Doctor en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras - Historia Moderna. Universitat de Barcelona
Interest Areas
Business policy (strategy) and Entrepreneurship
History of ideas in management policy
Business strategies and their implementation
Factors of success in new business creation
Rapid-growth companies
Management of the family business
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Biography
He is a member of the Strategic Management Society, of the Academy of Management and of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He has taken part in congresses and published articles in national and international journals.
He has been President of ESADE's Faculty and he is currently the Secretary General of ESADE.
The most recent books he has published are: "De la idea a la empresa" (Gestión 2000, 2003) and "Creación de empresa: los mejores textos" (Ariel Empresa, 2003).
As a consultant, he has led strategic reflection processes both in private companies and in public organizations. He is an independent director on the boards of directors of various Spanish companies.
Before joining ESADE in 1986, he was an expert of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, and previously a member of parliament in the first term of the Catalan Parliament (1980-1984).
Selected publications
Alemany, L. & Planellas, M. (2012). Emprender es posible. Barcelona: Planeta. [ISBN: 978-84-234-2865-6].
Svejenova, S.; Planellas, M. & Vives, L. (2010). An individual business model in the making: A chef's quest for creative freedom. Long Range Planning, 43(2-3), 408-430.
Wassmer, U.; Dussauge, P. & Planellas, M. (2010). How to manage alliances better than one at a time. MIT Sloan Management Review, 51(3), 77-84.
Parada, P. & Planellas, M. (2008). Growth of firms through diversification strategies: Is there any difference between developed and emerging countries?. Peking University Business Review, 41(12), 124-127.
Parada, P. & Planellas, M. (2008). Diversification in developed and emerging countries: Facilitating the executive decision. Effective Executive, 11(5), 60-67.
Planellas, M. & Svejenova, S. (07/2007).Ferran Adrià and el Bulli.
Svejenova, S.; Mazza, C. & Planellas, M. (2007). Cooking up change in haute cuisine: Ferran Adrià as an institutional entrepreneur. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28(5), 539-561.
Urriolagoitia, L. & Planellas, M. (2007). Sponsorship relationships as strategic alliances: A life cicle model approach. Business Horizons, 50(2), 157-166.
Planellas, M. & Parada, P. (2007). ¿Qué es estrategia corporativa?. Harvard Deusto Business Review (153), 34-51.
Bieto, E.; Planellas, M. & Parada, P. (2006). Corporate entrepreneurship vs. corporate parenting: Do they fit together for creating value in the corporation?. In S. A. Zahra (ed.) (Ed.). Frontiers of entrepreneurship research 2005: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual entrepreneurship research conference (pp. 445-446). Wellesley, Mass. (U.S.): Babson College.[ISBN: 0-910897-26-3]
