Diana Benito Osorio

King Juan Carlos University | URJC · Business Economics (Administration, Management and Organization)

Las plataformas de aprendizaje suponen una alternativa para aquellas personas con necesidades formativas que, por un motivo u otro, no son cubiertas por las universidades. Al contrario que las universidades, las cuales tienen un modelo muy rígido, estas plataformas ofrecen una experiencia flexible y personalizable al usuario, lo cual hace la concil...

La COVID-19 ha desafiado los procedimientos y estrategias de las empresas desde el inicio de la pandemia y el campo de la educación no ha sido una excepción. Las instituciones educativas se han visto forzadas a mover sus operaciones a un modelo online de manera inesperada, teniendo que reinventar sus procedimientos para enfrentar los desafíos que h...

Sharing Economy platforms have expanded their operations all around the globe at an unexpected rate. Due to its “asset-lite” nature, traditional internationalisation theories may not be able to fully explain or predict their expansion patterns. This lack of theoretical background puts at risk the phenomenon’s future and stops traditional companies...

Se analiza el efecto conjunto de las estrategias de diversificación e internacionalización sobre los resultados empresariales teniendo en cuenta el ciclo económico, en las empresas manufactureras españolas entre 1994-2014. En dicho período, la economía española experimentó un elevado crecimiento económico (1994-2008), seguido de una profunda crisis...

Globalisation and hyperconnectivity affect organisational resilience with threats such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic or large-scale cyberattacks. To strengthen organisational resilience capabilities, a framework such as enterprise risk management (ERM) is necessary so as to enable holistic risk management. Specifically, in this paper, we analyse...

The sharing economy has been presented as a potential contributor to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to the change it brings to consumption patterns. Although this potential has been identified in different papers, there is not, as far as we know, a single article that explains in detail all the possible platforms through which the...

The sharing economy is changing the way customers perceive businesses and making traditional companies face new challenges. Many outmoded companies have decided to embrace these changes either by creating their own sharing platforms or by acquiring an already existing one. This paper is an initial attempt to shed light on the reasons behind mergers...

This paper is an initial attempt to use a bibliometric approach for an exhaustive literature review of corporate diversification in order to propose a new comprehensive framework for its study. We conduct an in-depth analysis of the historical evolution of research over the period 1970–2017 in six eight-year stages, shedding light on the main issue...

This study explores both the individual impact of geographical diversification and its effect combined with product diversification on small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) performance. Unlike most prior studies, this study distinguishes between related and unrelated product diversification. The research setting is a sample of manufacturing SM...

This study examines the individual effects of product diversification on performance and the moderating effects of international diversification on the product diversification–performance link in the context of a boom and bust cycle. Most prior research on firm strategies largely neglect the business cycle. We use data on a large sample of Spanish...

La diversidad de género es una pieza clave en la composición del Consejo de Administración. Sin embargo, la literatura no ha alcanzado un consenso respecto a sus repercusiones en el rendimiento empresarial. En este trabajo pretendemos revisar el estado de la cuestión actual, posibles lagunas y futuras líneas de investigación. Estructurando la revis...

Firms learn from their previous experience, transfom routines into knowledge and thus develop capabilities. This holds for the market- and the non-market environment likewise. Experience is therefore useful to deal with policy risk arising from potential discretional and opportunistic behavior of political authorities, such as governments. We argue...

Internationalisation is a phenomenon that has gained in importance since the mid-twentieth century, with the liberalisation of economies and the emergence of trade and financial links. Currently, internationalisation is almost necessary for any company. This article reviews the different theories on this phenomenon that have emerged throughout lite...

This study provides new insights into the link between international diversification and firm performance in a sample of large manufacturing firms and SMEs based in Spain for the 1994-2008 period. Specifically, the focus is on how the nature and shape of this relationship may vary over time with firm size. The results show the existence of a horizo...

This paper seeks to investigate the bilateral impact of two components of global diversification: political risk and product diversification relatedness. By analyzing a sample of 119 Spanish firms we find empirical evidence that having experience in risky environments is a useful resource for multinational enterprises. The results obtained show tha...

This study sheds additional light on the product diversification-performance relationship for firms in a country having recently attained an advanced economy status in our period of analysis. We assume there will be an inverted U-shaped relationship and use a sample of small, medium, and large Spanish manufacturing firms between 1994 and 2008. Our...

A firm's set of knowledge processes may be affected by the entrepreneurial culture of the country in which it is located. Total factor productivity, mainly associated with technical progress, accounts for most differences over time and across countries. In the present work we examine the determinants of total factor productivity growth in 26 OECD c...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to gain new insight on the determinants of economic growth. More precisely, it disentangles the contribution of an increase in the stock of ideas that exceeds the rate of growth in the steady state and the growth inherent to the steady state. Design/methodology/approach – Following Romer (1990) and Jones (2000, 2...

