Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 29 Issue 3

Editorial

Carlos Pombo

Family firms in Ibero-America: an introduction

Maria José Parada, Claudio Müller, Alberto Gimeno

This paper highlights the importance of understanding family firms in different contexts. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the characteristics and behavior of family…

Corporate governance in family businesses from Latin America, Spain and Portugal: A review of the literature

Diógenes Lagos Cortés, Isabel C. Botero

The purpose of this paper is to summarize what is known about corporate governance in family firms from Ibero-American countries based on published research.

What hampers innovation in Mexican family firms?

María Concepción López-Fernández, Ana María Serrano-Bedia, Manuel Palma-Ruiz

The purpose of this paper is to explore to what extent different obstacles (financial, knowledge, market, and perception) affect the propensity of Mexican family firms to engage…

Open innovation search strategies in family and non-family SMEs: Evidence from a natural resource-based cluster in Chile

Rodrigo Basco, Andrea Calabrò

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what types of open innovation search strategies are associated with internal innovation activities in family and non-family SMEs within…

Management capability and performance in Spanish family firms

Lucia Garcés-Galdeano, Carmen García-Olaverri, Emilio Huerta

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible causes of the heterogeneous productivity observed in Spanish firms, finding evidence of a link between managerial capability…

The nexus between size and external business advice in the family firm

Cristina López-Cózar-Navarro, Tiziana Priede-Bergamini, Sonia Benito-Hernández

The purpose of this paper is to suggest two main objectives: to analyze if the size of the company is determined by the use of external legal and human resources (HR) advice; and…

An actor-network theory perspective to study the non-adoption of a collaborative technology intended to support online community participation

Gibran Rivera, Andrew M. Cox

The purpose of this paper is to explore the value of Actor-network theory as an approach to explain the non-adoption of collaborative technology.

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