This paper attempts to gain a deeper understanding of the firm's ability for integrating stakeholder insights into the process of organisational innovation within the context of sustainable development. Given the early stage of empirical research on the topic, we used an exploratory case study...

Como su propio nombre indica, el objetivo del trabajo de investigación que se presenta en este documento ha sido profundizar sobre la influencia que los inversores han tenido, están teniendo y van a tener en el comportamiento medioambiental de las empresas. A través del análisis del...

La aparición sucesiva de los tres sistemas de gestión mencionados en el título, junto con los diferentes ámbitos de aplicación de los mismos, ha llevado a que las empresas los hayan puesto en marcha de manera independiente. A pesar de las numerosas similitudes entre los objetivos y...

Strategy in low-income markets is a new but emerging field of international strategy research. Because low-income markets remain largely unexplored and unknown to most companies, it has been argued that developing embedded ties and alliances with traditional and non-traditional partners is...

In recent years, there has been a virtual explosion of interest in corporate governance. Corporate scandals and the need to protect minority shareholders' interests, for example, are some of the reasons behind the development of corporate governance codes in numerous countries and corporations....

En los últimos años, principalmente desde mediados de la década de los noventa, la inversión socialmente responsable (ISR) ha tenido una aceptación creciente en los países desarrollados. Parece oportuno, por tanto, saber en qué consiste esta alternativa de inversión y ver cómo puede...

The competitiveness of a country is the result of the competitiveness of its firms. The competitiveness of firms is partly determined by how their business models interact with the environment to produce offerings with added value. This chapter contributes to the reflection on Catalonia's...

Offshoring has received wide attention lately. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and productivity dislocations, are yet to be fully assessed. However, some consensus has been attained as to how to proxy its theoretical definition at an aggregate level. Here we review...

Despite its long tradition and well known contributions, corporate strategy research is yet far from being mature. This paper proposes an innovative framework that approaches the field from the theoretical perspective provided by complexity theory. We propose to see the corporate level of the...

In this article a business model is defined as the firm choices on policies, assets and governance structure of those policies and assets, together with their consequences, be them flexible or rigid. We also provide a way to represent such business models to highlight the dynamic loops and to...