Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 29 Issue 4

Editorial on the international collaboration in Latin American publications on management, vis-à-vis the best papers in Cladea 2015

Enrique Ogliastri

This issue includes five of the best papers, from six different countries, presented in the Cladea Assembly of 2015. This introduction summarises the papers and presents an…

Organizational structure and innovation: analysis from the strategic co-alignment

Diego Armando Marín-Idárraga, Juan Carlos Cuartas

The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of the co-alignment of structural variables on innovation, wherein Bogotá-based SMEs, belonging to the industrial, commercial…

Fear of failure in the workplace among Brazilian employees

Daniel Oswaldo Santana de Souza, Patrícia Amélia Tomei

The purpose of this paper is to explore how demographic variables – such as age, gender, professional status, type of employment situation, and hierarchal level – affect perceived…

Organizational effects and labor behavior of domestic violence

Segundo J. Castro-Gonzáles, Orquídea Arias Díaz, Anamari Irizarry Quintero

Using a proposed model, the purpose of this paper is to categorize small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) owners/managers’ perceptions of customer service, and of the manifestations…

Telework: conditions that have a positive and negative impact on the work-family conflict

Martín Salazar Solís

Various investigations have shed light on the positive and negative effects of telework on the work-family conflict. These effects might be related to the conditions under which…

Inventory management in food companies with statistically dependent demand

Fernando Rojas, Victor Leiva

The objective of this paper is to propose a methodology based on random demand inventory models and dependence structures for a set of raw materials, referred to as “components”…

Trust and satisfaction: the keys to client loyalty in mobile commerce

Nadia Jimenez, Sonia San-Martin, Jose Ignacio Azuela

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of four important variables in the development of customer loyalty in mobile commerce. These variables are personal (propensity to…