European Higher Education Area is prompting a change in the teaching model towards the consideration of students as the main actors in the educational process. In this context, this work presents concept mapping as a useful teaching tool for promoting the development of generic and specific skills in students while also constituting a firm commitme...

Work-life balance has become a topic of great relevance in today's business world. In this work we present both a theoretical review on the state of art in this issue and an analysis testing the validity of the positive impact of worklife balance policies in firm performance. For the empirical analyses of these policies on performance we evaluated...

Online social networks (OSNs) have gained enormous popularity in recent years. The emergence of OSNs has had a significant social impact and has profoundly changed daily life. People use the Internet as a social medium to interact with one another and expand their social circles, to share information and experiences and to organise communities and...

Political risk not only constitutes a threat for multinational enterprises but can also be a source of opportunities. Exposure to and accumulated experience dealing with political risk allows firms to better implement a wide set of political actions such as negotiation of entry conditions, lobbying, litigation, campaign contributions and coalition...

Achieving a balance between the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) development and teaching competences has become essential. The rapid evolution of the Web has presented universities with the challenge of preparing today’s academic staff for the ICT of the future. The European Higher Education Area has adapted to ICT,...

Diversification as a strategic response to global opportunities has become increasingly important for firms. Drawing on the Resource Based View of the Firm, this paper investigates these strategies by analysing a circular relationship between product and geographical diversification. The results, obtained from a sample of leading Spanish multinatio...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to gain new insight into the true nature of the relationship between product diversification and performance, as well as to explore the roles the home country environment and time can play on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach – The study reviews a large part of the research that has addressed the...

This article begins by reviewing some of the main theoretical approaches to entrepreneurship. We then discuss the measures proposed in the literature to benefit women, facilitating reconciliation of work and family life and examining the view of authors who consider the negative effects of these measures. Finally, we contemplate situations where th...

Since its conception Open Innovation has become what can be called the reference mark for business innovation management. The aim of this chapter is threefold; first the authors explain the trends that have emerged from the use of web based open innovation by firms. Secondly, they will establish a relationship between these trends and the phases of...

The history of home working in Western economies can only be understood by means of changes in the systems of production in Europe and North America and through changes in the general sphere of women’s responsibilities, which typically include family work as well as paid work (Johnson, 2003). Both new situations produce the most important change: t...

This work suggests an organizational change process for the purpose of achieving balance between family and work life. This organizational change will arise as the result of a cultural change. This is the reason that we propose the creation of selfmanaged multidisciplinary work teams that define their own productive process, having flexibility in t...

Este trabajo sugiere un proceso de cambio organizativo cuya finalidad es la conciliación de la vida familiar y laboral. Este cambio organizacional surgirá como fruto de un cambio cultural. Para ello, se propone la creación de equipos de trabajo multidisciplinares autogestionados, que definan su propio proceso productivo, teniendo flexibilidad en su...

En este trabajo se presenta una revisión teórica sobre la influencia que ejerce la estrategia de diversificación corporativa sobre los resultados empresariales. La revisión de la literatura efectuada nos permite proponer y justificar explicaciones para dos cuestiones clave que han suscitado el interés de los investigadores en este ámbito, sobre las...

Resumen: La integración de las universidades españolas en este nuevo EEES supone un cambio conceptual y metodológico en lo que se refiere, no sólo a la estructura de los estudios universitarios, sino también a lo que concierne a los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje y a las condiciones en las que se que se desenvuelven. Las estrategias didácticas q...

Este trabalho sugere um processo de mudança organizacional no sentido de conciliar a vida familiar e profissional. Esta mudança organizacional irá emergir como o resultado de uma mudança cultural. Para este fim, propomos a criação de equipes multidisciplinares auto-geridas, que definam seu próprio processo produtivo, tendo flexibilidade em seu horá...

The Information Age is transforming the idea that working involves making a journey and that it needs to take place at a fixed location. ICTs are enabling to change the way that work is organized. Convergence of technical and economic factors is making possible a change. In this manner, that technology and flexible location working, in concrete, ho...

Este trabajo sugiere un proceso de cambio organizativo cuya finalidad es la conciliación de la vida familiar y laboral. Este cambio organizacional surgirá como fruto de un cambio cultural. Para ello, proponemos la creación de equipos de trabajo multidisciplinares autogestionados, que definan su propio proceso productivo, teniendo flexibilidad en su...

he concept of corporate diversification reflects a dual approach, by product and geography, both more and more frequent and relevant for business activity, but developing separately in academic literature. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze jointly the impact of product diversification strategies, whether or not related, and the effect...