Elena San Román
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena San Román |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena San |
| FAMILY NAME | Román |
| SIGNATURE | SAN ROMÁN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0819-8501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Foreign investment funds in Spain
Entrepreneurship capital in Spain and its impact on modern economic growth (1886–2000)
This paper explores the relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by the number of new firms per million inhabitants, and modern economic growth in Spain between 1886 and 2000. Following Audretsch and Keilbach’s methodology, our analysis seems to confirm that entrepreneurship has had a positive and statistically significant effect on GDP per capita and labor productivity. This finding challenges the traditional view that the entrepreneurial…
Big business as political actors
This paper explores the interactions between big companies and authoritarian regimes operating under economic nationalism during periods of economic and political transition. Focusing on FIAT, SEAT and VAZ in the automotive industry, it shows how Spain and the USSR leveraged FIAT’s technology to support national industrialisation through politically isolated periods. In the 1940s, economic nationalism evolved in Spain from private oligopolies to …
Foreign investment and the development of the stock market in Spain (1961-2007)
This article reconstructs the dynamics of foreign investment in the Spanish stock market between 1961 and 2007, exploring a less explored dimension of financial globalisation and market modernisation in Spain. By building a novel database, it analyses investment trends by sectors, companies, countries of origin, and types of investors, offering a detailed view of the evolution of foreign capital during Spain's reintegration into the global econom…
Networks throughout an institutional transition
This study explores how networks for entrepreneurial activities evolve and change during an institutional transition at the macro level. For this purpose, we present the historical case study of Meliá, a pioneering company in the development of the Spanish tourism industry during Franco ́s Regime (1939–1975), when the country evolved from interventionism and isolation toward an increasingly market-oriented economy. Our study shows how Meliá's net…
Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry
Following the seminal work of Lévi-Strauss, developed by Baker and Nelson and Duymedjian and Rüling, this paper analyzes the role that entrepreneurial bricolage played as an innovation tool in the origins and growth of four important Spanish tourism companies: Meliá, Barceló, Iberostar, and Riu. Their development has been deeply embedded in the island of Majorca (Spain), whose historical market conditions shaped and drove the companies’ bricolage…
Driving through change at speed. Opportunity conditions and entrepreneurial responses in the history of the express industry
A lo largo de la historia se han sucedido diferentes contextos en los que ciertas condiciones y acontecimientos han creado oportunidades emprendedoras. Este artículo se enmarca en la segunda y tercera oleadas industrializadoras para analizar el nacimiento y evolución histórica de la industria del transporte urgente, cuyos orígenes se remontan a mediados del siglo xix en Estados Unidos. A través de un razonamiento secuencial, este trabajo determin…
Contextualizing corporate entrepreneurship theory
Drawing on the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) theory, this article examines the rise of the Spanish engineering consulting firm Técnica y Proyectos SA (TYPSA), from its foundation, in 1966, as a project office within a larger national-based construction fgroup, until its consolidation as a family multinational in the 2000s. Our research shows how contextual and intra-organizational changes affect the CE drivers identified by entrepreneurship the…
As old as history
This article presents empirical evidence about the contribution of family-controlled business groups as highly efficient alternatives to the large vertically integrated and professionally managed corporation in specific institutional and market environments. This hypothesis is tested with a single case study, SEUR, in the Spanish transport services sector. SEUR is one of the most prominent Spanish courier companies. It was founded during Franco’s…
Un Zaibatsu Fuera de Lugar
This work focuses on the origins of the Fierro Group. Ildefonso Fierro (1882–1961) was one of the most prominent businessmen of Franco's regime. Fierro's case study presents two features that distinguish it from other Spanish family firms founded in the first half of the twentieth century: its high degree of diversifcation and its peculiar financial history. Prior to the commencement of the Franco dictatorship, Fierro had managed to form a divers…
Synthetic fuels in Spain, 1942–66
This article studies the production of synthetic fuels in Spain under the dictatorship of General Franco. The Spanish synthetic fuels experiment was carried out by a state-owned firm which was endowed with huge financial and commercial privileges. The technological support for the project was to come from the German firm I.G. Farben. After the Nazi defeat, it suffered cutbacks and delays. The factory only reached normal levels of production in 19…
Synthetic fuels in Spain, 1942–66
This article studies the production of synthetic fuels in Spain under the dictatorship of General Franco. The Spanish synthetic fuels experiment was carried out by a state-owned firm which was endowed with huge financial and commercial privileges. The technological support for the project was to come from the German firm I.G. Farben. After the Nazi defeat, it suffered cutbacks and delays. The factory only reached normal levels of production in 19…
Un Zaibatsu Fuera de Lugar
This work focuses on the origins of the Fierro Group. Ildefonso Fierro (1882–1961) was one of the most prominent businessmen of Franco's regime. Fierro's case study presents two features that distinguish it from other Spanish family firms founded in the first half of the twentieth century: its high degree of diversifcation and its peculiar financial history. Prior to the commencement of the Franco dictatorship, Fierro had managed to form a divers…
Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry
Following the seminal work of Lévi-Strauss, developed by Baker and Nelson and Duymedjian and Rüling, this paper analyzes the role that entrepreneurial bricolage played as an innovation tool in the origins and growth of four important Spanish tourism companies: Meliá, Barceló, Iberostar, and Riu. Their development has been deeply embedded in the island of Majorca (Spain), whose historical market conditions shaped and drove the companies’ bricolage…
Contextualizing corporate entrepreneurship theory
Drawing on the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) theory, this article examines the rise of the Spanish engineering consulting firm Técnica y Proyectos SA (TYPSA), from its foundation, in 1966, as a project office within a larger national-based construction fgroup, until its consolidation as a family multinational in the 2000s. Our research shows how contextual and intra-organizational changes affect the CE drivers identified by entrepreneurship the…
As old as history
This article presents empirical evidence about the contribution of family-controlled business groups as highly efficient alternatives to the large vertically integrated and professionally managed corporation in specific institutional and market environments. This hypothesis is tested with a single case study, SEUR, in the Spanish transport services sector. SEUR is one of the most prominent Spanish courier companies. It was founded during Franco’s…
Synthetic fuels in Spain, 1942–66
This article studies the production of synthetic fuels in Spain under the dictatorship of General Franco. The Spanish synthetic fuels experiment was carried out by a state-owned firm which was endowed with huge financial and commercial privileges. The technological support for the project was to come from the German firm I.G. Farben. After the Nazi defeat, it suffered cutbacks and delays. The factory only reached normal levels of production in 19…
Un Zaibatsu Fuera de Lugar
This work focuses on the origins of the Fierro Group. Ildefonso Fierro (1882–1961) was one of the most prominent businessmen of Franco's regime. Fierro's case study presents two features that distinguish it from other Spanish family firms founded in the first half of the twentieth century: its high degree of diversifcation and its peculiar financial history. Prior to the commencement of the Franco dictatorship, Fierro had managed to form a divers…
As old as history
This article presents empirical evidence about the contribution of family-controlled business groups as highly efficient alternatives to the large vertically integrated and professionally managed corporation in specific institutional and market environments. This hypothesis is tested with a single case study, SEUR, in the Spanish transport services sector. SEUR is one of the most prominent Spanish courier companies. It was founded during Franco’s…
Driving through change at speed. Opportunity conditions and entrepreneurial responses in the history of the express industry
A lo largo de la historia se han sucedido diferentes contextos en los que ciertas condiciones y acontecimientos han creado oportunidades emprendedoras. Este artículo se enmarca en la segunda y tercera oleadas industrializadoras para analizar el nacimiento y evolución histórica de la industria del transporte urgente, cuyos orígenes se remontan a mediados del siglo xix en Estados Unidos. A través de un razonamiento secuencial, este trabajo determin…
Contextualizing corporate entrepreneurship theory
Drawing on the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) theory, this article examines the rise of the Spanish engineering consulting firm Técnica y Proyectos SA (TYPSA), from its foundation, in 1966, as a project office within a larger national-based construction fgroup, until its consolidation as a family multinational in the 2000s. Our research shows how contextual and intra-organizational changes affect the CE drivers identified by entrepreneurship the…
Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry
Following the seminal work of Lévi-Strauss, developed by Baker and Nelson and Duymedjian and Rüling, this paper analyzes the role that entrepreneurial bricolage played as an innovation tool in the origins and growth of four important Spanish tourism companies: Meliá, Barceló, Iberostar, and Riu. Their development has been deeply embedded in the island of Majorca (Spain), whose historical market conditions shaped and drove the companies’ bricolage…
Networks throughout an institutional transition
This study explores how networks for entrepreneurial activities evolve and change during an institutional transition at the macro level. For this purpose, we present the historical case study of Meliá, a pioneering company in the development of the Spanish tourism industry during Franco ́s Regime (1939–1975), when the country evolved from interventionism and isolation toward an increasingly market-oriented economy. Our study shows how Meliá's net…
Foreign investment and the development of the stock market in Spain (1961-2007)
This article reconstructs the dynamics of foreign investment in the Spanish stock market between 1961 and 2007, exploring a less explored dimension of financial globalisation and market modernisation in Spain. By building a novel database, it analyses investment trends by sectors, companies, countries of origin, and types of investors, offering a detailed view of the evolution of foreign capital during Spain's reintegration into the global econom…
Foreign investment funds in Spain
Entrepreneurship capital in Spain and its impact on modern economic growth (1886–2000)
This paper explores the relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by the number of new firms per million inhabitants, and modern economic growth in Spain between 1886 and 2000. Following Audretsch and Keilbach’s methodology, our analysis seems to confirm that entrepreneurship has had a positive and statistically significant effect on GDP per capita and labor productivity. This finding challenges the traditional view that the entrepreneurial…
Big business as political actors
This paper explores the interactions between big companies and authoritarian regimes operating under economic nationalism during periods of economic and political transition. Focusing on FIAT, SEAT and VAZ in the automotive industry, it shows how Spain and the USSR leveraged FIAT’s technology to support national industrialisation through politically isolated periods. In the 1940s, economic nationalism evolved in Spain from private oligopolies to …
Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Entrepreneurship (4 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art (2 works)