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Elena Cristina San Román López

San Román López Elena C.

Catedrático de Historia Contemporánea en el Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Estructura e Historia de la Universidad Complutense y Académico Correspondiente de la Real Academia de la Historia. En 2012 fue nombrada Honorary Researcher de la Universidad de Lancaster. Su investigación se centra en la historia de empresas españolas del siglo XX con especial atención a las que son familiares y emprendedoras. Tiene 4 sexenios de investigación y 1 de transferencia y obtuvo la calificación de EXCELENTE en su última evaluación docente que corresponde al período 2021-24.
Professor at the Complutense University (Madrid, Spain) and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Academy of History (Spain). In 2012, Lancaster University appointed her as a Honorary Researcher. Her research focuses on business history in the twentieth century and, mainly on family and entrepreneurial firms. She has been recognized 4 positive research evaluations (sexenios de investigación) and 1 positive transference evaluation (sexenio de tranferencia)  by ANECA. She received the excellence teaching Diploma in her last evaluation (2021-24).   

LINEAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
  • Historia empresarial del siglo XX, con especial atención a las empresa familiares y emprendedoras
PUBLICACIONES RECIENTES
  • González Bernardos, Á., Gil-López, Á., San Román, E., & Gómez Blanco, V. (2025). Foreign investment and the development of the stock market in Spain (1961-2007). Revista De Historia Industrial — Industrial History Review. https://doi.org/10.1344/rhi-ihr.48557
  • San Román, E., Hernández-Barahona, J., Gómez Blanco, V. M., & Gil-López, Á. (2025). IESE. 50 años en Madrid [IESE Business School. Fifty Years in Madrid]. Madrid: El Viso / IESE. ISBN 978-84-129589-3-5.
  • Hernández-Barahona J, Gil-López Á, San Román E. (2025). Entrepreneurship capital in Spain and its impact on modern economic growth (1886–2000). Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. Published online 2025:1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610925100670
  • San Román, E., Hernández-Barahona, J., Gómez Blanco, V. M., & Gil-López, Á. (2024). Ancla de Barlovento. Los viajes oficiales de Juan Carlos I y el crecimiento económico en España [Windward Anchor. The Official Travels of Juan Carlos I and Economic Growth in Spain]. Madrid: El Viso. ISBN 978-84-129181-3-7.
  • Mateo López-Mora, T., Gil-López, Á., San Román, E., & Sierra Gómez, A. (2024). Networks throughout an institutional transition: the case of the former Meliá touristic group (1932–1978). Management & Organizational History, 19(1), 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2024.2315248
  • Gil-López, Á., Iszatt-White, M., & San Román, E. (2024). The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study. Management Learning, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076241299108
  • Hernández-Barahona, J., San Román, E., & Gil-López, Á. (2023). Bricolage and Innovation in the Emergence and Development of the Spanish Tourism Industry. Enterprise & Society, 24(4), 1119–1161.https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/eso.2022.28
  • Hernández-Barahona, J., López-Mora, M., Gil-López, Á., & San Román, E. (2023). Collective entrepreneurship in the Spanish hotel industry: The internationalization of a domestic cluster. In P. Fernández Pérez & E. San Román (Eds.), Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries: A Long-Term Approach (pp. 11–28). Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing.
  • Gil-López, Á., San Román, E., Jack, S. L., & Zózimo, R. (2023). Building an enterprise for the future through network bricolage and memories of the past. In P. Fernández Pérez & E. San Román (Eds.), Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries: A Long-Term Approach (pp. 95–116). Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing.
  • Gil-López, Á., Arzubiaga, U., San Román, E. & De Massis, A. (2022). The Visible Hand of Corporate Entrepreneurship in State-Owned Enterprises: A Longitudinal Study of the Spanish National Postal Operator. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 18, 3, 1033-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-020-00700-y
  • Álvaro-Moya, A., Gil-López, Á., & San Román, E. (2021). Contextualizing corporate entrepreneurship theory: The historical case of the Spanish engineering consulting firm TYPSA (1966–2000). Management & Organizational History, 16(3–4), 228–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2022.2033441
  • Gil-López, Á., San Román, E., Jack, S. L., & Zozimo, R. (2021). Driving through change at speed: Opportunity conditions and entrepreneurial responses in the history of the express industry. Revista de Historia Industrial — Industrial History Review, 30(81), 21–53. https://doi.org/10.1344/rhi.v30i81.31636
  • Gil-Alana, L. A., Gil-López, Á., & San Román, E. (2021). Tourism persistence in Spain: National versus international visitors. Tourism Economics, 27(4), 614–625. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354816619891349
  • San Román, E., Puig, N., & Gil-López, Á. (2020). German capital and the development of the Spanish hotel industry (1950s–1990s): A tale of two strategic alliances. Business History, 65(4), 762–786.https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1821658
  • San Román, E., & Gil-López, Á. (2020). Bergé y Compañía. 150 años mirando al futuro [Bergé & Company. 150 Years Looking to the Future]. Madrid: Ediciones El Viso. Legal Deposit M-19605-2020.
GRUPOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN