José Ignacio López-Sánchez- PhD in Management
- Professor (Full) at Complutense University of Madrid
José Ignacio López-Sánchez
- PhD in Management
- Professor (Full) at Complutense University of Madrid
Founder of the Research Group in Production and Information Technology and Communications (GIPTIC) of the UCM
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July 2011 - December 2015
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Publications (59)
El artículo pretende servir de guía para la toma de decisiones estratégicas en empresas inmersas
en batallas de estándares desarrolladas en mercados en los que se manifiestan las
externalidades de red, con especial foco en el resultado de la batalla de los DVD de alta definición
(entre DVD-HD, de Toshiba y Blue-Ray, de Sony). Las conclusiones son e...
First, analysing the evolution of robots in the world in order to draw initial conclusions regarding the behaviour of some countries, then verify if countries with a higher density of robots per worker are countries whose jobs have a lower risk of being replaced by automation and are more competitive. Jobs requiring physical and manual skills, and...
During the last two decades, universities around the world have increased the adoption of English-medium instruction (EMI) as a way to enhance internationalisation and global competitiveness. EMI adoption presents a wide range of opportunities, but it also presents some challenges, being one of them the potential impact on students’ academic perfor...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study how job reductions affect product innovation and marketing innovation in a sample of 2,034 Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 2007–2014.
Design/methodology/approach
Poisson and logistic regression models with random effects were used to analyse the impact of downsizing on some innovation outcome...
Adoption of high tech robot systems help economies and companies to be more competitive. We have analyzed the evolution of 71 countries, calculating the robot density (robots for each 10,000 people of active population). We have used a clustering algorithm using the dissimilarity measure which takes into consideration both the proximity of the valu...
p>This paper analyzes the perception, on the part of Grade students, of the availability of videos complementary to classroom teaching, as well as the moment of visualization of the same, with the aim of identifying their use pattern and perceived usefulness, an initial step towards future flip-teaching interventions. The analysis has been carried...
p class="Abstract"> The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of an app on learning improvement in subjects related to Operations Management in Bachelor Degrees. We show the results of a regression analysis between the use of the app (Blunder) and the students’ grades. This initiative arises from the experience of the Research Group on Product...
p> This paper aims to show how an app can be a very useful tool to improve learning through knowledge management among students and professors. We will show the results of the survey to students from four Spanish universities on the use of the app. The results show that for the students the app is useful to review; to bring the subject up to date;...
This study analyzes how Spanish manufacturing firms' technological collaboration with suppliers affects these firms' product innovation. This research also considers innovation novelty (radical versus incremental). Using the 2007-2010 data from the ESEE (Business Strategies Survey), logistic regression analysis shows that technological collaboratio...
the design and development of new products has become a crucial activity for maintaining competitiveness in the market. in order to carry out these innovation activities companies need to assess whether they have the necessary resources and capabilities. this article analyzes technological collaboration with suppliers as a means of carrying out pro...
El diseño y desarrollo de nuevos productos se ha convertido en una actividad crucial para seguir compitiendo en el mercado. Para llevar a cabo esta actividad de innovación, las empresas deben valorar si disponen de los recursos y capacidades necesarios. En este trabajo se analiza la colaboración tecnológica con proveedores como medio para llevar a...
Early academic research on electronic markets suggested that there are forces driving these markets towards the Bertrand equilibrium where firms set prices equal to unit cost. However, more recent empirical evidence shows that online retailers have been able to develop a number of strategies to escape the Law of one price. This chapter reviews the...
This paper studies the link between jobs mismatch and the impact of information technologies (ITs) on the efficiency of small service firms. From the perspective of job matching theory, the paper explores how small service firms that use ITs obtain an optimal matching between new skill requirements and workforce skills. The hypotheses suggest that...
Both standardisation and flexibility are naturally linked to franchising and the balance between them has become an important research issue. Literature states that cost minimisation, brand image and innovation are the main reasons that push towards standardisation, while flexibility is claimed (for those that advocate for it) in order to achieve a...
the design and development of new products has become a crucial activity for maintaining competitiveness in the market. in order to carry out these innovation activities companies need to assess whether they have the necessary resources and capabilities. this article analyzes technological collaboration with suppliers as a means of carrying out pro...
This research addresses the contribution that technical skills and cognitive abilities make toward technological efficiency in small and medium enterprises. While most of the literature on skill-biased technological change focuses on large corporations, this exploratory research tries to close the gap in the literature and addresses the impact of t...
This paper examines the effects of information technology (IT) adoption on the productivity of multimarket small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs). The main hypothesis is that IT usage increases efficiency to a higher degree in diversified and internationalized
firms compared with single-market SMEs. This hypothesis is tested using a large sample...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of knowledge complexity, absorptive capacity and weak ties between franchisor and franchisee on standards compliance related to quality and operative procedures.
