Research Areas
International management; globalization; diffusion of innovations
Current Projects
Emerging-market multinational firms; new models in banking
Representative Publications
The Rise of Spanish Multinationals. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Limits of Convergence: Globalization & Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain, Princeton University Press, 2001.
"Business Groups in Emerging Economies: A Resource-Based View." Academy of Management Journal (2000).
Models of Management: Work, Authority and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Education
PhD, Yale University, 1992; MPhil, Yale University, 1990; MA, Yale University, 1989; Doctorate, Universidad de Oviedo, 1991; Licenciatura, Universidad de Oviedo, 1987
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2000; Bank of Spain Fellowship, 1987-89; Fulbright Fellowship, 1989-92; John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship, 1989;; Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, 1998; Sussman Dissertation Prize, Yale University, 1993; President's Book Award, Social Science History Association, 1993; Gustavus Myers Book Award, 1991; Guggenheim Fellow, 1998-99; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1998-99
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1996-present (named Director, Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management & International Studies, 2007; named Dr. Felix Zandman Professor in International Management, 2003). Previous appointments: Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009
Trustee, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences