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In this paper, we apply a case study approach to advance current understanding of what effects public co-funding of R&D projects have on project team members' perceived complexity. We chose an R&D project carried out by an industrial SME in northern Spain. The chosen research strategy was a qualitative approach, and sixteen employees participated i...
Although knowledge integration has been deemed relevant for the development and survival of family firms, prior studies suggest that the lack of skills to combine and transfer incumbent family members' knowledge within the family may hinder family firms' organizational effectiveness. Knowledge integration, in this context, might depend on family in...
In this paper, we apply a case study approach to advance current understanding of what effects public co-funding of R&D projects have on project team members’ perceived complexity. We chose an R&D project carried out by an industrial SME in northern Spain. The chosen research strategy was a qualitative approach, and sixteen employees participated i...
Entrepreneurial intention plays a key role in entrepreneurship. Over the years, scholars have explained it using personality traits, cognitive models and, to a lesser extent, the role of social environment. Since this role has been underestimated, we build on trait activation theory to explore how social networks are especially relevant and can tri...
The special features displayed by family firms characterize and shape their family social capital and make them unique. The participation of both the family and the firm creates distinctive resources and capabilities in the family firm. As new generations arrive, opposing forces begin to shake the firm, and while some embrace change others expect t...
Purpose: To use the project management approach for the management of the events and, particularly, to adapt the PM2 methodology to sports events.
Design/methodology/approach: Theoretical analysis about whether a sport event is a project, and what must be fulfilled for it to be so. Theoretical analysis approach into the roles of the event manager...
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The purpose of the paper is to shed light on the output of project management (PM) dynamic capabilities Specifically, the study investigates what effect PM dynamic capabilities have on company performance, both directly and indirectly, through the mediation effect of project and portfolio performance. Additionally, it tests whether program...
Previous research emphasizes that the participation of the family in business operations is the source of resources and capabilities that conditions the strategic behavior of the family firm. This influence has been recognized as “familiness.” However, this definition is contextualized from static reasoning that ignores the effect of family dynamic...
Entrepreneurial intention is a key research question in entrepreneurship. Previous studies have proven the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain entrepreneurial intention. Scholars have thus focused on analyzing factors to develop the three antecedents of TPB, one of which is social capital. However, research has barely considered social capi...
Methods for teaching higher education students how to learn teamwork skills are constantly evolving. Over the last few years, serious games have become popular in business schools for stimulating teamwork among students by making them focus on the game while pursuing a team objective. Among these games, LEGO® Serious Play has shown enormous potenti...
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This paper aims to explain the development of an online training curriculum to enable students to acquire the transversal competences needed to work on smart cities projects. In this curriculum, a modern approach to the teaching-learning process was applied, suitable for the interdisciplinary and multinational learning challenges that smart...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common, chronic, and progressive eye disease that is considered the leading cause of visual loss among the elderly in developed countries. Advanced AMD, including choroidal neovascularization (CNV) or geographic atrophy (GA), is associated with substantial and progressive visual impairment that can lead t...
Although entrepreneurial intention has been widely studied using cognitive models, we still lack entrepreneurial vocation and, therefore, lack disruptive innovations. Entrepreneurship scholars have some understanding of the reasons underlying this weakness, although there is much room for improvement in our learning concerning how to promote entrep...
The original version of this book was inadvertently published with incorrect author name in the chapter “Application of Combinatorial Auctions to Create a 3D Printing Market” the author's name has been changed from “Sandra Castillo” to “Salvador Castillo-Rivera”.
Succession is a concern for most family firms. The literature has addressed succession in family firms from different perspectives. However, there are still unaddressed questions concerning the microfoundations of succession, and there is a need to secure a better understanding of the succession process and what role parents play therein. Using the...
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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the roots of family firms' competitive advantages by defining and testing the familiness learning mechanisms that emerge from the interaction between family and firm. Because family members are economically, emotionally and socially attached to the firm, family firms...
This work presents the bases of a managed market, “Lonja”, using combinatorial auctions. This is used to purchase products made with 3D printing (additive manufacturing technologies). In this market, the organization and coordination of collaborative offers will be facilitated between the customers that will receive the bids from the manufacturers...
The problem of achieving individual project performance has been replaced by the problem of achieving organizational goals through project performance. Only project-based firms able to learn and build project capabilities can successfully compete in today’s dynamic environments. The purpose of this paper is to present a dynamic capability-based fra...
