Roberto Garcia-Castro

Areas of Interest

* Decision making in organizations
* Risk management
* Corporate governance
* Negotiations
* Business ethics

Roberto García-Castro is associate professor of managerial decision sciences at IESE Business School. His research interests include decision-making in organizations, stakeholder management and metrics, strategic corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. Some of his research has been published in Managerial and Decision Economics, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics and Empresa y Humanismo.

Before joining IESE as a full time professor in 2010, he worked for several European universities such as ESCP Europe (European School of Management) in London, LMU (Ludwig Maximilians Universität) in Munich and Carlos III University in Madrid. Prior to academe he worked for Arthur Andersen.

Publications

Books

    García-Castro, Roberto; Vélaz, Iñaki, "Los ciegos y el elefante: grandes visiones en dirección de empresas", Madrid: Civitas, 2011.

    García-Castro, Roberto, "The Governance of the Firm: Value Creation, Employment Contracts and Stakeholder Management", Saarbrücken, Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.

Articles in Journal (refereed)

    García-Castro, Roberto; Francoeur, Claude, "When More is Not Better: Complementarities, Costs and Contingencies in Stakeholder Management", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2016, pp 406 - 424

    García-Castro, Roberto; Aguilera, R., "Incremental Value Creation and Appropriation in a World with Multiple Stakeholders", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2015, pp 137 - 147

    Ayuso, Silvia; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel Ángel; García-Castro, Roberto; Ariño, Miguel Angel, "Maximizing Stakeholders' Interests: An Empirical Analysis of the Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Governance", Business & Society, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2014, pp 414 - 439

    García-Castro, Roberto; Aguilera, R., "Family Involvement in Business and Financial Performance: A Set-Theoretic Cross-National Inquiry", Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2014, pp 85 - 96

    García-Castro, Roberto; Aguilera, R.; Ariño, Miguel Angel, "Bundles of Firm Corporate Governance Practices: A Fuzzy Set Analysis", Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2013, pp 390 - 407

    Ayuso, Silvia; Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel; García-Castro, Roberto; Ariño, Miguel Angel, "Does Stakeholder Engagement Promote Sustainable Innovation Orientation?", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 111, No. 9, 2011, pp 1399 - 1417

    García-Castro, Roberto; Sharma, P., "Family Involvement - Firm Performance Link: Winning Configurations Revealed by Set-Theoretic Methods", Universia Business Review, No. 32, 2011, pp 54 - 68

    García-Castro, Roberto; Ariño, Miguel Angel; Canela, Miguel Ángel, "Over the Long-Run? Short-Run Impact and Long-Run Consequences of Stakeholder Management", Business & Society, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2011, pp 428 - 455

    García-Castro, Roberto; Casasola Martínez, María José, "A Set-Theoretic Analysis of the Components of Family Involvement in Publicly Listed and Major Unlisted Firms", Journal of Family Business Strategy, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2011, pp 15 - 25

    García-Castro, Roberto; Ariño, Miguel Angel, "The Multidimensional Nature of Sustained Competitive Advantage: Test at a United States Airline", International Journal of Management, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2011, pp 230 - 248

Working Papers

    García-Castro, Roberto; Ariño, Miguel Angel, "A General Approach to Panel Data Set-Theoretic Research", Compasss, 2013-76, 12/2013

    Capapé, Javier; Susaeta Erburu, Lourdes; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Gallifa, Ángela; García-Castro, Roberto, "El control de la eficiencia de las prácticas de recursos humanos: Un análisis de la realidad de las empresas que operan en España", IESE, DI-923, 05/2011

    Ayuso, Silvia; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel Ángel; García-Castro, Roberto; Ariño, Miguel Angel, "Maximizing stakeholders' interests: An empirical analysis of the stakeholder approach to corporate governance", IESE, DI-670-E, 01/2007

Chapters

    García-Castro, Roberto, "A Configurational Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility-Financial Performance Empirical Research". In: A. Lindgreen, P. Kotler, F. Maon and J. Vanhamme (eds.). A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility: Pressures, Conflicts, Reconciliation. Farnham: Gower Publishing Ltd., 2012. pp 1 - 1

    García-Castro, Roberto; Aguilera, R., "A Decade of Corporate Governance Reforms in Spain (2000-2010)". In: A. Rasheed and T. Yoshikawa (eds.). The Convergence of Corporate Governance: Promise and Prospects. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. pp 187 - 211

    Ariño, Miguel Angel; García-Castro, Roberto, "Managerial Decision Making and Long-Term Effectiveness: The Organizational Learning". In: T. P. Rajmanohar (Ed.). IUP on Decision Theory - Models and Experiences. Hyderabad, India: Icfai University Press, 2008.

Technical Notes

    García-Castro, Roberto, "Measuring Risk in Investment Projects: NPV at Risk", IESE, ADN-280-E, 02/2015

Cases

    Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Jimenez, José Manuel; García-Castro, Roberto, "Seguros Europa and Hoteles Lama (A): The chief investment officer of Seguros Europa", IESE, E-174-E, 12/2014

    Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Jimenez, José Manuel; García-Castro, Roberto, "Seguros Europa and Hoteles Lama (B): The chief executive officer of Hoteles Lama", IESE, E-175-E, 12/2014

    Stein Martínez, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Jimenez, José Manuel; García-Castro, Roberto, "Seguros Europa y Hoteles Lama (A): El Director de Inversiones de Seguros Europa", IESE, E-174, 12/2014

    García-Castro, Roberto, "Principado de Andorra: ajustes presupuestarios en medio de una crisis", IESE, AD-331, 06/2012

    García-Castro, Roberto, "Wolf GmbH", IESE, AD-325-E, 01/2011

Opinion

    García-Castro, Roberto, "Game theory lets managers look forward and reason backwards". South China Morning Post 18/10/2013

Non-refereed Articles

    García-Castro, Roberto, "Governing Joint Ventures in China: Lessons from Western' Success and Failures", ICFAI Journal of Mergers & Acquisitions, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp 7 - 23

    García-Castro, Roberto; Vélaz, Iñaki, "La empresa como mercado y el dilema del gobierno organizativo", Empresa y Humanismo, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2006, pp 97 - 125

Studies and Monographs

    Fontrodona, Joan; García-Castro, Roberto, "Estudio sobre políticas, hábitos de uso y control de Internet y correo electrónico en las principales empresas españolas", IESE, ST-3, 12/2002

Doctoral Thesis

    García-Castro, Roberto, "The Governance of the Firm: Value Creation, Employment Contracts and Stakeholder Management", IESE, T-140-E, 03/2007

Proceeding

    García-Castro, Roberto, "An Extension of the VCA Model to Estimate Stakeholder Value Appropriation"