Raquel Galindo

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | UAM

Los cambios tecnológicos han estado siempre presentes en los mercados e industrias, proporcionando ventajas competitivas para los primeros que las adoptan. Sin embargo, la velocidad de generación de nuevas herramientas digitales en los últimos años ha propiciado que sea una cuestión de necesidad que las empresas las adopten. La función financiera d...

Actualmente, las compañías se enfrentan con mercados cada vez más competitivos y con situaciones imprevistas que impactan en los beneficios empresariales. Como respuesta a ello múltiples compañías han iniciado una revisión de la estructura de los costes generales de funcionamiento –especialmente los relacionados con los administrativos y financiero...

This paper proposes the design and implementation of a new Knowledge Management Model KMMA based on Knowledge-Management-Measurement-Action, which seeks to integrate three areas usually treated separately: knowledge management, measurement of intellectual capital and strategic actions. The life insurance industry as an example of companies that are...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board size (B-SIZE) and financial and reputational corporate performance in top companies ranked by the Business Monitor of Corporate Reputation – MERCO in Colombia. Design/methodology/approach This paper conducts correlations and cluster analysis in order to classify fir...

This paper analyses the main factors involved in the knowledge management of different actors participating in a Chilean port community. The intangible assets participating in the creation of value of the port community, which are expressed in ideas, attitudes, perceptions, experiences, information and knowledge management, are evaluated and classi...

Proper supply chain management (SCM) has proven essential for the competitiveness of organizations, since it ensures the effectiveness of supplies, and the proper coordination with suppliers, intermediaries and market needs. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the SCM has proven to have a positive impact in companies that h...

This paper presents a study of the behaviour of companies participating in Chilean ports of medium size in the processes of creation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge. A diagnosis of the current situation and the identification of the relevant requirements of knowledge management, through surveys and interviews, were carried out by the m...

This study presents a comparative analysis of Information and Computer Technology (ICT) integration in two organizations that combine public and private roles: Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) in the European Union (EU) and the Internal Revenue System (IRS) in Chile. The former registers trademarks and designs in the EU, the l...

Tesis doctoral inédita. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Departamento de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas. Fecha de lectura: 13-02-00 Bibliogr.: h. 317-355

The capability to create and apply new knowledge is one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage, yet there are few empirical studies of this. This book develops an improved and extended theoretical model about knowledge creation and transfer within organizations, testing it empirically with a survey in 115 knowledge-intensive firms....

The first chapter of this research concentrates on the study of interfirm competition under the lens of a new socioeconomical environment, which has been named the Knowledge Society or the Knowledge Age. To this end, the first part of this chapter introduces the evolution of society and economics from their origins to the present day. Several main...

Nowadays, a number of authors consider that the capability to create and apply new knowledge represents the true source of the competitive advantage of the firm (see, inter alia, Almeida, Song, and Grant, 2002; Leonard-Barton, 1992; Nonaka, 1991; Spanos and Lioukas, 2001; Spender, 1996; Teece, 1998; Von Krogh, 1998; Zollo and Winter, 2002; Bueno Ca...

Having described the empirical research, in this chapter we address the different steps taken to carry it out. We provide details about the types of firms that were included in the study, how we approached them and the measurement tools that we employed for data gathering.

After undertaking the fieldwork according to the conditions detailed in the previous chapter, in this one we show the main empirical results obtained from this research. Thus, in the course of this chapter, we will be able to test the theoretical model that we have outlined. Our explanations will be shown in two steps: the first of them, initial an...

When executives ignore the well being of the company's shareholders for the sake of personal profit and upset the precarious balance of the stock markets, putting into question the ethics of the business world and shifting public opinion, legislators must respond quickly and efficiently with new and more comprehensive laws. However, the way such le...

The recent scandals related to failure of several companies have developed a sense of negligence in the role of the auditor. That person has been blamed directly or indirectly for the lack of continuity of an entity's activity. Even though an auditor has the ability and technical capacity to anticipate business failure in much broader context, the...