(WP 13/03 Clave pdf)The Spanish university system has witnessed many changes. Initial conditions for competition were laid down in 83, specially through the recognition of legal status to private universities. However, the shortage of students since 98 and the drop on demand for higher education...

The paper looks for co-evolutionary policy responses to carbon lock-in - a persistent state that creates systemic market and policy barriers to carbon low technological alternatives. We address the coordination role for authorities rather than the corrective optimisation and analyse experiences...

In this paper, we examine the firm and ecological factors that affect the long-term sustainability of exploration. We analysed the investment decisions by US venture capital firms to enter new technological domains over a 43-year period. Our results suggest that in addition to the well studied...

Form postponement has been widely acknowledged as one of the main avenues to mitigate the adverse effects of product proliferation or customization on operational performance. As it often happens with long debated concepts, the proposed definitions of form postponement sometimes display...

(WP 15/03 Clave pdf) Some articles lately have hypothesized about IT being a commodity from which firms cannot extract a true competitive advantage anymore. Therefore, according to those authors, the competitive edge would be now in carefully managing IT to reduce costs and avoid overspending....

(WP 17/03 Clave pdf) In this investigation, we focus on the individual characteristics of newly certified auditors who apply for their auditing licenses in anticipation of entering solo practice or a partnership in an auditing firm, comparing them to their counterparts who do not apply for such...

(WP 14/03 Clave pdf)High-dimensional contingency tables tend to be sparse and standard goodness-of-fit statistics such as X 2 cannot be used without pooling categories.As an improvement on arbitrary pooling, for goodness-of-fit of large 2 n contingency tables, we propose a class of quadratic...

(WP13/02 Clave pdf) The advent of the so-called ´Internet bubble´ has brought back the issue of rigorous versus relevant research: in fast-moving environments, academic research might be sometimes too slow or too afasted from reality to serve as a true decision instrument for companies....

In this paper we re-examine the measurement of entrepreneurial activity and provide a model-based approach at measure. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project has been a key addition to our ability to measure and compare rates of entrepreneurial activity. But even though there is...

We provide a gentle overview of modeling choice data, with an emphasis on statistical models that allow treating both observed and unobserved effects due to the decision makers and choice options. We first consider the situation when decision makers express their preferences in the form of...