Design/methodology/approach
A franchisee outlets survey was carried out to investigate the effect of knowledge, franchisee and r...
This work analyzes the capacity for technological innovation in Latin America and Spain. Based on the literature on national capacity for innovation and economy of technological change, an empirical study was made using the Multivariant Statistical Cluster Analysis technique and the technological innovation indicators published in the 2002-2003 and...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the unclear relationship between industry structure and open innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
– The focus of the study is on firms that received external help to develop their products or that helped third parties in developing their products. The hypotheses were tested on a large panel of m...
This paper tries to analyze the association between cooperation with suppliers and the level of innovation achieved by the customer. Therefore, a supplier may serve as an external source for innovation and this paper studies the different models set up by a company with its suppliers. Special attention is drawn to the competitive and cooperative mo...
In many Internet-based services, network effects have a significant impact on the evolution of the market. In particular, critical mass is a fundamental element due to its relevance to the growth process of these kinds of services. The objective of this paper is to set out some of the difficulties concerning the identification of critical mass. Acc...
La incorporación de los sistemas expertos en el contexto CIM: estudio de la situación española
Previous literature has suggested that the adoption of Information Technology (IT) can affect the efficiency of multimarket firms. This paper examines the empirical relationship between IT and the efficiency of small and medium enterprises either following diversification strategies or selling their products in foreign markets. We formulate an empi...
The literature concerned with the relationship between performance and information and communications technology (ICT) is usually focused on the ICT investments. This paper shows that it is the level of use of ICT within organisations, with preference as regards the expenses of ICT, which is responsible for the effect on performance. A general samp...
p>En este trabajo se pretende analizar la influencia de la naturaleza tácita y el valor del conocimiento (dos características del conocimiento determinantes de la facilidad con la que se puede transferir el mismo) en el rendimiento de los sistemas de franquicia. Se ha llevado a cabo un análisis de regresión lineal sobre una muestra de establecimien...
The literature of knowledge transfer studies complexity as a knowledge characteristic which influences organisations’ performance
since it hinders this process. However, complex knowledge is richer and more complete and its influence on performance may
be positive. So, the purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of knowledge complexity on...
This paper analyzes, in the context of negotiation, the problem of coordination and conflict resolution between the manufacturer
(Seller) and the retailers (Buyers) for a two-tier inventory system. The retailers capture demand (from customers) and therefore
are responsible for the level of service offered by the system. The larger the inventory tha...
The objective of this paper is to propose a new model of competence in presence of network effects. We will introduce some
modifications in the Lotka-Volterra model, in order to solve its deficiencies. The main improvement is to introduce a modification
of Metcalfe’s Law, what allow us to reflect the effect of congestion externalities. The model’s...
The aim of this paper is to analize the effect of knowledge transfer on franchise systems performance through three mecanisms:operating manuals, initial and on-going training and initial and on-going support services. A linear regression analysis is conducted on a sample of franchisee of different franchise chains and sectors of activity operating...
The aim of the paper is to provide guidelines for strategic decision making in companies involved in wars of standards within industries that exhibit network externalities, focusing mainly in outcome of the high definition DVD market war (between DVD-HD, from Toshiba and Blue-Ray, from Sony). The conclusions have been extracted from an empirical an...
This research has endeavoured to build on earlier research on the relationship between a firm's technological resources and the direction of its diversification, by trying to confirm the endogeneity of this relationship and by addressing the influence of innovation on the choice of the mode of diversification. Based on a sample of Spanish firms, ou...
A large number of studies about the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) impact on the productivity of firms have discovered that the mere investment in IT doesn’t suffice. Additional investments, organizational and human resource management practices, etc. are necessary. This study shows how the simple usage of IT has no relevant effect...
Los numerosos estudios llevados a cabo acerca del efecto de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC) sobre la productividad de las firmas han puesto de manifiesto que no es suficiente invertir en TIC, sino que una serie de inversiones adicionales, prácticas organizativas específicas, etc, son necesarias. En este trabajo se muest...
Purpose:This paper studies the impact of ICT on the productivity of the activities of the firm in the supply chain focusing on the actual use of these technologies instead of on the mere ICT investment.Approach:Approaching the research goal with the theoretical framework of the Theory of the Diffusion of Technology and applying Data Envelopment Ana...
El principal objetivo de este trabajo es proponer un nuevo modelo de difusión tecnológica para productos de red, que se basa en la ley de creación de valor recientemente propuesta por Briscoe et al. (2006). Tras una justificación teórica de la formulación del modelo, se realiza la correspondiente validación empírica comparando, para el caso de Inte...
