Purpose -To examine the particular organizational and managerial determinants of the different aspects of a firm's export development process: intention, propensity, and intensity. Design/methodology/approach -The study analysed firms' resources and capabilities, managerial characteristics, and managerial attitude and perceptions in a sample of 286 firms in the Spanish wine industry. Statistical analyses using SPSS were carried out to confirm or reject eight hypotheses.Findings -Results confirmed that factors influencing export involvement are not the same along the process of export development.Research limitations/implications -The study is limited to one context, and it is static (cross-sectional) in nature. Practical implications -Implications not only for practitioners (especially, managers), but also for policy makers, are discussed. Originality/value -First, the research has been conducted in Spain, a country for which export development process has not been widely studied. Second, three aspects of export development have been analysed at the same time: intention, propensity, and intensity. And third, the effect of industry-specific characteristics on internal export factors has been isolated through the selection of one industry in one country for the empirical research.

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When executives seek to satisfy their need for prestige and status through long-term strategic decisions that increase the size of the company -such as corporate diversification- but do not improve the firm’s performance, agency costs might appear. Thus, the current work aims to responding the following question: does the corporate governance of an organization influence its diversification strategy? Considering that most research to date has focused on the governance structure of large public limited companies, we considered it would be useful to centre our study on organizations lacking alienable property rights and with an allocation of decision rights decided by law -this is the case of the Spanish savings banks. The results obtained show that board size, number of meetings, and ROE are positively associated with diversification

This paper analyses the role of study-abroad programmes in higher education by examining how students’ participation can foster competence development and employability expectations. Our research focuses on the acquisition of competences through the international mobility programme Erasmus+ of 191 students of an undergraduate programme in tourism, considering the different perceptions of male and female students. Our results confirm that five out of the six competences which students develop through Erasmus+ mobility have a positive and significant influence on their employability expectations. Our findings also confirm that male and female students have different perceptions concerning the influence on their employability expectations of those competences acquired during their experience studying abroad.