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Aguilera Vaqués, Ruth
Visiting Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management at
Esade
URL Visiting Professor
Investigador, GRIE - Grupo de Investigación en Iniciativa Emprendedora
Investigador, EEI - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute
Education
- Doctor en Filosofía. Universidad de Harvard
- Licenciatura en Ciencias Económicas. Universitat de Barcelona
Biography
Ruth V. Aguilera is spending the 2011-2012 academic year at ESADE Business School
as a Visiting Professor. She is an Associate Professor and the Fellow at the Center
for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society at the College of Business
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds courtesy appointments
at the School of Labor and Employment Relations, the College of Law and the Department
of Sociology at Illinois. She received a Graduate Diploma in Business Analysis from
the University of Lancaster, a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University
of Barcelona, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Harvard University. Prof.
Aguilera's research falls at the intersection of economic sociology and international
business, specifically in the fields of comparative corporate governance and corporate
social responsibility. Her research has been published in scholarly journals such
as Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, British
Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Corporate Governance: International
Review, European Sociological Review, Global Strategy Journal, International Journal
of Human Resources, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal
of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization
Science and Organization Studies, as well as in several conference proceedings and
numerous book chapters. She is also the co-editor with Michal Federowicz of the book
Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories
of Institutional Change Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. She is an Associate Editor at Corporate
Governance: An International Review, and is a member of the editorial boards of seven
top journals in the fields of management and international business.
Selected publications
- Ellimäki, P., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Hurtado-Torres, N. E., Aragón-Correa, J. A. (2024). Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises' environmental outcomes Journal of International Business Studies, 2023, 54, 5, 910-927, 10.1057/s41267-022-00580-0. Journal of International Business Studies JIBS, 55 (1), pp. 125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00671-6.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., De Massis, A. & Fini, R., Vismara, S. (2024). Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies, 61 (1), pp. 1-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12994.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2023). Corporate Purpose in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Governance. Strategy Science, 8 (2), pp. 193-201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2023.0198.
- Ellimäki, P., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Hurtado-Torres, N. E., Aragón-Correa, J. A. (2023). The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises' environmental outcomes. Journal of International Business Studies JIBS, 54 (5), pp. 910-927. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00580-0.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., Aragón-Correa, J. A. & Marano, V. (2022). RETHINKING CORPORATE POWER TO TACKLE GRAND SOCIETAL CHALLENGES: LESSONS FROM POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The Academy of Management Review, 47 (4), pp. 637-645. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2019.0456.
- Campbell, J. T., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2022, October). WHY I REJECTED YOUR PAPER: COMMON PITFALLS IN WRITING THEORY PAPERS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM. The Academy of Management Review, 47 (4), pp. 521-527. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0331.
- Ponomareva, Y., Federo, R. & Aguilera Vaqués, R., Collin, S. O. (2022). The cost of conformity to good governance: Board design and compensation. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 30 (4), pp. 399-420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12408.
- Bacq, S., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2022). Stakeholder Governance for Responsible Innovation: A Theory of Value Creation, Appropriation, and Distribution. Journal of Management Studies, 59 (1), pp. 29-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12746.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., Aragón-Correa, J. A. & Marano, V., Tashman, P. A. (2021). The Corporate Governance of Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Proposal for More Integrated Research. Journal of Management, 47 (6), pp. 1468-1497. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206321991212.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., Federo, R. & Ponomareva, Y. (2021). GONE GLOBAL: THE INTERNATIONAL DIFFUSION OF HEDGE FUND ACTIVISM. The Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds, pp. 318-367. Oxford University Press OUP. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840954.013.3.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., Desender, K. & Lamy, M. L. P. (2021). Bridging Accounting and Corporate Governance: New Avenues of Research. International Journal of Accounting. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1094406021800019.
- Shi, W., Gao, C. & Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2021). The liabilities of foreign institutional ownership: Managing political dependence through corporate political spending. Strategic Management Journal, 42 (1), pp. 84-113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3211.
