Eva-María Mora-Valentín

• MD
• Research and teacher at Rey Juan Carlos University

University–industry relationships have been central in technology and management innovation literature for decades. Success has been one of the most relevant topics in this field, driving a high proportion of this research. Our objective is to analyze this literature. Based on a framework of the motivations and expected benefits of the partners, cl...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the open data business models (ODBMs) as a source of knowledge and innovation to generate economic and social value. A framework for understanding ODBMs is presented. First, the knowledge structure of the ODBMs literature is identified. Second, a conceptual model for analysing the ODBMs is proposed. And finally, t...

Purpose Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development defines 17 goals with 169 targets in economic, social and environmental fields to guarantee human rights. Universities and companies are two driving forces for achieving these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, university research and, specifically, business and management studies...

The main challenge for companies in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process is cultural integration management. Cultural integration management generates uncertainty, tension, and loss of motivation within human resources (HR). There is no strategy for avoiding these effects, but appropriate management of cultural integration can help to reduce...

Value co-creation has become a very important topic in several disciplines. It is observed that value co-creation has been analyzed mainly from a perspective of marketing or services. The interest of studying value co-creation in relation to innovation is growing but there are no previous literature reviews that focus on the literature that studies...

Entrepreneurship and open data are key elements in the sustainable development field, improving economic, social, and environmental dimensions. However, entrepreneurship and open data are barely studied together in the literature from a theoretical perspective. Therefore, this study identifies the main themes in the previous studies and proposes a...

Open data and open innovation are two topics currently attracting the attention of academics. But no previous studies consider these fields in combination while using a bibliometric approach. Thus, the aim of this paper is to understand the relationship between open innovation and open data. Two research questions have been formulated: 1) What are...

Abstract Purpose: Many of the papers that analyse human resource management (HRM) in merger and acquisition (M&A) processes focus on the last two stages (integration and implementation). Then, the purpose of this paper is to propose an HRM model for the first stage of the process (planning) with four key factors: the due diligence process, the inte...

In this paper, we review some characteristics of the literature that studies the uses and applications of open data for open innovation. Three research questions are proposed about both topics: (1) What journals, conferences and authors have published papers about the use of open data for open innovation? (2) What knowledge areas have been analysed...

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the literature on open data in three ways. The first is to develop a descriptive analysis of journals and authors to identify the knowledge areas in which open data are applied. The second is to analyse the conceptual structure of the field using a bibliometric technique. The co-word analys...

This paper contributes to a better understanding of the research on environmental management using bibliometric methods to supplement the subjective evaluation of literature reviews. Focusing on the Management and Business fields, our main objective is to analyse the knowledge structure of environmental management literature and the evolution of re...

This paper shows that the effect of location in science and technology parks is not homo-geneous for all firms. The proposed model contemplates a non-linear relationship between belonging to a science and technology park and innovation performance, considering the firm’s absorptive capacity as a moderating variable. A panel dataset of firms located bot...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a human resource management model for the integration stage of mergers and acquisitions (M/A) process with four key factors: leadership and integration team; change and restructuring process; human resources (HR) resistance; valuable HR retention. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze a c...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo factores de conocimiento, capacidad de absorción, mecanismos de apropiabilidad, proximidad de recursos y “sticky knowledge”, determinan la propensión a innovar en coopetición. Se contrastan las hipótesis formuladas con una muestra de 526 empresas españolas que cooperan con competidores Los resultados mue...

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the literature on science and technology parks. The use of bibliometric analysis techniques is growing rapidly in management and organization research as a way of supplementing the subjective evaluation of literature reviews. Even though studies in some research fields such as innovation, e...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have received a great deal of attention in academic literature but the role of human resources management in M&A success is still understudied. Of the three stages identified in a merger and acquisition process (planning, integration and implementation), most research focuses on the planning and integration stages. Th...

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the literature on open innovation and entrepreneurship. Several studies have applied bibliometric methods to innovation and entrepreneurship separately. However, no study has considered these fields in combination while using a bibliometric approach. The main aim of this paper is to underst...

Coopetition has become an important domain in today's business practices, which had led to an increasing rate of publications. The literature has suggested that coopetition must be perceived though a paradox lens. Actors involved in coopetition experience tensions that stem from the paradox that materializes in the relationship. The objective of th...

La relacion entre las practicas medioambientales de recursos humanos y el rendimiento medioambiental de la empresa ha sido apuntada desde un punto de vista teorico en multiples trabajos. Sin embargo, la evidencia empirica al respecto es escasa y los trabajos existentes se han basado en medidas relativamente subjetivas del rendimiento medioambiental...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el desarrollo de competencias en la formación on-line a través de las actividades propuestas por el profesor en la guía docente. Para ello, se ha realizado un estudio exploratorio en la asignatura de Dirección Estratégica y Política de Empresa I que se imparte en modalidad on-line en el Grado de Administració...

Mergers and Acquisitions have received huge attention in the academic literature but the role of Human Resources Management in Mergers and Acquisitions success is still understudied. This chapter analyzes the literature that studies the role of Human Resources Management on each stage of the Mergers and Acquisitions process for developing an integr...

The ACADEMIA Program analyses the profile of Spanish professors for achieve the positive evaluation to will be Associate Professor or Full Professor of Spanish universities (national accreditation). This article analyzes the evolution and changes that have occurred in the Academy Program. For this purpose, a comparative analysis of two versions of...

Given the emphasis on skills in the European Higher Education Sistem framework, this paper has two objectives. First, after identifying the competencies that are demanded by employers in the labor market for students of Management studies, the paper carries out a comparative analysis between the skills required by companies (life skills) and skills...

Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los efectos directos de la localización de las empresas en parques científicos y tecnológicos y de la cooperación en I+D+i en la innovación de las empresas. Los resultados obtenidos con una muestra de 784 empresas españolas han permitido confirmar, por una parte, que las empresas situadas en parques c...

Preface “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.” Steve Jobs We watched,...

The aim of this paper is to analyse whether degree of inbound open innovation (IOI) depending on the size and sector firm. A sample of small, medium and large-size firms from the manufacturing and service sectors have been selected. A cluster analysis has been developed to classify firms in three groups. We have found that companies in manufacturin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the effects of knowledge spillovers on innovation and collaboration among firms located in science and technology parks (STPs). To do so, whether knowledge spillovers imply a greater degree of innovation in its various forms – product, process, organisational and commercial – and greater inter-org...

In an open innovation scenario, organizations increasingly rely on external sources through interorganizational networks. In this chapter, the authors study the role played by the promoters in facilitating and maintaining university-firm relationships. To do so end, they have analyzed the relationship promoter model and examined his or her role in...

The purpose of is paper is to analyse and compare the link between dependence and commitment in two types of interorganizational relationships: interfirm linkages and those between firms and research organisms. Findings confirm the relationship between resource dependence and commitment in both samples, while the effect of dependence for specific i...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es el estudio de la relación entre diferentes medidas de rendimiento de los acuerdos de cooperación. Para ello, utilizando una muestra de relaciones de colaboración entre empresas y universidades, se analiza cómo el logro de los diferentes objetivos que lleva a cada socio a participar en una alianza influye de forma...

La elección del socio con el que llevar a cabo un acuerdo de cooperación tecnológica resulta un aspecto fundamental en las fases iniciales del proceso de colaboración. Teniendo en cuenta que la naturaleza de los diversos agentes con los que cooperar es muy variada (clientes, proveedores, competidores, institutos de investigación, universidades ...)...

The goal of this paper is to analyse the relationships among different performance measures of the cooperative agreements. In order to do that and employing a sample of collaborative relationships between firms and universities, we analyse how the fulfilment of the goals that constitute the initial motivation for every partner to take part in the a...

The main objective of this paper is to show a descriptive view of mergers, acquisitions and alliances which have started by automotive manufacturers companies around the world. Results show that, during the last 40 years, these firms have started 1,492 mergers and acquisitions and 1,794 alliances. Their main purpose was to expand or to develop new...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar el papel que la confianza tiene en los acuerdos de cooperación entre empresas. Se evidencia que la confianza afecta a tales acuerdos de manera distinta, dependiendo de la naturaleza del socio (empresa u organismo de investigación) y en función de la etapa de evolución del acuerdo. Una observación det...

This study aims to analyze how obstacles to industry–university relations affect the success of their cooperation models, using a sample of collaborations coordinated by the Technological and Industrial Development Center (CDTI) in research and development activities in service industries. The results show that for the industry partner the key cons...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the effects on success in the interorganizational relationships directly from trust, reputation and prior links, and indirectly through the influence of reputation and prior links on trust. Moreover, these relationships will be analysed taking into account the expectations of partners according to the conti...

This paper is intended to present a descriptive analysis of a representative set of Spanish cooperative agreements in R&D activities between firms and Research Organisations (RO), including universities, public research centres and private institutes or associations. For this purpose, we have examined 800 collaborations (1995–2000) boosted by the p...

La colaboración entre empresas y universidades es un fenómeno de creciente importancia para la creación y transferencia de la innovación que resulta fundamental para el desarrollo económico de los países. En la práctica, surgen determinados obstáculos que dificultan la gestión de este tipo de relaciones. Conocerlos e identificarlos resulta de vital...

This paper reviews the economic literature on the role of fees in patent systems. Two main research questions are usually addressed: the impact of patent fees on the behavior of applicants and the question of optimal fees. Studies in the former group confirm that a range of fees affect the behavior of applicants and suggest that a patent is an inel...

En la actualidad, la colaboración entre diferentes tipos de organizaciones constituye un elemento fundamental en el desarrollo de las estrategias tecnológicas. En las últimas décadas, se ha venido observando un importante crecimiento en el número de acuerdos de cooperación en tecnología, debido fundamentalmente a la imposibilidad que tienen las emp...

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of articles on university-industry relationships published between 1990 and 2000 in Industry and Higher Education. The results indicate that the case study methodology is the most common approach in such papers. In terms of the geographical context, most of the articles analyse developments in the UK, othe...

The goal of this paper is to present a theoretical view of the co-operative relationships between firms and universities. We have revised the main subjects and key topics that are analysed in the literature focus on university-industry linkages. As we have identified Science and Public Policy as a journal that has published several articles about u...

Although university-industry collaboration has existed for a long time, activity has increased significantly over the past decade. Now, both higher education and industry are experiencing cultural change, and cooperation between the sectors is considered a social responsibility. If there is no longer a need to argue the importance of university-ind...

Tesis Doctoral leída en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos en julio de 2002. Directores de la Tesis: Luis Ángel Guerras Martín y María Ángeles Montoro Sánchez El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los factores determinantes del éxito de los acuerdos de cooperación entre empresas y organismos de investigación. Para ello, nos hemos planteado un doble o...

En: Quinesia : revista de educación especial Vigo 2000, n. 28-29, agosto ; p. 127-142 Las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación en las empresas están adoptando un papel protagonista que proporciona nuevas posibilidades para los trabajadores discapacitados. Así, el trabajo a distancia o teletrabajo ha incrementado su importancia en mult...

El objetivo de este trabajo es el análisis tanto de los efectos directos de la confianza, la reputación de los socios y las experiencias previas sobre el éxito de una relación cooperativa, como de los efectos indirectos que se derivan de la influencia de la reputación y las experiencias previas sobre la confianza, teniendo en cuenta las expectativa...