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Xose H. Vazquez currently works at the Faculty of Economic and Business, University of Vigo. Xose does research in low carbon operations, innovation and strategy. His current project is "Carbon productivity, dematerialization and demand volatility: an evolutionary analysis of technologies and capabilities in adaptive
industrial systems".
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January 2016 - December 2018
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We hinge on a panel data of 4660 firms across 79 countries and over 15 years to explore how country, industry, and firm effects influence firms' CO2 emissions. Our results show that firm effects are the main factor influencing firms' CO2 emissions (32.8% of the total variance), ahead of industry (30.6%), country (29.3%), or country‐industry effects...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how temporary labor moderates the relation between two well-known lean initiatives (process flow and process quality) and line productivity. This paper focuses on high-volume, low-variety (HVLV) shop floors, where work experience may not be as relevant as expected and extrinsic motivation of the temp...
We address the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the US airlines market and discuss the benefits and limitations of current business models in a context of increasing socio-economic uncertainty and stringent environmental regulations. Drawing our data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and 10-K/A reports, we undertook an exploratory study...
Generating and disseminating specific climate change knowledge is critical for sub-national policymakers. It allows them to address regional particularities, balance mitigation and adaptation policies, and deliver transparent governance. In this paper, we show how knowledge maps can be used in this endeavour. We examined a case study in Galicia, a...
Even if the original seminal authors developed the tools used in lean manufacturing (LM) as inherently culture-dependent, western companies have found a variety of alternatives to implement them. We can simplify them by theoretically identifying two different extreme approaches that in real life are normally combined with diverse intensities: one e...
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...
We use 9 years of dynamic panel data (4,090 observations) to explore how decarbonization moderates the association between a selection of efficiency‐driven shop‐floor initiatives and labor productivity. The results are mixed: the relationship between materials efficiency and labor productivity is positively moderated by decarbonization, but the rel...
The multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP) is a widespread phenomenon in real-life scenarios, and in fact it has been addressed from multiple perspectives in recent decades. However, mTSP in dynamic circumstances entails a greater complexity that recent approaches are still trying to grasp. Beyond time windows, capacity and other parameters tha...
The multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP) is a widespread phenomenon in real-life scenarios, and in fact it has been addressed from multiple perspectives in recent decades. However, mTSP in dynamic circumstances entails a greater complexity that recent approaches are still trying to grasp. Beyond time windows, capacity and other parameters tha...
This paper analyses the role played by Environmental and Information Technologies (ET&IT) in the capability of Lean Manufacturing (LM) to achieve improved industrial performance. In contrast to seminal literature about lean practices, and in view of increasing consumer requirements regarding response times and environmental concerns, we suggest tha...
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We explore the why and how of synergies and dysfunctions between Information Technologies (IT) and Operational Excellence (OE). Moving away from the type of analyses that focus on the starting-point and the final stage, we address the evolution of the complex factors involved in the joint deployment of IT and OE that try to transform manufacturing...
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This paper aims to examine how lack of financial cooperation damages the operational efficiency of supply chains. The thesis is that economic and technological forces are provoking increasing financial tensions that push companies to transfer their credit needs and inventory requirements to their weakest suppliers. Thus, what might initiall...
We explain why companies seeking superior product innovation should invest in basic research. Our arguments highlight the role of absorptive capacity and examine how industry appropriability influences these relations. Based on a rich dataset of 8416 firms, we argue that basic research in firms increases their knowledge stock and flows, therefore i...
In this article, we explore different behavioural assumptions in the training of managers. We show that training emphasizing rationality and self-interest, the standard assumptions used in economics, benefits those working in technical posts but may lead future managers to rely excessively on rational and explicit safeguarding, crowding out instinc...
In this article, we explore different behavioural assumptions in the training of managers. We show that training emphasizing rationality and self-interest, the standard assumptions used in economics, benefits those working in technical posts but may lead future managers to rely excessively on rational and explicit safeguarding, crowding out instinc...
The significantly increasing evolution of private basic research in the U.S.A., Europe and Japan suggests a strong association between the capacity for innovation and research activities aimed strictly to work at the forefront of scientific knowledge. This paper explores the possible reasons for this association using a sample of 8,416 companies in...
En las últimas décadas las sociedades industriales han evolucionado hacia una economía interconectada en la que los procesos de generación y difusión de nuevo conocimiento son la clave de su crecimiento. En este contexto, las ciudades han dejado de ser meros brazos administrativos que despliegan las políticas de gasto de estados centralizados para...