This study examines (a) whether nongovernmental development organizations (NGDOs) disseminate relevant information for their stakeholders through their web pages, information that after being reviewed and evaluated by external organizations such as the Spanish Coordinator of Development NGO or Lealtad Foundation, allowed these NGDOs to obtain a sea...
Even though family firms are characterized by an overlap between the family and business systems, family business research has focused separately on how family firms compete (i. e., strategic behavior) and how families are involved their firms (i. e., types of family orientation). With the aim of closing this research gap, we draw on the heterogene...
Advances on the study of entrepreneurial intention among students from universities motivate to further investigate the factors behind this intention. In this paper, we focus on the effect of affective traits (positive and negative) on the entrepreneurial intention antecedents proposed by Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior drawing on the arguments...
Relationship conflicts between family members can have disastrous consequences on the performance of the family firm (FF) and even endanger its continuity. This study examines the relationship between family influence, relationship conflicts, and the organizational effectiveness of FF. Using a sample of 102 Spanish FFs, the authors analyzed the dat...
Previous research emphasizes that the participation of the family in business operations is the source of resources and capabilities that conditions the strategic behavior of the family firm. This influence has been recognized as “familiness.” However, this definition is contextualized from static reasoning that ignores the effect of family dynamic...
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This paper aims to examine how the different dimensions of project members’ intra-organizational social capital – cognitive, affective and relational – facilitate knowledge integration in project-based organizations, and how knowledge integration, in turn, impacts explorative and exploitative learning.
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Based on...
p>In this paper, we study the impact of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) on firm performance both during and after its implementation. The literature pointed out that CMMI is theoretically related to the generation of dynamic capabilities. To give an empirical view of these theories, we built a database of economic and financial dat...
Nonprofit organizations are required to be transparent in order to build trust, enhance their legitimacy and create the conditions to promote their sustainability. To demonstrate transparency, external control mechanisms, such as quality or good governance practices certification, have been developed by private organizations such as CONGDE or Funda...
El conocimiento es la fuente más importante de ventaja competitiva sostenible de una empresa. La acumulación de conocimiento es la base del proceso de gestión del conocimiento y un mecanismo de aprendizaje organizacional fundamental. Promueve el desarrollo de las rutinas organizativas, proporcionando los fundamentos para la generación de capacidade...
The socioemotional wealth (SEW) related to emotional endowments accumulated in the business by the family, is one of the most important features that differentiate the family firms of other organizations. However, there are few studies developed in the context of the antecedents and consequences of the building and use of SEW in the family business...
The socioemotional wealth (SEW) related to emotional endowments accumulated in the business by the family, is one of the most important features that differentiate the family firms of other organizations. However, there are few studies developed in the context of the antecedents and consequences of the building and use of SEW in the family business...
Firms understand that cooperation is key to sustainable innovation. Knowledge accumulated inside the firm requires external catharsis if the firm is to reinvent itself. Institutional endowment influences those cooperative processes, acting as a barrier or leverage. When building balanced cooperation strategies, the extent to which firms make their...
Background: Efficiency measurement by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in the non-profit sector has focused on the so-called Stage I of non-profit organisations, namely, fundraising efforts (which are the most influential determinants of raising funds in order to increase the amount of contributions). However, for the so-called Stage II of...
Based on a comparative study of two alliances, this paper provides an in-depth examination of the role of interpartner dissimilarities in Industry-University (IU) alliances. We make a conceptual distinction between routine-based dissimilarities (differences in partners’ behavior) and orientation-based dissimilarities (differences in partners’ goals...
Since the different approaches for analyzing ambidexterity are primarily understood at the organizational level, this article focuses on an operational level by recognizing projects as important sites for the exploration and the exploitation of knowledge. Specifically, this paper studies the role of social capital that arises between members of a p...
Las teorías que explican el efecto de los recursos de la empresa familiar sobre su comporta-miento se desarrollan sobre razonamientos estáticos, analizando su dotación de recursos, pe-ro descuidando su uso a lo largo del tiempo en las actividades de creación de valor (Eddleston et al., 2008).
The role of top managers in firm performance is central to strategic management. Specifically, the influence of top management involvement in project and portfolio performance has been widely research. However, the nature of that influence is still unknown. Based on an international sample of firms performing projects, this paper addresses the ques...
Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards as determinants of affective commitment, and the influence of employees’ affective commitment on knowledge transfer in the context of a Spanish social firm.
Design/methodology/approach –Using data from a sample of 227 employees working for a S...
The objective of this paper is to assess the relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards as determinants of affective commitment, and the influence of employees’ affective commitment on knowledge transfer as a means to improve the organizational effectiveness. A quantitative analysis using data from a sample of 227 employees working for...
Research on organizational behavior suggests that firms have economic objectives, as well as, a variety of non-economic objectives reflecting the perceptions, values, attitudes and intentions of coalitions in the organization (Argote & Greve, 2007; Cyert & March, 1963). In this context, L. R. Gómez-Mejía, Haynes, Núñez-Nickel, Jacobson, and Moyano-...
En un mundo de recursos escasos, el sector de ayuda al desarrollo no sólo tiene que ser eficaz sino eficiente. El objetivo del presente trabajo es evaluar la eficiencia de los principales instrumentos de cooperación internacional al desarrollo, a través de los cuales se materializa la ayuda oficial al desarrollo bilateral española. Sobre una muestr...
La empresa familiar es la estructura empresarial y de negocios con mayor presencia a nivel global (Anderson y Reeb, 2003), sin embargo, menos del 10% de ellas supera la tercera generación (Breton-Miller et al., 2004). Este escaso nivel de éxito podría explicarse por la falta de capacidad o voluntad de los miembros familiares para crear, compartir y...
In a world of scarce resources, the aid development sector not only has to be effective buy efficient. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the main instruments of international development cooperation efficiency through which the official bilateral Spanish development aid materializes. Upon a 72 instruments of international development coop...
The role of top managers on firm performance is central to strategic management. Mainly addressed from two different perspectives, the upper echelons theory and the agency theory, prior research has found that top managers enhance firm performance by accelerating decision-making and fostering capabilities building. However, the nature and essence o...
This paper seeks to answer the question of which international development projects are outsourced from the public bureaucracies when the contractor is a non-profit organization (NGO). The transaction cost economics framework is used to analyze the reasons underlying the outsourcing decision by isolating the transactional characteristics. The make-...
El conocimiento es la fuente más importante de ventaja competitiva sostenible de una empresa. La acumulación de conocimiento promueve el desarrollo de rutinas organizativas, proporcionando los fundamentos para la generación de capacidades dinámicas y la efectividad empresarial. Este proceso en la empresa familiar está fuertemente influenciado por l...
Las organizaciones no lucrativas necesitan ser transparentes para generar confianza, legitimarse ante la sociedad y garantizar su sostenibilidad. Para demostrar su transparencia, se han desarrollado mecanismos de control externos, como las certificaciones de calidad o de buen gobierno. No obstante, las organizaciones no lucrativas pueden recurrir a...
New technologies are powerful tools to create, disseminate, articulate, and exploit knowledge. Entrepreneurs use these technologies to promote the creation of new ventures. However, recent studies demonstrate that new technologies are not sufficient to enhance the process of venture creation. We use the fundamentals of the theory of planned behavio...
Achieving individual project performance is recognized as necessary but no longer sufficient condition to secure long term organizational performance. Only project-based firms capable of learning and developing project capabilities would be able to compete in today's turbulent and dynamic environments. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities approach t...
This paper focuses on the application of the Dynamic Capabilities framework to Project Management discipline. A review of project management literature illustrates the new project and project managers’ conceptualization and the shift towards a more strategic perspective. Commonalities and overlaps between project management and dynamic capabilities...
In the family firm, the process of knowledge accumulation is strongly influenced by the common history of the family, the relationships of trust and the affective relationships between the family members that foster communication which improves knowledge management and promotes learning. All of this leads to better organizational effectiveness in t...
This study evaluates Team Syntegrity® (TS) as a tool to improve the efficiency of teamwork in solving complex problems by means of stimulating collaboration and developing cross-fertilization and creativity. Some evidence suggests that TS has good results for individuals who participate in the process; however, no empirical research has occurred on...
En este trabajo, aplicando la teoría de las capacidades dinámicas al estudio de la empresa
familiar, introducimos el concepto de ‘familiaridad dinámica’ para poner en evidencia la
capacidad de una empresa familiar para crear a propósito, prorrogar o modificar su conjunto
único de recursos, derivados de la interacción entre la familia, sus miembros...
