change based on the assessment and development of ESC. Workshops, tutorials and individual coaching sessions were offered to ensure the best possible alignment of personal and team goals. ESC were measured with the multi-rater ESCI-U after 3 months into the program and then again at the end of the academic year. The results of exploratory evaluations for 18 participants showed positive change on the development of ESC in general. The quality of the present research is discussed critically and future research lines recommended as well as the implications of the present studies reviewed.

papers. The overall findings reveal that self-initiated expatriates and organizational expatriates seem to contrast in their meaning of ‘success’, as well as in their motivation for going abroad, but face similar obstacles in terms of spousal adjustment and language. The findings are supported with quotes from interviewees.

Merzthal Toranzo, Jorge Baltazar Iglesias Bedós, Oriol (dir.) Sierra Olivera, Vicenta (dir.) La capacitación como instrumento de marketing para la generación de valor en las empresas industriales en el Perú Universitat Ramon Llull (URL). ESADE 03/2014

Canhilal, Sukriye Kubra Dolan, Simon (dir.) Enhancing the understanding of expatriate adjustment: Concept and multi-sample empirical support Universitat Ramon Llull (URL). ESADE 06/2014 As organizations, regardless of their sizes, seek opportunities to become multinationals, the significance of expatriates is expanding. While expatriation is not a new concept, the known identity of expatriates is adjusting to the new demands of new generations. Following World War II, expatriation began when organizations initiated sending their own employees abroad to work in their subsidiaries However, along with the new generation, a new type of expatriates emerged as self-initiated expatriates; people who decided to work abroad without the support of a parent organization in their home countries. This thesis attempts to understand the differences between organization expatriates and self-initiated expatriates by presenting three papers that consider different samples and diverse methods. Each chapter has its own conclusions and limitations; following on, the final chapter of the thesis will summarize, compare and contrast the findings of these

La presente investigación recoge evidencias empíricas del mercado peruano que indican que la capacitación se puede convertir en un instrumento estratégico para las relaciones entre empresas. Sin embargo, cuando se estudió la literatura relevante, se encontró que, si bien la capacitación se encuentra presente en las estrategias empresariales, no ha sido estudiada como una herramienta de diferenciación en el Marketing Industrial. Asimismo, diferentes investigadores, como Hakansson (1982), Jackson (1985) y Vavra (1992), consideran que el establecimiento de relaciones de largo plazo en los mercados industriales permitirá una mejor sostenibilidad de los negocios. De la misma manera, se observa la necesidad empresarial y del país por mejorar sus precarios niveles de competitividad, que se reflejan en su ubicación en el ámbito mundial. Así, en los estudios del Wold Economic Forum, el Perú se ubica, actualmente en el puesto 73, en el reporte correspondiente al periodo 2010-2011, y ocupó el puesto 76 en el mismo reporte del periodo 2009-2010. Este documento muestra la competitividad del Perú frente a 120 países (WEF, 2011)1. Asimismo, sus limitaciones en materia del desarrollo humano se evidencian en su posición respecto al área educativa, tecnología y capacitación en el ámbito mundial, ya que ocupa el puesto 73, con un puntaje de 4 sobre un máximo de 7. Además, aun

Center of Global Economy and Geopolitcs (ESADEgeo) Research Proposal: The design of network administrative organizations

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cuando los estudios del Banco Mundial indican que el Perú ha mejorado notablemente en cobertura, también muestran que no logra los mismos resultados en sus indicadores de calidad (BM, 2007)2. La presente investigación recoge esta situación coyuntural y pretende reflejarla en un modelo llamado valor a través de la capacitación industrial (VACE) con el que se postula que la capacitación le genera valor al individuo y este, a su vez, a la organización mediante la mejora de competencias. Esta última es considerada, por la empresa, como un valor añadido al intercambio puramente transaccional que los productos generan y permite establecer un vínculo entre las empresas. Como hipótesis planteamos que la capacitación genera un valor agregado en los participantes tanto desde el punto de vista de los conocimientos recibidos como desde la percepción de mejora y satisfacción por parte del participante. El trabajo de investigación comprende, en su

failure and to reduce their impacts. Accordingly, the study utilizes a situated learning perspective and a practice view to respond to the question “how do IS organizations learn from their internal, large Information systemrelated incidents?” Employing a multiple, inductive case study design, the study found that organizations adopt a wide range of practices during and after the incident handling process. This resulted in articulating five learning modes: 1) learning through incident handling, 2) post-incident reflection, 3) transversal learning, 4) outsourced learning, and 5) learning through material replacement. Although the first two learning modes are documented in other domains, the study shows how the characteristics of ISRIs affect the practices associated to these two learning modes. Further, the analysis focuses on the other three learning modes that seem to be typical of this sector. Transversal learning refers to the fact that while some of

