Álvaro Moya, Adoración

Economics

PhD: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Office F5.3

Biography

Associate Professor of Economic History and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law since July 2021. PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid, visiting professor at Kyoto University and Università Luigi Bocconi, and visiting researcher at the Universities of Reading (UK), York (UK), and Jinan (China). She has two recognized six-year research periods (sexenios). Her research—twice awarded by the Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE)—focuses on the long-term effects of foreign direct investment on host economies, firm internationalization, and the origins of science policy in Spain. She currently serves as President of the European Business History Association (EBHA) and is co-editor of the journal Business History (JCR, Q1). She leads a project on the determinants of technological change in Spain (PID2021-128653NB-I00) and coordinates a working group on long-term entrepreneurship within the European project EM4FIT (https://em4fit.sdu.dk/).

Professional Career

Associate Professor, Universitat de Barcelona, 2004-2009

Pre-doctoral Fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1999-2004

General Secretary (2019-2024) and Council member (2015-2019), Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE)

Co-editor (2015-2021) and review editor (2008-2015), Revista de Historia Industrial. Economía y Empresa – Industrial History Research

Co-editor, Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, 2015-2021

Publications in Scientific Journals

Fernández-Moya, María; Álvaro-Moya, Adoración; Puig, Nuria: “Supply-driven academic innovation. Establishing entrepreneurship education as a discipline in Spain (1974–2000s)”, Management & Organizational History, 1–29, (2025).

Castro Balaguer, Rafael; Álvaro-Moya, Adoración: "Engineering Services: A Hidden Industry with a Geopolitical Dimension”, en M. Kipping, T. Kurosawa and E. Westney (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 2024.

Álvaro-Moya, Adoración; Gil, Agueda; San Román, Elena: “Contextualizing Corporate Entrepreneurship Theory: the historical case of the Spanish engineering consulting firm TYPSA (1966-2000)”, Management and Organizational History, 16(3–4), 228–254, 2021.

Álvaro-Moya, Adoración, Puig, Nuria; Torres, Eugenio: “Managing Foreign Knowhow and Local Human Capital: Urquijo Group and the Rise of Spanish Engineering Firms”, Business History, 62, 7, 1231-1253, 2020.

Puig, Nuria; Álvaro-Moya, Adoración: "The Long-Term Effects of Foreign Investment on Local Human Capital: Four American Companies in Spain, 1920s–1970s", Business History Review, 92, 425-452, 2018.

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