- Federo, R., Ponomareva, Y. & Aguilera Vaqués, R., Saz Carranza, A., Losada Marrodán, C. (2020). Bringing owners back on board: A review of the role of ownership type in board governance. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 28 (6), pp. 348-371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12346.
- Surroca, J. A., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Desender, K., Tribó, J. A. (2020). Is managerial entrenchment always bad and corporate social responsibility always good? A cross-national examination of their combined influence on shareholder value. Strategic Management Journal, 41 (5), pp. 891-920. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3132.
- Grosman, A., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Wright, M. (2019). Lost in translation? Corporate governance, independent boards and blockholder appropriation. Journal of World Business, 54 (4), pp. 258-272. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.09.001.
- Greckhamer, T., Furnari, S. & Fiss, P. C., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2018). Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research. Strategic Organization, 16 (4), pp. 482-495. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127018786487.
- Fainshmidt, S., Judge, W. & Aguilera Vaqués, R., Smith, A. (2018). Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries. Journal of World Business, 53 (3), pp. 307-322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2016.05.003.
- Jain, T., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Jamali, D. (2017). Corporate Stakeholder Orientation in an Emerging Country Context: A Longitudinal Cross Industry Analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 143 (4), pp. 701-719. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3074-1.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., Ciravegna, L. & Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Gonzalez-Perez, M. A. (2017). Multilatinas and the internationalization of Latin American firms. Journal of World Business, 52 (4), pp. 447-460. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.006.
- De Castro, L. R. K., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Crespí-Cladera, R. (2017). Family Firms and Compliance: Reconciling the Conflicting Predictions Within the Socioemotional Wealth Perspective. Family Business Review, 30 (2), pp. 137-159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486516685239.
- Haxhi, I., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2017). An Institutional Configurational Approach to Cross-National Diversity in Corporate Governance. Journal of Management Studies, 54 (3), pp. 261-303. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12247.
- Desender, K., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Crespi, R., García-Cestona, M. (2013). When does ownership matter? Board characteristics and behavior. Strategic Management Journal, 34 (7), pp. 823-842. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2046.
- Bell, R. G., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Filatotchev, I. (2013). Corporate governance and configuration research: The case of foreign IPOS listing in London. Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research, pp. 159-180. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20130000038011.
- Haxhi, I., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2012). Are codes fostering convergence in corporate governance? An institutional perspective. The Convergence of Corporate Governance, pp. 234-248. Palgrave MacMillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029560.
- Garcia-Castro, R., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2012). A decade of corporate governance reforms in Spain 2000-10. The Convergence of Corporate Governance, pp. 187-211. Palgrave MacMillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029560.
- Aguilera Vaqués, R., Crespí-Cladera, R. (2012). Firm family firms: Current debates of corporate governance in family firms. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 3 (2), pp. 66-69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2012.03.006.
- Sears, J. B., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Dencker, J. C. (2012). The role of human resource management in cross-border acquisitions. Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management, Second Edition, pp. 415-435. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849809191.00026.
- Judge, W., Filatotchev, I. & Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2010). Comparative corporate governance & international business research. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 18 (6), pp. 493-495. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2010.00832.x.
- Vadera, A. K., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Caza, B. B. (2009). Making sense of whistle-blowing's antecedents: Learning from research on identity and ethics programs. Business Ethics Quarterly, 19 (4), pp. 553-586. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/beq200919432.
- Vaaler, P. M., Aguilera Vaqués, R. & Flores, R. (2007). New Methods for Ex Post Evaluation of Regional Grouping Schemes in International Business Research: A Simulated Annealing Approach. In Ketchen, D., Bergh, D. (Ed.), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, pp. 161-190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-83870704007-6.
- Krug, J. A., Aguilera Vaqués, R. (2004). TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM TURNOVER IN MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS. Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, pp. 121-149. JAI Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-361X0404005-0.