Juan Carlos Fernandez de Arroyabe

University of Essex · Essex Business School (EBS)

This paper explores how self-management work groups are formed in higher education institutions and how this affects the effectiveness of the teams. For this, we investigated the experiences of 560 students who were members of self-management learning teams, using factorial analysis, cluster analysis and ordinal logit regression. We focus on self-m...

COVID-19 has significantly influenced the entrepreneurial engagement of self-employed persons. This editorial presents twelve special issue articles of the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (JEEE) that aimed to capture the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship at different levels and accumulate knowledge of best indivi...

In this paper, we investigate cyber breaches and their effects on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), considering the role that cybersecurity plays in SMEs, and the importance that SMEs have in the economy. Using the Cyber Security Breaches Survey data, the first contribution extends previous works confirming that SMEs receive a wide variety of br...

This paper investigates how the capabilities that are related to the circular economy (CE) affect the development of products and processes that are compatible with CE business models. From the dynamic capabilities perspective, we assume that the development of CE in the firm implies the use of firm capabilities and the alignment of these in the de...

This study analyses the properties of the networks constructed by the funded energy-related research consortia to assess their support to the objectives of the European Union’s energy technologies and research policies. By developing research consortia, partners and projects are linked to form a network that generates relationship networks (innovat...

This paper investigates how drivers affect the development of eco-innovation in firms. Our research classifies the eco-innovation drivers in three categories: internal factors, market factors, and institutional factors. Using a sample with 9,172 firms from the Spanish Innovation Survey Panel, we study the impact of eco-innovation drivers for energy...

Engagement with work has been one of the most influential management ideas of recent decades. A prevalent assumption is that engagement is inherently beneficial and disengagement is a problem to be addressed. Yet theory and research on disengagement show it may not have the assumed negative impact on organizations, and at times may be beneficial fo...

This study examines how firms cooperate for innovation in the services sector. We tested the theoretical development using cluster analysis and ordinal logit regression analysis with firm-level data collected from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel (PITEC) for the period 2011–2013. Overall, 2,622 service firms have been used. This research...

Innovation Systems (IS) have emerged as focal points for innovation and technology, facilitating interaction between private companies, research centres and institutional actors. For over 30 years, the Framework Programmes (FPs) have been one of the primary mechanisms through which collaboration among research institutions and industry has been pro...

This study aims at developing and demonstrating in a real case study a methodology for supporting Occupational Health and Safety Services in the design and assessment of preventive measures to reduce the risks of COVID-19 outbreaks within their entities. The proposed methodology applies the concepts from Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the current...

The aim of this study is to investigate how innovative capabilities of the firm affect eco‐innovation from a dynamic capability lens. We build on OECD research to conceptualise eco‐innovation as the capacity with which firms modify, redesign, and create products, processes, procedures, and organisations in order to reduce environmental impact. We p...

Our paper encompasses an integral view of organisational innovation (OI), covering from the generation of OI to the effect of OI on firm performance, tackling the gap identified by Damanpour, Walker, and Avellaneda (2009) about the lack of studies that comprehensively study OI. We empirically test this question using data from the Spanish Technolog...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of obstacles and institutional factors on the cooperation for innovation. The collaboration between different types of organizations has been seen as a strategy that allows the firms to obtain reciprocal benefits, and that incentivises innovation. However, following D’Este et al. (2012) an...

This research addresses the study of the effect of regional factors in the development of eco‐innovations in the firm. We assume the hypothesis of regional heterogeneity, that is, geographical factors and the regional heterogeneity play an important role in determining the innovations in the firms. In this line, we will approach our study from the...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it analyses the relationship between optimism about the emergence of future entrepreneurial opportunities and the length of the entrepreneurial experience; second, it aims to identify the external factors that can moderate this relationship. Our empirical analysis is conducted on a cross-national sample...

This paper investigates the incentives and inhibiting factors of eco-innovation capacities in the firm. Firms materialize the objectives of eco-innovation from a reactive attitude to external pressures, to a more proactive attitude that implies the voluntary incorporation of eco-innovation activities. This variability in the behaviour of companies...

This paper examines the effect of network properties on the performance R&D joint projects. In particular, we examine the impact of network cohesion, diversity and shape on the performance of these of exploration and exploitation R&D projects. We test these measures using data on projects from European R&D networks developed under the framework of...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it analyses the relationship between optimism about the emergence of future entrepreneurial opportunities and the length of the entrepreneurial experience; second, it aims to identify the external factors that can moderate this relationship. Our empirical analysis is conducted on a cross-national sample...

This paper analyses how network embeddedness affects the exploration and exploitation of R&D project performance. By developing joint projects, partners and projects are linked to one another and form a network that generates social capital. We examine how the location, which determines the access to information and knowledge within a network of re...

