La presencia de la empresa familiar en el panorama empresarial español configura la realidad empresarial de nuestro país y su importancia es capital para el desarrollo de la economía española. Uno de los problemas más recurrentes en la bibliografía sobre empresa familiar es el tipo de...

This study builds on the results of a recent international study, "Success as a Function of Love, Trust and Freedom in Family Business" (Gallo et al., 2001), which introduced a new conceptual model identifying family unity and commitment as driving forces behind the success of Family Businesses...

La RSC (responsabilidad social corporativa) constituye un criterio transversal que define una nueva forma de gestionar las organizaciones, mirando más hacia la necesaria implicación de los grupos de interés y abierta al diálogo y a la sostenibilidad a largo plazo, sin renunciar por ello al...

Este trabajo compara los resultados de fondos de inversión españoles con los del índice de la bolsa. Sus conclusiones principales son: 1. La bolsa española se ha comportado como un mercado eficiente para los gestores de los fondos que no han superado la rentabilidad del índice de bolsa. No...

In this research paper we present three consecutive studies exploring family-friendly policies and culture in Spanish organizations. In a first study based on a representative sample of 135 organizations we looked at the reasons why firms decide to adopt these policies. In a second study we...

This paper introduces a framework to guide research and systematically enhance our understanding of social entrepreneurship. Drawing from traditional entrepreneurship literature, the paper presents social entrepreneurial "opportunities" as an important concept to differentiate social...

We investigate firms' alliance design choices by examining alliances as multifaceted contractual forms. The analysis explores the contractual heterogeneity underlying alternative governance structures for alliances, the bundling of different contractual provisions, and the dimensionality of the...

This paper studies the effects of jointly incorporating liquidity risk and non-tradeable wealth in a single asset pricing equation. First, I propose an overlapping-generations model with random endowment shocks and liquidity risk, evaluating their joint impact on expected returns. The model...

La introducción del concepto de Marketing Relacional por Berry (1983) ha supuesto un cambio paradigma dentro del Marketing (Sheth y Parvatiyar 2002). En las últimas décadas se han realizado un gran número de investigaciones con el fin de analizar el impacto de los programas de marketing...

Open Source Software (OSS) has received wide attention from the research community, analyzing both the innovation process of software development by distributed and unrelated teams, and the market dynamics at play between "free" and proprietary software. Up until now, OSS adoption has been...