Nuria Hurtado-Torres

University of Granada | UGR · Department of Management

Purpose Strategic literature has focused on how economies of scale in a firm offering outsourcing may generate incentives for clients to increase the outsourced services, but there has been limited research on how the clients’ features may influence the scope of services that they hire with an outsourcing provider. This study analyzes whether a cli...

This paper analyzes the debate regarding the implications of international firms' strategies for their environmental approaches across multiple regions by distinguishing between symbolic and effective environmental operations. Furthermore, we extend previous literature by considering the relevant moderating role of a firm's liability of origin on t...

The institutional perspective is becoming an increasingly important approach for explaining sustainability behavior in an international context. Drawing on insights from institutional theory and natural environment literature, we propose that the utilization of international firms’ technological intensity to generate green innovations is conditione...

En la actualidad, el papel de las subsidiarias de las empresas multinacionales ha transcendido, pasando de ser meras implementadoras de las innovaciones a contribuidoras directas en el desarrollo de las mismas. Los resultados del trabajo deDelgado y otros (2018) muestran que existe una relación de U invertida entre la diversidad geográfica de la re...

This paper examines the effects of the degree and geographic diversification of a firm’s R&D internationalization on its innovative performance. We use an unbalanced panel dataset of 401 observations from 110 multinational firms operating in the energy industry over a period of six years to support the argument that both the degree and the geograph...

A network view of innovation performance for multinational corporation subsidiaries: functionality and geography. Regional Studies. The literature has recognized the need to understand better the role of network partner characteristics on innovative performance in cases of multiple network embeddedness. This study argues that innovation performance...

Previous academic and popular literature has raised important debates concerning the contradictory incentives of international firms to reduce their environmental impacts and offer transparent environmental information about their operations. As an exhaustive review of this literature reveals mixed and partial evidence, we compared the individual c...

Patent data provide technological information essential to define strategies and decisions in the context of firm innovative processes. At present, information regarding patents is usually represented and stored in large databases. Information from these databases is commonly retrieved in the form of files with a CSV- or XML-based codification but...

The literature on the natural-resource-based view of firms has mostly focused on the positive relationship between financial performance and environmental innovation. The present study extends this research by addressing recent calls to identify the specific managerial approaches that affect a firm’s ability to financially benefit from an innovativ...

Caracuel (2015) Does knowledge explain trust behaviors and outcomes? The different influences of initial knowledge and experiential knowledge on personal trust interactions, This paper examines the influences of initial knowledge and experiential knowledge on trust behaviors and trust outcomes, respectively, at an interpersonal level. We use an exp...

Innovation entails the convergence of different kinds of knowledge. Network is a vital mechanism to acquire such knowledge and fill firms’ knowledge gap. Nonetheless, literature has paid scarce attention to network diversity as a characteristic influencing the knowledge embedded in networks that may foster innovation. This paper is aimed at analyzi...

This research examines the influence of environmental institutional distance between home and host countries on the standardization of environmental performance among multinational enterprises using ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression techniques and a sample of 128 multinationals from high-polluting industries. The paper examines the environmen...

In an educational context characterised by globalisation, reputation constitutes a crucial issue for today’s higher education institutions. Internationalisation of higher education is often seen as a potential response to globalisation and, consequently, higher education has become increasingly internationalised during the past decade. In this pape...

This paper investigates the measurement of trust transfer in interpersonal contexts. Despite the importance of this topic, little evidence of comparable indicators exists to fill the current gap in knowledge regarding the measurement of interpersonal transference of trust and its reciprocal. We propose a modification of the classical structure of a...

Patent databases contain large amounts of information about the inventions and metadata of corporate patents (such as the technological domain they belong to, their applicants, and inventors). These databases are available online but since they do not provide explicit information about the relationships between different patent metadata, it is not...

In the current global economic environment, companies aiming to obtain lasting competitive advantages must be aware of those abilities that differentiate the company from its competitors. In this sense, personnel training may stimulate the development of certain capabilities related to the company's human resources, which could support this differe...

The organizational literature has often acknowledged that under certain conditions, corporations should limit the information that employees receive and how they interact to improve corporate financial performance. The present article criticizes the logic of such corporate restrictions. Data obtained from 164 pharmaceutical firms operating in 27 di...

El capital social constituye un activo estratégico de las empresas, facilitándoles el acceso y la explotación de nuevos recursos e influyendo positivamente en sus resultados. Dada la relevancia del capital social, resulta crucial conocer qué factores favorecen el desarrollo del mismo en el contexto organizacional. Por ello, en este trabajo se anali...

At present, information regarding patents is usually represented and stored in large databases. Information from these databases is commonly retrieved in the form of files with a CSV- or XML-based codification but with little semantics that enable the inference of further relationships among patents. In these databases, each patent is associated wi...

Previous trust literature has provided a limited context for the study of how trust is transferred among multiple agents and how the relations among agents evolve. This paper investigates whether reciprocity helps determine future trust transfers. Furthermore, we propose that the update of trustors' expectations derived from previous interactions m...

Early research on environmental strategy in international firms focused predominantly on direct investment as an expansion strategy for multinationals. However, we know relatively little from a strategic management perspective about exporting, which is the most prevalent form of international expansion. For this reason, we examine whether the knowl...

Early research on environmental strategy in international firms focused predominantly on direct investment as an expansion strategy for multinationals. However, we know relatively little from a strategic management perspective about exporting, which is the most prevalent form of international expansion. For this reason, we examine whether the knowl...

