This paper analyzes the evolution during the period 1986-2002 of the corporate strategy of Lujan, a highly successful car components manufacturer headquartered in Spain, as a way to explore how the corporate level influences the successful evolution of a company exposed to a "turbulent"...

This paper is based on a panel we organized at the "First Annual Conference on Emerging Research Frontiers in International Business Studies", organized by the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), to discuss several new lines of research in international strategy. Four lines of...

This paper explores some fundamental tasks associated with corporate governance: manager appraisal and compensation. Most of the empirical research in this area has been centered on Anglo-Saxon countries. Some European countries, such as Spain, have a very different governance tradition. Given...

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...

This paper aims to further our understanding of new forms of organizing by asking and answering two related questions: What is new in forms of organizing? and Why is it so? It starts by examining the main forces that lead to the emergence and diffusion of new organizational arrangements,...

Most approaches to innovation bear the implicit assumption that increased innovativeness leads to improved organizational performance. Thus, more attention has been focused on innovativeness than on innovation performance; on novelty than on value. However, recent empirical evidence calls into...

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....

El presente artículo expone los resultados de una innovadora investigación –no existe ningún trabajo de este tipo para el caso español– sobre las prácticas de gobierno y dirección de las empresas españolas. En primer lugar, se presentan los resultados sobre la situación actual de las...

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...