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2023

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Business and Management

D-Index
67
Citations
32197
World Ranking
353
National Ranking
163

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

Ruth V. Aguilera is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions to strategy and management, accounting, organizational behavior and human resource management, sociology and political science, and marketing.

The scientist has published extensively, with a total of 88 publications in major subfields. Their areas of work cover several main topics, including corporate finance and governance, corporate social responsibility reporting, environmental sustainability in business, management and organizational studies, international business and foreign direct investment, family business performance and succession, as well as innovation and knowledge management.

Some of Ruth V. Aguilera's recent papers include:

  • The Corporate Governance of Environmental Sustainability: A Review and Proposal for More Integrated Research (2021), Journal of Management
  • Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing (2020), Academy of Management Review
  • The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research (2020), Journal of International Business Studies
  • Stakeholder Governance for Responsible Innovation: A Theory of Value Creation, Appropriation, and Distribution (2021), Journal of Management Studies
  • Our Board, Our Rules: Nonconformity to Global Corporate Governance Norms (2021), Administrative Science Quarterly

Frequent coauthors working with Aguilera include Juan Alberto Aragón Correa, Ryan Federo, Valentina Marano, Dennis Wajda, and Olga Hawn. These collaborations indicate a pattern of sustained partnerships across multiple publications.

Publications are often featured in well-established academic venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, SSRN Electronic Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Management.

Recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, reflecting their engagement in the strategic management academic community.

Best Publications

  • Putting the S back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Deborah E. Rupp;Cynthia A. Williams;Jyoti Ganapathi

  • The Cross-National Diversity of Corporate Governance: Dimensions and Determinants

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Gregory Jackson

  • Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility: an organizational justice framework

    Deborah E. Rupp;Jyoti Ganapathi;Ruth V. Aguilera;Cynthia A. Williams

  • Codes of Good Governance Worldwide: What is the Trigger?

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra

  • Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research:

    Thomas Greckhamer;Santi Furnari;Peer C. Fiss;Ruth V. Aguilera

  • An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies, and Complementarities

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Igor Filatotchev;Howard Gospel;Gregory Jackson

  • Embracing Causal Complexity: The Emergence of a Neo-Configurational Perspective

    Vilmos F. Misangyi;Thomas Greckhamer;Santi Furnari;Peer C. Fiss

  • Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: a comparative analysis of the UK and the US*

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Cynthia A. Williams;John M. Conley;Deborah E. Rupp

  • Codes of Good Governance

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra

  • Comparative and International Corporate Governance

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Gregory Jackson

  • Legislating a Woman's Seat on the Board: Institutional Factors Driving Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors

    Siri Terjesen;Siri Terjesen;Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth Lorenz

  • Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing

    Santi Furnari;Donal Crilly Crilly;Vilmos F. Misangyi;Thomas Greckhamer

  • Corporate Governance and Director Accountability: an Institutional Comparative Perspective*

    Ruth V. Aguilera

  • Connecting the Dots: Bringing External Corporate Governance into the Corporate Governance Puzzle

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth V. Aguilera;Kurt Desender;Michael K. Bednar;Jun Ho Lee

  • New Varieties of State Capitalism: Strategic and Governance Implications

    Aldo Musacchio;Sergio G. Lazzarini;Ruth V. Aguilera

  • Corporate Governance and Investors' Perceptions of Foreign IPO Value: An Institutional Perspective

    R. Greg Bell;Igor Filatotchev;Ruth V. Aguilera

  • Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000

    Ricardo G Flores;Ruth V Aguilera

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective

    Cynthia A. Williams;Ruth V. Aguilera

  • The Dark Side of Authority: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Outcomes of Organizational Corruption

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Abhijeet K. Vadera

  • Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries

    Stav Fainshmidt;William Q. Judge;Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth V. Aguilera;Adam Smith

  • When does ownership matter? Board characteristics and behavior

    Kurt A. Desender;Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth V. Aguilera;Rafel Crespi;Miguel GarcÍa-cestona

  • The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research

    Stav Fainshmidt;Michael A Witt;Ruth V Aguilera;Ruth V Aguilera;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke

  • Global corporate governance: On the relevance of firms’ ownership structure

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth V. Aguilera;Rafel Crespi-Cladera

  • The Cross-National Diversity of Corporate Governance: Dimensions and Determinants

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Gregory Jackson

  • Corporate Governance Deviance

    Ruth V. Aguilera;William Q. Judge;Siri A. Terjesen

  • Codes of Good Governance Worldwide: What is the Trigger?

    Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra;Ruth V. Aguilera

  • Are Boards Designed to Fail? The Implausibility of Effective Board Monitoring

    Steven Boivie;Michael K. Bednar;Ruth V. Aguilera;Joel L. Andrus

  • The dubious role of institutions in international business: A road forward

    Ruth V. Aguilera;Ruth V. Aguilera;Birgitte Grøgaard

  • The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies

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Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Jackson
Gregory Jackson King's College London
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra Northeastern University
Igor Filatotchev
Igor Filatotchev King's College London
Siri Terjesen
Siri Terjesen Florida Atlantic University
Deborah E. Rupp
Deborah E. Rupp George Mason University
Mathias M. Siems
Mathias M. Siems European University Institute
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
William Q. Judge
William Q. Judge Old Dominion University
Alain Verbeke
Alain Verbeke University of Calgary
Stav Fainshmidt
Stav Fainshmidt Florida International University

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