Cesar Camison

University of Valencia | UV · Department of Business Administration

Purpose This study investigates the influence of family involvement in firm ownership on the deployment of dynamic capabilities, differentiating between the more structural aspects of family ownership (i.e. ownership dispersion) and the more emotional aspects (i.e. wealth concentration). Design/methodology/approach We test our hypotheses on a larg...

Purpose This study empirically assesses the effects of two key types of organizational and managerial capabilities—dynamic capabilities, and coordination and cohesion capabilities—on environmental performance, considering the moderating effect of family ownership. By applying the tenets of the natural resource-based view and the dynamic capabilitie...

Using a sample of Spanish tourism small and medium-sized firms, we have tested the impact of family control, publicly-available information and tangibility on financial structure, providing a multi-theoretical model that incorporates contributions from the classical theory of finance, inspired by agency theory, the behavioural theory of the firm an...

The purpose of this research is to carry out an in-depth exploration of the causes of the family firm's success over short and long term, analysing which capabilities are the most valuable sources of sustainable competitive advantage in every time horizon. The results confirm only functional capabilities have a positive and significant effect on sh...

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of articles on the topic of non-financial information (NFI) reporting. The exponential growth over the last decade (90% of the articles were published in the last 10 years) indicates the relevance of the topic, but little is known about the structure and extent of research in this academic field. The purp...

Este trabajo tiene como principal objetivo analizar los elementos de la particular estructura de gobierno de la empresa familiar y la implicación de la familia en el negocio con tal de comprobar sus efectos sobre las capacidades directivas. Asimismo, se estudiará la profesionalización en este tipo de empresas como variable moderadora. Para abordar...

This paper analyses tax aggressiveness in family firm generations. Moreover, taking into account the heterogeneity in family firms, we check whether the successive generations in control show different tax avoidance behaviour. The empirical evidence, based on the quasi-experiment of the 2012 Spanish thin capitalization rule, reveals that there is a...

By combining the resource-and capabilities-based view and agency theory, this paper offers a framework within which to examine the nature of dynamic capabilities in family firms, and how they are affected by the ownership, governance and management structures. We focus on technology-based innovation capabilities, differentiating between sensing, se...

This paper offers a pioneering analysis of the impact that integration in different types of hotel chains has on firm performance, and the moderating effect of the tourist destination in this relationship. Studies in the literature examine both size and location independently, without reconciling the apparently contradictory trends of globalization...

Tourism is a major activity in the global economy, not only in terms of its economic impact but also its social and environmental implications. The management practices and processes adopted by tourist companies and destinations are very heterogeneous and have variable impacts on the triple-bottom-line sustainability (people, profit, planet) of the...

The purpose of this research is to carry out an in-depth exploration of the causes of the family firm's success over short and long term, analysing which capabilities are the most valuable sources of sustainable competitive advantage in every time horizon. The results confirm only functional capabilities have a positive and significant effect on sh...

This chapter develops an additive model of the microeconomic sources of family firm (FF) competitiveness. Its main contribution is the proposal of a new explanatory framework with a perspective incorporating both ex post competitiveness and its determinants in a chain of multi-level causality. Based on fully-specified theory, the framework is desig...

Taking as its basis the resource- and capability-based view of the firm, this study provides an in-depth exploration of the ability of the family tourism firm to accumulate and develop the distinctive competences that are key to its success. Specifically, the analysis centres on how the family tourism firm acquires distinctive competences through t...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enrich the explanation of the interplay between internal and external – or district shared – exploration and exploitation capabilities as antecedents of a firm’s radical and incremental innovation. Previous studies do not differentiate between exploration and exploitation in district shared capabilities and...

Este artículo analiza la situación competitiva de la empresa turística española en cuanto a las capacidades tecnológicas e informacionales de que dispone para impulsar una competitividad basada en el conocimiento. Tras el diagnóstico, se presentan los resultados de una investigación colaborativa orientada a desarrollar una nueva plataforma TIC. Las...

Based on the idea of the tourist destination as a cluster, this paper proposes a model to explain the relationships between exploration and exploitation capabilities – whether originating in the cluster or firm-specific – and a firm’s organizational innovation. This study turns to the resource-based view to provide a theory-based concept of shared...

The analysis of the keys to competitiveness in the tourism sector has an unquestionable justification for its importance in the Spanish economy and its global growth prospects. The need for a better understanding of the keys to the competitiveness of the tourism firm is also fuelled by the magnitude of the challenges that it faces and by the sector...

