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Management and sustainability dilemmas in Latin America: introduction

Olivia Hernandez-Pozas (International Business, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico)
Maria Jose Murcia (IAE Business School, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina) (Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Enrique Ogliastri (IE Business School, IE University – Campus Madrid, Madrid, Spain) (INCAE Business School Walter Kissling Gam Campus Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica)
Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan (Management and Marketing, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA) (School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA)

Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración

ISSN: 1012-8255

Article publication date: 19 March 2021

Issue publication date: 29 March 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

This article introduces readers to the Special Issue (SI, 34-1) of ARLA, edited (not exclusively) with the best papers of the Academy of Management's Specialized Conference, scheduled for April 2020 in Mexico City. The COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation, but the expert peer review and editorial work continued, to contribute to the emerging literature on Latin American Management and Sustainability.

Design/methodology/approach

Guest editors contributed their expertise based on required editorial processes and focused literature reviews on Management and Sustainability.

Findings

There are large management and sustainability challenges to Latin American practitioners and researchers, resulting in an increasingly urgent need to systematically document similarities and differences in the fields of Management and Sustainability. It is so because the region has been affected as few others before, during and after the pandemic. Thus, this issue summarizes the literature, presents eight new studies and offers suggestions for future research.

Research limitations/implications

Management and sustainability in Latin America are wide subjects, with different dimensions and issues. This is a specific contribution that leaves much ground to be covered in the different subfields of the area, in research methodologies and conclusions.

Originality/value

An agenda for advancing the field of management and sustainability in Latin America, highlighted by the COVID-19 disruption; additionally, eight of the most advanced research in the field are presented, chosen from two tracks of a large number of contributions to a recent specialized conference organized by the Academy of Management.

Propósito

Este artículo presenta el Número Especial (SI, 34-1) de ARLA, editado (no exclusivamente) con los mejores artículos de la Conferencia Especializada de la Academy of Management, programada para abril de 2020 en la Ciudad de México. La pandemia COVID-19 obligó a su cancelación, pero se continuó la revisión por pares expertos y el trabajo editorial, para contribuir a la literatura emergente sobre Gestión y Sostenibilidad en América Latina.

Diseño/metodología/enfoque

Los editores invitados contribuyeron con su experiencia con base en los procesos editoriales requeridos y revisiones de literatura enfocadas en Gestión y Sostenibilidad.

Recomendaciones

Existen grandes desafíos de gestión y sostenibilidad para los profesionales e investigadores de América Latina, lo que genera una necesidad cada vez más urgente de documentar sistemáticamente las similitudes y diferencias en los campos de la gestión y la sostenibilidad. Es así porque la región se ha visto afectada como pocas antes, durante y después de la pandemia. Por lo tanto, este número resume la literatura, presenta ocho nuevos estudios y ofrece sugerencias para futuras investigaciones.

Limitaciones/implicaciones de la investigación

La gestión y la sostenibilidad en América Latina son temas amplios, con diferentes dimensiones y temáticas. Se trata de un aporte específico que deja mucho terreno por recorrer en los distintos subcampos del área, en metodologías de investigación y conclusiones.

Originalidad/valor

Una agenda para avanzar en el campo de la gestión y la sostenibilidad en América Latina, destacada por la disrupción del COVID-19. Además, se presentan ocho de las investigaciones más avanzadas en el campo, elegidas entre dos temas de un gran número de contribuciones a una reciente conferencia especializada organizada por la Academy of Management.

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Acknowledgements

The guest editors thank Alberto Ibarra and German Cespedes, organizers of the original conference, as well as all the more than one hundred anonymous reviewers of the papers.

Citation

Hernandez-Pozas, O., Murcia, M.J., Ogliastri, E. and Olivas-Lujan, M.R. (2021), "Management and sustainability dilemmas in Latin America: introduction", Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARLA-06-2020-0147

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