Emilio Huerta

Emilio Huerta
  • Ph D Universida del Pais Vasco, MS university of Minnesota
  • Catedrático at Public University of Navarre

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Introduction
Current institution
Public University of Navarre
Current position
  • Catedrático
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January 1991 - January 2016
Public University of Navarre
Position
  • Catedratico

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Publications (54)
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Este artículo establece los déficits que se observan en la inversión en recursos intangibles (capital directivo y capital organizacional), en las empresas españolas cuando se comparan con las empresas de los países más avanzados de la Unión Europea. Se sugiere que «la política industrial» se oriente a actuar sobre estos problemas del ámbito empresa...
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Purpose Upper echelons theory (UET) stands that cognitive bases of the CEO influence the field of vision and interpretation of the environment and affect its decisions about the firm. The main objective of the paper is to see if there are different CEO profiles, which can be associated with different strategic management choices. Design/Methodolog...
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Este artículo explora las posibles causas de la heterogeneidad observada en la productividad de las empresas españolas, buscando un vínculo entre la calidad de gestión y el tamaño empresarial en el contexto de las empresas españolas. Los resultados indican que existe una relación positiva entre la calidad y el tamaño empresarial. Esta calidad empre...
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Purpose This paper aims to recognize whether occupational pension scheme (OPS) is offered in a varied set of measures intended to design a coherent human resources management of people. Second, the authors will study the relationship of these OPS with job satisfaction and job change. The interest of this ultimate goal lies in the relationship betwe...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible causes of the heterogeneous productivity observed in Spanish firms, finding evidence of a link between managerial capability and higher productivity in the context of family firms. Also, innovative human resource policies are much more frequently found in companies where there is a high l...
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This article analyses the connection between the use of advanced human resource management (HRM) practices, individually and as a system, with manufacturing flexibility. The results show a positive relationship between the implementation of advanced HRM practices and manufacturing flexibility. While most of the advanced HRM practices analysed show...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the organisational innovation effort that is being carried out by Spanish industrial companies through the implementation of advanced management systems. Design/methodology/approach – Taking into account the results of two surveys conducted with Spanish companies (in 1996 and 2007), the authors stu...
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Résumé L'activité syndicale a‐t‐elle une influence sur les politiques des ressources humaines et la productivité dans les entreprises espagnoles? Pour répondre, les auteurs considèrent le concept d'influence syndicale et la façon dont celle‐ci affecte certains aspects du fonctionnement des entreprises. A partir de deux enquêtes réalisées en 1996 et...
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. Based on surveys conducted in 1996 and 2007, this article examines the relationship between trade union influence, as perceived by management, and human resource policy and productivity in Spanish enterprises with over 50 employees. It investigates whether trade unions use their influence to pursue the agenda they have traditionally professed to...
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Resumen Los autores estudian las relaciones existentes en las empresas españolas entre la actividad sindical, por un lado, y las políticas de recursos humanos y la productividad, por otro. Analizan el concepto de influencia sindical y en qué aspectos del funcionamiento de la empresa se hace sentir, basándose en dos encuestas realizadas en 1996 y 20...
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Este informe estudia la relación existente entre educación y formación de los empleados y la productividad de la economía navarra. En particular, analiza si las empresas navarras disponen de un capital humano formado y motivado, capaz de asumir el cambio y de impulsar la mejora tecnológica y organizativa de las empresas. Además, estudia la Formació...
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This paper presents a detailed study of the structure, market power and competition in the distribution sector for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), within Spain. It is a segment of energy consumption and supply that is not often given serious attention, despite the fact that LPG is a crucial source of energy to many households, in many countries in E...
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El primer trabajo del CCN es el informe Innovación y productividad en la economía de Navarra. Posicionamiento frente a las regiones europeas más avanzadas, elaborado por Cristina Berechet, Emilio Huerta y Fernando San Miguel. El objetivo de este informe es estudiar los determinantes y factores que están detrás de la competitividad y el crecimiento...
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This paper deals with the concept of flexibility as the capacity of the firm to adapt to changes. First it defines three different, although related, dimension of firm flexibility: variety of products, time to market and internal adjustment. Second it employs data from a sample of 260 manufacturing firms from 3 medium and high technology industries...
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This paper uses survey data on 965 Spanish manufacturing firms to examine the implementation of innovative management practices and the relationship of this with the organization of work and human resource management. The paper takes into account transformations in technology, quality management and the organization of work. Using cluster analysis,...
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Partiendo del análisis de las dimensiones tecnológica, de calidad y organizativa, el presente artículo describe los principales perfiles organizativos que adoptan las empresas industriales españolas para hacer frente a los desafíos de las nuevas condiciones del entorno. A su vez se apuntan algunos de los principales obstáculos que emergen en el tej...
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of some of the characteristics of research alliances on the relative likelihood of the partnership undertaking more applied or more basic research, an issue that has received only limited attention in the literature. Using published studies on cooperative research and development (R&D) as its ba...
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Innovation is sometimes the result of collaboration between different agents with complementary resources. When companies make formal agreements to collaborate in R&D they do so with different types of organizations, such as their competitors, suppliers, and customers, or universities and research centres. This paper focuses on attempting to unders...
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El informe analiza, mediante la aportación de videncias empíricas, la presencia y la relevancia de la inversión extranjera en Navarra. Señala que dicha inversión proviene fundamentalmente de Estados Unidos y Europa, y se concentra sobre todo en determinados sectores productivos. El estudio también apunta que en los últimos años se han reducido las...
