Anabel Fernández-Mesa

University of Valencia | UV · Department of Business Administration

Researchers, who play a crucial role in knowledge production, deal with various emotions in their challenging work environment. Their personality might affect how well they manage their emotions, but their moods could help counteract these effects. This study aims to investigate whether researchers’ moods influence the connection between their pers...

The acronym VUCA as a description of a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous environment, has been gaining increasing relevance as a noun to describe a reality that is complex and turbulent. Besides the healthcare challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic has also caused drastic changes in the management world. Through a systematic literature review o...

Export performance has become an increasingly important issue for SMEs in recent years as a result of the widespread phenomenon of globalization and the economic recession in some regions. Innovation has been proved to play a determinant role in export performance. In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive conceptualisation of innovation capabi...

Within a research context dominated by an increasing interest in innovative learning methodologies in management education, an individual's capacity to establish links between existing and new knowledge, that is, absorptive capacity (AC), has been surprisingly neglected in management (higher) education inquiry. This study helps to close this gap by...

Researchers have extensively explored the factors influencing employees’ organisational commitment. However, few studies make an explicit distinction between different commitment types when exploring its determinants, and the scholarly attention to individual differences is also limited. In this paper, we confirm that developing managerial interven...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (ac...

External knowledge search strategies are considered essential for increasing export performance, a crucial goal for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a globalised and turbulent environment. SMEs are known to have limited resources, which leads them to choose the export strategy as the best alternative for entering foreign markets. The present...

This paper discusses the role of team collaboration as a building block for cultivating capabilities in technology-based startups. This conceptual framework draws on a literature review of innovation and entrepreneurship research to understand the intra-organization collaboration mechanisms among team members in technology-based startups. Introduci...

Open innovation (OI) is being regarded as a new paradigm in understanding innovation processes. Being rooted in previous research in collaboration for innovation, it is currently widely used both in academic and practitioner analyzes. While OI is a common procedure in the context of large manufacturing firms, how do small firms cope with collaborat...

Earlier research has suggested that diversity is a double-edged sword when achieving organizational ambidexterity. While it may contribute to the development of new combinations of exploration and exploitation, it may also lead to disagreements and potential conflict within top management teams (TMTs). To improve our understanding of the effectiven...

The increase of the organizational commitment of employees as a way to increase their performance and reduce their absentisim and the rotation index has become a key aspect for companies. In this article we propose a novel perspective, consisting of the consideration of aspects associated with the personality of employees. We depart from the five-f...

Public scientists (scientists only from now onwards), understood as a member of the teaching and/or research staff of a public university or a public research organization (including humanities and social sciences), benefit the academic community, industry and other social collectives through teaching and research. Active involvement of scientists...

L´objectiu d´este article és presentar una nova metodologia que rep per nom Pool of Knowledge i que serà útil per al professorat de Direcció d'Empreses que imparteixin docència en anglès i / o valencià. Esta nova metodologia també es proposa com una eina útil per a la impartició d´altre tipus de temari. Es tracta d´una variant del flipped teaching,...

The present study analyzes how the breadth and depth of search strategies affect the dimensions of a firm's absorptive capacity: exploration, transformation and exploitation. Results of an analysis of a sample of 467 Spanish manufacturing firms reveal that openness of external knowledge search contributes to firms' exploratory, transformative and e...

La relación entre clima laboral y satisfacción laboral ha sido ampliamente estudiada. La investigación que existe hasta el momento asume que un buen clima laboral incrementa la satisfacción laboral de los empleados. Recientemente se diferencia entre distintos tipos de clima laboral, como por ejemplo el clima laboral de justicia, el de riesgo o el d...

Nowadays it is commonly accepted that exploiting external knowledge sources is important for firms' innovation and performance. However, it is still not clear how this effect takes place and what internal capabilities are involved in the process. We propose to open the black box between external knowledge search strategies, and innovation and perfo...

Scholars have proposed that taking risks is a key factor to explain innovation performance in organizations. However, the relationship between risk taking and innovation performance is generally examined from two unconnected perspectives. From a managerial perspective, entrepreneurial orientation and leadership theories are invoked to justify a pos...

Scholars have proposed that taking risks in organizations is important in explaining innovation performance. Analysis of this link has traditionally been based on two unconnected perspectives. From a managerial perspective, entrepreneurial orientation and leadership theories have been used to explain the positive relationship between managers' risk...

Nowadays how to be a successful exporter has reach great importance. Some studies on the entrepreneurial orientation literature highlights the attitude of the manager to make risky strategies such as strategies toward exports. But might the CEO's attitude toward entrepreneurship be sufficient to achieve greater SMEs export performance? Through an a...

Following the approach of absorptive capacity as a process, this paper identifies the technological and marketing capabilities as two critical competencies that influence absorptive capacity. Through a survey conducted in the toy manufacturing industry in Spain to 46% of the target population, we show how these two internal capabilities of the comp...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of information technology competency (ITC) on internal and external learning competency and the relations among ITC, internal and external learning competency and the commercial success of innovation (CSI) Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses survey data from 186 companies. Throu...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to present design management as a dynamic capability and to analyze its mediating role between organizational learning capability and product innovation performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling is used to test the research hypotheses based on data...

The aim of this study is to clarify the influence of the CEO, the top management team and their interactions on the dynamism of organisational ambidexterity. We argue that ambidexterity is a dynamic capability that enables firms to become aligned with their environment. We examine this phenomenon in the context of the current economic crisis, with...

Nowadays, the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) play an increasingly important role in education. Indeed, ICT are considered as very useful pedagogic tools, and multimedia resources are constantly being created, updated and shared by university members worldwide. This paper deals with a case of study exploring the way in which the i...

This paper explores the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance taken organizational learning capability as a mediating variable. This research question is important because allows us to better understand why entrepreneurial orientation don’t always increase organizational performance. We consider innovation perf...

This paper explores the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance taken organizational learning capability as a mediating variable. This research question is important because allows us to better understand why entrepreneurial orientation don't always increase organizational performance. We consider innovation perf...

Investment in information technology is done by the companies with the purpose of increase their organizational performance, but not always these kinds of investments are successful. There are studies which not demonstrate that investment in information technology enhance organizational performance. Our study aim is to understand better this relati...