Ruth Aguilera Vaqués

Ruth Aguilera Vaqués serves as a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Scholar in the Department of General Management and Strategy at ESADE Business School. She is an active researcher with 125 scientific production records spanning from 1998 to the present, with significant publication activity in recent years (6 publications in 2025, 9 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 10 in 2022). Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals and she maintains an impressive h-index of 169.

Dr. Aguilera Vaqués specializes in Corporate Governance, International Business, and Institutional Theory, with particular focus on how institutional contexts shape corporate governance practices globally. Her research examines nonconformity to global governance norms, corporate power in addressing societal challenges, and the institutional foundations of entrepreneurial initiatives. She investigates how firms navigate diverse institutional environments across countries and how governance structures affect firm performance in multinational contexts.

Her publication trends show consistent high-impact contributions to top management journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies. Her work frequently addresses the intersection of corporate governance with sustainability challenges and examines how political philosophy can inform business leadership. Recent publications demonstrate increasing focus on societal challenges and sustainable development within corporate governance frameworks.

Dr. Aguilera Vaqués is actively involved in research projects including the Research Group on Entrepreneurial Initiative (GRIE) from 2022-2025 and previously from 2017-2021, as well as the International Management Research Group (GRUMIN) from 2014-2017. These projects focus on entrepreneurial initiative and international management research respectively.

As a member of the Research Group on Entrepreneurial Initiative, she contributes to collaborative research examining how institutional contexts shape entrepreneurial behavior and corporate governance practices. Her work connects with broader scholarly networks across multiple countries as indicated by international collaborations shown in her research profile.