- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- International Business and FDI
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Social Media and Politics
- Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Business, Innovation, and Economy
- Business Strategies and Innovation
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Organizational Management and Innovation
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Service and Product Innovation
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Emotional Labor in Professions
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
2014-2023
Universidad de Navarra
2003-2007
abstract This article develops the concept of internal subsidiary embeddedness as canvas within which strategy takes place. Developing an inductive model, we identify three hierarchical levels embeddedness. The first level is operational embeddedness, relates to interlocking day‐to‐day relations. second capability concerns development competitive capabilities for multinational a whole. third strategic subsidiary's participation in corporation's setting. We derived our from in‐depth case...
This study examines how conflict and hours worked affect the influence of customer orientation on frontline service employee satisfaction. The conceptual model builds upon role personal resources in job demands-resource model, while integrating perspectives from work–family (WFC) literature conservation theory. Results indicate that influences satisfaction both directly indirectly through interpersonal with customers (ICC), WFC, felt stress. impact ICC was found to be fully rather than...
Although cross-national work-family research has made great strides in recent decades, knowledge accumulation on the impact of culture interface been hampered by a limited geographical and cultural scope that excluded countries where expectations regarding work, family, support may differ. We advance this literature investigating relationships broad range cultures, including understudied regions world (i.e., Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia). focus humane orientation (HO), an overlooked...
This paper inductively derives a model that develops the concept of subsidiary embeddedness as canvas within which strategy can take place. Our identifies three hierarchical levels embeddedness: Operational relates to interlocking day-to-day relations. Capability deals with development competitive capabilities for multinational whole. Strategic participation in MNC setting. We deem these types ways develop strategic alternatives. In such, different imply roles. Embeddedness, it was derived...
This research on relationship marketing aims to revisit and reposition different foci of trust, commitment, performance perception in the export/import relationships explore interconnectedness effects. We have collected self-reported survey questionnaire responses from 142 non-oil exporters Ecuador. The data were analyzed with SmartlPls 3.0 software. found that calculative commitment negatively moderates inter-organizational trust affective relationships. other significant findings include...
Purpose Associated with status, excess and wastefulness, the consumption of luxury is perceived as antithesis to sustainable development. Entrepreneurs create business cases mediate positive sustainability changes, which transform markets institutional arrangements. The purpose this paper propose concept value-in-impact an interface integrate perspectives from entrepreneurship, marketing ecological economics. It provides interdisciplinarily applicable, generalizable concepts describe social...
Drawing on the transaction cost analysis perspective, this study examines how three types of exchange risks influence performance in exporter-importer relationships. These include cultural distance, which gives rise to behavioral uncertainty and its associated measurement problem; market turbulence, a dimension environmental that an adaptation transaction-specific assets, representing safeguarding problem. The conceptual model assesses informal governance mechanism, inter-organizational...
El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar si la fuerza de carácter, tendencia una persona a mostrar perseverancia en el esfuerzo, constancia interés y pasión objetivos largo plazo, influye continuidad emprendedora Ecuador. Empleando prueba chi-cuadrado, compara nivel carácter dos grupos emprendedores, uno con iniciativas empresariales avanzadas otro menos maduras, demuestra que los emprendedores tienen mayor según evaluación terceros, construyen empresas capacidad seguir operando. Este...
This research integrates transaction cost and relational exchange theories to depict a more nuanced explanation of exporter-importer relationships when exporters operate from developing country. Our study examines whether exporters' investments in specific assets directly influence perceived importer opportunism, or these perceptions are driven by the mediating effects interpersonal inter-organizational trust power. Contrary general argument, we did not find any direct effect exporter on...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relational configurations a subsidiary that belongs global industry such as auto components manufacture. As integration pressures are high in environment, there for centralization and some subsidiaries losing resources capabilities benefit headquarters or other subsidiaries. Consequently, they may fight within MNC retain control over certain capabilities, mainly by building strong relationships with local suppliers, providers, customers units reach...