Special Issue Call for Papers:

“The Entrepreneurship Challenges in Latin America”

European Business Review

Entrepreneurship in emerging economies has been the subject of scholarly inquiry in recent decades. However, there continues to exist research gaps, and relevant questions continue to go unanswered. The specific case of Latin America presents scholars with a vast field of opportunities for research as the region is home to some of the largest consumer markets in the developing world like Brazil and Mexico, and provide illuminating cases of the causes and consequences of rapid development (e.g., Chile, Panama or Colombia). While Latin America has recently shown significant progress in the creation of new companies, which has been catalyzed in part by government-sponsored pro-entrepreneurship policies, differences in relation to more advanced economies persist along the lines of such things as levels and types of innovation and intrapreneurship

We want to invite researchers interested in entrepreneurship dynamics to submit their contributions for publication consideration. Prospective manuscripts can be empirical (using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods) or conceptual, which would aid in the development of new insights into the entrepreneurial phenomenon in emerging economy contexts. However, we place special emphasis on approaches to entrepreneurship from the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean. Notwithstanding the primary focus of the special issue, we would welcome interesting works that deal with other emerging or developing regions (for example, Asia, Africa, etc.) and their relationship with Latin America, or relationships between developed economies and the region.

Without limiting the scope of potential contributions, the topics of particular interest are:

• The figure of the entrepreneur in the creation of new innovative businesses (attitudes, motivations, activity, and future expectations) in the Latin America context.
• The relationship between entrepreneurial activity and economic development.
• The role of management education in the formation of new entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial intention.
• The role of institutions in the development of entrepreneurship ecosystems.
• The role of sustainable, social and conscious entrepreneurship in the impact of Circular Economy in Latin America
• Comparison of conditions for entrepreneurial activities among countries or regions (including comparisons between countries of Latin America or countries of the region with countries of other regions –China, India, Africa, etc.); GEM, GUESSS.
• Innovation within the firms and intrapreneurship.
• The role of education and ecosystems in the development of dynamic capabilities on innovation.
• The impact of Bio-innovation on startups in the Latin American Context
• Diversity in enterprises, based on culture, gender, ethnicity, age, class, etc.
• Financing of new companies (informal investors, angel investors, bootstrapping, etc.).
  
  

The special issue is tied to the CLADEA Annual Conference (Virtual Conference) 20-24 October 2020 (www.cladea.org/cladea2020/). Outstanding papers presented at this conference will be invited for full paper submission. The guest editors also welcome submissions to the special issue that has not been submitted to or presented at this conference.

Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2020

Guest Editors:

José Ernesto Amorós, Ph.D. (EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey (México) & Universidad del Desarrollo, Facultad de Economía y Negocios (Chile)

Juan Carlos Leiva, PhD. (Escuela de Administración, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica)

Adriana Raquel Bonomo (Departamento de Administración y Finanzas / Centro Ithaka de Emprendimientos e Innovación, (Uruguay)

Juan Carlos Sosa Varela (School of Business & Entrepreneurship, Universidad Ana G. Méndez (Puerto Rico)