This paper studies entrepreneurial intentions in undergraduate students and the obstacles perceived by the students in the process of starting their own business. Using a sample of 1053 undergraduate students from Andalusia universities, this study explores attitudes, capacities and social environment to determine the profile of university’s entrep...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on understanding the factors which affect the social interaction in the case of Facebook. Many authors point out the great potential of these networks for social interaction and as conduits of information. However, studies show that the topology of the network is disconnected, consisting of small sub-ne...

El correo electrónico se ha convertido en un repositorio rico y amplio de la información acerca de las comunicaciones entre los individuos. Desde el punto de vista empresarial las comunicaciones por correo electrónico son el reflejo de las interacciones entre las personas que componen la organización. En este trabajo ideamos las técnicas y las herr...

This paper aims to examine how higher education affects entrepreneurial vocation in a very specific segment, namely university education in tourism. We used a theoretical approach based on the psychological foundations of intentional theory to analyse a sample of 122 graduate and undergraduate university students in tourism from the perspective of...

This study examines how the alliance-building process affects the intention to enter into international alliances in the case of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). From a psychological perspective (Perceived Behavioural Control), the authors analyse the alliance-building process as an inhibitor of the international collaboration intention,...

This paper examines the effect of curricular and extracurricular activities on the entrepreneurial motivation and competences of university students. In order to address these issues, the authors have used Ajzen's model of planned behaviour, including curricular and extracurricular activities, analysing their effect on university students’ attitude...

Traditionally the literature on partnership has focused on understanding why firms choose to cooperate and with whom, however, our understanding of the impact of the resulting network structure on the performance of the project is limited. This study builds on joint R&D projects developed in Europe in order to analyse certain structural variables –...

This paper presents an analysis of the entrepreneurial intentions of university undergraduate students, with particular regard to those studying design. Attitudinal, social and capabilities variables are analysed in order to determine the profile of an entrepreneur. Using a sample of 521 undergraduate students, the findings show that design student...

This paper presents the application of the artificial neural network (ANN) to the study of efficiency in technological networks. Based on a survey of 350 experts, who belong to different European institutions that regularly participate in technological networks, we represent joint and individual performance depending on two structural factors -numb...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of network position in the performance of joint R&D projects using data on European networks of excellence. Our empirical work asks whether centrality (structural embeddedness) and connectivity (junctional embeddedness) increase the project performance. Results show that while structural embeddedness...

This paper examines the effect of governance mechanisms – formal contracts, relational norms and trust – on the performance of exploration and exploitation joint research and development (R&D) projects. While the authors acknowledge the need for a twofold approach, transactional and relational, to understand the interfirm exchange governance, the j...

This paper examines the effects that process, structure and governance dimensions of networks have on innovation performance. The main focus of the paper is the multidimensional aspect of innovation networks and how these dimensions affect network performance. Technology management, resource-based, transaction costs and social capital perspectives...

We examine the problem of establishing a preference relation when consumers obtain, as result of the measurement process, non-homogeneous values (quantitative and qualitative) that make difficult to construct a global assessment. We suggest that it is possible to treat the multiattribute decision process from topology: firstly establishing the phas...

Joint R&D projects have long been studied as an important determinant of innovation success. Researchers have highlighted the benefits that such technological projects offer to partners and to their industries and countries. However, the multiple interactions involved in joint R&D projects in order to achieve the common objectives are not fully und...

Las redes de cooperación empresarial: ¿Una organización para el próximo milenio?

At present, the role of joint R&D projects becomes fundamental for understanding the process of innovation. An extensive bibliography exists on the study of the organizations; however, the networks for the development of joint R&D projects themselves as a new form of organization are still a growing field of study. The aim of this article is to pro...

The purpose of this article is to provide theoretical and empirical evidence to offer a more integrative vision of the internationalization process of SMEs. Traditionally the literature on the internationalization process has been based on two perspectives, the process theory and the international new ventures model. Combining both approaches and b...

This paper provides an analysis of governance structures in networks. The transaction costs theory provides a description of which variables affect governance forms but it does not explain how they affect and what variables have a great influence. Two questions analyses this theory: Firstly, transaction costs theory tries to explain variability of...

Collaboration between economic agents, especially in technological areas, is characterized by ambiguity in terminology, multiple analytical approaches, a diversity of objectives and multiple organizational forms, among which the network constitutes the most important example of 'common organization' in international collaboration. This paper descri...

This paper analyzes the cooperative model as a trend towards new types or relations within National Innovation Systems. Based on the review of the evolution of the national innovations systems and the analysis of the meaning of cooperation in the technological field, we expose that a cooperative innovation system model fulfill the ultimate objectiv...

This paper provides an analysis of governance structures in networks. The transaction cost theory provides a description of which variables affect governance forms but it does not explain how they are affected and what variables have a great influence. Taking this departure point, our study proposes a model for analysing the governance structure of...

