Purpose To address the increasingly turbulent environments that businesses face, the purpose of this study is to build on prior research to propose a comprehensive model aimed at enhancing business school education in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach The authors modified and adapted...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the impact of clusters on development and growth at the firm and regional level in Latin America (LA). The past 20 years have witnessed an acceleration of cluster initiatives, assuming their positive impact on firm performance and regional development....

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between performance and some macro and micro variables in the Argentine commercial banking industry. Included are the profitability and interest variables; return on assets (ROA) and net interest margin (NIM) over the period of 1994 to...

Purpose This study aims to enhance the knowledge that managers and scholars have on franchising expansion. In this sense, it is worth mentioning that although the body of literature on international management focusing on emerging markets is growing, the attention paid to the Latin American...

Purpose – The authors aim to examine how macro, meso and micro territorial boundaries influence the loan repayment performance of female clients of mega microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in a polarized Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Design/methodology/approach – The study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the formative potential of the case method on MBA students’ “civility” – the procedural dimension of the ethics field. While a robust literature has focussed on the impact of teaching ethics (content) on students’ behavior, to-date no...

<P>Introduction</P><I><P>Monika Meireles, Bruno De Conti and Diego Guevara</I> </P><B><P>I. Rethinking Development and Financial Dependency: Theoretical Reflections </P></B><P>1. Dependency, Finance and Development: Echoes of the Past That Resonate in the Present </P><I><P>Manuel Felipe Martínez Mantilla and José Daniel Saade Figueroa</P></I><P>2....</p></p></i></p></p></b></p></i></p>