Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 33 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Enrique Ogliastri, Juan Carlos Leiva, Rachel Gabel-Shemueli, Luis Chavez-Bedoya

Design thinkers’ profiles and design thinking solutions

Martha Corrales-Estrada

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the profiles of design thinkers influence particular design-thinking solutions. It proposes to identify who (profiles), how…

Does all entrepreneurship matter? The contribution of entrepreneurial activity to economic growth

Xavier Ordeñana, Paul Vera-Gilces, Jack Zambrano-Vera, Adriana Amaya

The purpose of this paper revisits the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth.

Dispositional and situational factors at work: A validation of scales and examination of effects on job satisfaction

Lucas Pujol-Cols, Guillermo E. Dabos

The purpose of this paper is to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Core Self-Evaluations Scale (CSES) and the Brief Index of Affective Job…

Internationalization of industrial small-medium enterprises in an emerging country

Luis Enrique Ibarra-Morales, Monica Blanco-Jimenez, Beatriz Alejandra Hurtado-Bringas

The purpose of this paper is to boost the internationalization of companies by implementing key factors that will help them to increase their exports in a context of an emerging…

The impact of service/product performance and problem-solving on relationship satisfaction

Ruben Chumpitaz, Nicholas G. Paparoidamis

The purpose of this paper is to merge service and product quality concepts as well as problem-solving capabilities and relationship satisfaction into an integrative model and…

Reconceptualization of the usefulness of a system as a multidimensional construct geared towards supporting tasks

Edgardo Bravo

The purpose of this paper is to develop a theory and provide empirical support for the re-conceptualization of usefulness as a multidimensional construct based on the…

Strategic alliances’ effects over hospital efficiency and capacity utilization in México

Víctor Giménez, Diego Prior, Jorge R. Keith

This paper aims to investigate the efficiency implications of belonging to a strategic hospital alliance (SHA) and measuring the effects over capacity utilization of such…

Culture, strategy formulation, and firm performance: a meta-analysis

Silvio Borrero, Alejandro Acosta, Aida F. Medina

This article explores how strategy formulation affects firm performance to determine whether rational/analytical strategy formulation is more effective than emergent/reflexive…