Adoración Álvaro-Moya

• Professor (Associate) at CUNEF - Colegio Universitario Estudios Financieros

Drawing on the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) theory, this article examines the rise of the Spanish engineering consulting firm Técnica y Proyectos SA (TYPSA), from its foundation, in 1966, as a project office within a larger national-based construction fgroup, until its consolidation as a family multinational in the 2000s. Our research shows how...

This special issue is the result of a workshop on the effects of foreign direct investment on the development of entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities in host economies. Our aim was, rather than to look at the more generic competencies of firms, to call attention to the knowledge, skills and abilities embodied in individuals and, particularly...

This article explores the long-term effects of foreign direct investment on the human capital development of host economies, based on the historical analysis of the Spanish operations of four leading American firms: ITT, J. Walter Thompson, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and John Deere. Our research shows that the training and working practices of these comp...

This chapter draws a picture of macro talent management in Spain by providing information about the main environmental factors that shape current talent management policies and actions on a national level. Moreover, it shows the result of such environment in terms of Spanish competitiveness and talent stock using a wide array of international index...

This article examines the long-term impact of foreign multinational firms on the human capital of their host economies, looking into a knowledge-intensive industry, engineering consulting, through the lens of a traditional partner of foreign investors in late developing countries' business groups. Following a case-study approach, the research focus...

This article traces back the origins and nature of business history to stress its potential to dialogue with other social sciences and, in particular, with management studies. It also summarizes the main current trends in business history research to later propose the research lines that editors would like to promote from an interdisciplinary appro...

This article goes into the renewed main theories on the evolution of the multinational enterprise (MNE) providing evidence about how MNEs develop networking capabilities to strengthen their position in host markets characterised by uncertainty. In particular, the operations in Spain of the largest telecom group of the interwar period, ITT, are exam...

This article explores the globalization of knowledge-based services and their impact on host-country firms' organizational capabilities. Two drivers of such globalization-foreign aid and foreign direct investment coming from the United States-contributed to the development of engineering consulting in Spain in the beginning of the new global econom...

This article examines Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) long-term effects on host economies, focusing on the role played by the entry mode chosen by foreign investors and the local economic and institutional framework. It does so looking at the largest companies investing in Spain, a traditional net importer of capital, coming from the two leaders of...

Earlier chapters explored a broad understanding of innovation in China from different angles. This current chapter focuses on the level of organization in business operation in the corresponding industry, and how an intra-organizational personnel management system cooperates with inter-organizational stakeholders to approach innovation. In this sen...

Historia Económica de la Empresa [An Economic History of the Firm]. ByValdalisoJesús María and LópezSantiago. Barcelona: Crítica, 2009. xvi + 573 pp. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 978-84-8432-935-0. - Volume 86 Issue 4 - Adoración Álvaro-Moya

CalvoÁngel. Historia de Telefónica: 1924–1975. Primeras décadas: tecnología, economía y política. Barcelona and Madrid: Ariel-Fundación Telefónica, 2010. 569 pp. ISBN 978-84-08-09893-5, €18 (paper). - Volume 13 Issue 4 - Adoración Álvaro-Moya

The wave of privatization of state-owned telecommunications monopolies (known as Post, Telegraph, and Telephone [PTT]) in the 1980s, with the notable exceptions of countries like the United States and Spain, prompted scholars to write several histories of this industry in the 1990s. Scholars in economics and technology, business, and economic histo...

After fifty years of academic analysis of the multinational enterprise, we still know very little about its long-term interaction with local firms and entrepreneurs. This is a key issue to assess the contribution of foreign direct investment to economic growth. For this reason this article examines that interaction through the analysis of US direct...

This article explores the internationalisation process of the increasingly oligopolistic farm equipment industry. It does so by examining the case of International Harvester in Spain in the light of the changes that were taking place in world and host markets from the beginning of the twentieth century, when pioneering US firms began to operate abr...

En este artículo se analiza la internacionalización de la ingeniería española en la segunda mitad del Siglo XX, identificando los mercados, los tipos de proyectos y las empresas protagonistas. Dicha internacionalización se inicia con la formación del sector en España; que fue tardía y dependiente de la tecnología foránea, estuvo estrechamente vincu...

Este trabajo analiza el papel de las redes empresariales en la evolución de la inversión directa extranjera en España. Para ello se estudia en profundidad el caso de una de las inversiones estadounidenses más relevantes en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, Telefónica, empresa cuya creación fue fruto de la acción conjunta de la multinacional Intern...

This article deals with a key issue in the economic development of the European periphery: the relationship between foreign investment and economic nationalism. The research focuses on the process of blockade, expropriation and reacquisition of German assets in Spain, which took place from 1945 to 1975. The process has been reconstructed by trackin...

RESUMEN En este trabajo se examinan algunos efectos de la alianza política y militar entre España y Estados Unidos durante los años cincuenta y sesenta del siglo XX. Se examina la ayuda técnica, entendida como el conjunto de programas oficiales, contratos e inversiones privadas que sirvieron para transferir a España las técnicas de producción y org...

Durante el período de entreguerras, en el que la inestabilidad económica constituyó una de las principales preocupaciones de las sociedades occidentales, se llevaron a cabo importantes investigaciones sobre la historia de los precios. Gracias a los trabajos de Hamilton (1934 y 1947), el caso español no quedó al margen de ese impulso historiográfico...

How do international business and international organizations interact with each other? How do they, jointly or independently, contribute to economic development? And how do international players interrelate with local partners? These are the main issues explored in this paper. The research focuses on Spain, whose long delayed modernization was clo...

This paper deals with the relationship between international economic aid and national entrepreneurship. We examine the design of U.S. economic and technical assistance programs and their impact on the business communities of five Southern European countries (Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey) during the Cold War in light of various e...