Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 34 Issue 1

Management and sustainability dilemmas in Latin America: introduction

Olivia Hernandez-Pozas, Maria Jose Murcia, Enrique Ogliastri, Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan

This article introduces readers to the Special Issue (SI, 34-1) of ARLA, edited (not exclusively) with the best papers of the Academy of Management's Specialized Conference…

Brazilian Natura & Co: creating cosmetic powerhouse. Empirical evidence of competence-based synergies in M&A processes

Andrejs čirjevskis

This paper aims to operationalize and to test the ARCTIC (A – Advantage, R – Relatedness, C – Complexity of Competence, T – Time of Integration, I – Implementation Plan, C  

An analysis of factors that influence the decision to export: perspective of Brazilian companies

Mara Mataveli, Juan Carlos Ayala, Alfonso J. Gil

The objective of this work is to examine the factors that influence the decision of Brazilian companies to export.

Organizational resources and survival of startups firms – a qualitative analysis in the Peruvian context

Jubalt Alvarez Salazar

The purpose of this paper is to use a combination of resource-based theory and dynamic capabilities theory to explore the phenomenon of startup survival in an emerging…

Family business in tourism: an international systematic review of literature with an emphasis on Latin America

Beatriz Adriana López-Chávez, César Maldonado-Alcudia, Ana María Larrañaga Núñez

The purpose of this study is to analyze the current state of knowledge of family businesses in tourism through a systematic review of international academic literature with an…

The effect of insecurity and corruption on opportunity-driven entrepreneurship in Mexico: an fsQCA analysis

Pablo Pinazo-Dallenbach, Fernando Castelló-Sirvent

Opportunity-driven entrepreneurship (ODEs) is a key to economic development. Consequently, the emigration of potential ODEs constitutes a barrier to the development of the country…

Influence of support on work engagement in nursing staff: the mediating role of possibilities for professional development

Francoise Contreras, Ghulam Abid, Mark Govers, Natasha Saman Elahi

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of colleague and supervisor support on work engagement, examining the mediating role of possibilities for professional…

Innovative entrepreneurship and quality of life. The case of Ecuador

Juan Carlos Aguirre, Marco Leonardo Peralta Zuñiga, Pedro Mora, Francisco Blanco

This article is based on the assumption that entrepreneurship improves quality of life (HDI). Its main objective is to establish causal relationships between entrepreneurship…

What social enterprises can learn from the freemium business model

Francisco Layrisse, Ezequiel Reficco, Andrés Barrios

The purpose of this study is to identify how the value dynamics of the freemium business model (BM) play out in a social enterprise.