A question of degree? Why some of the best companies to work for in Spain are better than others?

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Multiple national and international rankings select a subset of companies in a country or the world as the best to work for. Despite this homogenization, the scores obtained in the indexes on which the rankings are based are not equal. The aim of this research is to find out whether the differences between the scores obtained by the companies considered the best to work for in Spain can be explained by contextual factors. An econometric model has been estimated to establish whether these differences are explained by nationality/economic-cultural area of origin, host autonomous community (in the case of both factors, due to standardization mechanisms or, on the contrary, local adjustment), company size (due to structural flexibility or, on the contrary, to the availability of resources), stock market listing (due to restrictions imposed by the ownership structure and time horizons derived from stock market listing) and sector of activity. The results of the analysis show that the scores of the companies tend to increase with their size and stock market listing, differ between autonomous communities and do not differ between nations/economic-cultural areas of origin nor between sectors of activity.
Múltiples rankings nacionales e internacionales seleccionan a un subconjunto de empresas de un país o del mundo como las mejores para trabajar. A pesar de esta homogeneización, las puntuaciones que obtienen en los índices en los que se basan los rankings no son iguales. En esta investigación, se trata de averiguar si las diferencias entre las puntuaciones obtenidas por las empresas consideradas como las mejores para trabajar en España se pueden explicar por medio de factores contextuales. Se ha estimado un modelo econométrico a fin de establecer si explican esas diferencias la nacionalidad/área económico-cultural de origen, la comunidad autónoma sede (en el caso de ambos factores, debido a mecanismos de estandarización o, por el contrario, de ajuste local), el tamaño de la empresa (debido a la flexibilidad estructural o, por el contrario, la disponibilidad de recursos), la cotización en bolsa (debido a las constricciones impuestas por la estructura de propiedad y los horizontes temporales derivados de la cotización bursátil) y el sector de actividad. Los resultados del análisis muestran que las puntuaciones de las empresas (1) tienden a aumentar con su tamaño y con la cotización, (2) difieren entre comunidades autónomas y (3) no se diferencian entre naciones/áreas económico-culturales de origen ni entre sectores de actividad.

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A QUESTION OF DEGREE? WHY SOME OF THE BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN SPAIN ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS. (2018). UCJC Business and Society Review (formerly Known As Universia Business Review), 58. https://doi.org/10.3232/UBR.2018.V15.N2.03

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