This paper analyses the relationship between firm performance and women on boards and top management positions in a sample of large Spanish firms in the period 2000-2004. The results of the study indicate that the percentage of women on boards and top management teams is much lower in industrial...

Literature has tried to report whether high compensation differences between executives are linked to better firm performance. This study, based on tournament theory arguments, has attempted to provide new evidences in this line of research, using a sample of 120 Spanish listed firms. Results,...

This paper analyses, from a Knowledge-based View of the Firm, how companies formulate and implement their knowledge management strategies (KMS). Specifically, we try to explore if certain specific KMS patterns exist as a function of the established objectives, knowledge management tools that are...

Economic literature had shown the existence of the interrelationship between the financial decisions of the firms and their competitive decisions; either by convenience or by data availability, most of empiric papers addressed separately the influence of both kinds of decisions over firm...

La gestión de recursos humanos ha sido tradicionalmente estudiada en el ámbito de las grandes empresas. Sin embargo, en los últimos años hay un gran interés en caracterizar a las microempresas, pequeñas y medianas empresas (pyme), en analizar cómo las prácticas de recursos...