Miguel Gonzalez-LoureiroUniversity of Vigo | UVIGO · Department of Business Management and Marketing
Miguel Gonzalez-Loureiro
European PhD in Business Management
About
86
Publications
26,296
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
932
Citations
Citations since 2017
Publications
Publications (86)
Objectives: This study aims to explore how early internationalization moderates the relationship of post-internationalization speed and international experience with the firm’s profitability in an advanced, small open economy (SMOPEC).
Theoretical Framework: Our theorizing includes three learning-related concepts derived from the organizational lea...
The aim of this study is twofold. First, to test the direction of causality between the degree of internationalization (DoI) and profitability. Second, to examine if and how early internationalization moderates this causality. For this purpose, we relied on a sample of Portuguese firms created and internationalized between January 2010 and December...
It has been suggested that financial literacy plays a crucial role in the understanding of the overall performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Nonetheless, its impact remains underexplored, and the few existing findings are fragmented. This study conducts a systematic literature review focused on the antecedents and consequences o...
This study examines the impact of business group (BG) affiliation on international sales intensity and diversification in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by using a multi-country sample of over 13,000 SMEs from 34 European countries. Drawing on the revised Uppsala internationalization model and network theory, this paper suggests that the...
Building on the arguments derived from learning advantages of newness, absorptive capacity, and time compression diseconomies (TCD), this study aims to explore how early internationalization moderates the relationship between post-internationalization speed and profitability. The research also seeks to ascertain whether the link between the firm’s...
This study explores the influence that entrepreneurial cognition, in terms of the dichotomy
in human information processing, has on the earliness of internationalization and post-entry speed. Entrepreneurial cognition is investigated through the lens of the dual-process theory, which posits that human information processing is formed of two system...
Drawing on the organizational learning theory applied to international businesses, this study aims to explore how early internationalization moderates the relationship between post-internationalization speed and firm’s profitability. This investigation also seeks to ascertain whether the link between the firms’ international experience and their pr...
Las PYMEs requieren actualmente un crecimiento rápido en mercados internacionales y una toma de decisiones racional en función del contexto. En este marco, estudiamos dos alternativas complementarias pero excluyentes –dedicar recursos a la exploración y a la explotación internacional– bajo un enfoque cognitivo, y su asociación con el crecimiento de...
En este trabajo se analiza el papel de la alfabetización financiera del emprendedor en relación a la innovación y al rendimiento organizativo. Para ello se utilizó un cuestionario que fue contestado por 284 emprendedores que están o estuvieron en una incubadora de empresas.
Las incubadoras de empresas son lugares donde se asiste a los emprendedores...
The purpose of this study is to examine how business group (BG) affiliation influences the export propensity of new ventures (NVs). To help address the inconsistency of past research on the value of BG affiliation for firms seeking to expand their business abroad, the authors provide a contingency perspective by exploring how organizational charact...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) require a combination of organizational and individual skills to grow more rapidly in international markets. The question is whether there is an ideal combination to compete in the present (exploitation orientation) or to prepare to compete in the future (exploration orientation), and whether managerial cognition...
Hace tan sólo unos días fue publicada la tercera edición del indicador de empresa circular que he elaborado para el Consorcio Zona Franca de Vigo como parte del informe de competitividad empresarial Ardán. La gran novedad es que hemos tenido que abandonar la metodología propuesta por la Ellen MacArthur Foundation, utilizada en las dos primeras edic...
La pandemia del COVID-19 ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de profundizar en el estudio de los factores que facilitan la capacidad de adaptación de los emprendedores a entornos con alta incertidumbre e inestabilidad. Literatura científica previa sugiere que el conocimiento financiero tiene efectos positivos sobre la eficiencia de las organizacio...
We analyze the weaknesses of meta-analyses (MAs) in management research using as benchmark a scientific field where this technique shows a longer tradition: clinical research. We suggest four areas in which management research MA practices should improve: (1) availability of information and replicability of primary research, (2) correct application...