La evolución reciente del mercado, con cambios de preferencias más frecuentes y exigencias de personalización crecientes, ha puesto de manifiesto la fragilidad de aquellas empresas cuya externalización offshore no ha considerado los costes de coordinar proveedores con localizaciones lejanas. El artículo analiza este problema utilizando el caso de I...
Recent market trends, with frequently changing preferences and increasing customization requirements, have highlighted the fragility of those companies whose offshore outsourcing has not considered the costs of coordinating suppliers with very distant locations. The paper analyzes this problem using the case of Inditex, a company that, inspired by...
We propose a model that associates basic research with product innovation through the absorptive capacity it generates, moderated also by the level of industry appropriability. To test these relations, we used a sample of 8,861 firms taken from a panel (PITEC). Our data suggest that basic research in firms increases their knowledge stock and flows,...
The New Institutionalism incorporates several approaches of institutional analysis from several social sciences. Among these approaches, the New Institutional Economics has propelled several advances in contemporaneous institutional analysis. Methodological pluralism has characterized this approach, and the use of case studies, institutional and co...
Based on a case study from the apparel industry, the paper addresses how the organizational innovations adopted by Benetton and Inditex allowed them to balance lower production costs in developing countries with an adequate response time to frequent preference changes and increasing demands for customisation. Findings confirm the fragility of multi...
El artículo indaga en las causas de la deslocalización empresarial en el sector auxiliar del automóvil, comparando la rivalidad interna entre subsidiarias europeas de una misma multinacional con la rivalidad externa procedente de otras empresas del sector localizadas en España.
Nuestro análisis muestra dos resultados interesantes: primero, que la p...
Economic theory regarding moral hazard at work is somewhat at odds with recent business evidence. Whereas firms in economically and technologically stable environments could apparently follow conventional wisdom when trying to reduce moral hazard through tight supervision and incentive packages, the increasingly innovative and competitive environme...
The paper addresses the problem of the allocation of decision rights on the shop floor. We try to solve particular limitations of Agency Theory by presenting a complementary approach based on Organization Theory and Transaction Cost Economics. Empirical evidence stems from two industries with very different institutional and technological tratis: t...
The paper identifies four control mechanisms on the shop floor and explains their determinants. By enriching contingency and transaction cost theories with power notions, several hypotheses are tested in a dataset composed of 329 Spanish firms in the food and electronic industries. Results show that shop floor control is shaped by efficiency concer...
The assembly plant of PSA in Vigo has become a paradigm of efficiency within the French group as well as among the Spanish factories. Its model can hardly surprise anyone, however: investment in new technologies, organizational innovation on the shop floor and in its relation with suppliers, labor flexibility and employee participation. There are n...
Technological and organizational change in the automotive sector is pushing the outsourcing of production to limits which would probably be astonishing a few years ago. Whereas vehicle brand owners tend to specialize in design, research and marketing, their suppliers produce components and assemble cars. Besides eliminating barriers to entry, this...
This paper assesses two decades of international generation of technology through EPO data: we quantify its volume, analyze its motives and identify several business traits that facilitate its implementation. Our database, which is composed of 65,000 firms and 465,000 patents, shows that most technological activities are still carried out in the ho...
The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions in training managers may have on their future performance. We argue that training with an emphasis on the standard assumptions used in economics (rationality and self-interest) is good for technical posts but may also lead future managers to rely excessively on rat...
The paper studies the influence that university stakeholders exert on their students' employability. With this purpose we use a sample of 230 Spanish university centers. where we have obtained the participation of their dean/manager. A first exploratory approach confirms the influence of the faculty and the university management team. Other more ma...
El trabajo aborda la influencia de los stakeholders de la universidad en la empleabilidad de sus alumnos. Para este análisis utilizamos una muestra de 230 centros universitarios españoles, recurriendo a la opinión del director/decano de cada centro. Un primer análisis exploratorio confirma la influencia de los profesores y del equipo rectoral en la...
La fabricación ha sido el aspecto fundamental de las empresas manufactureras durante más de un siglo. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, cada vez más compañías están subcontratando su producción a empresas especializadas. En algunas de ellas, los trabajadores no llegan a establecer un contacto físico con los productos. El cambio tecnológico no sólo est...
La fabricación ha sido el aspecto fundamental de las empresas manufactureras durante más de un siglo. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, cada vez más compañías están subcontratando su producción a empresas especializadas. En algunas de ellas, los trabajadores no llegan a establecer un contacto físico con los productos. El cambio tecnológico no sólo est...
Building on a rich dataset with information on 65,000 firms and 465,000 European patent applications from 1978 to 2000, this paper addresses the geographical amplitude of international technology generation. First, we show that the number of countries hosting international technological activities is increasing. The USA and some developing nations...
