... to five Latin American countries and to listed firms, which limits generalizability to the vast informal economy that characterizes much of Latin America. Since non-listed SMEs face even steeper resource constraints and opaque institutional pressures, the paradox intensity reported here likely represents...

... they generate. This scenario consolidates their position in a limited income and dependent on rules defined by more powerful actors (Mishra and Dey, 2018). Global value chains Institutional voids Informality Power asymmetries Latin America Amazon Global value chains (GVCs) facilitate...

... environment for fostering GVC participation. Originality/value This study offers a rare, institution-focused empirical analysis of GVC participation in Latin America, integrating diverse governance quality measures and nonlinear governance impacts across various GVC facets, along with digital...

...Dina Frutos-Bencze; Kujtim Avdiu; Stephan Unger Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of monetary policy indicators on Latin America’s renewable energy development. The authors conduct several regressions as well as a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to unveil relationships among...

...Rafael Alcadipani; Alex Faria Purpose – Latin America has been neglected in management and international business (IB) knowledge for a long time. Such a picture reflects the enduring power of the dark side of the geopolitics of knowledge that “international” sub-fields in management knowledge...

... contributed to the “idea of Latin America” and, in the process contributed to practices of dependency that served the interests of the USA. Drawing on a case study of Pan Am, the paper further argues that multi‐national corporations help to establish the contours of international trade by influencing the very...