RESEARCH BULLETIN RESEARCH BULLETIN Issue 40 JAN - APR 2016 PRESENTATION This month’s introduction is provided by Frank Wiengarten, Associate Professor of the Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences and Academic Director of the Master of Science in Global Strategic Management, in which he provide’s an overview of the development of a research paper. The development of a research paper By Frank Wiengarten I would like to thank Tamyko for giving me the opportunity to write the introductory piece to this current edition of our research bulletin. I have been asked to provide an overview of the development of a typical(ish) research paper. To do so I have selected a paper that originated at the ESADE-Georgetown Global Management meeting initiated and organized by Xavier Mendoza and Kasra Ferdows in 2011. At this meeting Kasra and I discussed our experiences and opinions with global supply chain networks. I recalled some conversions that I had with some managers of BMW regarding setting up oversees facilities and whether or not it is necessary to adopt practices based on differences in contextual factors such as culture, training, knowledge etc. Over the duration of the meeting in Georgetown our discussions became more concrete and we decided to explore this topic further through collaborating on a research project/paper. We structured our ideas and objectives further in the following weeks and month through multiple emails and Skype conversions and decided to test our ideas through focusing on lean practices and the contextual factor culture. Lean practices are pretty much standardized productions and operations practices to improve operations management performance in multiple dimensions such as cost and quality. We focused on exploring the importance of collectivism for the efficacy of lean practices at the national and company level. However, to test our hypotheses we needed cross-national data. We both tried to find suitable data through conversations that I had here with some colleagues at ESADE and my research network. In this exploration phase I also had some interesting conversations with Cristina Gimenez who was also very interested in this topic. Throughout the publishing process she became a valuable contributor. In the end we also took Brian Fynes from UCD, Ireland on board as he had access to a database that was suitable to test our ideas. In 2012 we presented a preliminary version of our paper at the Production and Operations Management Society Conference (POMS) in Chicago. After receiving some feedback and further discussions we submitted our paper in September 2012. Over the coming two years the paper went through the revision process. At the end of last year the paper got finally accepted and published in the International Journal of Operations & Production, which is an ABS 4 ranked journal. Furthermore, we were fortunate to recently receive the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for this paper. Reference: Wiengarten, F.; Gimenez, C.; Fynes, B.; Ferdowns, K. (2015), “Exploring the importance of cultural collectivism on the efficacy of lean practices: Taking an organisational and national perspective”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 35(3), pp. 370-391. RESEARCH BULLETIN Issue 40 JAN - APR 2016 Table of Contents ARTICLES WITH IMPACT FACTOR .................................................................................... 3 QUARTILE 1 ................................................................................................................... 3 QUARTILE 2 ................................................................................................................. 11 QUARTILE 3 ................................................................................................................. 13 QUARTILE 4 ................................................................................................................. 16 OTHER ARTICLES IN ESADE RECOMMENDED LIST: ........................................................ 17 1* ............................................................................................................................... 17 ACADEMIC PEER REVIEWED & PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS ............................................ 18 BOOKS .......................................................................................................................... 21 NATIONAL PUBLISHERS ................................................................................................. 21 ACCEPTED PAPERS IN ACADEMIC CONGRESSES ............................................................ 23 PHD THESIS .................................................................................................................. 30 COMPETITIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS WHICH HAVE WON FUNDING ............................... 38 EUROPEAN ................................................................................................................... 38 NATIONAL .................................................................................................................... 39 CATALAN ..................................................................................................................... 40 RAMON LLULL UNIVERSITY PROJECTS ............................................................................. 41 AWARDS ....................................................................................................................... 44 HIGHLIGHTS ................................................................................................................. 46 RESEARCH BULLETIN Issue 40 JAN - APR 2016 ARTICLES WITH IMPACT FACTOR QUARTILE 1 Aguilera Vaqués, R., Capape Aguilar, J. & Santiso Guimaras, J. (2016). Sovereign wealth funds: A strategic governance view. Academy of Management Perspectives, 30 (1), pp. 5-23. DOI: 10.5465/amp.2013.0055. IF: 3.354 - Q1 Business Q1 Management (2014) ABS: 3 (2015) CARHUS: A (2014) ESADE: 3 (2015) FT45 (2012) Recent tectonic, global economic and political shifts have spurred the emergence of new organizational forms such as sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)-state-owned investment organizations without pension liabilities-primarily in emerging and frontier markets. Although scholars have begun to explore SWF macroeconomic trends, little is known about the challenges these institutional investors face or their strategic capabilities to address these concerns. Drawing on comparative and strategic corporate governance research, we develop an organizing framework to better understand the firm-level characteristics of SWFs and their consequences. Our analysis of these investment funds' multidimensional strategic governance traits contributes to the literature on state capitalism and comparative corporate governance. Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Crespi-Cladera, R. (2016). Global corporate governance: On the relevance of firms' ownership structure. Journal of World Business, 51 (1), pp. 50-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2015.10.003. IF: 2.388 - Q1 Business (2014) ABS: 4 (2015) CARHUS: A (2014) ESADE: 3 (2015) This article addresses reviews research on corporate governance of the modern corporation around the world, with particular attention to the key variable of ownership structure. We first review the evolution of ownership studies from the early days of the Berle and Means to more contemporary research on how ownership has defined the various corporate governance systems around the world. We maintain that concentrated and family ownership structures in emerging economies, the role of the diverse type of large blockholders, and the evolution to more dispersed structures can help to inform broader questions around corporate governance and its relationship to economic development and the role of institutions in these economies. We propose that future research should draw on micro data on firm specific ownership structures and their corporate governance practices to better understand the cross-national diversity of governance and its meanings and consequences. We close by identifying some fruitful areas of future research. 3 RESEARCH BULLETIN Issue 40 JAN - APR 2016 Arenas Vives, D. & Rodrigo Ramírez, P. (2016). On firms and the next generations: Difficulties and possibilities for business ethics inquiry. Journal of Business Ethics, 133 (1), pp. 165-178. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2348-8. IF: 1.326 - Q3 Business Q1 Ethics (2014) ABS: 3 (2015) ESADE: 3 (2015) FT45 (2012) BW20 (2012) Despite the centrality of the topic for the debate on sustainability, future generations have largely been ignored by business ethics. This neglect is in part due to the enormous philosophical challenges posed by the concepts of future generations and intergenerational duties. This article reviews some of these difficulties and defends that much clarity would be gained from making a distinction between future generations and the next generations. It also argues that the concept of next generations offers a better starting point for business ethics to incorporate the topic in its research agenda. We then suggest four potential pathways to explore this territory. The four approaches build on the notion of organizations as communities with memory and vision, on the narrative shape of organizational life, on the affinity of stakeholders with the next generation, and on systems of indirect reciprocity. These first two approaches are connected to communitarian approaches to business ethics, and the last two engage in a dialog with contractarian views and stakeholder theory.