PC maker Lenovo started out as a distributor of equipment made by IBM and other companies; now it has formed a joint venture with IBM and will eventually affix its own logo to its computers. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) started out manufacturing vehicles for Volkswagen and GM; now it's preparing to sell its own cars in China, Eur...
We discuss and examine empirically a firm-level equivalent of the ancient problem of 'tying the King's hands', namely how to avoid managerial intervention that is undertaken to reap private benefits but is harmful to overall value creation, that is, 'managerial opportunism'. The link from managerial intervention to firm-level value-creation is mode...
PC maker Lenovo started out as a distributor of equipment made by IBM and other companies; now it has formed a joint venture with IBM and will eventually affix its own logo to its computers. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) started out manufacturing vehicles for Volkswagen and GM; now it's preparing to sell its own cars in China, Eur...
The paper identifies four control mechanisms on the shopfloor and explains their determinants. By enriching contingency and transaction cost theories with power notions, several hypotheses are tested in a dataset composed of 329 Spanish firms in the food and electronic industries. Results show that shopfloor control is shaped by efficiency concerns...
La creciente especialización en el sector del automóvil ha convertido la política de compras y la logística
en procesos clave para el mantenimiento de la posición competitiva en el mercado. En este
artículo se describen las principales características del aprovisionamiento ajustado, se examina su
nivel de implantación en España a partir de varios...
The increasing specialization in the automotive sector has fostered purchase strategies and logistics as key processes for the sustainability of competitive advantage. The paper describes the main traits of the so called “lean supply chain management”, examines its level of implementation in Spain based on several case studies, and analyzes what it...
La planta de PSA en Vigo se ha convertido en una referencia de eficiencia, tanto dentro del grupo francés como entre las plantas españolas. Su modelo, sin embargo, difícilmente puede sorprender a nadie: inversión en nuevas tecnologías, innovación organizativa en la planta y en sus relaciones con los proveedores, cierta flexibilidad laboral y foment...
El artículo aborda el problema de la delegación de decisiones en la planta de produccción. Con el ánimo de solventar algunas limitaciones de la Teoría de la Agencia, se presenta un enfoque complementario basado en la Teoría de la Organización y el entramado analítico de la Economía de los Costes de Transacción. La evidencia empírica se ha obtenido...
This paper explores the links that the allocation of decision rights on the shop floor maintains with labor transaction attributes and several structural traits of the firm. The approach is based on the transaction cost apparatus and harnesses the theoretical and empirical background provided by organization theory. Data are presented from a wide f...
This paper explores the links that the allocation of decision rights on the shop floor maintains with labor transaction attributes and several structural traits of the firm. The approach is based on the transaction cost apparatus and harnesses the theoretical and empirical background provided by organization theory. Data are presented from a wide f...
La creciente subcontratación de la fabricación responde a cambios tecnológicos que facilitan una mayor especialización mediante robots y fábricas flexibles, y que reducen los costes de coordinación a través de nuevos estándares e Internet. Además de eliminar barreras de entrada, este contract manufacturing favorece la diversificación relacionada y...
El artículo discute la calidad del marco institucional de la empresa española mediante una nueva base de datos del Banco Mundial: Doing Business 2004. Pese a algunos errores, este informe de vocación anual se convertirá en una herramienta esencial para comparar las instituciones entre países y medir los efectos de sus reformas. Tras comparar las in...
We discuss and empirically examine a firm-level equivalent of the ancient problem of "tying the King’s hands", namely how to maximize managerial intervention for "good cause", while avoiding intervention for "bad cause". Managers may opportunistically intervene when such intervention produces private benefits. Overall firm performance is harmed as...
Analízase cómo se organizan internamente as empresas de traballo asociado galegas e avalíase ata qué punto amosan un comportamento económico diferenciado das empresas convencionais. Así, contrastando as teses e as prediccións da teoría-neo-institucional coa evidencia empírica dispoñible para o caso das sociedades laborais do sector industrial, debú...
El cambio tecnológico y organizativo en el sector del automóvil está intensificando la subcontratación de la fabricación hasta límites que hace algunos años hubieran sido insospechados. Mientras los propietarios de las marcas tienden a especializarse en la investigación, el diseño y el marketing, sus proveedores se encargan de fabricar componentes...
The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions in training managers may have on their future performance. We argue that training with an emphasis on the standard assumptions used in economics (rationality and self-interest) leads future managers to rely excessively on rational and explicit safeguarding, crowdin...
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