This article combines institutional and resources’ arguments to show that the institutional distance between the home and the host country, and the headquarters’ financial performance have a relevant impact on the environmental standardization decision in multinational companies. Using a sample of 135 multinational companies in three different indu...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the different international environmental strategies that multinational enterprises (MNEs) can adopt. Design/methodology/approach This study updates the traditional country‐specific advantages/firm‐specific advantages (FSA/CSA) framework. In order to do so, the concepts of environmental institutional...

Internationalization constitutes a broadly widespread concept in the literature about management. However, it has recently started being applied to higher education institutions. In this paper, we investigate internationalization in university institutions from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. To achieve our aim, we place particular emp...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la influencia que la internacionalización puede tener sobre la adopción de una estrategia medioambiental más proactiva por parte de las empresas. ara conseguir este objetivo realizamos 103 entrevistas personales a los directores generales de empresas exportadoras españolas pertenecientes al sector de la ali...

One of the major debates currently in the literature about trust and management relies on the perspective of trust-building in organizations. In this chapter we draw on graph-based structures in order to investigate the role of individuals' social networks as tools for enhancing potential trust-building processes at interpersonal level. The chapter...

To date, technological innovations in some industries have resulted in significantly reduced emissions and increased shares of nonfossil fuels in energy production (Kivimaa, 2008). Nevertheless, several environmental challenges persist related to climate change, biodiversity, and chemicals dispersed through consumer products. Green innovation can b...

While previous literature has assumed that the general concerns of society should increase the attention paid to sustainability issues in engineering studies, we suggest that specific perceptions of department heads are also important. We used a sample of 37 department heads operating in Computer and Telecommunication Engineering Schools at 25 Span...

Recruiting-related online innovations represent growing and high-potential opportunities for employers to broaden the reach of their recruiting efforts as well as reduce costs. The diffusion of innovative approaches for online recruiting, however, may experience bias due to potential employees’ lack of trust in firms offering positions online, part...

Purpose – We analyze the influence of the internationalization process of small and medium-sized enterprises on the adoption of a proactive environmental strategy. Design/methodology – Using direct interviews with the CEOs of 106 Spanish export firms from the food industry, we tested our research question through ordinary least squares regression a...

In this paper we analyze the influence that the environmental institutional distance between countries has on the degree of environmental performance's similarity within the multinational enterprise (MNE). We break down the institutional distance between the host and the home country into distances in relation to the regulatory, cognitive, and norm...

Este trabajo analiza la influencia que ejerce la distancia institucional entre el país de la matriz y el de la subsidiaria sobre la estandarización en el desempeño medioambiental en la empresa multinacional. La distancia institucional es analizada considerando tres dimensiones ampliamente aceptadas en el marco de la teoría institucional: regulatori...

The article analyzes whether international activity and a firm's capability of organizational learning have an impact on the development of an advanced environmental approach in corporate internationalization. The generation of valuable and innovative environmental managerial practices is described as one capability that can be generated through th...

Environmental risky firms require technical advances in order to provide sustainable approaches, but also to generate trust in their progress. We use the theory of reasoned action to propose that users of the corporate web site build trusting beliefs regarding three characteristics of the firm -ability, integrity, and benevolence- which are relevan...

This work proposes that faculty attitude explains the satisfaction and using of the students of a shared web. Using a sample of 253 students, the work shows that the emotional support of faculty’s member to the platform is influencing the satisfaction and usage of this platform. Meanwhile, students’ background and technical support are not relevant...

Abstract. While the importance of users’ satisfaction with innovations has been recognized, the differences of user’s satisfaction with and frequency of using an innovation have been partially analyzed. Previous litera-ture has analyzed different factors highlighting users’ experience to understand users’ adoption of innovation, but the role of ext...

Purpose This empirical study aims to examine the influence of transformational leadership (TL) on organizational innovation (OI) and performance (OP) depending on the level of organizational learning in technological firms. Design/methodology/approach The research examined a sample of 164 pharmaceutical firms. A global model is formulated and the...

In spite of the widespread recognition of the important roles that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play in most economies, limited research has focused on their impacts on the natural environment and the strategies such enterprises adopt to reduce these impacts. It is usually assumed that SMEs lack the resources to implement proactive env...

Este trabajo analiza la influencia de la cultura nacional sobre la relación existente entre la orientación emprendedora y el resultado de la innovación de producto en empresas del sector farmacéutico. Los resultados muestran que una mayor distancia al poder debilita la relación que existe entre orientación emprendedora y resultado de las innovacion...

El trabajo presenta un modelo basado en la perspectiva de recursos y capacidades para explicar los desarrollos medioambientales en pequeñas empresas. Se analiza específicamente el papel jugado por tres capacidades organizacionales (gestión de stakeholders, proactividad estratégica y liderazgo compartido) y se establecen hipótesis sobre las mismas....

Se ha defendido con frecuencia que un director general debe estar en condiciones de enfrentarse a los retos de su entorno. Basado en 230 sucesiones, este estudio examina la relación entre tres características industriales (munificiencia, dinamismo y complejidad) y los rasgos de los directores generales. En general, los resultados de este estudio in...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la influencia que la internacionalización puede tener sobre la adopción de una estrategia medioambiental más proactiva por parte de las empresas. ara conseguir este objetivo realizamos 103 entrevistas personales a los directores generales de empresas exportadoras españolas pertenecientes al sector de la ali...

Recently, some works have started to state whether internationalization has a positive influence on the internal capabilities of firms. In this study we analyze how the internationalization of firms enables them to develop innovation capability. To achieve this objective we use a sample of 155 Spanish firms from the food industry. The results of th...