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Welcome to IE University Repository, an open access platform that collects, manages, and preserves the academic and research output of our university. This Repository aims to enhance the visibility and impact of our research community while fulfilling open access mandates from funding agencies and institutional policies, such as Law 17/2022 on Science, Technology, and Innovation, in addition to the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) for accreditations and sexenios (recognition of six-year research period).
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Endogeneity and causal attributions in management research: Some reflections and proposals
(Wiley, 2024-03-12) Giarratana, Marco; Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
This article explores the pivotal role of causal identification in the domain of management research and its alignment with theory creation. It seeks to stimulate thought about how researchers can approach theories and their causal identification with a review of the canonical methods. The article first addresses the intricacies of identification and the principal methodologies that researchers have recently employed in their investigations. Subsequently, it delves into the inherent costs associated with identification, specifically the need for additional assumptions, and the potential constraints on generalizability. It also promotes a more thoroughly examination of the nature of endogeneity. Finally, it explores how the link between causal identification and theory legitimacy could generate superstitious trajectories.
COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
(2025-10-01) Giarratana, Marco; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
A easy to read textbook on the basic principles of strategy for master students.
Rewards systems in self-managed organizations
(2023-06) Tenhiälä, Aino; Bonet, Rocío; Nurmi, Niina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
Organizational forms have continuously evolved alongside broader societal and economic trends. Today there is a quest to reinvent organizations that have a much flatter hierarchy than traditional structures, characterized by increased delegation of decision-making power to lower levels in the organization. These new structures, known as self-managing organizations (SMOs), have abolished manager-subordinate relationships throughout the whole organization. This paper addresses the overriding question, “If there is no traditional managerial hierarchy, how can SMOs ensure that employees will take the actions that are needed to create value for the organization?” It examines an organization that has enjoyed business success while practicing the principles of self-management, focusing on pay transparency, peer-based decisions and horizontal career paths. It presents valuable information about developing and implementing rewards programs for organizations that are giving more decision-making power to their employees.
Managing Compliance and Risk Management in Health Care Settings
(Ie University, 2025) Rivera, Darwin Michael; Sarmiento, Alvaro Arenas; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
This dissertation investigates how organizations operating in highly regulated environments manage the concurrent demands of regulatory compliance and information security risk management. Drawing on Oliver’s (1991) theory of strategic responses to institutional pressures, the study examines how organizations respond to overlapping external and internal pressures—particularly under resource constraints.
Guided by two central research questions—(1) How do organizations manage compliance and risk management concurrently? and (2) How do they allocate resources to maximize compliance while minimizing security risks?—the study adopts an integrative approach that bridges the traditionally siloed domains of compliance, risk management, and information security.
The research employs a two-part empirical design: a content analysis of compliance policies from 30 healthcare organizations and a case study of a children's hospital implementing a DEA-mandated Electronic Prescription for Controlled Substances (EPCS) system. The findings contribute to theory by identifying a previously undocumented tactic—prioritization—that organizations use to reconcile competing institutional demands. Another theoretical contribution is the development of a process model and a set of propositions that illustrate how organizations operating in highly regulated environments navigate the dual imperatives of compliance and risk management.
By linking policy artifacts with real-world organizational behavior, this dissertation offers both scholarly and practical insights into how organizations navigate institutional complexity, enhance compliance maturity, and align security and regulatory needs.
What Goes Up, Must Come Down: An Exploration of Hype in Entrepreneurship and New-Venture Finance
(IE University, 2025) Boada Rodríguez, Eduardo Andrés; Lerner, Daniel Andrew; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
This dissertation advances scholarship on entrepreneurial hype by offering a comprehensive analysis of its origins, mechanisms, and consequences across entrepreneurial ventures, venture capital markets, and investor decision-making. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from entrepreneurship, sociology of expectations, and behavioral finance, the research comprises three interconnected studies that collectively unpack the nuanced dynamics underlying hype phenomena. The first study synthesizes existing literature from entrepreneurship and innovation studies to conceptualize hype as an expectation-driven process manifesting at venture, industry, and market levels. It identifies hype as both a strategic tool entrepreneurs deploy to secure resources and legitimacy, and as a broader market-level dynamic influencing industry trajectories and capital flows. The second study empirically investigates the highly financialized, disruption-oriented, and fast-growing entrepreneurial model that has has become the center of attention for scholars and the public, and its financial cornerstone, venture capital, positioning them as socio-technical systemts subject to hype cycles. Through qualitative analysis of public discourse over two decades, it reveals the instability and contestation underlying what is typically perceived as a dominant entrepreneurial paradigm, contributing to debates around sustainability and ethical challenges inherent to this approach to entrepreneurship. The third study employs experimental methods to examine how counterfactual emotions, particularly fear of errors of commission (investing incorrectly) and omission (missed opportunities), influence early-stage investment decisions. Findings reveal that potential regret associated with commission errors significantly curtails investor willingness to commit capital, illuminating how emotional and social dynamics critically shape investor behavior under conditions of uncertainty. Together, these chapters provide novel theoretical and practical insights, emphasizing the interplay between entrepreneurial narratives, investor cognition, and socio-economic environments. The dissertation not only deepens the understanding of entrepreneurial hype but also informs stakeholders on navigating the delicate balance between leveraging and mitigating hype within contemporary entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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