Maria Luisa Flor

• Jaume I University

This report presents the results of a study on European B Corps. The information comes from an electronic survey completed by the managers of 165 B Corps in 12 European countries. The aspects examined are related to the motivation of companies to become certified, their innovative activity, the scaling up of their activities and the usefulness of m...

Este trabajo ha obtenido un Accésit del Premio Estudios Financieros 2022 en la modalidad de Educación y Nuevas Tecnologías. La flipped classroom es una metodología activa que cambia el modelo de enseñanza tradicional y genera una conexión emocional con el estudiantado (hombres y mujeres). El propósito de este estudio es analizar en qué medida la f...

Companies play a significant role in addressing the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and sustainability reporting is a strategic tool for decision making and impact disclosure. This study assesses food retailers' contribution to SDG 12, its targets and its business themes as a way to examine their level of engagement with sus...

La compra pública de innovación (CPI), consistente en la adquisición de nuevas tecnologías y productos y servicios innovadores por parte del sector público, es un importante instrumento de política pública a la hora de potenciar el desarrollo económico y social de las regiones y estimular los procesos de innovación de las empresas . En consecuencia...

Open innovation (OI) involves the deliberate use of external and internal knowledge flows by organisations in order to accelerate their innovations and expand the markets for the external use of innovations. Despite the relevance of OI for firms’ competitiveness, firms’ abilities to leverage and combine internal and external knowledge flows cannot...

Open innovation (OI) has been mainly associated with high-technology firms. This paper aims to analyze how firms in low and medium technology industries implement their OI strategy. In doing so, we explore common patterns in OI strategies by considering inbound, outbound, and coupled OI practices. We also examine whether there are differences in in...

This paper describes the experience of applying the Problem-based learning (PBL) methodology in an Innovation Management course taught in the Degree in Business Administration of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló (Spain) over four academic years. With PBL, students relate a problem raised in a real company with theoretical aspects addressed in th...

The objective of this study is to get a deeper understanding of hybrid organisations, which combine elements of for-profit and non-profit domains, by focusing in European B corps. In doing so, we characterize their emergence in terms of the regional areas where they are located and the industries where they are more active. Also, we describe their...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis on the relationship between the implementation of open innovation practices (inbound, outbound and coupled) and firm performance, and the role of organizational mechanisms (formalization and decentralization) as moderator variables. Design/methodology approach – We build a theoretical f...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the use of open innovation (OI) practices and firm performance, and the role of organizational mechanisms (OMs) (formalization and decentralization) as moderator variables. Design/methodology/approach The authors build a theoretical framework to define a set of hypotheses tha...

Open innovation and absorptive capacity are two concepts based on the idea that companies can leverage the knowledge generated externally to improve their innovation performance. The aim of this paper is to analyse the joint effect of open innovation and absorptive capacity on a firm's radical innovation. Open innovation is expressed in terms of ex...

p class="Abstract"> Team working is a form to organize the work in numerosus production contexts and so an competence to be develop in students from several high educational courses. The objective of the work is to research on how to facilitate the teamworking competence development on operations management students. Action learning is use as metho...

In this study, we argue that a firm's absorptive capacity will vary depending on the strategy it adopts. To examine this, based on the fact that absorptive capacity is developed through the ability to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit externally-generated knowledge, we look at the importance of each of these dimensions at firms pursuing di...

El diseño de un curso requiere utilizar un modelo de referencia que integre los diferentes elementos que lo forman, siendo función del profesor dar coherencia a estos elementos. El objetivo de este trabajo es revisar los principales componentes de diseño de un curso de dirección de la producción que combina diferentes metodologías activas y que est...

En este trabajo se plantea que la capacidad de absorción de la empresa variará según sea la estrategia adoptada por esta. Para ello, partiendo de que la capacidad de absorción se desarrolla a través de la habilidad para adquirir, asimilar, transformar y explotar el conocimiento generado externamente, examinamos la importancia que tiene cada una de...

In this work we raise that a firm�s absorptive capacity differs depending on the strategy being followed by the firm. We consider that absorptive capacity is formed by the ability to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit the knowledge generated externally and examine the importance that each one of these dimensions has in companies that adopt...

Purpose This paper seeks to examine empirically from a contingency perspective the influence of business strategy on the relationship between operations strategy and business results. Design/methodology/approach Analysis is carried out on a sample of 76 Spanish ceramic tile firms. Data on strategies are gathered by means of a postal survey address...

En este trabajo se examinan las estrategias seguidas por las empresas en los mercados exteriores a través de la exportación y se analiza su relación con el resultado exportador. Para ello, adoptamos un enfoque taxonómico y planteamos la estrategia exportadora a partir del alcance geográfico, la adaptación del marketing mix a los mercados exteriores...

In this work we have described the results achieved in the development of competencies in an Operations management course with students using different methodologies. A particular feature of this course is the strong emphasis on several of the professional abilities

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la influencia de la estrategia de operaciones en los resultados empresariales y examinar, desde una perspectiva contingente, el efecto que la estrategia de negocio ejerce en dicha relación. Metodológicamente el trabajo analiza el ajuste entre la estrategia de operaciones y la estrategia de negocio adoptando u...

In this research, the influence of operations strategy on business results and the effect of business strategy on the above relationship are examined from a contingent perspective. Operations strategy is represented by means of competitive priorities and business strategy is based on Miles and Snow typology (1978). Relationships are modelled in reg...

In this paper, we study the effects that firms' technological capabilities, as an expression of their technological innovation strategy, have on their international competitiveness. In doing so, we draw on export and international trade literature to justify the influence that the firms' technological activity has on their export performance. In ad...

The identification of technologically innovating firms is related to the development of indicators of their innovation activity. In this study, we carry out a review of indicators of firms’ technological innovation activity and then classify them according to whether they are based on inputs or outputs of the innovation process, and to the sources...

In this work we study the effects that technological capabilities of firms, as an expression of their technological innovation strategy, have on their international competitiveness and suggest that the above relationship is moderated by their export strategy. Empirical work is carried out on a sample of 88 Spanish exporting firms belonging to the c...

In this study, we analyse the effect that external sources of knowledge and absorptive capacity exert on a firm's output innovation. In addition, we examine the moderating influence of absorptive capacity on the effect that technological opportunities have on output innovation. Empirical research was carried out on a sample of 91 Spanish firms from...

Contenido: Introducción; La internacionalización de la empresa; La estrategia de innovación tecnológica; La relación entre la innovación tecnológica de la empresa y su comportamiento en los mercados internacionales; Modelo propuesto y metodología de la investigación; Análisis y resultados; Conclusiones, limitaciones del trabajo e investigaciones fu...

Suggests that the implementation of TQM systems in the tourist industry is still a recent phenomenon to which little research has been dedicated. Examines problems in initiating total quality management systems in Valencian hotel firms according to the evaluation criteria of the European Quality Award, comparing results with both customers’ and man...

RESUMEN Los principales objetivos del presente trabajo se relacionan con el estudio de los mecanismos de evaluación para el desarrollo de competencias en la asignatura Dirección de la Producción de 4º curso de la Licenciatura de ADEM, y comprobar que la metodología utilizada desarrolla o incentiva estas competencias en todas las modalidades que se...