The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America
Unleashing a Millennial Potential
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With contributions from nearly 50 researchers across Latin America, The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Unleashing a millennial potential contains the most important debates on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in Latin America.
Covering the most recent topics that influence Latin America’s entrepreneurial dynamics, chapters are written by specialists from Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, England, Venezuela, Spain & Peru. The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America presents a detailed and extensive review of the most relevant literature published in Latin America, critically analysing and exposing historical processes along with emerging debates, suggesting future paths for its entrepreneurship ecosystems, agents, sectors and regions.
The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America offers new perspectives and will change the way the global arena sees Latin America. A first must-have reference for present and future researchers, corporate executives, and business schools with the aim to understand the challenges and opportunities this region has in the global, national, and regional arenas, a timely text most relevant than ever given the post pandemic context that present and future generations will confront with.
Section I Creativity & Entrepreneurship in Latin America
- Chapter 1. Creativity & Entrepreneurship in Latin America: The Time Has Come; Hortensia Mínguez García, Oscar Montiel, and Araceli Almaraz
- Chapter 2. The Historical Institutional Context in Latin America in the Promotion of the Creativity Process of Entrepreneurship; Rebeca de Gortari Rabiela and María Josefa Santos Corral
- Chapter 3. The Orange Economy, Entrepreneurs, and the Future: The Role of Culture and Creativity in the Economic Recovery;Trinidad Zaldívar
- Chapter 4. Organizational Creativity Process: Experiences in Latin America; Henrique Muzzio
- Chapter 5. The Institutional Change of Intellectual Property Commercialization; Ignacio De León and Esteban Santamaria
- Chapter 6. Media Labs: Catalyzing Experimental, Structural, Learning, and Process Innovation; Ana Cecília B.Nunes, John Mills, and Eduardo Campos Pellanda
- Testimonial: Association Our Godchildren of Guatemala (ANA de G) (Asociación Nuestros Ahijados de Guatemala); Vanessa Rodas de Montenegro
- Section II Innovation; Entrepreneurship in Latin America
- Chapter 7. Innovation in Latin-America: An Eternal Recurrence?; Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón, Oscar Montiel, and Araceli Almaraz
- Chapter 8. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Latin American Thought Approach; Javier Jasso Villazul, Ismael Núñez Ramírez, and Arturo Torres Vargas
- Chapter 9. Transforming Innovation Systems for Sustainable Development Challenges: A Latin American Perspective; Claudia De Fuentes and Jahan Ara Peerally
- Chapter 10. University Knowledge Transfer to Its Environment and STI Policies; Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón
- Chapter 11. Capabilities, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Startups in Latin America; Javier Jasso Villazul and Arturo Torres Vargas
- Chapter 12. Social Innovation in Latin America: Debate and Experiences; Mario Vargas Saenz
- Chapter 13. Start-ups, Gender Disparities, and the Fintech Revolution in Latin America; Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo and Ignacio González-Correa
- Chapter 14. Entrepreneurship Dynamics in Latin America: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Perspective; José Ernesto Amorós
- Testimonial: Encouraging interdisciplinary entrepreneurship in higher education: What drives and challenges us? Lessons from IDEAR Lab in Brazil; Naira Maria Lobraico Libermann and Ana Cecília B. Nunes
- Section III The Past and Future of Entrepreneurship in Latin America
- Chapter 15. New Momentum for Entrepreneurship: Latin America’s 4th Wave; Oscar Montiel, Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón, and Araceli Almaraz
- Chapter 16. An Entrepreneurial Perspective of the Mesoamerican Civilizations: Implications for Latin America; Anel Flores Novelo and Oscar Montiel
- Chapter 17. Research Priorities In Entrepreneurship In Latin America; Christian A. Cancino and Bruce Lezana
- Chapter 18. Social Entrepreneurship, a Forceful Social Fact: An Analysis of Studies from Latin America; Mariana Zerón Félix, Claudia Milena Álvarez Giraldo, and Cristian Alejandro Rubalcava de León
- Chapter 19. The Earlier Impact Of Covid-19 on Entrepreneurship on Latin America: A Review and Research Agenda; Rosalina Torres-Ortega and Carlos Alberto Santamaria-Velasco
- Chapter 20. A Psychological Profile of the Latin American Entrepreneur; Marisol Morales Rodríguez
- Chapter 21. The Potential of Biographical Studies of Latin American Entrepreneurs for Business, Economic History and Related Fields: The Cases of Mexico and Colombia; Carlos Dávila Ladrón de Guevara, Araceli Almaraz, and Mario Cerutti
- Chapter 22. Entrepreneurial Migration Processes from and to Latin America: Opportunities and Obstacles; Elizabeth Salamanca
- Chapter 23. A Theoretical Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education: Lessons From Mexico, Chile, and Colombia; Dra. María de los Dolores González-Saucedo and Lic. Diana Karen Vélez-Sánchez
- Chapter 24. Political Corruption & Entrepreneurship in Latin America: An Understanding of Their Interactions and the Suitability of Regional Solution Proposals; Yoel Modesto Gonzalez Bravo
- Chapter 25. The Tourism Chain and Entrepreneurship in South America: An Overview; Fernando Armas Asín and Martin Monsalve Zanatti
- Chapter 26. Analysing Successions in Family Business History: Theory and Method; Araceli Almaraz and Manuel Llorca-Jaña
- Chapter 27. Negotiation and Entrepreneurship From the Perspective of Economic Institutionalism: A Case for Latin America; Oscar Montiel, Rosa Azalea Canales García, and Oscar Alejandro Vásquez Bernal
- Testimonial: Uruguayan Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE); Florencia Alvarez-García and Mario Cerutti Pignat
Oscar Javier Montiel Méndez is professor of management at Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ). He obtained his PhD on Management Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (CONACYT, Level 1), and has been an author and coordinator on several books and top journal articles covering diverse topics related to Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Family Business.
Araceli Almaraz Alvarado, PhD in Social Sciences (Ciesas), is professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (CONACYT, Level II), specialist in History Business and associate editor for Latin America in the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, Universitat de Barcelona.