Ruth Aguilera Vaqués

Ruth V. Aguilera is spending the 2011-2012 academic year at ESADE Business School as a Visiting Professor. She is an Associate Professor and the Fellow at the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society at the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds courtesy appointments at the School of Labor and Employment Relations, the College of Law and the Department of Sociology at Illinois. She received a Graduate Diploma in Business Analysis from the University of Lancaster, a Bachelor''s Degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Harvard University.
 Prof. Aguilera''s research falls at the intersection of economic sociology and international business, specifically in the fields of comparative corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. Her research has been published in scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, British Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Corporate Governance: International Review, European Sociological Review, Global Strategy Journal, International Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Science and Organization Studies, as well as in several conference proceedings and numerous book chapters. She is also the co-editor with Michal Federowicz of the book Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
She is an Associate Editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review, and is a member of the editorial boards of seven top journals in the fields of management and international business.

Education

• Doctor en Filosofía. Universidad de Harvard
• Licenciatura en Ciencias Económicas. Universitat de Barcelona

Areas of interest

• Comparative corporate governance
• International business/global strategy
• Cross-border merger and acquisitions
• Corporate social responsibility