Ruth Aguilera

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.

Education She holds degrees in economics (BBA) and business administration (MA, 1992) from the University of Barcelona. She obtained her master's (AM, 1996) and PhD (1999) degrees in sociology from Harvard University.

Career After completion of her doctorate, she began academic work as a faculty fellow at the College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she remained as a tenured professor until 2014. In 2014-15, she was a professor at the Business School, National University of Singapore. Since 2015, she has been a distinguished professor at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (2018), and a Fellow of the Academy of Management (2022).

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 . Cited 2970 times (March 2024). 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. Cited 1160 times (March 2024). Cited 1387 times (March 2024). Cited 4841 times (March 2024).

Book chapters

She has authored many book chapters whose title list may be reached on Researchgate.