Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 34 Issue 2

Shadow banking's effects in the Chilean financial system

Diana López Avilés, Paula Piñeira, Víctor Andrés Roco Cáceres, Felipe Vergara, Nicolas Araya

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) determined that entities classified as shadow banking are of a credit nature because they are capable of affecting the financial system through…

Differences in the impact of AMO bundles of line managers and frontline workers on the performance of manufacturing firms

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Alejandro Bello-Pindado

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact on manufacturing performance of human resource management (HRM) practices across two job levels within manufacturing firms in…

Sustainability engagement in Latin America firms and cost of equity

Renato Garzón Jiménez, Ana Zorio-Grima

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions are expected to reduce information asymmetries and increase legitimacy among the stakeholders of the company, which consequently…

Does one size fit all? CEO profiles and strategic management choices

Lucia Garcés-Galdeano, Carmen García-Olaverri, Emilio Huerta

Upper echelons theory (UET) stands that cognitive bases of the CEO influence the field of vision and interpretation of the environment and affect its decisions about the firm. The…

Family firm CEOs: human capital and career success

Maria Rita Blanco, Miguel Angel Sastre-Castillo, Maria Angeles Montoro-Sanchez

This article explores the influence of education and experience on the time to the top in family and non-family CEOs who work for Latin American family firms.

Attracting CEO directors: the case of Latin America

Jose Luis Rivas, Jairo Villamil-Diaz, Albert Cannella

To understand if certain board traits can contribute to attract CEO directors

An assessment tool for the evaluation of circular economy implementation

Karel Diéguez-Santana, Giselle Rodríguez Rudi, Ana Julia Acevedo Urquiaga, Emanuel Muñoz, Neyfe Sablón-Cossio

In this paper, the authors adopt the theory of the circular economy to study the transitions that take place in three case studies in Mexico and Ecuador. The work is aimed to…