Rafael
Andreu i Civit

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management and Operations, Information and Technology

• Ph.D in Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Doctor of Philosophy (Management), Massachussetts Institute of Technology
• Profesor Titular de LSI, Facultat d'Informàtica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (currently on leave of absence)

Rafael Andreu joined IESE in 1969 and currently he is emeritus professor of Strategic Management and Operations, Information and Technology. He likes to say that he embarked on an academic career because he could not make it in the world of baking and pastry making, even though he was born into a family with more than 175 years of history doing just that.

Prof. Andreu holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and PhD in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Prof. Andreu is the author or co-author of several books, chapters of books, articles in specialized journals and teaching cases. Examples in his current areas of interest are the books Líbranos Señor... [Free Us Lord...], Editorial Granica, 2005; Manifesto para un Management mejor: Una visión racionalista y humanista [Manifesto for Better Management: A Rationalist and Humanist Vision] with Josep María Rosanas, Chair of Crèdit Andorrà, 2010; Huellas: Construyendo valor desde la empresa [Footprints: Building Value From the Company], Editorial DAU, 2014; and Gestión del conocimiento y competitividad [Knowledge Management and Competitiveness], with Joan Baiget, EUNSA, 2016.

Areas of interest.

* Spontaneous learning in the firm: Implications for the exercise and teaching of the Management profession
* Institutional development: Long-term competitiveness and implications for organizational design and the professional careers of managers
* The potential of new technologies for the development of competitive advantage and changes in industry structure
* Organizational learning, capacity for development and the role of IT, above and beyond knowledge management

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

ANDREU I CIVIT, R., RIVEROLA, J., ROSANAS, J. M., DE SANTIAGO, R. (2014). Capability Building and Learning: An Emergent Behavior Approach. International Journal of Management and Economics, 44 (1), 7 - 38. doi:10.1515/ijme-2015-0007. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., BAIGET, J., CANALS, A. (2008). Firm-Specific Knowledge and Competitive Advantage. Evidence and KM practices. Knowledge and Process Management, 15 (2), 97 - 106. doi:10.1002/kpm.302. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., SIEBER, S. (2005). Knowledge integration across organizations: How different types of knowledge suggest different 'Integration Trajectories'. Knowledge and Process Management, 12 (3), 153 - 160. doi:10.1002/kpm.232.

Working Papers

ANDREU I CIVIT, R., ROSANAS, J. M., SEGARRA, J. A. (2020). Management: Una visión humanista que anticipó las críticas actuales al capitalismo (WP-1238). AGELL, P., ANDREU I CIVIT, R., ROSANAS, J. M. (2015). Subjetividad, objetividad y coherencia en el análisis de la experiencia (WP-1099). Barcelona: IESE. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., RIVEROLA, J., ROSANAS, J. M., DE SANTIAGO, R. (2012). Capability Building and Learning. An Emergent Behavior Approach (DI-952-E).

Outreach Articles

ANDREU I CIVIT, R., ROSANAS, J. M., SEGARRA, J. A. (2019). La buena dirección. IESE Business School Insight (153). ANDREU I CIVIT, R., ROSANAS, J. M., SEGARRA, J. A. (2019). Good management. IESE Business School Insight (153), pp. 70 - 73. ARIÑO, A., ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2018). Claves para coordinar alianzas de valor. Un modelo "micro" de eficiencia "macro". IESE Insight (36), pp. 15 - 21.

Books

ANDREU I CIVIT, R., BAIGET, J. (2016). Gestión del conocimiento y competitividad. Barañáin: EUNSA. Ediciones Universidad de Navarra. ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2014). Huellas: Construyendo valor desde la empresa. Barcelona: DAU. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., ROSANAS, J. M. (2012). Manifest per a un management millor: Una visió racionalista i humanista (Manifesto for better management: A rational and humanistic view). Andorra: Crèdit Andorrà.

Book Chapters

ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2019). Spontaneous learning in the firm: The concept of footprints. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. ARIÑO, A., ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2019). Learning to Coordinate in Alliances: Toward a Microfoundation Framework. In Farok J. Contractor and Jeffrey J. Reuer (Ed.), Frontiers of Strategic Alliance Research: Negotiating, Structuring and Governing Partnerships (pp. 135 - 151). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., RIVEROLA, J., ROSANAS, J. M., DE SANTIAGO, R. (2012). Firm evolution and learning in a market economy with bounded rationality. In Joan Enric Ricart Costa, Josep Maria Rosanas Marti? (Eds.), Towards a New Theory of the Firm: Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession (pp. 361 - 400). Bilbao: Fundación BBVA.

Studies

ANDREU I CIVIT, R., BAIGET, J., SALVAJ, E. H. (2004). Gestión del conocimiento y competitividad en la empresa española - 2003.

Cases

ANDREU, I., SEGARRA, J. A., ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2014). Escuelas Garbí Pere Vergés. Una ciudad ideal y sus habitantes. IESE, M-1316. LARA, E., ANDREU I CIVIT, R., SIEBER, S. (2011). Knowledge Management at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young - Abridged. IESE, SI-174-E. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., BOCCHERINI, J. A. (2008). Atrápalo.com. IESE, SI-165.

Technical Notes

ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2017). Dirigiendo para hacer realidad la estrategia: Aprendiendo, queramos o no. IESE, SMN-702. ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2015). El aprendizaje espontáneo en la empresa. Valor, responsabilidad social corporativa y ética en la profesión de dirigir. IESE, SMN-692. ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2015). Spontaneous Learning in the Corporate Context. Values, corporate social responsibility and ethics in professional management. IESE, SMN-692-E.

Outputs in other media

ROSANAS, J. M., ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2018). Entender el contexto. La principal característica de un buen académico es la curiosidad: querer conocer las cosas y entenderlas. IESE Insight. ROSANAS, J. M., ANDREU I CIVIT, R. (2018). The Importance of Context. Antoni Subirà took everything related to theory and found ways to put it into practice. IESE Insight. ANDREU I CIVIT, R., ROSANAS, J. M. (2015). ¿Y la competitividad? La Vanguardia, Barcelona.