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Overview

Esteban Lafuente is affiliated with the Costa Rica Institute of Technology in Costa Rica. The primary field of study focuses on Business, Management and Accounting, with significant research contributions in Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research topics cover various aspects of innovation and knowledge management, digital platforms and economics, service and product innovation, entrepreneurship studies and influences, sharing economy and platforms, customer service quality and loyalty, and firm innovation and growth.

Recent papers authored by Esteban Lafuente include:

  • A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems (2021), published in Research Policy
  • A system dynamics approach for assessing SMEs' competitiveness (2020), published in Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
  • A nonparametric analysis of competitiveness efficiency: The relevance of firm size and the configuration of competitive pillars (2020), published in BRQ Business Research Quarterly
  • Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: The ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience (2020), published in International Business Review

Frequent co-authors include:

  • László Szerb
  • Zoltán J. Ács
  • Yancy Vaillant
  • Éva Komlósi
  • Abraham K. Song

Esteban Lafuente has published in several venues with multiple publications in Technovation, SSRN Electronic Journal, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, and TEC Empresarial.

They also have book publications including a title published by Springer International Publishing: The Digital Platform Economy Index 2020 (2022), which has been cited in academic literature.

Best Publications

  • Do different institutional frameworks condition the influence of local fear of failure and entrepreneurial examples over entrepreneurial activity

    Yancy Vaillant;Esteban Lafuente

  • Regional Differences in the Influence of Role Models: Comparing the Entrepreneurial Process of Rural Catalonia

    Esteban Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant;Josep Rialp

  • Gender diversity in the board, women’s leadership and business performance

    Jorge Moreno-Gómez;Esteban Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant

  • An assessment of the OHSAS 18001 certification process: Objective drivers and consequences on safety performance and labour productivity

    Jesús Abad;Esteban Lafuente;Jordi Vilajosana

  • Territorial servitization: Exploring the virtuous circle connecting knowledge-intensive services and new manufacturing businesses

    Esteban Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant;Ferran Vendrell-Herrero

  • The relevance of quantity and quality entrepreneurship for regional performance: the moderating role of the entrepreneurial ecosystem

    László Szerb;Esteban Lafuente;Krisztina Horváth;Balázs Páger

  • Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk

    Mircea Epure;Esteban Lafuente

  • Reasons for the Relatively Lower Entrepreneurial Activity Levels of Rural Women in Spain

    Otilia Driga;Esteban Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant

  • The pursuit of knowledge transfer activities: An efficiency analysis of Spanish universities

    Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent;Esteban Lafuente;Francesc Solé

  • Location decisions of knowledge-based entrepreneurs: Why some Catalan KISAs choose to be rural?

    Esteban Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant;Christian Serarols

  • Country level efficiency and national systems of entrepreneurship: a data envelopment analysis approach

    Esteban Lafuente;László Szerb;Zoltan J. Acs

  • Bouncing Back from Failure: Entrepreneurial Resilience and the Internationalisation of Subsequent Ventures Created by Serial Entrepreneurs

    Esteban Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant;Ferran Vendrell-Herrero;Emanuel Gomes

  • Human capital and growth in Romanian small firms

    Esteban Lafuente;Rodrigo Rabetino

  • Make-or-buy configurational approaches in product-service ecosystems and performance

    Oscar F. Bustinza;Esteban Lafuente;Rodrigo Rabetino;Yancy Vaillant

  • Product-service innovation and performance: Unveiling the complexities

    Oscar F. Bustinza;Ferran Vendrell-Herrero;Emanuel Gomes;Esteban Lafuente

  • Initiating nascent entrepreneurial activities: the relative role of perceived and actual entrepreneurial ability

    Manoj Chandra Bayon;Yancy Vaillant;Esteban Lafuente

  • The global technology frontier: productivity growth and the relevance of Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship

    Esteban Lafuente;Zoltan J. Acs;Mark Sanders;László Szerb

  • Assessing the productivity of technology transfer offices: an analysis of the relevance of aspiration performance and portfolio complexity

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  • ISO‐9000 Certification and Ownership Structure: Effects upon Firm Performance

    Esteban Lafuente;Alberto Bayo-Moriones;Miguel García-Cestona

  • A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Esteban Lafuente;Zoltán J. Ács;László Szerb

  • Age driven influence of role‐models on entrepreneurship in a transition economy

    Esteban M. Lafuente;Yancy Vaillant

  • A non-parametric analysis of competitiveness efficiency: the relevance of firm size and the configuration of competitive pillars

    Esteban Lafuente;Juan Carlos Leiva;Jorge Moreno-Gómez;László A. Szerb

Frequent Co-Authors

Zoltan J. Acs
Zoltan J. Acs George Mason University
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero University of Edinburgh
Oscar F. Bustinza
Oscar F. Bustinza University of Granada
Emanuel Gomes
Emanuel Gomes Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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