primera etapa, un estudio cuantitativo, con una muestra representativa de 1000 individuos y esta constituye aproximadamente el 10% de la población en el sector industrial de la soldadura. Este estudio se complementa con otro cualitativo llevado a cabo en el centro de labores de los participantes, con una muestra de 30 supervisores, los cuales tienen a cargo la supervisión directa de los entrevistados y evalúan el progreso e impacto que la capacitación ha tenido en su desempeño laboral. Las evidencias empíricas recogidas y modeladas son analizadas y permiten concluir que, en el contexto peruano, la necesidad de capacitación industrial se ve reflejada en los altos niveles de aceptación de un modelo que comparte el conocimiento. Simultáneamente, las empresas industriales pueden encontrar en este modelo una oportunidad para evitar la “comoditización” de sus productos y lograr el establecimiento de relaciones de largo plazo que le permitan generar un valor añadido al que los productos “per sé” generan durante el proceso de adquisición y aplicación. Las implicaciones empresariales son muchas, ya que, a partir de estrategias relacionales y de generación de valor, las empresas pueden crear nuevos enfoques estratégicos que, no solo beneficien a sectores productivos específicos, sino al país en su conjunto, al mejorar los niveles de desarrollo del capital humano. Desde el punto de vista académico, este trabajo de tesis presenta un nuevo enfoque donde se combinan conceptos de desarrollo del capital humano y de mercado. Sin embargo, la principal limitación del mismo es que el trabajo, al estar concentrado únicamente en un sector industrial específico, no permite generalizar muchas de sus conclusiones, pero, al mismo tiempo, deja abierta una nueva línea de investigación para futuros trabajos.

the learning practices are focused on individual incidents, specific learning practices exist which take into account multiple adverse events. Outsourced learning indicates that capitalizing on the experience of an incident is often carried out through relying on specialized providers that handle incidents. Finally, the particular nature of the IS work processes and its material basis allow for learning through material replacement. The thesis enriches our understanding of the processes whereby organizations learn from ISRIs, thus providing contributions to theoretical developments in knowledge and learning literature. More specifically, the results of the research challenge the established temporal view about when learning process takes place. While the existing literature on organizational learning suggests that learning takes place either during incident (through incident handling practices) or (right) after (through post-incident reflection and learning), the current study suggests that the temporal pattern of learning process is not necessarily confined to this established dichotomy. The concept of transversal learning indicates the importance of looking at learning practices that take place in parallel and with a considerable temporal distance from incidents that occur in a proper moment of learning. The thesis adds to knowledge literature by foregrounding the importance of the materiality regimes underlying the learning process. The idea of learning through material replacement shows that the modular, adaptable regime of materiality that dominates ISRIs can lead organizations to benefit from their incident experience, without necessarily knowing the causes of incidents and their potential solutions. Finally, the thesis advances our understanding of the role of politics and governance of learning from incidents in the IS sector. It does so by highlighting the role of neutralization (versus normalization) and dramatization (versus rationalization) in the process of learning. The study found that the ignorance of influential actors about the technical aspects of the problem could be leveraged by learning agents to add to the political pressure needed to drive learning initiatives. The study also highlights the critical importance of organizational governance for the process of learning. The concept of outsourced learning underscores the importance of a learning governance system, which complements the two dominant learning governances in the literature –i.e., intra and inter-organizational learning. This shows that for capitalizing on the experiences of past incidents, organizations might avoid performing learning practices, especially when they are dealing with a wide range of changing technologies (learning abstinence), since the knowledge gained is expected to be obsolete or decrease in value through time.

Rezazade Mehrizi, Mohammad Hosein Rodón Mòdol, Joan (dir.) Organizational learning from information system-related incidents Rodón Mòdol, J. & Nicolini, D. (dirs..) Universitat Ramon Llull (URL). ESADE 01/2014 This thesis examines how organizations try to leverage the experience of major information system-related incident (ISRI) to avoid the recurrence of

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Bakici, Tuba Almirall Mezquita, Esteve Wareham, Jonathan A smart city initiative: The case of Barcelona Journal of the Knowledge Economy Springer Vol. 4, no. 2, 07/2013, p. 135-148

Canboy, Basak Buganza González, Carmen Emmerling, Robert Integrating interdisciplinary project work with the development of emotional and social competencies in higher education: A pilot study Canboy,B.; Montalvo, A.; Buganza, C.; Emmerling, R. 14th EURAM Annual Conference 2014 European Academy of Management (EURAM); Universidad de Valencia Valencia, 04/06/2014 - 07/06/2014

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Canhilal, Sukriye Kubra Exploring the values in the Italian public sector using the tri-axial model Canhilal, S.K.; Borgonovi, E.; Vera, E. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2012 IF=0.882; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 544-558

PhD PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS

Capell, Ben Canhilal, Sukriye Kubra Mapping values in old vs new members of the European Union: A comparative analysis of public sector cultures

Casabayó Bonás, Mònica Dávila Blázquez, Juan Francisco Influences in children’s materialism: a conceptual framework

