M Mar Benavides-ESpinosa

University of Valencia | UV · Department of Business Administration

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyse the moderating effect of digital transformation (DT) on the relationship between innovation capacity and the performance of agrifood businesses. Design/methodology/approach Based on a structured questionnaire, data on 98 agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises operating in Spain were collected. The d...

Entrepreneurship brings wealth to nations and contributes to their economic growth. People can take many paths to become entrepreneurs. Some join the family business, whilst others are born entrepreneurs, letting their innate intuition lead them into firm creation. For many, though, being able to learn and acquire the right skills is critical for a...

The paper examines several refugee experiences in Mexico and presents their reasons for leaving their home countries. A gap in research is identifying the entrepreneurial process experienced by refugee entrepreneurs. We use the case study of 10 Latin American refugees in Mexico to propose a conceptual framework that describes the entrepreneurial pr...

Intangible capital is a key factor of productivity growth. This paper analyses how the internal intangible capital of the company and external intangible capital influence its productivity. This contribution focuses on the hotel industry since it is a key industry of the Spanish economy, such that any increase in its productivity has an impact on t...

Entrepreneurship has been widely studied in recent decades, and it has been linked to other research areas such as social psychology. Remarkable contributions have combined these fields to explore how to predict entrepreneurial intentions. Building on previous research on the factors that predict students' intentions to start a business, this study...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the entrepreneurial intentions of international university students by applying the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). This paper presents a model that considers personal, social and environmental factors that potentially influence students’ intentions to become entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/appr...

This paper investigates the relationship between the use of silent or explicit design (SD or ED) and the characteristics of firms or sectors that use each of these types of design in Argentina. The findings show that SD differs from ED and that the differences have important implications for the creation of policies to support competitiveness as we...

In the literature on organizational learning, very few empirical studies attempt to show how organizational design can enable or hinder learning in organizations. This study uses a fuzzy-set technique (fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis: fsQCA) as an initial approach to analyzing different design variables and how they affect organizational...

Average price is a numerical value that represents a set of prices, which may relate to firms, countries, or regions. This study presents new methods of average price aggregation that build on the unified aggregation operator (UAO). The UAO combines a wide range of sub-aggregation processes into a single formulation capable of accounting for the im...

This study examines how and under what conditions joint ventures facilitate cooperative learning. The study analyzes how a joint-venture approach facilitates initial learning in the cooperative process and considers to what extent inter-organizational factors such as commitment, trust, control and conflict resolution affect the partners involved. T...

Technological changes in the cultural industry require an adaptation of the companies that may be provided by different changes in its organizational structure. In this paper, we analyze some organizational design variables (teams, information systems and organizational culture) in the context of the cultural industry. We present them from a theore...

Purpose ‐ The paper aims to look at small to medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs') approach to learning and innovation. Design/methodology/approach ‐ The first research direction focuses on the internal and external sources for learning used in the innovation process. A second research direction focuses on the main types of innovation SMEs engage in al...

Previous research has sought to demonstrate the influence of control of an IJV on achieving the learning objectives of the partners involved. However, the effect that certain types of learning have on the control of the IJV, which are vital for the success of the internationalization of the entrepreneurial firm, has yet to be explored. The results...

Academic literature points to the joint venture as an instrument for entrepreneurship and interorganizational learning. This particular type of partnership allows partners to develop two learning processes: one concerns the knowledge provided by the partner in the joint venture, and the other revolves around the process of cooperation. Most studies...

Purpose This study aims to examine logistics infrastructure, trade differences, and environmental and social equity factors, for a set of 89 countries. Design/methodology/approach Following recent work which uses secondary data sources for supply chain research at the country‐level, data were obtained from the World Bank and International Monetary...

In recent times, the number of women entrepreneurs in the world has grown steadily, motivated by necessity or by reasons related to the identification and exploitation of a gap in the market via which they can exploit and develop the experience and knowledge acquired. However, a new phenomenon is emerging in the field of entrepreneurship: the creat...

Joint venture as a form of business cooperation is a valid alternative for acquiring external knowledge and particularly so when it is unavailable on the market. Joint venture constitutes an interesting instrument for learning in firms that belong to high technology sectors; it not only enables access to learning but can also help its assimilation...

The literature has highlighted the paper of the participation in the capital of the international joint venture as mechanism of control. Nevertheless, a partner cannot trust exclusively in the above mentioned participation to guarantee the success of his strategy. By means of the study of a case, the present work emphasizes that, even in possession...

One of the characteristics of the entrepreneurial firm is the active search for opportunities without taking into account the resources available to the firm at a given moment. In such cases, certain types of operation, such as a joint venture, may provide a quick solution to the resource needs of the entrepreneurial firm. Moreover, this form of co...

Innovation determines a firm's competitiveness and survival and a joint venture is a fast and effective way to acquire the missing knowledge that partners require to innovate, but ‘knowing how to cooperate’ can be a determining factor in achieving the successful transfer of knowledge. Employing a sample of 81 service-sector firms and using a struct...

Purpose The transfer of knowledge is a source of competitive advantage, and in particular, transfer between organisations through cooperation between firms via a joint venture. This paper aims to discuss some of the issues Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses were contrasted via a structural equation model using a sample of 74 firms, 51 of w...

This study analyzes the influence on interorganizational learning attributed to differences in organizational cultures of partnering firms, through joint ventures. We attempt to carry out an in-depth analysis into the type of influences involved and whether they are positive or negative, or if they foster or hinder learning. We analyze a sample con...

Companies face a very competitive environment, in which possession of knowledge is vital for their survival; we live in the age of knowledge. This article has two objectives: the first is to analyze the characteristics of knowledge, such as complexity, codification and specificity, relevant to considering it as a strategic resource. The second obje...

El presente artículo persigue realizar una aproximación al proceso de aprendizaje de los emprendedores dentro de un contexto universitario. Con tal fin, se llevó a cabo una investigación cualitativa mediante la mediante la realización de entrevistas en profundidad a los principales colectivos implicados: estudiantes universitarios, emprendedores, p...

In the strategy literature two streams of thought could be identified that propose different sources of competitive advantages. One stream emphasizes the importance of the resources and capabilities and the other one centers its attention in the adequate positioning in a business structure.This study discusses the complementarity and the possible s...