The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool so that university students can learn to work in a team, that is, they can enhance their Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) for effective teamwork. The authors carry out an analysis of the effect of strategic management simul...
This paper applies dynamic capabilities approach to the study of family businesses. We introduce the term 'dynamic familiness' to show the capability of family firms to create, extend, or modify their unique bundle of resources coming from the interaction between the family, the individuals and the firm. Our aim is to give empirical evidence about...
This paper seeks to provide a more comprehensive understanding on how partner firms decide how to behave in multi-partner alliances. Our core argument is that firms, in such collaborative contexts,could behave according to the traditionally studied archetypes (i.e. cooperative and non-cooperative behavior modes) but also could display non-archetypa...
Upstream alliances –i.e. collaborative arrangements between firms and research institutions- entail huge management challenges due to the presence of important organizational dissimilarities between the involved partners, limiting their ability to actually realize synergistic value. Whereas prior studies have focused on routine-based dissimilarity...
This paper examines a phenomenon we observed in a real-life consortium and for which a proper academic explanation is still lacking: under the same challenging conditions, why do only a few inexperienced partners behave cooperatively in the formation process of R&D Consortia? Drawing on a multi-case study on several consortium partners, we conclude...
International agencies use two alternative modes of governance to deliver international aid projects: under bilateral agreements with recipient governments (in-house), or through incumbent NGOs. Through the lenses of institutional and transaction cost economics, this article examines 95 international aid projects delivered in Morocco and Ecuador by...
International Development (ID) projects have turned project failure into a rule rather than an exception. Developed in the 1960's, the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is the most widespread body of knowledge for managing ID projects. However, LFA has proved to have several liabilities. This paper aims to provide a list of the critical success fact...
The goal of this paper is to compare Business Simulations (BS) vs. case studies in terms of teamwork Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) improvement, specifically those identified by Stevens and Campion (1994). With this aim, we conducted an analysis with a group of 51 students of a compulsory Corporate Strategy course at the Business School of...
Teams working in multi-partner R&D alliances need a climate that fosters learning, creativity, and innovation to succeed in the joint development of new products. The strategic human resource management (HRM) literature recognizes that aligning human resources practices and those with the corporate strategy facilitate the creation of such a climate...
El objetivo de este trabajo realizado sobre pequeñas organizaciones sin fines de lucro españolas dedicadas a la prestación de servicios a personas con discapacidad, es analizar como el diseño organizativo ”“en concreto, la delegación y los sistemas de recompensas extrínsecas e intrínsecas- influye sobre la transferencia de conocimiento entre sus em...
El objetivo del presente trabajo es evaluar la eficiencia de los principales instrumentos de cooperación internacional al desarrollo a través de los cuales se materializa al ayuda oficial al desarrollo bilateral española. Sobre una muestra de 76 instrumentos de cooperación internacional al desarrollo, ejecutados en el periodo 2002-2006 en cuatro pa...
Emotions are important to an individual's behavior. However, affective elements have rarely been included in the analysis of entrepreneurs' behavior. Using a sample of 335 entrepreneurs from multiple industries of the Spanish region of Castile and León, we analyze the role of emotions in entrepreneurs' statement of goals and in their satisfaction w...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how organizational design – particularly, delegation, and extrinsic and intrinsic reward systems – impacts employees' knowledge transfer in the context of Spanish small nonprofit organizations.
Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative analysis using data from a sample of 105 Spanish small nonprofit...
With the objective of improving competitiveness, industries require entrepreneurial projects which are preferably characterised by high levels of innovation. One way of enhancing innovative capacity is to use training programmes which meet the specific needs of those individuals who lead the projects. In this paper, our aim is to study what type of...
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool so that university students can learn to work in a team, that is, they can enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) for effective teamwork. The authors have carried out an analysis of the effect of strategic manag...
El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar el comportamiento contable denominado misreporting de las organizaciones no gubernamentales para el desarrollo (ONGD) y evaluar sus consecuencias sobre la eficiencia en la ejecución de proyectos. En concreto, se selecciona una muestra de 52 proyectos financiados por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internaci...
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool so that university students can learn to work in a team, that is they can enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) for effective teamwork. For the first time, we have carried out an analysis of the effect of strate...