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We attempt to identify the factors that determine the use of production incentives for manual workers in Spanish manufacturing industry. Data relating to 629 manufacturing plants are used in the investigation. Our findings show that intensified competition, membership of a multinational firm and public ownership have a negative effect. Also, produc...
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Analyses the factors that influence the adoption by Spanish manufacturing firms of incentive schemes that link blue-collar workers’ pay to the results achieved by the organisation for which they work. In pursuing this aim information from 719 manufacturing plants, each with at least 50 employees, is used. Findings reveal the positive influence of f...
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This paper analyses the distribution of benefits between firms and consumers due to the price regulation of the Spanish energy sectors (electricity, oil fuels and gas) during the decade 1987–1997. To that effect, we compare the actual evolution of energy prices with alternate benchmarks in order to assess the potential existence of a pro-industry o...
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This paper examines why the formal liberalization of the Spanish market for automotive fuels did not introduce competition in the sector. Against the background of the transformation of the country's oil industry, it is shown how the Spanish distribution system emerged as the essential facility within the formally liberalized oil products market. ‘...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the motives that have caused industrial firms to cooperate in R&D. There are many theoretical works devoted to the theme but few empirical studies have been carried out with large samples to analyze the factors which determine why firms cooperate in R&D. We first review the reasons offered by the literature to ex...
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El presente trabajo analiza el impacto de la adopción de las Tecnologías de la Información (Tl) sobre otras dimensiones relevantes de la organización interno y externa de la empresa. Partiendo de la noción de complementariedad entre estas diferentes dimensiones estudiamos la relación entre la adopción de las TI, la gestión del capital humano, la or...
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This paper analyzes the effect of the variation of energy prices (electricity, oil and gas) on firms' profitability and consumers' protection in Spain during the decade 1987-1997. To this purpose, we compare the actual evolution of final energy prices with the one that could be anticipated under a competitive behavior in annual price reviews by tak...
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¿Los precios en los mercados mayoristas de energía eléctrica, garantizan el equilibrio a largo plazo entre oferta y demanda sin que haya peligro de restricciones físicas o son necesarias intervenciones adicionales?. El presente artículo esboza algunas respuestas a esta pregunta. Primero analiza las características de los precios de la energía eléct...
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La modernización del sistema español de distribución de productos petrolíferos, que ha dado lugar a una de las redes más eficientes de la UE, se ha basado en la potenciación del transporte por oleoductos. La Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos (CLH) es la empresa propietaria de la red de oleoductos, y mantiene una posición de cuasi-monopolio en el...
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En ocasiones las innovaciones son fruto de la colaboración de distintos agentes que cuentan con recursos complementarios. Las empresas al establecer acuerdos de colaboración en I+D lo hacen con diversos tipos de organizaciones: competidores, proveedores, clientes, universidades y centros de investigación. Probablemente las motivaciones y estrategia...
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The aim of this article is to study how Information Technology (IT) evaluation is carried out among a group of Spanish companies, establish a typology or grouping of them which uses similar evaluation criteria, determine the relationship between the level of IT maturity and the way in which it is evaluated and, finally, if there are any similaritie...
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This paper examines the evolution of the Spanish gasoline market from the abolition of the state oil monopoly (January 1993) to "complete" liberalisation (October 1998). With the restructuring of the Spanish oil sector during the 1980s and early 1990s, a highly concentrated oligopoly emerged in the automotive fuels market. A system of price ceiling...
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En los mercados existe una tensión permanente entre el conflicto y la cooperación. Sin una fuerte rivalidad en los mercados, aparece rápidamente el riesgo de abuso y la consiguiente lesión de los intereses de los consumidores. Las empresas tendrán menos incentivos para reducir costes y actuar con efectividad. Por otro lado, la colaboración entre em...
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This paper is concerned with the structure and regulation of the Spanish distribution system of oil products. Spanish-based refiners have a dominant position on the commercialisation of oil products. The Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos (CLH), a joint venture between the three Spanish-based refiners and Shell, is the only firm that distributes o...
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Resumen En este trabajo se presenta una descripción y un análisis del actual sistema de fijación de pre-cios de los Gases Licuados del Petróleo (GLPs) envasados en España. Este sector viene atravesan- Abstract This paper presents a description and an analysis of the current price regulation system of bottled Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Spain. Our go...
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The Resource-Based View of the firm attributes firms' superior performance thanks to a sustained competitive advantage. Value to customers and brands are essential elements of competitive advantage and marketing managers are those managing them. In this paper we propose that marketing manager can be a source of firm's competitive advantage if they...
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El tercer informe del Centro para la Competitividad de Navarra (CCN), editado por Emilio Huerta, director del Centro y de Institución Futuro, examina cómo se gestiona el capital humano en la industria navarra y elabora un diagnóstico para detectar sus puntos fuertes y débiles.
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Las nuevas reglas de la competitividad empresarial -- La base de datos: alcance del estudio, muestra de establecimientos y metodología -- Estrategias tecnológicas y flexibilidad en la empresa -- La gestión de la calidad -- Las políticas de recursos humanos -- Los sistemas de organización del trabajo -- Las empresas que utilizan sistemas de gestión...
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El cuarto informe del Centro para la Competitividad de Navarra (CCN) e Institución Futuro, �Claves de la Economía y la Empresa de Navarra�, fue presentado el 17 de febrero de 2010. El estudio ha sido elaborado por Alberto Bayo, Cristina Berechet, Emilio Huerta, Javier Merino y Fernando Pérez de Gracia y ha sido editado con la ayuda del Gobierno de...

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