El estudio de la administración de negocios en Internet y de la economía digital en la dirección de empresas se encuentra todavía en sus comienzos en España. El presente trabajo pretende identificar, desde la literatura académica, cuáles son los modelos de negocio satisfactorios en la economía digital y cuáles son sus fuentes de valor. Para analiza...
The lack of empirical research on the impact of Internet usage on workplace productivity motivated this paper. A Cobb-Douglas production function was used to confirm that information technology investment and Internet usage at work contributes to increases in productivity. The model is tested on a data set of 464 Spanish firms, based on computer as...
This work studies the impact of technological innovation activities on the diversification strategy of the firm. This work contributes to the research on this field controlling for the endogeneity of the patenting and diversification decisions. Moreover, it improves previous research by measuring not only direct but also indirect diversification. O...
This paper studies the influence of basic principles of concurrent engineering (autonomous multi-functional teamwork and execution of activities under an overlapping approach) on development time. A linear regression model was performed on a sample of electronic components manufacturing firms in Spain. Results seem to indicate that both autonomous...
El trabajo analiza el impacto sobre la productividad de la inversión en Tecnologías de la Información y de las horas de trabajo realizadas utilizando Internet. Se ha estimado una función de producción Cobb-Douglas, utilizando datos cross section de una muestra de empresas españolas. Los resultados muestran que la inversión en hardware, la inversión...
El presente trabajo trata de estudiar las características intrínsecas de los equipos creados por las empresas para el desarrollo de nuevos productos (características que presentan sus miembros, características del líder del proyecto, el apoyo de la alta dirección, el grado de autonomía, así como el grado de multifuncionalidad) observando si existen...
El objetivo de este articulo es analizar, mediante simulación numérica, las propiedades del modelo de competencia en mercados de redes propuesto por López Sánchez y Arroyo Barriguete (2005). Concretamente se estudiará su comportamiento en procesos de sustitución tecnológica, es decir, en situaciones en las que un estándar con elevada cuota de merca...
Aunque existen numerosos trabajos que identifican sus principales características y modo de funcionamiento, el estudio de las organizaciones virtuales adolece de una carencia de modelos matemáticos que reflejen su comportamiento de un modo cuantitativo. En este sentido, a lo largo del presente trabajo se tratará de poner de manifiesto las similitud...
El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar una de las principales características
de la Economía Digital: las Externalidades de Red. Dichas Externalidades
inducen en los mercados una realimentación positiva que lleva en
muchos casos a situaciones prácticamente monopolísticas. Se identificarán
aquellas capacidades internas de las empresas que res...
Q ué tienen en común el teléfono, los sistemas operativos para PC, los procesadores de texto, las hojas de cálculo, los teclados de los ordenadores, el messenger y el correo electrónico? Pues además de otras semejanzas que el lector pueda encontrar, la principal carac-terística que todos ellos comparten es el estar sujetos a efectos de red. Los efe...
El objetivo de este trabajo es desarrollar un modelo de competencia tecnológica en presencia de efectos de red a partir de la ecuación Gompertz de difusión. Se pretende poner de manifiesto de plausibilidad de este planteamiento, ya que hasta el momento los modelos desarrollados en este campo parten de la ecuación logística o la de Bass. Los resulta...
� Mercado sin explotar: S1(t) = P(t) - Ñ(t) , siendo P(t) el número total de individuos en el mercado. Representa por tanto un conjunto de indivi duos que por diversas razones no puede ser considerados como mercado potencial. � Mercado potencial: S2(t) = Ñ(t) - N(t) , siendo Ñ(t) el mercado potencial total. � Mercado Actual: N(t) el número de usuar...
El presente artículo analiza la relación entre
Tecnologías de la Información y la Productividad, así
como la relación entre Internet y Productividad.
Pone de manifiesto cuál es la situación en España
de la Sociedad de la Información y aplica dicha
relación a las empresas españolas. Los resultados
indican que en España las empresas necesitan
inverti...
La importancia de las técnicas de decisión basadas en la gestión del conocimiento: la ingeniería del conocimiento en España
In order to maintain their competitiveness, companies feel compelled to adopt productivity increasing measures. Yet, they cannot relinquish the flexibility their production cycles need in order to improve their response, and thus, their positioning in the market. To achieve this, companies must combine these two seemingly opposed principles. Thanks...
La inteligencia artificial y la ingeniería del conocimiento como soporte para las técnicas de decisión basadas en la gestión del conocimiento
Electronic markets may improve the firm�s efficiency as they can reduce the costs of searching for customers and suppliers, as well as the coordination costs of the transactions. Our main argument is that both the learning and adaptation process to this new technology and the financial and technological resources of the firm may have some influence...
