:Ruth Aguilera

{{Short description|American management science scholar}}

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Ruth V. Aguilera is a Boston-based management science scholar, known by the wider public for her research on the monitoring and transformation of global corporate governance to enhance global business performance. She is the Distinguished Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, as well as a visiting professor at ESADE Business School in her hometown, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.{{Cite web |title=Sack non-executive directors to force investors to do their job |url=https://www.ft.com/content/f345512e-1905-11e6-bb7d-ee563a5a1cc1 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=www.ft.com}}{{Cite news |last=Boivie |first=Steven |last2=Bednar |first2=Michael |last3=Andrus |first3=Joel |date=2016-05-10 |title=Boards Aren't the Right Way to Monitor Companies |url=https://hbr.org/2016/05/boards-arent-the-right-way-to-monitor-companies |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=Harvard Business Review |issn=0017-8012}}{{Cite news |last=Fernández |first=David |date=2017-06-01 |title=Consejos con palos en las ruedas |url=https://elpais.com/economia/2017/06/01/actualidad/1496329692_869781.html |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=El País |language=es |issn=1134-6582}}{{Cite web |title=How Sovereign Wealth Funds Improve Firms' Corporate Governance |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/esade/2019/11/11/how-sovereign-wealth-funds-improve-firms-corporate-governance/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Ruth V. Aguilera |url=https://damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/people/ruth-v-aguilera/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=D'Amore-McKim School of Business |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Aguilera Vaqués, Ruth |url=https://www.esade.edu/faculty/ruth.aguilera |website=www.esade.edu/}} She is an active university teacher and academic editor, and a prolific author of several hundred papers, many of which have been awarded top distinctions.

Education

She holds degrees in economics (BBA) and business administration (MA, 1992) from the University of Barcelona, Spain.{{Cite web |title=Donors – Alumni FEE |url=https://www.ub.edu/economiaempresa-alumni/en/donors/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |language=en-US}} She obtained her master's (AM, 1996) and PhD (1999) degrees in sociology from Harvard University. Her doctoral thesis is titled "Elites, Corporations, and the Wealth of Nations".{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=HARVARD UNIVERSITY - Department of Sociology - Doctorates in Sociology |url=https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/sociology/files/sociology_dissertations-1932thru2014_0.pdf |website=harvard.edu}}

Career

After completion of her doctorate, she began academic work as a faculty fellow at the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she remained as a tenured professor until 2014.{{Cite web |title=Ruth Aguilera {{!}} Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University |url=https://business.rice.edu/person/ruth-aguilera |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=business.rice.edu |language=en}} In 2014-15, she was a professor at the Business School, National University of Singapore.{{Cite web |last=Sea-Jin |first=Chang |date=Feb 24, 2015 |title=Director's Message |url=https://bschool.nus.edu.sg/cgio/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/05/CGIO-Newsletter-Issue-07-2015.pdf |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=bschool.nus.edu.sg}} Since 2015, she has been a distinguished professor at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Concurrently, since 2020, she has been a visiting professor at the Department of Strategy and General Management, Esade Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

= Editorial service =

= Memberships =

She has successively been inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (2016),{{Cite web |title=AIB Fellows: Ruth Aguilera |url=https://www.aib.world/about/aib-fellows/ruth-aguilera/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Academy of International Business (AIB) |language=en-US}} a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (2018),{{Cite web |title=SMS Fellows |url=https://www.strategicmanagement.net/award/sms-fellows/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=www.strategicmanagement.net/ |language=en-US}} and a Fellow of the Academy of Management (2022).{{Cite web |title=Seventeen Inducted Into AOM Fellows for 2022 |url=https://aom.org/about-aom/aom-news/blog-detail_releases/blog-detail/releases/2022/06/24/seventeen-inducted-into-aom-fellows-for-2022 |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=AOM_CMS |language=en}}

Publications

= Papers =

Her most cited papers are:

  • Aguilera, Ruth V.; Jackson, Gregory (2003). "The Cross-National Diversity of Corporate Governance: Dimensions and Determinants". Academy of Management Review. 28 (3): 447–465. doi:10.5465/amr.2003.10196772 .{{Cite journal |last=Aguilera |first=Ruth V. |last2=Jackson |first2=Gregory |date=2003-07-01 |title=The Cross-National Diversity of Corporate Governance: Dimensions and Determinants |url=http://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amr.2003.10196772 |journal=Academy of Management Review |language=en |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=447–465 |doi=10.5465/amr.2003.10196772 |issn=0363-7425}} Cited 2970 times (March 2024).{{Cite web |title=Ruth V. Aguilera |url=https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=PLuj3xYAAAAJ&hl |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=scholar.google.es}}
  • Aguilera, Ruth V.; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro (2004). "Codes of Good Governance Worldwide: What is the Trigger?". Organization Studies. 25 (3): 415–443. doi:10.1177/0170840604040669.{{Cite journal |last=Aguilera |first=Ruth V. |last2=Cuervo-Cazurra |first2=Alvaro |date=2004-03-01 |title=Codes of Good Governance Worldwide: What is the Trigger? |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0170840604040669 |journal=Organization Studies |language=en |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=415–443 |doi=10.1177/0170840604040669 |issn=0170-8406}} Cited 1160 times (March 2024).
  • Rupp, Deborah E.; Ganapathi, Jyoti; Aguilera, Ruth V.; Williams, Cynthia A. (2006). "Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility: an organizational justice framework". Journal of Organizational Behavior. 27 (4): 537–543. doi:10.1002/job.380.{{Cite journal |last=Rupp |first=Deborah E. |last2=Ganapathi |first2=Jyoti |last3=Aguilera |first3=Ruth V. |last4=Williams |first4=Cynthia A. |date=2006-06-01 |title=Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility: an organizational justice framework |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.380 |journal=Journal of Organizational Behavior |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=537–543 |doi=10.1002/job.380 |issn=0894-3796}} Cited 1387 times (March 2024).
  • Aguilera, Ruth V.; Rupp, Deborah E.; Williams, Cynthia A.; Ganapathi, Jyoti (2007). "Putting the S back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations". Academy of Management Review. 32 (3): 836–863. doi:10.5465/amr.2007.25275678.{{Cite journal |last=Aguilera |first=Ruth V. |last2=Rupp |first2=Deborah E. |last3=Williams |first3=Cynthia A. |last4=Ganapathi |first4=Jyoti |date=2007-07-01 |title=Putting the S back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations |url=http://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amr.2007.25275678 |journal=Academy of Management Review |language=en |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=836–863 |doi=10.5465/amr.2007.25275678 |issn=0363-7425|hdl=2142/1768 |hdl-access=free }} Cited 4841 times (March 2024).

= Books =

  • Federowicz, Michał; Aguilera, Ruth V., eds. (2003). Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9780230286191. {{ISBN|978-1-349-51500-4}}.{{Cite book |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230286191 |title=Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment |date=2003 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-51500-4 |editor-last=Federowicz |editor-first=Michał |location=London |language=en |doi=10.1057/9780230286191 |editor-last2=Aguilera |editor-first2=Ruth V.}}

= Book chapters =

She has authored many book chapters whose title list may be reached on Researchgate.{{Cite web |title=Ruth V. Aguilera - Publications |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruth-Aguilera/publications |website=www.researchgate.net}}

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