...’ knowledge, this is the first study to identify the factors promoting progress through the different stages of the entrepreneurial ladder in Latin America. Separate regressions for women and men provide insight into the differential role of each variable by gender. Results from this study suggest...

... Latin America Business performance Small and medium-sized enterprises Ecuador Performance Micro Emerging countries Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are key components of the economy in emerging markets. Their role includes not only job creation and stimulating innovation...

.... Furthermore, the role of the companies’ decision-makers, as well as the role of crisis management and other related approaches in the companies are shown. Research limitations/implications The paper expands the underdeveloped body of knowledge regarding crisis management in Latin America in general...

... the effects of cluster development programs with state-of-the-art impact evaluation methods. Second, it adds evidence for Latin America, a region that has implement a number of cluster policies (Maffioli et al., 2016) and where, as far as the authors know, there is only one additional paper...

... 05 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competitiveness Latin America Intellectual capital Small business Place Subsistence Porter (1985) defines competitive advantage as the ability to earn returns...