Capell, B.; Canhilal, S.K.; Alas, R.; Sommer, L.; Ossenkop, C. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2012 IF=0.882; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 503-527

Young Consumers Emerald Vol. 14, no. 4, 12/2013, p. 297-311

Capell, Ben Public sector values: Between the real and the ideal Gabel-Shemueli, R.; Capell, B. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2012 IF=0.882; Q3 Manag.) Emerald Vol. 20, no. 4, 10/2013, p. 586-606

Capell, Ben Dolan, Simon Tzafrir, Shat Explaining sexual minorities’ disclosure: Analysis anchored on trust embedded in Legal & HR practices configuration Capell, B.; Dolan, S.; Tzafrir, S. Barcelona: ESADE, 10/2013 ESADE working papers; no. 249 28 p.

Capell, Ben A question of trust: LGBT visibility in the workplace

Goodman, Jennifer Shareholder dialogue behind the scenes: addressing the bulk of the iceberg Goodman, J.; Hebb, T.; Hoepner, A. 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Academy of Management (AOM) Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S.), 01/08/2014 - 05/08/2014

Jain, Tanusree The impact of financial crisis on Corporate Social Orientations: A comparative analysis of U.S., German and Indian companies Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society International Association for Business and Society (IABS) Vol. 24, no. 1, 10/2013, p. 30-40

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Almirall Mezquita, Esteve Lee, Melissa Jo Majchrzak, Ann Open innovation requires integrated competition-community ecosystems: Lessons learned from civic open innovation

Moodie, Scott William Dolan, Simon Exploring the causes, symptoms and health consequences of joint and inverse states of work engagement and burnout: The specific case of nurses in Spain

Business Horizons (2013 IF=1.284; Q3 Bus.) Elsevier Vol. 57, no. 3, 05/2014, p. 391-400

Moodie, S.; Dolan, S.; Burke, R. Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management Emerald Vol. 12, no. 1, 01/2014, p. 4-22

Loewe, Nicolas Bagherzadeh Niri, Mehdi Araya Castillo, Luis Andrés Batista Foguet, Joan M. Life domain satisfactions as predictors of overall life satisfaction among workers: Evidence from Chile

Loewe, N.; Bagherzadeh, M.; Araya Castillo, L.; Thieme, C.; Batista Foguet, J.M. Social Indicators Research (2013 IF=1.452; Q1 Soc. Sci., Interdiscip.; Q1 Sociol.) Springer Vol. 118, no. 1, 08/2014, p. 71-86

Observatory of Spanish Multinational Companies (OEME) Research Proposal: Context Dependence of Corporate Social Responsibility

Tanusree Jain, PhD Candidate Ruth Aguilera, Supervisor

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awards and other acollades

Chliova, Myrto Brinckmann, Jan Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM) Award for the best paper on the topic of Public Policy Chliova, M.; Brinckmann, J. & Rosenbusch, N. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 06/2013 Award winning paper: “Is Microcredit a Blessing for the Poor? A Meta-Analysis”

Longoni, Annachiara The Chris Voss Highly Commended Award 2014 Longoni, A.; Cagliano, R. European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) 07/2014 Award winning for the paper: “Sustainable supply chain management and competitive advantage: The role of human capital”

Pless, Nicola Faculty Pioneer Award 2013 Franch Bullich, Josep 2013 EFMD Case Writing Competition Franch Bullich, F. & Sabian, M. The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) 09/2013 Josep Franch and Marianna Sabina have won the 2013 EFMD Case Writing Competition with the case “Roca in Egypt”

Longoni, Annachiara Highly Commended Award winner of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Operations and Production Management Emerald Group Publishing 03/2014 Award winning for the paper: “Sustainability operations strategies: the impact of HRM and organisational practices on the triple bottom line”

Longoni, Annachiara The Chris Voss Highly Commended Award 2014 Kauppi, K.; Caniato, F.; Kuula, M.; Longoni, A. European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) 07/2014 Award winning for the paper: “Supply chain risk management and operational performance: The impact of country-level disruption risks”

The Aspen Institute 09/2013 Together with Mauro F. Guillen, Professor Pless Nicola has been honoured with the 2013 Faculty Pioneer Award

Thiel, Jana Brinckmann, Jan Best paper award at the Academy of Management Conference 2014 Thiel, J.; Min Kim, S.; Brinckmann, J. Academy of Management (AOM) 06/2013 Award winning for the paper: “Developing entrepreneurial expertise: Cognitive entrenchment and decision incongruence”

Vanhaverbeke, Wim Top 50 authors on innovation and technology management International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) 09/2013 The IAMOT award was based on a quantitative analysis of research published in leading academic journals between 2008 and 2012

Villegas Sánchez, Carolina Outstanding Author Contribution 2014. Research in Labor Economics Aguayo-Tellez, E.; Airola, J.; Juhn, C.; Villegas Sánchez, C. Emerald Group Publishing 12/2013 Award winning for the paper: “Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s”

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