This paper investigates the internationalisation decision-making process from the perspective of the decision maker’s cognition. The aim is to advance the theoretical arguments that help explain the heterogeneous patterns of internationalisation for smaller ventures. Our framework includes the four-stage psychological process of decision-making: pe...
El presente trabajo acomete una revisión de la literatura sobre el conocimiento necesario para la internacionalización de la pyme mediante inversión directa en el exterior. En concreto, analiza la influencia que tal conocimiento tiene en la elección de la localización, del modo de entrada, y en los resultados derivados de la inversión directa en el...
This article aims to provide an explanation of international entrepreneurial intentions (IEI) among final years’ university students (i.e. potential entrepreneurs) from the perspective of how they use the two cognitive systems when evaluating potential opportunities.
We performed a structural equation modeling by partial least squares (SEM-PLS). W...
This chapter aims at providing a theoretical explanation for the observed heterogeneous internationalization behavior of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this chapter, the authors propose a conceptual framework of how the entrepreneurs' cognitive systems affect the internationalization decision making in SMEs, and supplement extant normative...
Currently, the pressure to internationalize is big. Selling outside the domestic market is a relevant goal for many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Being the decision makers’ attitudes and preferences the center of the internationalization activities of SMEs, understanding how the management team’s cognitive system and organizational ambidexte...
Going international early is increasingly the choice of new ventures in manufacturing industries. However, does earliness provide a positive outcome for internationalisation? To answer this, we have longitudinally analysed 3181 manufacturing new ventures established between 2002 and 2012. Using Cox regressions, we found that the 124 late internatio...
El objetivo de este capítulo es presentar por primera vez en la serie de publicaciones del Informe ARDÁN Galicia un análisis del grado de circularidad económica de las actividades empresariales. Debido a su carácter novedoso, este capítulo se estructurará del modo siguiente.
El indicador de circularidad material (ICM) utilizado en nuestro análisi...
This paper investigates the skills developed in higher education management courses through an eLearning process. The relevance of this research is based on the approach to theories of skills development, and the main purpose is to identify the skills developed by the students from management courses and compare it to the skills needed by the organ...
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the relationship between clustering and hotel competitiveness in emerging economy destinations by analyzing potential mediation of the management innovations implemented.
Design/methodology/approach
This empirical study is based on hotel-level information from a survey including 131 hotels in 2014. Colombia was...
In recent years, the unfavorable evolution of the economic situation has provoked intense structural and spatial changes in the creation of companies that question the validity of some basic assumptions about entrepreneurial dynamics and territorial development. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyze the existence of spatial patterns...
Regional and organizational cultures are commonly considered key
enablers to innovation dynamics in organizations, in particular to
small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although this intersection is
a crucial topic of research, studies addressing this issue remain
limited in number and scope in the case of SMEs. In this article, a
systematic litera...
Clustering in service industries has scarcely been investigated, while there is huge evidence of a positive impact on innovation and competitiveness in the case of manufacturing industries. We address this by exploring the potential moderator effect that location externalities have on the triangular relationship between clustering, innovation and c...
This introductory paper opens the Special Issue on Clusters, Industrial Districts and Strategy, based on the debate and comments arisen during the 2016 Conference on Clustering. After some brief notes on the need and the intended scope from a multidisciplinary approach (Regional Science, Economic Geography, Sociology and Business Management), we ar...
In a globalized economy and becoming more knowledge-based, two apparently contradictory phenomena are shaping the organization and location of many mature economic activities: a general tendency of firms to agglomerate geographically while traditional clusters (and notably industrial districts) are facing a period of crisis in their identity, struc...
The purpose of this paper is to identify different knowledge profiles in organizations and to analyze their contribution to innovation. This is done by analyzing how knowledge is integrated within the work processes by groups of workers with different characteristics (i.e. knowledge profiles). The paper uses a combination of qualitative analysis wi...
Location is a critical decision for multinational enterprises as it affects the growth of their foreign direct investment (FDI) in the host country. Although clustering provides information- and knowledge-based advantages, it also entails costs and risks associated with the hazards of competition, congestion and imitation. Consequently, heterogeneo...
