Javier García-Bernal

• Ph.D. (Economics, Management and Organizations)
• COMPETE Research Group at University of Zaragoza

Evidence shows that total quality management (TQM) improves organizational performance, but researchers disagree on why and how such improvements occur and on who really benefits (shareholders, employees, customers, society). This study tests hypotheses relating to TQM adoption and the path from wealth creation to wealth appropriation, making a dis...

The industrial organization literature typically uses different models of strategic interaction to represent different degrees of competitive intensity. The current work shows how the Bertrand solution can converge towards the Cournot solution by modelling the presence of firms’ strategic behaviours during the process of mutual price adjustment tha...

Researchers have dedicated considerable efforts to examining and explaining the capacity of total quality management (TQM) to generate wealth, from the conceptual framework of the resource-based view. From this approach, TQM is basically an inimitable resource that generates competitive advantages. This analytical perspective can help justify and e...

Some authors have demonstrated the value of egalitarian sharing rules in teams, even when team members have distinct abilities and make different contributions to team performance. However, we show the appearance of an undesirable component of rational altruism when marginal productivities differ across team members and an egalitarian sharing rule...

Adopting total quality management can improve firms’ organisational performance. The current work examines how firms can increase the benefits traditionally linked to this approach to management. Under the theoretical and conceptual framework of transaction cost theory, we study the economic capacity of total quality management to efficiently manag...

La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha cambiado de forma radical e impredecible el entorno competitivo de las empresas, siendo España uno de los países de su entorno que se ha visto más afectado. En este nuevo contexto, para hacer frente a unas condiciones del entorno extremadamente dinámicas, complejas y difícilmente predecibles, las empresas para poder ad...

Although the empirical evidence shows the existence of a positive relationship between the adoption of TQM and an improvement in corporate performance, its dissemination is heterogeneous among companies in the construction sector. The main objective of this paper focuses on identifying the relevant factors that drive executives of construction comp...

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...

The aim of this article was to deepen the study of the determinants of the sporting event’s demand. Specifically, this study is focused on the relationship between the expected quality of the event and attendance at the European football stadiums. The study explores the Rottemberg Hypothesis (1956), which states the existence of a positive effect o...

El objetivo de este trabajo es profundizar en el estudio de los determinantes de la demanda de eventos deportivos. Especialmente, el estudio se centra en la relación entre la calidad del evento y la asistencia a los estadios de fútbol través de una estimación de la función de demanda para las cinco grandes ligas europeas. En el caso del fútbol euro...

RESUMEN El objetivo de este trabajo es aplicar el Modelo EFQM de Excelencia empresarial a un importante hospital Universitario español, concretamente centrados en cinco de los nueve criterios que lo componen, los criterios facilitadores. La autoevaluación permite realizar un diagnóstico sistemático de todas las áreas de la organización y puede así...

This paper analyses the design of optimal incentives in teams both with and without rational altruism. The main contribution of the paper is to study the influence of the incentive function on the altruism parameter chosen by team members. We find that optimal incentive is independent of the presence of rational altruism. Secondly, we compare the w...

Purpose Human resources management directed at improving job satisfaction has become a subject of growing interest in both the professional world and the academic world, and is justified by the impact that satisfaction has on business performance. The main objective of this work is to determine empirically the factors that have an impact on the sat...

Ponencia Invitada

Researchers and managers agree on the importance of organizations adopting a total quality management model. However, while an organization's adoption of such a model can be considered a potential source of competitive advantage, and therefore value generating, its implementation is not always successful. The authors focus on the importance of comp...

En el marco de la transferencia de competencias sanitarias en España, se impone desarrollar una orientación estratégica de la organización siguiendo los principios y filosofía de la calidad total (TQM), orientación al cliente y mejora continua. Este trabajo presenta la aplicación del modelo de calidad de la EFQM a un importante hospital Universitar...