Erica Salvaj, Ph.D.
Professor of Management and Strategy
I am Full Professor of General Management and Strategy and Director of Research at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), Chile, and Visiting Scholar at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. At UDD, I am a board member of the School of Business and Economics and VP and a board member at the Iberoamerican Academy of Management.
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Before 2010 I taught at Universidad de los Andes ESE (Business School) in Santiago, Chile, and at Universidad Pompeu Fabra EADA (Business School) in Barcelona, Spain.
I completed an MA in Science and Technology Management at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, and received my Ph.D. in Business Administration from IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
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With a special interest in Latin America, my primary fields of research are social sustainability, such as gender, as well as strategy, leadership, social networks, corporate governance, international business, and business history. I have authored book chapters and academic articles in leading journals, including Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Research, Harvard Business Review, Business History, Enterprise and Society, Business History Review, Corporate Governance: an International Review, Harvard Deusto Business Review, Academy of Management Proceedings, and IESE Insights among others.
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Some of the most important fellowships and research grants I have been awarded have been from Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, IESE Business School-Universidad de Navarra, Spain, and the Argentinean and Chilean National Commissions for Scientific and Technological Research. In 2012-13 I was the GCEE Fellow at Babson College in Massachusetts and in 2017-18 I held the fellowship “Alfred Chandler” at Harvard Business School. I was visiting professor at Macquarie University in Sydney. My research was funded by the Australia-APEC Women Research Fellowship
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"Women in corporate networks: An introduction", co-authored with Stéphanie Ginalski, Susie Pak & Lucy Taksa. The article is an introduction to a Special Issue of Business History that focuses on the role of women in corporate networks. Incorporates network analysis methods as useful tools for mapping the gendered structure of the corporate elite.
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"Understanding the role of institutions and economic context on entrepreneurial value creation choice", co-authored with Julián Andrés Diaz Tautiva, Felipe Vásquez-Lavín & Roberto Daniel Ponce Oliva. This research aims to answer how institutions and the economic context influence entrepreneurial value creation choices (i.e., for-profit, non-profit, and mixed).
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"Special section – Editorial: Sustainable Development Goals in Iberoamerica" outlines the main ideas of the Special Issue on how to achieve SDGs in Latin America and bridge the research-practice gap by providing impactful and practical solutions for businesses to face current societal challenges.