Resumo
The topics of internationalization and cognitive styles have been investigated extensively in an unrelated manner over decades. From the latter psycho-sociological approach, it can be stated that the decision maker cognitive characteristics have an impact on the organization’s strategic decisions. Meanwhile, the former perspective has empha...
The influence of several environmental and organizational factors on the decision making process of international business-IB have been extensively investigated over the last decades. However, the micro-foundations of the cognitive features of the decision maker and their impact on the organization's strategic decisions are still an unexplored area...
This study focuses on the role of national culture and cultural distance (NC/CD) in international strategic alliances features, management, and evolution. Our integrative literature review combines the results of a Multiple Correspondence Analysis with an in-depth reflection derived from the research team’s thorough study of the selected articles....
The organizations’ sociological characteristics have an impact on the performance of the innovation process. Therefore, knowing the sociological characteristics that best describe those ventures holding higher innovation results is particular relevant. Among these features, the culture of innovation in a certain context has been highlighted as the...
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre la orientación internacional y la supervivencia de empresas manufactureras de reciente creación. Para ello se estudió una muestra de 2.975 nuevos emprendimientos constituidos durante el período 2001-2010 en la industria textil-confección de España. Metodológicamente, se han empleado modelos...
What does it mean for a university to be entrepreneurial? This global concept, which enables universities to attain social accountability through innovation and participation in local economic development, has become more important than ever in today's knowledge society. This book considers how an entrepreneurial university can improve the social a...
International entrepreneurship entails exploration and exploitation of opportunities in foreign markets. This behavior is
strongly influenced by the entrepreneur’s and manager’s perception of the environment. Perception is the first stage of the
decision-making process. So that perception depends on how individuals know what they know, i.e., their...
The transformation of universities into new entrepreneurial-like models with different organizational structures and strategic goals is still under way in both innovation leaders and followers. Worldwide, universities are in a period of change, which reflects the global transition from an industrial to a knowledge society. Since this transformation...
The institution that we know today as the university dates back to medieval times, and it is surprising that it has seen so few organizational and institutional changes. Institutions for education in the humanities, education divided into scientific fields, the authority of a professor, exams, graduation ceremonies, etc., were defined during mediev...
The previous analysis has shown that the conditions for the development of entrepreneurial universities for innovation leaders and followers differ significantly. Among specific conditions that determine the prospects and challenges of the development of entrepreneurial universities in innovation followers, we can identify the following:
1.
Unfinis...
The historical development of the modern university coupled with the relevant scientific revolutions showed that the knowledge industries, which ultimately lead to today‘s knowledge economy, are based on cutting-edge technologies, university–industry interaction, and commercialization of university research through company start-ups and licensing.
The literature on the role and activities of the entrepreneurial university is very large but also too fragmented to give a coherent and unambiguous theory regarding the entrepreneurial activities of universities. For example, an analysis of 173 papers on the entrepreneurial university (Rothaermel et al. 2007) grouped the topics relating to entrepr...
From its beginnings, conventionally marked by the establishment of the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1809, the modern university has faced a double challenge arising from the many conflicting objectives of research: the search for fundamentally new knowledge that tends to contribute to the quality of teaching as one of the theoretical core activ...
The transformation of the university and the shift in the university paradigm were embedded in the various theories of change regarding scientific and university systems. The three that have gained the most popularity, or perhaps notoriety, and have paved the way to the entrepreneurial university are as follows:
A “new model of knowledge production...
One part of the academic community thinks that the university–industry cooperation and commercial component of university research are damaging to the development of science and the university ethos; and as proof they name a series of conflicts, among which we can identify four basic conflicts.
The aim of this work was to analyzethe relationship between the international orientationand survival of recently created manufacturing companies. For this, a sample was studied of 2975 newenterprises constituted during the period from 2001 to 2010 in the textile and apparel industry in Spain. Methodologically, duration models have been employed th...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2013.845238
The objective of this paper is to present evidence that there are different types of supportive faculty members. We conducted a case study on a sample of Croatian and Spanish universities by using an already tested ENTRE-U scale for measuring the faculty members' attitudes. These two scenarios are quite different in terms of their innovation system...
