In spite of the recent efforts made by the Spanish governmental institutions to promote hem, there are just a few export consortia really successful in Spain as compared to those being projected that never reach their formal constitution or simply fail to survive. Also, there are very few...

Firms with low levels of internationalization may feel the need to speed up their international development in order to be able to compete with multinational enterprises (MNEs) of bigger size and wider scope. Global alliances are a means to achieve such an accelerated process, not only because...

[ES] A pesar del importante papel de las PYMES de nueva creación en el desarrollo económico, no tenemos constancia de trabajos que hayan abordado de manera simultánea el estudio de la relación entre tres orientaciones estratégicas clave como son la orientación emprendedora (OE), la...

[ES] Pese a los recientes esfuerzos realizados para dinamizarlos desde los organismos públicos competentes españoles, aún son relativamente pocos los consorcios de exportación realmente exitosos en España frente a los que ni llegan a constituirse o apenas sobreviven un tiempo. Por otra...

This paper investigates the selection of governance forms in interfirm collaborations taking into account the predictions from transaction costs and property rights theories. Transaction costs arguments are often used to justify the introduction of hierarchical controls in collaborations, but...

A quick replacement of the Information and Communication Technology Systems (ICT) of the target company with the bidder’s ICT is expected in absorptions, as the synergies stemming from these deals lie in the rapid integration of the acquired firm within the organizational structure of the...

In this paper, 27 studies from the last decade which deal more or less explicitly with the International New Venture, global start-up or born-global phenomenon are first identified, and then fully examined and critically assessed as a basis for obtaining an adequate view of the state-of-the-art...

In this paper, a theoretical framework for analyzing the selection of governance structures for implementing collaboration agreements between firms and Technological Centers is presented and empirically discussed. This framework includes Transaction Costs and Property Rights’ theoretical...

En este trabajo procedemos a caracterizar las empresas que colaboran con Centros Tecnológicos. Las investigaciones empíricas de Cassiman & Veugelers (1998b) y Bayona (2000), junto a los enfoques teóricos del cambio tecnológico y de las motivaciones para colaborar tecnológicamente, serán...

The emergence of the Latin American market and its growing importance attract global investors to this region with an eye on profit opportunities. This attraction demands a reliable instrument for the calculation of future stock prices of regional companies. This study examined the reliability...