In line with the existing literature, the main aim of this study is to analyse the effects of public capital on growth in the Spanish regions for the period 1980-2007. The methodology used adopts a parametric approach following the recommendations intended to eliminate the effects of demand and estimate only the medium-term impacts, ultimately elim...

The popularity of quality management as a system for continuous improvement has not been accompanied by deep theoretical understanding of its effects on process innovation. In this work, the resource-based view serves as the basis for the construction of a model designed to explain the effects of quality management practices (QMP) on process innova...

While prior studies recognize the importance of knowledge accumulation capabilities in innovation performance, current research has still failed to empirically identify its role with regard to different types of innovation performance. The objective of this paper is to address this knowledge gap and to explore the relationships between internal kno...

The quest to understand the multilevel antecedents of competitiveness has led to a separation of approaches. On one side of the question are the environment theories that analyze the structural characteristics of the general and competitive environment. On the other side are the Resource Based View and its extensions that highlight firm-specific re...

This study draws on the Resource-Based View to analyze the effects of distinctive competences in tourism firms and location in a tourism district on competitive position, and explores the moderating effects of the tourism destination. Multiple linear regression was used to test the research hypotheses on a sample of 1019 Spanish tourism firms. Resu...

This study assesses the relationship between organizational innovation and technological innovation capabilities, and analyzes their effect on firm performance using a resource-based view theoretical framework. The article presents empirical evidence from a survey of 144 Spanish industrial firms and modeling of a system of structural equations usin...

The canonical approach argues that firms located in industrial districts enjoy advantages for both innovation and performance as a consequence of the exceptionally strong knowledge spillovers that flow freely and spontaneously within them. However, diffusion of shared competences is not as easy and free as postulated in the literature. Using the re...

This paper offers a diagnosis of the “state of the issue” regarding the measurement of innovation in the tourism industry at the company level, and some recommendations for overcoming identified problems. The study addresses two central issues: how existing secondary databases of innovative activity define the boundaries of the tourism industry, an...

The aim of the present study is to analyze the role of organizational memory and learning capabilities as antecedents to non-technical innovation, comprising organizational and marketing innovation, and to examine their effect on sustained competitive advantage within a capabilities-based view (CBV) theoretical framework. For analysis of the propos...

Organisations are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise in the number of business opportunities and the increase in global competition require firms to combine internal and external learning processes to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge to enable them to meet env...

Summary This paper takes a cross-level approach in contributing to defining the competences accumulated and shared in an industrial district, and to explaining how they differ from firm-specific, knowledge-based capacities. From a dataset of 952 Spanish firms and 35 industrial districts, we provide empirical evidence that industrial districts are s...

This work proposes a new method for a regional foresight case, based on collective construction and the consensus reached by local actors of a desired future that illustrates the possibilities of foresight in the exploring of territory. In the work, the perceptions of a multidisciplinary panel of experts are gathered through a staged Delphi study a...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the flexible organizational form and organizational performance considering as mediating variables the firm's technological innovation capabilities, basing on Resource-Based View postulates. This research question is important because it enable us to understand better the antecedent variables on technolo...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the flexible organizational form and organizational performance considering as mediating variables the firm's technological innovation capabilities, basing on Resource-Based View postulates. This research question is important because it enable us to understand better the antecedent variables on technolo...

Summary The question of what types of public environmental policies contribute most effectively to environmental innovation in companies remains open. This study evaluated how managerial perception of public environmental policy inspired the way in which firms act to adapt to challenges related to the natural environment, and the subsequent advance...

Despite the importance that quality has as a strategic variable, its effects on organizational performance are not without controversy. The literature reports empirical evidence inconclusive, still more unfinished when analyzing their effects from an internal perspective or via processes. This study provides novel empirical evidence to this debate...

The question of why corporations are subject to different regulatory approaches remains open. In this paper we analyze this problem using Ashbein and Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior. We study how management’s perception of public environmental policies influences how the corporation acts and the ways in which this environmental approach contribu...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the mediating role of three types of innovation (product, process, and organizational) in the relationship between manufacturing flexibility and performance. Design/methodology/approach Building on the resource‐based view, the paper examines the indirect effects of manufacturing flexibility on organizat...

The processes for absorbing external knowledge become an essential element for innovation in firms and in adapting to changes in the competitive environment. Despite the huge growth in the absorptive capacity literature, a methodological gap still remains about a certain ambiguity in the definition of the construct specifying its theoretical domain...

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, quality management has represented a rebirth in organisation management with an emphasis on excellence. However, although this course might suggest a promising scenario for the quality function, significant controversy surrounds its managerial scope and its position within the organisation, for se...