This review analyzes two streams of literature that are exploring a similar phenomenon from separate perspectives and only recently have they began to overlap; that of migrant acculturation (from the psychology, sociology and anthropology research) and international assignee adjustment (from the international business research stream). We conducted...
Purpose
This paper aims to provide a research agenda for qualitative studies in the field of strategic management (SM) in the Baltic area.
Design/methodology/approach
A total of 167 strategic management-related articles in this area between 2000 and 2013 were found. The content within title, abstract and authors’ keywords was analysed by means of...
Purpose
This research aims to analyze the intersection of two literature streams: that of strategy and supply chain management (SCM). This review should create a better understanding of “strategic SCM” by focusing on relevant theories in the strategic management field and their intersection with SCM to develop a joint research agenda.
Design/metho...
In the situated learning theory, we disclose the existence of some tensions that may arise from two opposite forces within a context of communities of practice: the need for formalisation (large enterprises) and tacitness (creativity and innovation). Our study focuses on how these tensions are dealt with in a case study of a Portuguese innovative l...
The purpose of this paper was to provide a comprehensive review of the evolving research on a still key challenge for human resource management (HRM) in the globalized business of today: the expatriates and their impact on business performance. Research of four decades was reviewed to show what was known and what was not yet known. A bibliometric a...
Purpose
This article aims at proposing a research agenda in the intersection of strategic supply chain management and logistics (SCML) of global organizations from the perspective of international human resource management (IHRM).
Design/methodology/approach
To disclose the intellectual structure of research to date across both fields, the conten...
The aim is to deepen our understanding about the internationalisation–
survival relationship in the case of new ventures in traditional manufacturing sectors.
Hypotheses were tested through Cox’s proportional hazard regressions on a
sample of 3,350 firms aged 10 years or less, from the textile-clothing and footwear
industry in Spain. A vast majorit...
Scholars have approached to managing intangible elements from several perspectives throughout the literature. This field of research is still young, with no more than two decades of more intensive empirical research, which has confirmed the relevance of intangible-based elements on achieving a competitive edge in virtually every industry. Taxonomy...
Over decades, research on multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) strategies has been anchored in internalization theory. Strongly grounded in transaction cost economics to explain foreign market entry, it hardly explains how MNEs can build and sustain a competitive advantage.
Thus, this paper aims at understanding how the nature of strategic thinking ha...
Desde el trabajo pionero de Alfred Marshall (1890) numerosos estudios han evidenciado las ventajas competitivas que las empresas registraban por estar aglomeradas geográficamen-te junto a otras de su mismo sector de actividad en unos territorios que se han denominado genéricamente como clusters. Entre esos estudios destacan las aportaciones de Beca...
This article presents management implications regarding the change of bank made by customers belonging to detailed banking. Two types of satisfaction dimensions are identified: tangible and intangible. This allows analyzing the relevance intangible traits have on loyalty. For this reason, we carried out a random survey on 384 users of detailed bank...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a research agenda for qualitative studies in the field
of strategic management (SM) in the Baltic area.
Design/methodology/approach – A total of 167 SM-related articles in this area between 2000 and
2013 were found. The content within title, abstract and authors’ keywords was analysed by means of
a...
RESUMEN La coyuntura económica actual evidencia una constante destrucción de empleo y desaparición de empresas. Frente a este hecho surge la cuestión del efecto "economía social" en la competitividad de las empresas (dife-rencias de performance empresarial debido a la forma jurídica). El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar ese resul-tado a través...
Over decades, research on multinational enterprises' (MNEs) strategies has been anchored in internalization theory. Strongly grounded in transaction cost economics to explain foreign market
entry, it hardly explains how MNEs can build and sustain a competitive advantage. Thus, this paper aims at understanding how the nature of strategic thinking ha...
Three components govern the impact of intangible management on the growth of SMEs: human, structural and relational capitals. The relationship with the institutional system of innovation (ISI) is novel. The results highlight that the ISI does not satisfy the needs of SMEs fully.
