Doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. IESE Universidad de Navarra
Interest Areas
Fields of Work: Organization Theory, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Areas: Business model innovation, Creativity models, Managing and growing ventures in creative industries, Inter-personal and inter-organizational networks, Co-leadership
Biography
Silviya Svejenova is Associate Professor of the Business Policy Department at ESADE Business School, where she teaches Strategy and Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in Management from IESE Business School. She has graduated from the International Faculty Development Program (IFDP) of IESE-HEC-SDA Bocconi and has been through post-graduate training in Entrepreneurship (EECPCL) at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining ESADE Silviya was a Lecturer in Strategy at the Cranfield School of Management (UK). She has also taught at ESCI-UPF (Spain) and Varna University of Economics (Bulgaria), and worked as a Research Associate of the General Management Department at IESE Business School.
She has taught on executive education programs for companies in Spain, Germany, France, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Portugal, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom. Her course "International Entrepreneurship" has been recognized by CEMS (The Global Alliance in Management Education) as Course of the Year for 2008, among 120 courses across 17 business schools and universities.
Her current research centers on innovation in business models and strategies based on creativity. Her research has also addressed issues of relationship management (from social networks to inter-organizational arrangements), the career and work of top managers, and the role they play in the transformation and internationalization of their companies. She has published in academic journals, such as MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, and has been discussed in the press (Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine). She is the co-author of two books one of which - Sharing Executive Power (Cambridge University Press, 2005) ¿ has been selected by the Academy of Management among the top3 finalists for the prestigious Terry Book Award to the best book in management for 2007.
Silviya is a member of the Board of EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) since 2004 and since 2002 a co-convenor of the track on Creative Industries at the EGOS Colloquia.
Selected publications
Vives, L.; Asakawa, K. & Svejenova, S. (2010). Innovation and the multinational enterprise. In T. Devinney, T. Pedersen & L. Tihanyi (eds.) (Ed.). The past, present and future of international business and management (pp. 497-523). Bingley: Emerald.[ISBN: 978-0-85724-085-9]
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.
Vives, L. & Svejenova, S. (2007). Peripheral view for international strategy: Exploring vistas of the field's future. In S. Tallman (ed.) (Ed.). A new generation in international strategic management (pp. 3-19). Cheltenham (U.K.): Edward Elgar.[ISBN: 978-1-84720-038-9]
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.
Svejenova, S. & Alvarez, J. L. (2007). Network perspective. In M. Jenkins, V. Ambrosini & N. Collier (eds.) (Ed.). Advanced strategic management: A multi-perspective approach (pp. 185-195). Basingktoke: Palgrave MacMillan.[ISBN: 978-1-4039-8592-7]
Svejenova, S.; Koza, M. & Lewin, A. (2006). The enforcement space: A perspective on stability of strategic alliances. In A. Ariño & J. Reuer (eds.) (Ed.). Strategic alliances: Governance and contracts (pp. 159-169). Houndmills (U.K.): Palgrave MacMillan.[ISBN: 1-4039-9592-3]
Svejenova, S. (2006). How much does trust really matter? Some reflections on the significance and implications of Madhok's trust-based approach. Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), 37(1), 12-20.
Svejenova, S. (2005). "The path with the heart": Creating the authentic career. Journal of Management Studies, 42(5), 947-974.
Alvarez, J. L. & Svejenova, S. (2002). Symbiotic Careers in Movie Making: Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar. In Maury Peiperl, Michael Arthur, and N. Anand (Ed.). Career Creativity: Explorations in the remaking of Work (pp. 183-208). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.[ISBN: 0-19-924871-0/0-19-924872-9]
