First results from MIRI verification model testing (2008)
Lim, Tanya, Alvarez, Jose L., Bauwens, Eva, Garcia Bedregal, Alejandro, Blommaert, Joris, Dannerbauer, Helmut, ...
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is one of the three scientific instruments to fly on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is due for launch in 2013. MIRI contains two sub-instruments, an...
SÁNCHEZ, VICENTE MARTÍN, ALVAREZ-GUISASOLA, FERNANDO, CAYLÁ, JOAN A, ALVAREZ, JOSE L
Background. Tuberculosis currently represents a serious problem in prison populations. Methods. With the aim of studying the predictive factors for, and the prevalence of, Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
The increasing role professional service firms play in the reform of shareholders' meetings
Alvarez, Jose L., Ricart, Joan E.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of consultants, professional service firms or knowledge intermediaries in articulating the collective action of shareholders. The regulatory...
Alvarez, Jose L., Mazza, Carmelo
Management fads are increasingly a hot topic within Organization Theory. Recent articles have described the production process of fads, the role of «ideological» waves in explaining their...
Theories of managerial action and their impact on the conceptualisation of executive careers.
In this paper I outline one of the developments in the social sciences and macro organizational theory that could be of special profit for academic work on careers. I argue that a theory of action...
Governance mechanisms for effective leadership: The case of Spain.
Ricart, Joan E., Alvarez, Jose L., Gallo, Miguel A.
Most recent work on Boards of Directors has been focused on what can be considered best practices for effective governance in terms of roles, composition, process and style. Furthermore, this...
Symbiotic careers in movie making: Pedro and Agustín Almodovar
Alvarez, Jose L., Svejenova, Silviya
In this paper we focus on the paradox of unbinding creativity by binding up artistic and business tasks in a single symbiotic career carried out by two people. We argue that the uncertainty of the...
Prácticas de gobierno en España.
Ricart, Joan E., Alvarez, Jose L., Gallo, Miguel A.
El presente artículo expone los resultados de una innovadora investigación –no existe ningún trabajo de este tipo para el caso español– sobre las prácticas de gobierno y dirección de las...
Organizing on the edge: Heading to Mount Everest
Montes, Juan S., Alvarez, Jose L.
The paper analyzes complexity in organizations facing threatening environments. Such contexts are characterized by very high levels of risk and uncertainty that challenge organizational survival:...
Contents and influence of academic management journals
Svejenova, Silviya, Alvarez, Jose L.
This paper discusses one of the channels of dissemination of administrative ideas: academic publications. After a thorough summary of the literature available, we focus on three issues. First, we...
Consumption of management publications, The
Alvarez, Jose L., Maza, Carmelo
This paper focuses on the consumption phase of the process of Production-Diffusion-Consumption of management knowledge. We argue that consumers play an important role in that process, one we feel has...