Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 31 Issue 1

Thirty years of the Academic Journal (ARLA)

Enrique Ogliastri, Carlos Pombo, Elvira Salgado

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the anniversary issue marking 30 years of academic publication.

Thinking styles, gender, and decision making in Latin American management: A comparative study with the USA

Camelia Ilie, Guillermo Cardoza

Many studies have analyzed how gender diversity and local culture condition the cognitive styles of managers and affect decision-making processes in organizations. Gender…

Women on boards of directors in Latin America: building a model

Lidia Heller, Patricia Gabaldon

Through an analysis of 15 Latin American countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of several institutional variables (economic, regulatory, and cultural)…

Spanish women’s career inhibitors: 2007-2017

Celia de Anca, Salvador Aragón

The purpose of this paper is to explore inhibitors preventing Spanish women from attaining positions of leadership.

Internationalization and performance: the role of depth and breadth

Andres Velez-Calle, Fernando Sanchez-Henriquez, Farok Contractor

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between multinationality and firm performance (M-P) in Latin American companies, commonly referred to as multilatinas. The…

Bibliometric analysis of indexed research on corporate social responsibility in Latin America (2000-2017)

María Helena Jaén, Nunzia Auletta, Josefina Bruni Celli, Melanie Pocaterra

This paper presents an overview of Latin American (LA) publications on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and closely related themes that appear in ISI Thompson Reuters Social…

Who wants to be an angel investor? The characteristics of the high net worth individuals in the Chilean resource periphery

Gianni Romaní, Miguel Atienza, Felipe Campos, Pablo Bahamondes, Rodrigo Hernández

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse the characteristics of high net worth individuals (HNWI) as potential angel investor in Antofagasta, the main mining resource…

Going public in Mexico

María de las Mercedes Adamúz, José Luis Rivas

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that affect the likelihood of being public using a comprehensive database of private and public companies in Mexico, from all…

The association between board gender diversity and financial reporting quality, corporate performance and corporate social responsibility disclosure: A literature review

María Consuelo Pucheta-Martínez, Inmaculada Bel-Oms, Gustau Olcina-Sempere

Companies, politicians, the mass media, legislators, scholars and society in general have shown a growing interest in how board gender diversity affects a firm’s decisions. This…

Corporate governance and firm performance in Latin America: a meta-analysis

Flávia Schwartz Maranho, Ricardo Leal

The relationship between the role played by corporate governance (CG) mechanisms and shareholder wealth is an important and mature topic in some countries and regions. However…

Foreign exchange exposure in Latin America: evidence for Spanish firms

María Milagros Vivel-Búa, Rubén Lado-Sestayo

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the Spanish business sector’s economic exposure to currency risk in Latin America between 2010 and 2016, testing the effectiveness of…

The Latin American art market: literature and perspectives

Urbi Garay

The purpose of this paper is to present the progress and trends of the literature on art as an investment and to outline potential research lines to be developed.

Creative citizenship: the new wave for collaborative environments in smart cities

Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

This paper is framed under the relevance of collaborative governance models in smart cities that are members of the EUROCITIES network and are involved in a working group about…