Este trabajo propone utilizar un criterio de eficiencia en la elaboración de los rankings universitarios para que no solo se valore la calidad alcanzada, si no también los recursos empleados en su consecución. Además, se plantea la necesidad de llevar a cabo el análisis y la comparación de resultados según las diferentes áreas de conocimiento, debi...
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the so-called misreporting accounting behaviour of non-profit organizations and explore its impact on efficiency in the implementation of projects. Specifically, we select a sample of 52 projects funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid), and, in an effort to assess misrepor...
El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar el comportamiento contable denominado misreporting de las nonprofits y evaluar sus consecuencias sobre la eficiencia en la ejecución de proyectos. En concreto, se selecciona una muestra de 52 proyectos financiados por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), se compara la im...
Technological joint ventures, as powerful mechanisms to attain innovation, have become commonplace. Firms form TJVs in an effort to access future technological opportunities without losing flexibility in uncertain contexts. The real options approach allows the essence of such managerial thinking to be captured, although research in this line remain...
Utilizando los razonamientos de la teoría de la conducta planificada, este trabajo pretende arrojar luz sobre el efecto de los programas de formación del emprendedor en la innovación y el éxito empresarial. De manera complementaria, se evalúa el impacto sobre estas dos variables de la personalidad y la experiencia del individuo. Para cumplir con lo...
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool,
that is they can enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities for effective teamwork. We have carried out an analysis of the effect of business simulation on the teamwork KSA with a group of undergraduates
of the Business S...
El funcionamiento interno de las organizaciones ha sido siempre un tema considerado de interés, pero muy poco tratado en la investigación. En este trabajo nos centramos en las organizaciones no gubernamentales para el desarrollo (ONGD), organizaciones que muestran una preocupación creciente por conseguir un adecuado diseño organizativo para su enti...
Knowledge is a core resource for mission accomplishment in any organization and can be particularly important in nonprofit organizations (NPOs), where other resources are often lacking. Therefore, we evaluate the relation between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and stakeholders’ knowledge contributions in NPOs by developing and testing a model base...
The internal structure of organizations has always been considered a relevant topic, but scarcely treated in the literature. In this paper, we focus on non-governmental organizations for development aid (NGDOs), greatly concerned with obtaining a suitable organizational design. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the balance of two key organizatio...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as determinants of the employees' knowledge transfer in the context of a Spanish non-profit organization (named Asprona). Design/methodology/approach – A case study method was used to analyze a Spanish non-profit organization (Asprona). In this contex...
Utilizando información obtenida de 105 pequeñas organizaciones sin fines de lucro españolas que, en el año 2007, se dedicaban a la prestación de servicios a personas con discapacidad, analizamos como el diseño organizativo –en concreto, la delegación y los sistemas de recompensas extrínsecas e intrínsecas- influyen sobre la transmisión de conocimie...
Agency theory postulates that an organization needs to achieve a balance in its organizational architecture, to develop its activities and to attain its objectives effectively. The non-profit organizations have the same requirements in their internal organization, although measurement of their efficiency is a very complex task. This paper has a two...
La teoría de la agencia postula que para que una organización pueda desarrollar su actividad y alcanzar sus objetivos eficientemente, requiere de una arquitectura organizativa equilibrada. Las entidades sin fines de lucro (ENL) están sometidas a estos mismos requerimientos en su organización interna aunque la evaluación de su eficiencia se muestra...
We use data obtained from managers of 105 small nonprofit organizations (NPOs) providing services to people with disabilities in Spain in 2007 to examine how organizational design—particularly, extrinsic and intrinsic reward systems—impacts delegation, motivation, and knowledge transfer to achieve the NPO’s goal to improve the lives of persons livi...
Nonprofit organizations need their employees to be dynamic transferring knowledge in order to be efficient. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation may support tacit knowledge transfer considering that, in this kind of organizations, motivation is a very important factor to retain valuable employees. The findings of this research, concerning a nonprofit...
Purpose
This paper attempts to shed light on the effect of educational programmes aimed at entrepreneurs on innovation and business success.
Design/methodology/approach
We use as theoretical framework the theory of planned behaviour. We use a sample of 354 entrepreneurs from Castile and Leon, Spain. To estimate the model we use a path analysis (AM...
We explore the innovation dynamics in multipartner-alliance teams (MA teams), a particularly complex type of teams. MA teams are temporary project teams composed of members from different partners and are in charge of attaining innovation. In particular, we focus on the potential contributions of human resource management (HRM) fit on the creation...