Tres ensayos sobre las múltiples dimensiones de la movilidad y el espíritu emprendedor

Entrepreneurship does not occur in isolation but unfolds within broader and evolving structural contexts. While prior research has emphasized the influence of family, organizations, and institutions on entrepreneurial behavior, it has often treated such contexts as static. Yet, individuals’ environments are inherently dynamic, shaped by ongoing transitions in their geographic locations, social standings, and occupational roles. These forms of mobility alter access to resources, risk preferences, and career trajectories, thereby reshaping entrepreneurial motivations and outcomes. Despite growing recognition that mobility influences individual agency and decision-making, research has largely overlooked how mobility-induced transformations shape entrepreneurial engagement and success. This dissertation addresses this gap by examining entrepreneurship through the lens of multi-dimensional mobility. Drawing on migration studies, social mobility research, and labor market theories, it comprises three interrelated essays. The first investigates how immigrant entrepreneurs navigate transnational family responsibilities and how this dynamic affects venture performance, emphasizing the role of geographic mobility. The second explores how intergenerational downward mobility influences entrepreneurial entry, conceptualizing entrepreneurship as a status-restoration response to social mobility challenges. The third examines career transitions after entrepreneurship, focusing on how different forms of entrepreneurial human capital (i.e., generalist versus specialist) affect reemployment prospects within organizations, contributing to research on occupational mobility. Together, these essays conceptualize entrepreneurship as both a consequence of and a response to shifting mobility trajectories. By integrating geographic, social, and occupational dimensions of mobility, the dissertation advances a dynamic understanding of entrepreneurship that bridges structural and individual perspectives, highlighting how individuals adapt their entrepreneurial paths to evolving social and economic environments.Naldi, Lucia (PRESIDENTE)Giarratana, Marco (SECRETARIO)Deeds, David (VOCAL)Publishe

From Institutional Repositories to Global Access: RECOLECTA’s Strategic Role in Open Science

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Open Science: From Theory to Practice [10 years later ]. Policies and Mandates at the EU level

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Incorporating Temperature-Dependent Mortality into Projected Life Tables

Climate change may affect mortality patterns through changes in temperature exposure, with potential implications for life tables and life-contingent insurance liabilities. For insurers, the relevant question is not to predict a single future outcome but to understand how alternative climate pathways could impact mortality assumptions and financial results under different scenarios. This paper presents a methodology for incorporating temperature-dependent mortality into projected life tables at the city level. The approach integrates epidemiological temperature--mortality relationships with standard actuarial mortality projection frameworks while preserving existing actuarial practices. Climate effects are introduced through a transparent, age- and year-specific multiplicative adjustment to baseline all-cause mortality rates.NoIn proces

From Digital Craft to Automation

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) for image and video creation is rapidly reshaping the creative industry. This technology enables people to produce complex visuals without specialized software expertise, challenging traditional notions of creativity, authorship, and design. This chapter explores how the creative industry is navigating this shift and its ethical, social, and cultural implications. Using a mixed-methods approach, it examines how generative AI affects perceptions of agency, alters workflows, and redefines creative skillsets. Findings reveal a central tension between the sense of empowerment enabled by AI, and the need for control in the creative workflow. AI is perceived as liberating for rapid ideation and cost savings, at the expenses of expressive and ethical compromises. The process risks bypassing iterative and embodied stages of digital craft, trading critical reflection for speed and scalability, especially under mass-production logics. Digital craft is not replaced, rather integrated into hybrid workflows with AI that require continuous monitoring and discussion in an increasingly automated landscape.YesPublishe

Say You're Sorry: How Apology Demands UndermineReconciliation by Threatening Transgressors' Power

Apologies are widely regarded as a crucial step in reconciliation, yet they are not always offered voluntarily. When transgressors do not apologize, victims may demand an apology to restore their sense of power. In this research, across four studies (total N = 869) we investigate how transgressors react when faced with a solicited apology. We propose that being explicitly asked to apologize decreases transgressors' feelings of power and increases transgressors' anger towards victims, ultimately leading to increased avoidance of victims. The pilot study and Study 1, utilizing a micro-narrative approach, suggested that while victims feel better after soliciting an apology, transgressors feel worse and seek to avoid the victim. In Study 2, using an experimental design, we found support for our full proposed model—transgressors have increased intentions to avoid the victim after being asked to apologize, mediated by the feeling of less power, but more anger. Study 3 replicated the significant serial mediation, this time using a dictator game design in which the real-time behavioral reactions of participants were examined. In Study 4, we tested whether transgression responsibility represents a boundary condition for the proposed serial mediation process. Together, these findings challenge the prevailing assumptions about the positive role of apologies and reveal a paradox: soliciting apologies may undermine the very reconciliation it aims to achieve, particularly when responsibility is ambiguous, contested, or not fully acknowledged by the transgressor.This paper was partially funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE, Grant No. PID2024‐161318NB‐I00 & MCIN /AEI /10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, UE Grant No. PID2021-126435NB-C22.YesPublishe

Organizing for Advantage: Managing Synergy and Redeployment Logics in Diversified Firms

This dissertation is composed of five chapters. The first chapter presents an overview of the three essays that form the core of this research. Chapter 2 develops a theoretical framework at the micro-structural level, proposing how firms can design internal systems to manage the synergy-redeployment trade-off. This chapter proposes three core design elements: (i) a hybrid task structure that combines centralized strategic brand oversight with decentralized execution of shelf space at the product level, (ii) a deliberate sequencing of brand-related tasks to reduce disruption of synergies during resource shifts, and (iii) a hybrid authority structure that allows for local autonomy while ensuring accountability through post-decision review. The framework contributes to the resource redeployment literature by clarifying how synergy and redeployment logics can coexist within diversified firms. Chapter 3 provides an empirical analysis of how macro-structural configurations—specifically the number of organizational layers and the dispersion of functional activities—moderate the relationship between inducements to redeploy resources and firm value. Using an archival dataset of U.S. pharmaceutical firms, the findings show that although industry-level volatility enhances firm value through redeployment opportunities, this effect is weakened in firms with deep hierarchies and highly concentrated functional activities. Chapter 4 shifts the focus to the external environment, examining how firms’ internal diversification logics—synergy and redeployment—influence their segment disclosure strategies. Using a two-step estimation method, the chapter shows that firms oriented toward synergy tend to aggregate segments to protect resource sharing advantages, while those emphasizing redeployment disclose more segments to signal agility. Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the findings, discusses managerial implications, and offers directions for future research. This dissertation contributes to the redeployment literature by demonstrating that flexibility comes not just from having switching or growth options, but from a firm’s capacity to execute them—something that depends on its organizational design.Esta tesis se compone de cinco capítulos. El primer capítulo presenta una visión general de los tres ensayos que constituyen el núcleo de esta investigación. El capítulo 2 desarrolla un marco teórico a nivel microestructural, proponiendo cómo las empresas pueden diseñar sistemas internos para gestionar la tensión entre sinergia y redistribución de recursos. Este capítulo plantea tres elementos clave: (i) una estructura de tareas híbrida que combina supervisión estratégica centralizada con ejecución descentralizada del espacio en estantería a nivel de producto, (ii) una secuenciación deliberada de tareas de marca para minimizar la disrupción de sinergias durante los cambios de recursos, y (iii) una estructura de autoridad híbrida que equilibra autonomía local con rendición de cuentas posterior. El marco contribuye a la literatura sobre redeployment al mostrar cómo pueden coexistir las lógicas de sinergia y redistribución en empresas diversificadas. El capítulo 3 ofrece un análisis empírico de cómo configuraciones macroestructurales—como el número de niveles jerárquicos y la concentración de actividades funcionales—moderan la relación entre los incentivos para redistribuir recursos y el valor de la empresa. A partir de un conjunto de datos de empresas farmacéuticas en EE. UU., los resultados indican que, aunque la volatilidad sectorial incrementa el valor mediante oportunidades de redistribución, este efecto disminuye en empresas con jerarquías profundas y funciones centralizadas. El capítulo 4 analiza cómo las lógicas internas de diversificación—sinergia y redeployment—influyen en las estrategias de divulgación por segmentos. El capítulo 5 resume los principales hallazgos, discute implicaciones directivas y plantea líneas futuras de investigación. Esta tesis aporta a la literatura al demostrar que la flexibilidad no depende solo de contar con opciones, sino de la capacidad de ejecutarlas, lo cual requiere un diseño organizativo adecuado.Maicas López, Juan Pablo (PRESIDENTE)Pasquini, Martina (SECRETARIO)Palomeras Vilches, Neus (VOCAL)YesPublishe

The Impact of Workers’ Compensation Laws on Entrepreneurial Activity

Government policy that aims to stimulate business activity often overlooks its indirect impacts on entrepreneurial entry. In particular, the role of free time, especially in concert with liquidity con-straints, remains an underexplored factor. In this paper, we exploit two exogenous shocks to workers’ free time to furnish plausibly causal effects on entrepreneurial activity: (random) injury and the 2011 amendments to the Illinois workers’ compensation laws. Utilizing a two-way fixed effects estimation, we find that as workers’ compensation becomes less generous, i.e., by limiting both financial resources and an employee’s time away from work, entrepreneurial activity within a specific geographical region is significantly reduced. Thus, we provide evidence of an unin-tended and negative impact on entrepreneurial activity caused by an indirect policy change. Fur-ther, this result unduly affects the recently injured or otherwise disabled. Our results are robust to alternative specifications and data sources, suggesting an important incidence of compensa-tory insurance regulation on entrepreneurial activity and, as a result, important considerations for future policymaking. Workers’ compensation is a state-level program that provides replacement wages to workers in-jured on the job. In 2011, amendments to Illinois’ workers’ compensation laws made this pro-gram less generous in terms of both financial benefits and time out of work. We study the impact of these amendments on entrepreneurial activity. We find that less generous workers’ compensa-tion has a large adverse effect on entrepreneurial activity because it constrains two important factors required for experimentation with entrepreneurship: financial resources and time. Our results hold up to several statistical models and controls, including local innovative and high-tech firms, as well as alternative datasets. Our findings yield important insights for policymakers in other states drafting such regulations and for researchers studying the incidence of such poli-cies.Funding for this project comes from Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, convo-catoria “Generación del Conocimiento” de 2023. PID2023-148894NB-I00.YesIn proces

Open Science In Practice​ From a researcher’s perspective

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Digitalización y sociedades. La constitución en línea de las sociedades de responsabilidad limitada

La Directiva (EU) 2019/1151 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo es el punto de partida de la digitalización en materia de derecho de sociedades en España. La regulación de la sociedad limitada constituida mediante aportaciones dinerarias y en línea permite, por primera vez en nuestro ordenamiento, la constitución de este tipo societario sin estar en presencia física de un notario. De éste y de otros actos societarios nos ocupamos en este trabajo, desde el punto de vista de la digitalización.yesForthcomin