In this paper, we study the relationship between the international experience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their economic performance using intangible and financial asset stock, competitive strategy, and international intensity as mediating factors. The RBV provides the theoretical framework to develop a theoretical model postul...

According to the Knowledge-Based View, knowledge integration is one of the main capabilities that organizations must possess in today’s markets. In some high-tech industries, especially sciencebased industries such as biotechnology that need to integrate different bases of specialized expertise, the sources of knowledge are spread across a great va...

Pese a la importancia que la calidad tiene como variable estratégica, sus efectos sobre los resultados organizativos no están exentos de controversia. La Literatura reporta evidencias empíricas poco concluyentes, siendo todavía más inconclusas cuando se analizan sus efectos desde una perspectiva interna o vía procesos. Este estudio aporta evidencia...

En el marco de una empresa conjunta, el objetivo de la nueva organización creada reside en maximizar el desempeño conjunto de los socios. No obstante, diversos trabajos han constatado que los resultados obtenidos por estos pueden diferir de manera substancial. El objetivo del presente estudio reside en delimitar la incidencia que las diferencias de...

The present study provides a conceptualization of the business model construct from which a multi-dimensional evaluation tool is developed that provides the basis for drawing up a taxonomy and analysing its comparative efficacy. The empirical data was obtained from a sampling of 159 Spanish business organisations. The cluster analysis revealed the...

En el presente trabajo se analiza el papel que diferentes modalidades de consorcios de exportación pueden desarrollar en las distintas etapas que conforman el proceso exportador de la PYME. Para ello se parte de una concepción evolucionista de dicho proceso, analizando las características que definen el comportamiento de la empresa en cada una de l...

Organisations are finding it more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise of business opportunities and the increase in global competition demands a capability to acquire, assimilate, transform and apply external critical knowledge to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge, and to innovate. Developi...

Knowledge management is a fundamental capability in today’s evolving markets. Management needs to understand which organizational processes are necessary to trigger each of the stages in knowledge development. The objective of this study is to outline the main concepts and stages in the process of knowledge development in organizations and the orga...

Organisations are finding it more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise of business opportunities and the increase in global competition demands a capability to acquire, assimilate, transform and apply external critical knowledge to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge, and to innovate. Developi...

The main purpose of this chapter is to conduct a theoretical analysis of how product innovation is influenced by the process of knowledge management, and to show that it is necessary to complete the entire process in order to develop incremental as well as radical innovations. Other studies have associated different knowledge development processes...

Sme group represents more than 99 % of the business fabric in Spain. The current context of globalization and recent international crisis changes the configuration of the competitive advantages of companies. This paper remarks some innovative aspects of the importance and status of the smes in the Spanish economy using business demographic data. Th...

The objective of this paper is to synthetize the main organizational structures and competitive strategies adopted by small and medium sized enterprises (smes) with the purpose of identifying the possible strategic advantages associated to them and which can be the key of the competitive success in the current globalized environment. Organizational...

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The literature has argued that firms based in industrial districts enjoy advantages for creating internal knowledge and absorbing external knowledge as a consequence of to the knowledge flows and spillovers that exist in the district. However, empirical evidence to show how belonging to an industrial district affects the business processes of creat...

Empirical literature has traditionally analyzed the effect of education on job satisfaction with single-equation models that ignore interrelationships between theoretical explanatory variables. Their results are somewhat inconclusive. We propose estimating a structural equation model to obtain both the direct effects and the set of indirect effects...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an in‐depth appraisal of the internal drivers motivating firms to select cooperative internationalization processes. Design/methodology/approach Building on the resource‐based view, and using a sample of 401 Spanish firms, the authors examine the direct and indirect effects of ability to internationa...

El principal objetivo de este trabajo es sugerir cómo la colaboración con competidores, conocida con el término coopetición, establecida para la creación conjunta de conocimiento, puede suponer una nueva oportunidad que los directivos deben evaluar como una opción estratégica. Para el desarrollo del trabajo se tiene en cuenta la literatura relacion...

This paper analyzes the influence of the implementation of Quality Management on the adoption of knowledge and R&D management practices and also the individual and joint effects of de distinct types of management practices on performance. Through a structural equations model and using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) methodology it is demonstrated t...

The main aim of this study is to give empirical evidence in the relationship between strategic alliances and organizational performance, taking the knowledge and knowledge management capabilities the firm is able to generate as moderating variables. This effect can be an explanation of the contradictory results existing in the specialized literatur...

The quality management has represented a renaissance in the management, contributing to a deep reflection in the domineering paradigms in the professional exercise of the direction, up to the point of comparing the above mentioned function to the excellence. Nevertheless, though this path would make think about a promising scene for the quality fun...

This paper presents the characteristic features of Spanish firms that employ network and integrated production organizational models, as well as the repercussion that the adoption of one of these models has on organizational performance. To this end, we offer a conceptualization of both models and we identify seven aspects than can characterize bot...

Knowledge management is a fundamental capability in today's evolving markets. Management needs to understand which organizational processes are necessary to trigger each of the stages in knowledge development. The objective of this study is to outline the main concepts and stages in the process of knowledge development in organizations and the orga...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened competition in the telecommunications market in the U.S. and forced the incumbent telecommunications companies to open both their physical and logical infrastructure for competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs). In this case study we focus on the problems that face a CLEC with regard to designing an info...

This chapter describes a complex adaptive systems (CAS)-based enterprise knowledge-sharing (KnS) model. The CAS-based enterprise KnS model consists of a CAS-based KnS framework and a multi-agent simulation model. Enterprise knowledge sharing is modeled as the emergent behavior of knowledge workers interacting with the KnS environment and other know...

Este trabajo presenta los rasgos característicos de las empresas españolas que instauranmodelos organizativos de la producción en red e integrado, así como la repercusión que la adopción de uno de estos modelos ejerce en el desempeño organizativo. Para ello, se realiza una conceptuación de ambos modelos y se identifican siete rasgos que permiten ca...

La gestión de la calidad ha representado un renacimiento en la gestión, contribuyendo a una reflexión profunda en los paradigmas dominantes en el ejercicio profesional de la dirección, hasta el punto de equiparar dicha función a la excelencia. Sin embargo, aunque esta trayectoria haría pensar en un escenario prometedor para la función de calidad, e...

En este trabajo se estudia la influencia de la implantación de sistemas de gestión de la calidad en la adopción de prácticas de gestión del conocimiento y de la gestión de la I+D y, a su vez, los efectos individuales y conjuntos de los distintos tipos de prácticas de gestión sobre el desempeño. A través de un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales y ut...

The present work aims at the examination of the literature main contribution to both the absorptive capacity construct definition, and the identification of the different internal and external factors affecting it. After this analysis, several topics are proposed in order to guide future investigation. Este trabajo tiene por objeto examinar las pri...

Small and medium-sized firms are suffering increasing pressure related to environmental adaptation because they cannot create the required technological and organizational competences and there is not a sufficient and appropriate supply of advanced business services for green management in their surroundings. Research results illustrate the usefuln...

Organisations are finding it more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise of business opportunities and the increase in global competition demands a capability to acquire, assimilate, transform and apply external critical knowledge to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge, and to innovate. Developi...

Organisations are finding it more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise of business opportunities and the increase in global competition demands a capability to acquire, assimilate, transform and apply external critical knowledge to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge, and to innovate. Developi...

In this chapter we describe a practical tool useful to managing knowledge in the firm. It has already been introduced and tested in several firms and we have obtained good conclusions about its performance. In this chapter, we combine the modules of the software application with the theoretical functions of Knowledge Management principles. We also...

Advances in computing technology and internet-worked environments have driven profound realignments not only in the dynamics of technologically mediated interpersonal interactions but also in the way organizations engage with consumers, producers, and other businesses. Connectivity and Knowledge Management in Virtual Organizations: Networking and D...

The study of virtual organizations encompasses several research fields, and the variables involved in each of them are sometimes closely related. This represents a challenge for managers, since the decision taken about the technical tools to use, the organizational structure, incentives or procedures, for example, are tightly linked, and this repre...

Companies are increasingly conscious of the fact that the achieving of their objectives, together with the improvement of their competitive advantages, depends on the appropriate management of the human factor. The dynamism and strong competition that characterize the business world make it increasingly necessary to introduce a system of human reso...

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Este trabajo dibuja un diagnóstico estratégico de la empresa industrial española, en el contexto de los cambios que el entorno nacional e internacional plantea, a partir de dos investigaciones paralelas. El análisis externo propiciado por un estudio Delphi desarrollado con un panel internacional de 46 expertos desvela el proceso de cambio en los re...

El presente trabajo provee evidencia empírica de la relación existente entre la participación en alianzas estratégicas tecnológicas y el desempeño organizativo, introduciendo como variable mediadora las competencias distintivas basadas en conocimiento que la alianza es capaz de generar. En la literatura existen resultados contradictorios en cuanto...

