Browsing by Author "Vaillant, Yancy"
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Antecedents of perceived entrepreneurial ability in Catalonia: the individual and the entrepreneurial context
Bayon, Manoj; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy (Springer, 2015)
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Open AccessPurpose: The main purpose of this study is to examine the antecedents of perceived entrepreneurial ability within a given context. Design/methodology/approach: Taking the cognitive approach we examine the role of several ... -
Assessment of industrial pre-determinants for territories with active product-service innovation ecosystems
Vaillant, Yancy; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran (2023)
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Open AccessThere has been growing interest in service-augmented products and the subsequent formation of product-service innovation (PSI) ecosystems. Hence, the objective of this paper is to empirically address an unexplored aspect ... -
Balance rather than critical mass or tokenism: gender diversity, leadership and performance in financial firms
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy (2019)
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Open AccessPurpose: This study analyzes how board’s gender diversity, and more specifically a gender-balanced configuration—i.e., a proportion of women in the boardroom ranging between 40% and 60%—affects economic and risk oriented ... -
Bouncing back from failure: Entrepreneurial resilience and the internationalization of subsequent ventures created by serial entrepreneurs
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran; Gomes, Emanuel (2019)
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Open AccessThis paper examines the impact over international propensity of past negative entrepreneurial experience for those who re-enter into entrepreneurial activity; referred to as resilient serial entrepreneurs. We first hypothesize ... -
Conformance and performance roles of bank boards: the connection between non-performing loans and non-performing directorships
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran (2019-05-01)
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Open AccessThis study evaluates how non-performing loans and different types of board turnover—which we link to performing directorship (natural turnover) and non-performing directorship (forced turnover)—impact the economic performance ... -
Digital disruption of optimal co-innovation configurations
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Rabetino, Rodrigo (2023-07-01)
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Open AccessWe evaluate the co-innovation trajectory of firms adopting different collaborative innovation networks (i.e., vertical, horizontal, and institutional). The results of the empirical applications are obtained from a multilevel ... -
Does entrepreneurial confidence influence the nature of entrepreneurial projects chosen by individuals with high ability?
Bayon, Manoj; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy (InderScience Publishers, 2015)
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Open AccessThis empirical study of 247 nascent entrepreneurs examines the joint effect of high ability and entrepreneurial confidence is influencing the choice of innovative entrepreneurship. We suggest that in their decision to ... -
Early internationalization patterns and export market persistence: a pseudo-panel data analysis
Vaillant, Yancy; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Bayon, Manoj (Springer, 2019)
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Open AccessThis study evaluates the international market persistence of early exporting businesses. The relationship between time in the market and export propensity/intensity levels was analyzed to identify the persistence of the ... -
El impacto diferenciado de la autoconfianza, los modelos de referencia y el miedo al fracaso sobre los jóvenes emprendedores
Gómez Araujo, Eduardo; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Gómez Núñez, Liyis (2015)
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Open AccessEl objetivo principal de este trabajo es determinar el efecto que la autoconfianza en las habilidades emprendedoras y algunas variables socio-culturales (los modelos de referencia y el estigma social al fracaso) ejercen ... -
Entrepreneurial experience and the innovativeness of serial entrepreneurs
Vaillant, Yancy; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel (2018)
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Open AccessPurpose - This paper examines the effects of past entrepreneurial experience on the reported innovativeness of serial entrepreneurs’ subsequent ventures. Building on insights from the generative entrepreneurial learning ... -
Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: the ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Alvarado, Marco; Mora-Esquivel, Ronald; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran (2021)
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Open AccessThis paper examines how different forms of accumulated exploitable knowledge—i.e., export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience—stimulate export destinations, defined as the number of foreign ... -
Gender diversity in the board, women’s leadership and business performance
Moreno-Gómez, Jorge; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy (Emerald Group Publishing, 2018)
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Open AccessPurpose: This paper investigates how gender diversity in top management—i.e., boardroom and top management positions—impacts business performance among Colombian public businesses. Design/methodology/approach: Building ... -
Give me a KIBS: Policy instruments mediating the relationship between service knowledge firms and sustainable manufacturing supply chains
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran (2015)
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Open AccessIn addition to product offering, the provision of advanced services is of growing importance for manufacturing businesses to maintain competitive advantage, a phenomenon best known as servitization. Mainstream servitization ... -
Human capital and the decision to exploit innovative opportunity
Bayon, Manoj; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy (2016)
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Open AccessPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct and interaction effect of individuals’ human capital input and human capital output in the form of entrepreneurial self-confidence on the decision to exploit ... -
Initiating nascent entrepreneurial activities: the relative role of perceived and actual entrepreneurial ability
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Bayon, Manoj; Vaillant, Yancy (2015)
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Open AccessPurpose: This study examines the direct effect of two individual level resources, one subjective and the other objective, and their interaction in influencing the business entry decision. By distinguishing perceived ability ... -
Make-or-buy configurational approaches in product-service ecosystems and performance
Bustinza, Oscar; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Rabetino, Rodrigo; Vaillant, Yancy; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran (2019)
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Open AccessThis research examines firm boundary configurations for manufacturers' product-service offerings. We argue that the building of a product-service ecosystem through collaboration with service providers in certain types of ... -
Organizational resilience and performance: an analysis of the relevance of suppliers’ trade credit and bank diversification in the spanish construction industry
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Strassburger, Felipe; Vaillant, Yancy; Vilajosana Crusells, Jordi (2017)
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Open AccessThe objective of this study is to determine the effect of relevant variables related to strategic sources of financial resources—in our case, suppliers’ trade credit and use of financial institutions—over performance among ... -
Product lifespan: the missing link in servitization
Vendrell Herrero, Ferran; Vaillant, Yancy; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Bustinza, Oscar (2022)
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Open AccessBy drawing on a business model lens, this study proposes that the competitive performance of servitization is higher for manufacturing firms selling long-lifespan products since they better develop the key elements required ... -
Product-service innovation and performance: Unveiling the complexities
Bustinza, Oscar; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran; Gomes, Emanuel; Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Opazo-Basáez, Marco; Rabetino, Rodrigo; Vaillant, Yancy (2018-01-01)
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Open AccessThe purpose of this paper is to unveil the existing complexities in the relationship between product-service innovation (PSI) - or servitisation - and firm performance that arise from the mismatch between theoretical ... -
Product-service innovation systems—opening-up servitization-based innovation to manufacturing industry
Lafuente González, Esteban Miguel; Vaillant, Yancy; Vendrell Herrero, Ferran (2023-01-01)
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Open AccessThe objective of this special issue is to produce theoretical and empirical work that provokes and fertilizes the scholarly debate on product-service innovation (PSI) systems, that is, the adoption of externalized ...