This paper proposes a model to analyze joint R&D projects from a systemic approach. We argue that joint R&D projects are an economic and organizational reality that can be studied through their two principal aspects: from the perspective of the process developed to fulfill the objectives of the project and from the point of view of the network of p...

This article develops a framework to examine the determinants for the choice of partners among firms that cooperate in R&D. This framework is used to predict the relative efficiency of cooperation with different types of partners in innovation. We employed the resource-based perspective to shed light on who firms cooperate with. The empirical work...

This paper analyses governance structures used to organize partnerships in R&D networks using two approaches: transaction costs theory and social capital theory. We argue that these theories are complementary; this explains forms of governance through the degrees of administrative (structural and safeguard mechanism) and social factors (cohesion an...

This paper analyses governance structures used to organize partnerships in R&D networks emphasizing the degree of administrative and social factors they embody. Data was obtained from European R&D networks created through Framework Programmes, which include a great number of universities, non-profit institutions and firms. We argue that governance...

The aim of this paper is to study the management of technological networks. It works from the basic axiom that networks are a complex reality presenting multiple aspects that need to be tack- led from different theoretical approaches. The network, considered as a complex system, will be studied through the different subsystems making it up (structu...

Joint R&D projects have emerged as a significant model for the development of research and technological activities. Our study examines, through an exploratory analysis, the typology of joint R&D projects and the characteristics of R&D networks in which the projects are developed. In addition, the interrelation between the R&D projects in the conte...

Our paper deals about the analysis of cognitive representation as a source of conflicts between an agent's group and intends to characterize the kind of disagreement that can occur in measurement process face to analyzing a common problem. From this perspective, first of all we study the measurement cognitive process - based on measurement theory -...

The aim of this paper is to analyse technology-knowledge networks, especially the aspects relating to management control. The management of technology knowledge in a network is characterised by a number of special features that are typical of this form of organization, on the basis of which, we point out the main obstacles and disadvantages that co...

The concept of strategy is as old as humanity itself. The first attempts at systematization and characterization took place in the military field (Philip of Macedonia, Alexander the Great, Sun Tzu, Napoleon, for example), although the strategic component in the thinking of other great leaders or thinkers (Machiavelli, Lenin or Mao Zedong) is also v...

Before analysing the importance of technology for companies and the different ways in which it is acquired, it is necessary to define the concept and the contents of the term ‘technology’, something that it is not easy, as it has many definitions. The Royal Spanish Academy, for example, defines technology as a series of industrial tools and process...

In neoclassical thought, considered to be the continuing trend for economic liberalism, the company is defined by what Marshall (1997) calls ‘the representative firm’, basing theoretical explanations1 of its functioning on four hypotheses:

The theory of games studies the problems of multi-person decisions and their applications over almost all areas of economics. At a micro level, for example, exchange models (negotiation and bidding) use the theory of games. At an intermediate aggregation level, the theory of games is used in company behaviour models (problems of this type typically...

In this first paragraph we propose to analyse the reasons that lead companies to consider the possibility of cooperating with other companies, and the process leading up to this decision.

At the start of the twenty-first century, the world economy is currently experiencing one of its periods of great dynamism and change. The speed with which changes are occurring is introducing great uncertainty, since it is not easy to measure exactly the economic effect of the different occurrences taking place. Nevertheless, the tendencies develo...

As we saw in the previous chapter, company cooperation is a phenomenon that, because of the economic context of greater inter-dependence between economies, involves an increasing number of companies. This strongly influences a company’s capacity to face single-handedly growth strategies that enable it to develop in markets that are becoming more op...

At present the role of networks is becoming fundamental in understanding the process of innovation: from the genesis and development of research and technology projects to the subsequent diffusion of the results. Factors such as participating institutions, network objectives, administration, resource allocation, communication among partners, etc, o...

La cooperación desde el punto de vista económico -- La decisión de cooperar: Una decisión estratégica -- Las formas organizativas de la cooperación empresarial -- La cooperación en la teoría de juegos -- Decisión, negociación y estructuración de la cooperación -- La cooperación internacional de la empresa -- La cooperación empresarial en materia de...

This paper presents a study of technological cooperation in the European framework centers on networks in which university-industry liaison offices created by the EU program COMETT (Community European Technology Training Program) take part. The latter set up a network of over 200 entities, known as University-Enterprise Training Partnerships (UETP)...

This paper analyses governance structures used to organize partnerships in R&D networks emphasizing the degree of administrative and social factors they embody. Data was obtained from European R&D networks created through Framework Programmes which include a great number of universities, non profit institutions and firms. We argue that governance s...

Tesis doctoral inédita. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Departamento de Contabilidad. Fecha de lectura:19-9-97 Bibliografía: h. 264-317