Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 26 Issue 1

Editorial: innovation in Latin America

Enrique Ogliastri

This issue sees the Emerald Group join the journal as a partner and includes five papers about innovation and two general pieces. The introduction to the theme of innovation…

Introduction: innovation in Latin America

Niels Ketelhöhn, Enrique Ogliastri

The purpose of this article is to summarize the basic literature and concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship, emphasizing the relevant studies for Latin America. The authors…

Knowledge transfer and university patents in Mexico

María Guadalupe Calderón-Martínez, José García-Quevedo

The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that influeunce the ability of Mexican public universities to generate patents. Academic patents are deserving of increasing…

Entrepreneurial ventures, institutional voids, and business group affiliation: the case of two Brazilian start-ups, 2002-2009

Santiago Mingo

Institutional voids – the lack of institutions that can facilitate the functioning of markets – are ubiquitous in emerging markets. Because of their newness, entrepreneurial…

The diffusion of new products in Latin America: a new comparative approach

Javier Palacios Fenech

The purpose of this study is to examine the diffusion pattern of new products in Latin America, and to compare the results of principal component analysis with other descriptive…

Marketing innovations in the agribusiness sector

Cristian Geldes, Christian Felzensztein

The purpose of this article is to analyse the characteristics and determinants of marketing innovation in companies, using the agribusiness sector as a case study due its economic…

The effect of mandatory IFRS adoption on accounting conservatism of reported earnings: Evidence from Chilean firms

Mauricio Jara Bertin, José Tomás Arias Moya

The authors aim to analyze whether the adoption of IFRS accounting standards in Chilean capital markets affects the earnings conservatism of the firms that adopt them.

The mirror trap: Do managerial perceptions influence organizational responses to crises?

María Andrea De Villa, Tazeeb Rajwani

This study aims to examine the influence of managerial perceptions on the strategic responses adopted by four Colombian organizations when facing a political crisis.