En este trabajo se analizan tres factores clave del proceso innovador de las empresas valencianas: los objetivos que las conducen hacia la innovación, la estrategia innovadora y los resultados de este proceso. La evidencia empírica indica que los principales objetivos que las empresas valencianas persiguen en sus procesos de innovación están relaci...

Este trabajo examina las bases organizativas del éxito internacional de la empresa española, a partir de datos de panel de un estudio longitudinal del período 1984-2006. Para ello, se analiza la evolución de la presión competitiva en los mercados doméstico y exterior, para identificar los rivales principales, examinándose a continuación la evolució...

The introduction of Information Technologies (IT) has brought about a change in company behavior. This change has proved to be of particular importance in the tourism sector, due to its own peculiarities. This work examines how the development of new technologies has affected the tourism environment and the way in which tourism enterprises compete...

In the resource-based view (RBV) approach, the knowledge border rests on the understanding of the distinctive competences creation and recreation process. Moreover, in spite of the importance of knowledge assets, how knowledge is generated in organizations is still an unknown factor. This research studies the effect of introducing knowledge managem...

La finalité de notre article est de comprendre la nature et la diversité des relations intervenant dans le processus de diffusion interorganisationnelle des connaissances. Notre questionnement porte dans un premier temps sur la nature des dimensions de ces relations et dans un second temps sur leur diversité. L’intérêt est double : préciser et comp...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo subrayar la importancia de la generación de competencias distintivas en conocimiento a través del establecimiento de alianzas estratégicas, para que la participación en las mismas ofrezca un efecto directo y positivo en el desempeño empresarial. No existe un consenso claro en la literatura científica acerca de si la...

Although the literature on strategic alliances defines the role of information technologies (IT) as important, any reasoned explanation of it is still anecdotic. This study focuses on a particular type of technological relationship between firms and institutions for developing environmental management innovations through virtual cooperation. It goe...

Although the literature on strategic alliances defines the role of information technologies (IT) as important, any reasoned explanation of it is still anecdotic. This study focuses on a particular type of technological relationship between firms and institutions for developing environmental management innovations through virtual cooperation. It goe...

This paper specifies how to construct and validate an instrument based on multi-item scales for the cataloguing and measurement of managerial and organizational capabilities on the basis of management perceptions. The construction and reduction of the scales have been reinforced by the Delphi and retesting techniques. The use of this methodology wa...

Findings regarding the direction and intensity of the relation between size and innovation in the literature are contradictory. In the journal Organization Studiesin 1992, Damanpour proposed a meta-analytical study in an attempt to clarify the diversity of existing conclusions. The present article is a replica and an extension of that study using t...

A central issue in strategic management is the analysis of differences in performance. Competence Based Perspective gives tlS a theoretical point of view to understanding variables that originate inside organizations. On the other hand, there are factors concerning the industry and environment in which the firm is situated; these variables are high...

In this work we study the effects that technological capabilities of firms, as an expression of their technological innovation strategy, have on their international competitiveness and suggest that the above relationship is moderated by their export strategy. Empirical work is carried out on a sample of 88 Spanish exporting firms belonging to the c...

The general purpose of this work has been to construct and validate empirically a theoretical model that enables the explanation of the performance and competitiveness of the firms located in territorial agglomerations in the form of industrial districts. With the strategic perspective we have adopted, economic revenues are explained by three types...

La gestión estratégica de los recursos humanos se ha venido nutriendo de diferentes modelos teóricos entre los que destaca la teoría basada en los recursos. Este articulo propone una nueva perspectiva teórica para la gestión estratégica de los recursos humanos basada en las ideas del aprendizaje organizativo, las cuales ostentan actualmente una ele...

Examines the relationship between organizational learning and product design management while, at the same time, analysing the repercussions they may have on performance, in the Spanish ceramic tile sector. A comparative case study of four companies from this sector enabled the construction of a theoretical model, which linked the factors that faci...

This paper analyses the effects of group composition and autonomy on the performance of export joint ventures (JVs). The basic argument is that group composition has a significant influence on the performance of JVs and, at the same time, this effect is moderated by the degree of autonomy held by the JV general manager. To lend support to this argu...

La evolución del entorno hacia procesos de crecimiento contrasta con la composición del tejido empresarial de las economías desarrolladas, claramente dominado por la PYME. Este contexto ha derivado en un debate acerca de la importancia del tamaño empresarial sobre el éxito en la adopción de innovaciones. Este papel ofrece una revisión de la investi...