Dr
Antonio Revilla
- Senior Lecturer
- Email: a.revilla@bathspa.ac.uk
- Mobile: (+3) 4649 229477
- School or Department: Bath Business School
- Campus: Newton Park
- Office: NP.CM.229

Personal statement
Antonio joined Bath Spa University as Senior Lecturer in Business and Management in April 2016. He had previously developed his academic career at Carlos III University (Spain) for over a decade.
His teaching includes Entrepreneurship and the application of Design Thinking to successful business innovation. His expertise bridges the fields of Entrepreurship, Strategic Management, and Innovation Management, with a focus on sustainable value creation as the ultimate source of competitive advantage. He has also published world-class research in the field of family business, including the most-read article on Family Business Review in 2016-17.
His current research projects explore the ability of firms - particularly new ventures and SMEs - to integrate disperse sources of technological knowledge into an effective and efficient innovation process.
Academic qualifications
- PhD Business (Strategic Management), Carlos III University (Madrid)
- MSc Social Research Methods, London School of Economics and Political Science
- MPhil Management, Complutense University (Madrid)
- BA Business, Carlos III University (Madrid)
- BA Law, Carlos III University Madrid.
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Subjects
- Design Thinking
- Entrepreneurship
- Creative Enterprise.
Areas of expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Family business
- Strategic management
- Innovation and research and development management.
PhD Research supervision
My research background is rather eclectic, and I am always open to engage with new research ideas, as long as they are interesting. I am particularly keen on topics where significant contributions to theory can be made. I expect PhD candidates should disseminate their research in international conferences and subsequently publish it in a leading international journal.
Topics
Current research topics include:
- Open innovation
- Family Businesses
- Internationalization of R&D and innovation.
However, I am open to supervise dissertation in other topics, as long as they are relevant and intellectually challenging.
Preferred methods
My background is quantitative methods, in particular:
- panel data models such as:
- mixed-effects models
- generalised method of moments
- survival analysis and
- multivariate analysis such as:
- ANOVA
- cluster analysis
- factor analysis
- multivariate regression.
Research keywords
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Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Strategic Management
Research and academic outputs
External knowledge sourcing and firm innovation efficiency
article
Asimakopoulos, G, Revilla, A.J and Slavova, K (2019) 'External knowledge sourcing and firm innovation efficiency.' British Journal of Management, 31 (1). pp. 123-140. ISSN 1045-3172
Leader’s communication style, LMX and organizational commitment: a study of employee perceptions in Peru
article
Brown, O, Paz-Aparicio, C and Revilla, A.J (2019) 'Leader’s communication style, LMX and organizational commitment: a study of employee perceptions in Peru.' Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 40 (2). pp. 230-258. ISSN 0143-7739
Does family involvement in management reduce the risk of business failure? The moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation
article
Revilla, A.J, Pérez-Luño, A and Nieto, M.J (2016) 'Does family involvement in management reduce the risk of business failure? The moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation.' Family Business Review, 29 (4). pp. 365-379. ISSN 0894-4865
Antecedents and consequences of bank reputation: a comparison of the United Kingdom and Spain
article
Ruiz, B, García, J.A and Revilla, A.J (2016) 'Antecedents and consequences of bank reputation: a comparison of the United Kingdom and Spain.' International Marketing Review, 33 (6). pp. 781-805. ISSN 0265-1335
Differentiating the workforce: the performance effects of using contingent labor in a context of high-performance work systems
article
Stirpe, L, Bonache, J and Revilla, A.J (2014) 'Differentiating the workforce: the performance effects of using contingent labor in a context of high-performance work systems.' Journal of Business Research, 67 (7). pp. 1334-1341. ISSN 0148-2963
The dynamics of company profits: a latent growth model
article
Revilla, A.J and Fernandez, Z (2013) 'The dynamics of company profits: a latent growth model.' Strategic Organization, 11 (2). pp. 180-204. ISSN 1476-1270
The relation between firm size and R&D productivity in different technological regimes
article
Revilla, A.J and Fernandez, Z (2012) 'The relation between firm size and R&D productivity in different technological regimes.' Technovation, 32 (11). pp. 609-623. ISSN 0166-4972