Adrian
Caldart

Associate Professor of the Practice of Management of Strategic Management

• PhD in Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
• M.Sc. in Management and Economics, ESEADE
• B.Sc. in Accounting and B.Sc. in Business Administration, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
• BA in Management, Universidad Católica Argentina

Adrián Caldart is Associate Professor of the Practice of Management in Strategic Management at IESE.

Adrián Caldart is B.Sc. in Accounting and B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, M.Sc. in Management and Economics from ESEADE (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Ph.D. in Management from IESE Business School.

Prof. Caldart started teaching at IESE in 2006 and is currently the Academic Director of the Executive MBA Barcelona and ONE EMBA. He is also Full Professor of Strategic Management at AESE Business School (Portugal) where he is also the Academic Director of the Business Policy Department and President of the Academic Council of the School. Adrián is also consultant in Strategy and Organization.

After graduating from IESE in 2003, Adrián worked for five years as a full-time professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School (Coventry, United Kingdom) reaching the position of Associate Professor. Before joining academia, Adrián worked over seven years in the industrial group Pérez Companc (Argentina) as a trader in energy derivatives and money markets, and as an executive in Strategic Planning and Control.

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Areas of interest.

• Corporate-level Strategy
• International Strategy
• The Agenda of the CEO
• The Food and Beverage Sector

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

PISANI, N., CALDART, A., HOPMA, J. (2017). SMEs' Formation of Minority International Joint Ventures and Level of Internationalization. The Moderating Role of a Global Versus Regional Focus. European Management Journal, 35 (3), 414 - 424. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2016.08.006. CANALES, J. I., CALDART, A. (2017). Encouraging Emergence of Cross-Business Strategic Initiatives. European Management Journal, 35 (3), 300 - 313. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2016.10.003. CALDART, A., VASSOLO, R., SILVESTRI, L. (2014). Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation. Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, 12 (2), 123 - 151. doi:10.1108/MRJIAM-07-2012-0488. CALDART, A., OLIVEIRA, F. (2010). Analysing Industry Profitability: A "Complexity as Cause" Perspective. European Management Journal, 28 (2), 95 - 107. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2009.04.004. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2007). Corporate Strategy: An Agent-Based Approach. European Management Review, 4 (2), 107 - 120. doi:10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500077. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2004). Corporate strategy revisited: A view from complexity theory. European Management Review, 1 (1), 96 - 104. doi:10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500005.

Working Papers

CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2006). A formal evaluation of the performance of different corporate styles in stable and turbulent environments (DI-621-E). CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2006). Corporate strategy in turbulent environments: Key roles of the corporate level (DI-623-E). CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2003). Corporate strategy revisited: A view from complexity theory (DI-528-E).

Proceedings

CALDART, A., VASSOLO, R., SILVESTRI, L. (2010). Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation. Academy of Management Proceedings.

Articles in other publications

CALDART, A., GIFRA, J., AKHMEDOVA, A. (2019). Internacionalización: ¿Cómo definir la atractividad de un país para mi empresa? El caso del sector de alimentación y bebidas. Harvard Deusto Business Review (287). CALDART, A., CHAMAS, E., ALFARO, J. (2017). Unicornios latinoamericanos. Visión global y gestión "tropicalizada". Harvard Deusto Business Review (271). CALDART, A., CARRERA, A., CORNEJO, M. (2017). Cómo organizar la agenda del director general. Claves para ser un CEO eficaz. IESE Insight (32), pp. 44 - 51. CALDART, A., CARRERA, A., CORNEJO, M. (2017). The Keys to Being an Effective Executive. The CEO Agenda. IESE Insight (32), pp. 44 - 51. CALDART, A., PISANI, N. (2016). ¿Regionales o Globales? Una mirada al posicionamiento internacional de las grandes empresas españolas. Harvard Deusto Business Review (262), pp. 30 - 41.

Books

ROBERTSON D.,, CALDART, A. (2009). The Dynamics of Strategy. Mastering Strategic Landscapes of the Firm. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

Edited books

CALDART, A., RICART, J. E., CARRERA, A. (2019). General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

CHAMAS, E., CALDART, A. (2019). Entrepreneurship in the digital economy: Latin American "unicorns". In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. CALDART, A., CARRERA, A., CORNEJO, M. (2019).
Stakeholder salience in Latin America: Who really counts?
. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2019). Introduction: The practice of general management. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. CALDART, A., CARRERA, A., CORNEJO, M. (2019). The agenda of the chief executive officer. In Caldart, A., Ricart, J.E. and Carrera, A. (Eds), General Management in Latin and Ibero American Organizations: A Humanistic Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. ROSENBERG, M., CALDART, A., SEAGER, P. (2017). Strategy: The Soul of Your Business. In Mike Rosenberg and Philip H. Seager (Ed.), Managing Media Businesses: A Game Plan to Navigate Disruption and Uncertainty (pp. 15 - 35).

Studies

CALDART, A., AKHMEDOVA, A., GIFRA, J. (2021). La crisis del COVID-19 en el sector de alimentación y bebidas. Impacto y futuro. IESE. CALDART, A., GIFRA, J., PASAMÓN, F. (2019). Vademecum on Food and Beverage Markets. Food and Beverage Attractiveness Index 2017-2018.

Cases

, ISAAC SASTRE BOQUET, CALDART, A. (2022). La estrategia corporativa de Ebro Foods en el 2021. IESE, SM-1734. , ISAAC SASTRE BOQUET, CALDART, A. (2022). The Corporate Strategy of Ebro Foods in 2021. IESE, SM-1734-E. BERRONE, P., CALDART, A., RICART, J. E., SASTRE BOQUET, I. (2021). Tesla in the 2020s: Moment of Truth for the "Master Plan". IESE, SM-1707-E. CALDART, A., CANALS, J. (2019). Almirall. Orientando el futuro de la empresa. IESE, SM-1686. CANALS, J., CALDART, A. (2019). Almirall. Guiding the Future of the Company. IESE, SM-1686-E.

Technical Notes

CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2001). Strategy in Turbulent Environments. Organizations as Nonlinear Feedback Systems. IESE, DGN-619-E. CALDART, A., RICART, J. E. (2001). An Introduction to Real Options. Incorporating Flexibility to Quantitative Strategic Analysis. IESE, DGN-616-E.