Isabel Acero Fraile- Doctor of Business Administration
- University of Zaragoza
Isabel Acero Fraile
- Doctor of Business Administration
- University of Zaragoza
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This study investigates whether the proportion of proprietary directors (blockholders or their representatives) on the board's remuneration committee influences vertical pay inequality in Spanish listed companies and whether this relationship can be conditioned by the concentration of ownership.
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The sample conta...
This article studies the evolution of the competitive balance in the top European Football competitions. From a long-term perspective, 18 European leagues have been analysed from season 1992-93 to season 2018-19. The research concludes that the imbalance in competition has been permanent, exhibiting a stationary behaviour in the majority of the mar...
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The paper analyzes the effects of financial fair play (FFP) in the competitive balance of European football industry throughout a long-term perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors analyze the evolution of the competitive balance in the European football industry through a time-series analysis from season 1992/93 to 2018/19.
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The objective of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the supervisory role of the board of directors in the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We focus our study on the European case, for which there is no previous exhaustive evidence on this topic. Using information on 985 mergers and acquisitions carried out over the perio...
In the current scenario of increasing social inequality, the debate over the compensation received by directors and executives of large listed companies, and its justification, has intensified. Drawing on Agency Theory and Human Capital Theory, a multilevel analytical technique is used in this paper to examine the influence of firm-level variables...
This paper examines if collaborative networks affect the export status in family firms (FFs) and if the effect of networks is different regarding the degree of internationalisation of the firm. For the empirical analysis, a dynamic Heckman-Probit model is used, using in the second stage a quantile regression model, which shows the networks' effect...
In this paper the factors that influence the individual performance of a cyclist in the Vuelta a España are analyzed. To carry out this analysis, different attributes ranging from individual factors to team quality or experience will be taking into account. The objective of this study is to observe individual performance in the race. This will allo...
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/CG-07-2016-0146
This paper analyses the relationship between ownership structure and financial performance in the five major European football leagues from 2007/08 to 2012/13 and examines the impact of the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulation. The sample used is comprises of 94 teams that participated i...
(In press) This paper complements a new line of research that includes firm heterogeneity in trade models. The central idea of this research is that only the largest and most efficient firms are capable of exporting. However, empirical evidence has confirmed that a large number of SMEs is also involved in internationalisation. Given this context, t...
What am I doing now? This is a question that most students wonder when they finish their university studies. Entering the labor market is an issue which concerns businesses, students and universities. Therefore, this study expect to help both graduates and universities to improve the knowledge of what the labor market demands. In particular, the ai...
Understanding a firm's internationalization process, including entry mode decisions, has attracted increasing attention from the literature in international business. However, most of the existing literature on exportation by agri-food firms examines single-stage decision making processes based on the decision of whether or not to export, which exp...
This article analyses the relevance of the agency problems that exist between shareholders and managers (type I agency problems) and between majority and minority shareholders (type II agency problems), in determining the composition of the board of directors, differentiating between family owned and non-family owned firms. The hypotheses are teste...
The main problem that social enterprises face is difficulty in obtaining funds. This paper analyzes the sources of funding used by nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Results show that public funds are the main source for NPO financing, both in Spain and at the European level (France, Great Britain and Germany); however, differences are observed with r...
Few articles have addressed the relation between the ownership structure and the composition of the boards. The results of the analysis performed on a sample of Spanish listed companies for the period 2004–2011, show that in markets where corporate ownership is highly concentrated, it is necessary to devote special attention to blockholders and to...
We analyze the effect that the structure of boards of directors and disclosure of corporate social responsibility information have on business performance after controlling for dynamic endogeneity in the model. We analyse 171 Spanish enterprises during the period 2004 to 2008. The results of the estimation using the GMM method (Generalized Method o...
This paper analyses board size and composition determinants with reference to boards' two principal functions: the control or monitoring function and the advisory function. It also tackles the endogeneity problem which exists in this type of studies. Using a sample composed of 171 publically traded Spanish corporations spanning the period 2004–2008...
El presente trabajo recoge un análisis comparativo realizado entre diversos códigos y recomendaciones de buen gobierno tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Durante el estudio, se ha revisado una amplia muestra de códigos de gobierno corporativo,
prestando especial atención a los aspectos incluidos en los mismos relativos a la composición de l...
La publicación en España del último Código de Buen Gobierno en 2006 (Código Conthe), ha originado importantes cambios en el ámbito del gobierno corporativo. Recogiendo dichas modificaciones, la Circular 4/2007 de la CNMV, propone un nuevo modelo de informe anual de gobierno corporativo (IAGC) de las sociedades anónimas cotizadas, que modifica el qu...
El presente artículo revisa los fundamentos teóricos sobre el origen del problema de agencia y los mecanismos de gobierno que surgen para hacer frente al mismo, incidiendo de forma especial en la figura de los Consejos de Administración. Así, se profundiza en las funciones y responsabilidades encomendadas a los Consejos de Administración, la evoluc...
El gobierno corporativo de las organizaciones, y concretamente la estructura de los consejos de administración de las grandes corporaciones, varía sustancialmente entre compañías, constatándose el lema one size doesn't fit all. En este artículo, utilizando una muestra de 171 sociedades españolas cotizadas durante el período 2004-2007, se confirma l...
El Gobierno Corporativo ha adquirido gran relevancia en la actualidad, siendo el estudio de los Códigos de Buen Gobierno uno de los temas que suscita mayor interés. En este contexto, el presente trabajo analiza los Códigos sobre Gobierno Corporativo desarrollados en España en la última década (Olivencia, Aldama y Conthe), reflexionando sobre el tra...
