Ana Botella Andreu

University of Valencia | UV · Department of Business Administration

This study examines how Colombian Multilatinas leverage spillovers from foreign direct investments to enhance their capabilities and expand internationally. Employing a qualitative, exploratory multi-case study approach grounded in inter-organizational learning theory, we find that indirect ties, through vicarious learning via observation and emula...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the drivers of political embeddedness and the possible outcome in terms of autonomy and subsidiary unique competences. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on resource dependence theory and applies structural equation modeling on a sample of 193 subsidiaries. Findings Political embeddedness is confir...

In this study, we argue that European countries’ extensive relationships with former colonies represent a location factor that attracts foreign headquarter investments. The strategic role of foreign headquarters as coordinators, opportunity detectors, and global bridgeheads makes the location choice of headquarter activities sensitive to historical...

Due to the dispersion of headquarters’ activities across organizational and geographical boundaries, intermediate units (IUs) are emerging as a key actor of international business. IUs are intermediate structural layers between headquarters (HQ) and local subsidiaries with specific HQ responsibilities. Our study relies on original data of 67 IUs an...

Due to the dispersion of headquarters’ activities across organizational and geographical boundaries, intermediate units (IUs) are emerging as a key actor in international business. These units are intermediate structural layers between headquarters (HQ) and local subsidiaries with specific HQ responsibilities. Through a systematic review of 68 stud...

Recientemente, desde el sector empresarial han surgido diferentes afirmaciones destacando el valor intangible que España podría ofrecer como «trampolín» en el proceso de expansión interregional de las multinacionales europeas hacia Latinoamérica. En este estudio dotamos de contenido teórico y empírico a esta realidad, ofreciendo una visión general...

This paper explores the distinctive deployment of resources and capabilities by subsidiaries in order to develop an intermediate role within the MNC. Based on the regional management perspective, we focus on a specific intermediate role—the springboard subsidiary—that helps overcome the liability of inter-regional foreignness. Our results, which ar...

In this article we analyse the key success factors of Caixa Ontinyent, one of the two savings banks which, by being loyal to the founding principles of this banking model, has survived the restructuring of the sector as an independent entity. Drawing on an inductive methodology we extract the dimensions defining both the business model and the stra...