Do Better Research is a new video series designed to disseminate featured studies conducted by Esade faculty and foster a collective reflection on the research process to achieve greater societal impact. In the first episode, we meet Ignasi Martí, director of the Esade Center for Social Innovation, who presents his research on the role of institutional voids in building more inclusive markets—a study that earned the 2024 Academy of Management Journal Impact Award.
Markets are essential instruments for social and economic progress, and everyone who contributes should be able to benefit from them. Scholars in strategy and finance have long argued that some markets fail due to the absence of fundamental market institutions, such as property rights or the autonomy of market actors. However, sociology and anthropology push this notion by inviting us to explore what actually exists within these so-called voids.

00:00 Introduction
01:00 The sources of exclusion
04:34 What can be done?
06:09 Thinking research as an exchange

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