R V Aguilera
Biographic Data
| ID | 258700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R V Aguilera |
| GIVEN NAMES | R V |
| FAMILY NAME | Aguilera |
| SIGNATURE | AGUILERA R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1144-1499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Governance Proposals to Environmental and Social Outcomes: Cross-Issue Responses to Shareholder Activism
Prior research establishes that shareholder activism targeting environmental and social issues generates measurable improvements within those specific domains. We extend this literature by examining whether intense activist pressure on governance issues may also drive firms to enhance their environmental or social performance, a phenomenon we term cross-issue response . Specifically, we argue that to reinforce firms’ moral capital and maintain th…
The influence of shareholder activism on global workforce practices
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: Insights from organizational sociology
International business scholars have recognized the impact of political and economic nationalism on the multinational enterprise (MNE). We complement these approaches by highlighting the sociological manifestations of nationalism and their implications for the MNE. We argue that nationalist sentiments , i.e., widely shared assumptions of superiority over other nations and cultures, constitute an under-researched but critical element in internatio…
Para una sociología del racismo análisis comparativo de las pautas de matrimonio entre personas de raza blanca y negra
Existen diferentes maneras de analizar los prejuicios y las discriminaciones raciales. Uno de los mejores indicadores sociales es el matrimonio interracial (por ejemplo, entre razas negra y blanca), que sobrepasa los límites de los grupos establecidos mediante los procesos de racialización. Ante este fenómeno se hace necesario redefinir las nociones de raza, género y cultura en las vidas individuales, así como a nivel social y político. En el art…
Our Board, Our Rules: Nonconformity to Global Corporate Governance Norms
What drives organizational nonconformity to global corporate governance norms? Despite the prevalence of such norms and attendant conformity pressures, many firms do not adhere to them. We build on a political view of corporate governance to explore how different national institutional contexts and organizational conditions combine to produce over- and underconformity to global board independence norms. Using configurational analyses and data fro…
Gone Global: The International Diffusion of Hedge Fund Activism
After decades of being primarily a US-based phenomenon, the globalization of hedge fund (HF) activism is increasing at an unprecedented speed. This chapter reviews the empirical research on HF activism by systematically comparing studies conducted in the US and outside the US context. The nascent body of work on HF activism is categorized and discussed within four research sub-streams: the antecedents of HF activism; HF activists’ tactics; the re…
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing
Management scholars study phenomena marked by complex interdependencies among multiple explanatory factors that combine to bring about an outcome of interest.Yet, theorizing about causal complexity can prove challenging for the correlational theorizing that is predominant in the field of management, given its "net effects thinking" that emphasizes the unique contribution of individual explanatory factors.In contrast, configurational theories and …
The Corporate Governance of Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Proposal for More Integrated Research
As corporations’ environmental impact comes under greater scrutiny by global financial, regulatory, and societal stakeholders, management scholars have increasingly focused on the role of corporate governance as a tool for driving environmental initiatives. Still, we lack a comprehensive and systematic understanding of this emergent body of inquiry and a holistic agenda for future research. To address this gap, our integrative framework relates t…
Twenty years of 'Law and Finance: Time to Take Law Seriously
This 'state of the art' essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the Law and Finance School (LFS) literature. We show that the first two decades of the LFS have focused on empirically investigating the question 'does law matter?' Yet, despite the centrality of law to the LFS, it is based on an incoherent theory of law, which leads to shortcomings in the conceptualization and empirical testing of its hypotheses. We also observe that, rather th…
The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research
Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries
Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research
Qualitative comparative analysis is increasingly applied in strategy and organization research. The main purpose of our essay is to support this growing community of qualitative comparative analysis scholars by identifying best practices that can help guide researchers through the key stages of a qualitative comparative analysis empirical study (model building, sampling, calibration, data analysis, reporting, and interpretation of findings) and b…
New Varieties of State Capitalism: Strategic and Governance Implications
We analyze the new varieties of state capitalism in the 21st century and explore their implications in terms of both strategic and governance outcomes. We begin by discussing how the current theoretical perspectives conceptualize state-owned enterprises' strategic behavior. Then we introduce a stylized distinction between four broad, new varieties of state capitalism—wholly owned state-owned enterprises, the state as a majority investor, the stat…
Legislating a Woman’s Seat on the Board: Institutional Factors Driving Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors
Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor
Journal Article Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor Get access Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 272 pp. $39.00. Ruth V. Aguilera, Ruth V. Aguilera Search for other wo…
Putting the S back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations
We provide a multilevel theoretical model to understand why business organizations are increasingly engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and thereby exhibiting the potential to exert positive social change. Our model integrates theories of organizational justice, corporate governance, and varieties of capitalism to argue that organizations are pressured to engage in CSR by many different actors, each driven by instrumenta…
Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility: An organizational justice framework
We seek to bridge the macro concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with micro research in organizational justice. A theoretical model is presented whereby employees' perceptions of CSR impact their subsequent emotions, attitudes, and behaviors, mediated by instrumental, relational, and deontic motives/needs, as well as moderated by organizations' social accounts. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Transformation of Employment Relations Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
During the 1990s, employment relations systems in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a complex, multilevel process of transformation. In the present paper, we discuss the transformation of employment relations systems under the impact of privatization, foreign direct investment, and pressures for the accession to the European Union enlargement at the enterprise, industry, and national levels. We argue that the pattern of embeddedness of emplo…
The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
Directorship Interlocks in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Spain
This paper studies the network of intercorporate relationships in Spain in the context of advanced capitalist economies. Economic development patterns and the three main models of corporate structure-Anglo-Saxon, Continental European, and Japanese-are discussed. On the basis of an analysis of the network of director interlocks among the 100 largest industrial corporations, 50 largest banks and 30 largest insurance companies in 1993, I conclude th…
Para una sociología del racismo: Análisis comparativo de las pautas de matrimonio entre personas de raza blanca y negra
Existen diferentes maneras de analizar los prejuicios y las discriminaciones raciales. Uno de los mejores indicadores sociales es el matrimonio interracial (por ejemplo, entre razas negra y blanca), que sobrepasa los límites de los grupos establecidos mediante los procesos de racialización. Ante este fenómeno se hace necesario redefinir las nociones de raza, género y cultura en las vidas individuales, así como a nivel social y político. En el art…
The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains
The Aids Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation
Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility: An organizational justice framework
We seek to bridge the macro concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with micro research in organizational justice. A theoretical model is presented whereby employees' perceptions of CSR impact their subsequent emotions, attitudes, and behaviors, mediated by instrumental, relational, and deontic motives/needs, as well as moderated by organizations' social accounts. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Directorship Interlocks in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Spain
This paper studies the network of intercorporate relationships in Spain in the context of advanced capitalist economies. Economic development patterns and the three main models of corporate structure-Anglo-Saxon, Continental European, and Japanese-are discussed. On the basis of an analysis of the network of director interlocks among the 100 largest industrial corporations, 50 largest banks and 30 largest insurance companies in 1993, I conclude th…
Twenty years of 'Law and Finance: Time to Take Law Seriously
This 'state of the art' essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the Law and Finance School (LFS) literature. We show that the first two decades of the LFS have focused on empirically investigating the question 'does law matter?' Yet, despite the centrality of law to the LFS, it is based on an incoherent theory of law, which leads to shortcomings in the conceptualization and empirical testing of its hypotheses. We also observe that, rather th…
The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains
The Aids Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation
The Aids Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation
Para una sociología del racismo: Análisis comparativo de las pautas de matrimonio entre personas de raza blanca y negra
Existen diferentes maneras de analizar los prejuicios y las discriminaciones raciales. Uno de los mejores indicadores sociales es el matrimonio interracial (por ejemplo, entre razas negra y blanca), que sobrepasa los límites de los grupos establecidos mediante los procesos de racialización. Ante este fenómeno se hace necesario redefinir las nociones de raza, género y cultura en las vidas individuales, así como a nivel social y político. En el art…
The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains
Directorship Interlocks in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Spain
This paper studies the network of intercorporate relationships in Spain in the context of advanced capitalist economies. Economic development patterns and the three main models of corporate structure-Anglo-Saxon, Continental European, and Japanese-are discussed. On the basis of an analysis of the network of director interlocks among the 100 largest industrial corporations, 50 largest banks and 30 largest insurance companies in 1993, I conclude th…
The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
Transformation of Employment Relations Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
During the 1990s, employment relations systems in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a complex, multilevel process of transformation. In the present paper, we discuss the transformation of employment relations systems under the impact of privatization, foreign direct investment, and pressures for the accession to the European Union enlargement at the enterprise, industry, and national levels. We argue that the pattern of embeddedness of emplo…
Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility: An organizational justice framework
We seek to bridge the macro concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with micro research in organizational justice. A theoretical model is presented whereby employees' perceptions of CSR impact their subsequent emotions, attitudes, and behaviors, mediated by instrumental, relational, and deontic motives/needs, as well as moderated by organizations' social accounts. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Putting the S back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations
We provide a multilevel theoretical model to understand why business organizations are increasingly engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and thereby exhibiting the potential to exert positive social change. Our model integrates theories of organizational justice, corporate governance, and varieties of capitalism to argue that organizations are pressured to engage in CSR by many different actors, each driven by instrumenta…
Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor
Journal Article Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor Get access Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2008. 272 pp. $39.00. Ruth V. Aguilera, Ruth V. Aguilera Search for other wo…
New Varieties of State Capitalism: Strategic and Governance Implications
We analyze the new varieties of state capitalism in the 21st century and explore their implications in terms of both strategic and governance outcomes. We begin by discussing how the current theoretical perspectives conceptualize state-owned enterprises' strategic behavior. Then we introduce a stylized distinction between four broad, new varieties of state capitalism—wholly owned state-owned enterprises, the state as a majority investor, the stat…
Legislating a Woman’s Seat on the Board: Institutional Factors Driving Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors
Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries
Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research
Qualitative comparative analysis is increasingly applied in strategy and organization research. The main purpose of our essay is to support this growing community of qualitative comparative analysis scholars by identifying best practices that can help guide researchers through the key stages of a qualitative comparative analysis empirical study (model building, sampling, calibration, data analysis, reporting, and interpretation of findings) and b…
The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research
Gone Global: The International Diffusion of Hedge Fund Activism
After decades of being primarily a US-based phenomenon, the globalization of hedge fund (HF) activism is increasing at an unprecedented speed. This chapter reviews the empirical research on HF activism by systematically comparing studies conducted in the US and outside the US context. The nascent body of work on HF activism is categorized and discussed within four research sub-streams: the antecedents of HF activism; HF activists’ tactics; the re…
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing
Management scholars study phenomena marked by complex interdependencies among multiple explanatory factors that combine to bring about an outcome of interest.Yet, theorizing about causal complexity can prove challenging for the correlational theorizing that is predominant in the field of management, given its "net effects thinking" that emphasizes the unique contribution of individual explanatory factors.In contrast, configurational theories and …
The Corporate Governance of Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Proposal for More Integrated Research
As corporations’ environmental impact comes under greater scrutiny by global financial, regulatory, and societal stakeholders, management scholars have increasingly focused on the role of corporate governance as a tool for driving environmental initiatives. Still, we lack a comprehensive and systematic understanding of this emergent body of inquiry and a holistic agenda for future research. To address this gap, our integrative framework relates t…
Twenty years of 'Law and Finance: Time to Take Law Seriously
This 'state of the art' essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the Law and Finance School (LFS) literature. We show that the first two decades of the LFS have focused on empirically investigating the question 'does law matter?' Yet, despite the centrality of law to the LFS, it is based on an incoherent theory of law, which leads to shortcomings in the conceptualization and empirical testing of its hypotheses. We also observe that, rather th…
Our Board, Our Rules: Nonconformity to Global Corporate Governance Norms
What drives organizational nonconformity to global corporate governance norms? Despite the prevalence of such norms and attendant conformity pressures, many firms do not adhere to them. We build on a political view of corporate governance to explore how different national institutional contexts and organizational conditions combine to produce over- and underconformity to global board independence norms. Using configurational analyses and data fro…
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: Insights from organizational sociology
International business scholars have recognized the impact of political and economic nationalism on the multinational enterprise (MNE). We complement these approaches by highlighting the sociological manifestations of nationalism and their implications for the MNE. We argue that nationalist sentiments , i.e., widely shared assumptions of superiority over other nations and cultures, constitute an under-researched but critical element in internatio…
Para una sociología del racismo análisis comparativo de las pautas de matrimonio entre personas de raza blanca y negra
Existen diferentes maneras de analizar los prejuicios y las discriminaciones raciales. Uno de los mejores indicadores sociales es el matrimonio interracial (por ejemplo, entre razas negra y blanca), que sobrepasa los límites de los grupos establecidos mediante los procesos de racialización. Ante este fenómeno se hace necesario redefinir las nociones de raza, género y cultura en las vidas individuales, así como a nivel social y político. En el art…
The influence of shareholder activism on global workforce practices
From Governance Proposals to Environmental and Social Outcomes: Cross-Issue Responses to Shareholder Activism
Prior research establishes that shareholder activism targeting environmental and social issues generates measurable improvements within those specific domains. We extend this literature by examining whether intense activist pressure on governance issues may also drive firms to enhance their environmental or social performance, a phenomenon we term cross-issue response . Specifically, we argue that to reinforce firms’ moral capital and maintain th…
Political science (18 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Management (6 works) · Economic system (5 works)