Purpose: The aim is to try to build a model for measuring and assessing the simultaneous effect of the three components of the intellectual capital (IC) management on the growth of innovative SMEs. In this first stage of research, the model was tested in a representative sample of innovative SMEs from Galicia, where the performance construct was th...
This paper presents an effort to identify the types of professors by their attitudes towards entrepreneurial university. We largely extend the original concept of entrepreneurial orientation by exploring the attitudes of university professors, to finally assess the possible existence of different types of supporters among the university human capit...
En este artículo se describe el uso del Coaching para evaluar el rendimiento de los alumnos de forma continua en el área de conocimiento de “organización de empresas” dentro del marco de una titulación de ingeniería como es el Grado en Ingeniería Forestal.
En los últimos años el Coaching se está convirtiendo en una herramienta muy útil en el desar...
In 2012 we live in the Era of the Intangible. Organizations have to rely more on Intangible Assets (IAs) than on tangible ones to prosper and even to survive. However, there is a big confusion in scholars and in practitioners regarding the analysis of IAs. This confusion is originated, we believe, because IAs are currently being analysed in too man...
The paper reviews the initiatives concerning the measurement, management and disclosure of intellectual capital (IC) in public universities. Those organizations also are facing the challenge of manage intangibles in their value creation process. Several researches have been developed linking some elements of IC (human, structural and relational cap...
Purpose
In order to explain change and growth at the aggregate levels, three levels: macro, meso and micro must be taken into account. Applying the theories from Keynesian and post‐Keynesian economics (PKE) best explains the macro level and applying those from Schumpeterian and neo‐Schumpeterian economics (NSE) best explains the micro level. Beside...
Se ha exigido una metamorfosis al profesorado universitario para adaptarse al marco de Bolonia europeo en un intento por no perder la competición con las universidades anglosajonas. Este volumen muestra este esfuerzo por parte de los profesores tanto españoles como hispanoamericanos. Este texto sirve a otros profesores universitarios y a estudiante...
The aim is to obtain a first approximation to a model of structural relations between indicators of knowledge management, so it helps to explain the evolution of growth rates in innovative companies. Research works show that success in business management would be based largely on the strategic management of knowledge as a resource, rather than phy...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a model that makes explicit the links among intellectual capital (IC) items (human-HC, structural-SC and relational capital-RC) and the indicators activity growth in innovative SMEs. Several authors have pointed out the importance of knowledge and innovation as basic factors of competitiveness. Other authors ha...
The aim is to obtain a set of variables which report about knowledge management and intangible in the innovative SMEs in Galicia. This is a first approach to a model of structural relationships between both and the growth of the activity of the SMEs with greater focus on innovation. Several authors have pointed out the importance of knowledge and i...
Projects
Projects (4)
Analizar el grado de circularidad de las empresas.
Capítulo incluido dentro del informe Ardán sobre Competitividad Empresarial del Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo [http://www.ardan.es]
El objetivo de este proyecto es presentar un análisis del grado de circularidad económica de las actividades empresariales en Galicia. Debido a su carácter novedoso, este capítulo se estructurará del modo siguiente. El indicador de circularidad material (ICM) utilizado en nuestro análisis está basado en el indicador propuesto en Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2015b). Su objetivo es evaluar la medida en que el flujo lineal para todos los materiales utilizados en la producción de un producto ha sido minimizado, o dicho de otro modo si el flujo circular ha sido maximizado, a la vez que permite su comparación con otros productos similares. Para el cálculo del indicador de circularidad debe ser considerado en el conjunto de empresas actuando en los diversos niveles de las correspondientes cadenas de valor para cada sistema productivo. Además, se debe tener en cuenta que es posible que los materiales que salen de un sistema productivo puedan ser utilizados como entrada en otro sistema productivo. Para obtener una primera aproximación al indicador de circularidad del material en la empresa gallega se envió una encuesta piloto a empresas transformadoras con un número de empleados superior a 10. Se incluyeron sólo empresas transformadoras y con más de 10 empleados puesto que es en este tipo de empresas donde se utiliza el mayor volumen de materiales.