Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 35 Issue 4

Organizational learning in the context of product development processing: a case study in an automotive company

Dario Henrique Alliprandini, Gabriela Scur, Ana Paula Vilas Boas Viveiros Lopes, Mariana Maciel Wakatsuki

This study identifies and analyzes practices related to declarative knowledge of organizational learning in the product development process (PDP) that uses the Stage-Gate (SG…

The influence of the personality traits and sociodemographic CEO characteristics on performance of SMEs: evidence from Chile

M. Alejandra Inostroza, Christian Espinosa-Méndez

In this paper the authors study how sociodemographic characteristics and personality traits of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) impact financial performance in small and medium…

Human resource management practices and innovation in Colombian firms

Rodrigo Costamagna, Sandra Idrovo-Carlier, Pedro Mendi, Alfredo Rodriguez

This paper takes a closer look at the way firms combine human resources from different departments by analyzing firm-level data obtained from a series of innovation surveys…

Analysing the risk-return relationship in privately held firms: the contingent effect of being a family firm

Alfonso Andrés Rojo Ramírez, MCarmen Martínez-Victoria, María J. Martínez-Romero

The relationship between risk and return has been widely analysed in the scope of listed companies. However the present literature leaves uncovered an important study area with…

Work–life balance and work values as antecedents of job embeddedness: the case of Generation Y

Rosa María Fuchs, Oswaldo Morales, Juan Timana

The objective of this research is to study work–life balance and intrinsic and extrinsic work values as antecedents of job embeddedness. Likewise, the conservation of resources…

The influence of the eye of competence on project success: exploring the indirect effect of people on both perspective and practice

Cristiane Esteves Cruz, Gabriela Scur, Ana Paula Vilas Boas Viveiros Lopes, Marly M. Carvalho

There is a lack of investigation on three areas of competence in the Individual Competence Baseline 4 (ICB4) (IPMA). Furthermore, some studies pointed out the importance of soft…

Entrepreneurship as a multidisciplinary phenomenon: culture and individual perceptions in business creation

Sofía Louise Martínez-Martínez

Entrepreneurship is presented as a vehicle for innovation and social development. Given the importance of entrepreneurship, the objective of this study was to analyze the…