Conference Tracks

Special Track

Corporate Governance, Resilience, and Sustainable Value Creation in Latin America

Corporate governance shapes how firms define purpose, allocate power, and create long-term value. In Latin America—marked by inequality, institutional volatility, resource dependence, and strong business groups-governance plays a central role in development, resilience, social inclusion, and environmental impact.

A key question arises: is corporate governance in Latin America a driver of institutional modernization and sustainable value creation, or a mechanism that reinforces elite power and concentration? Ownership concentration, political ties, and elite networks sharpen this tension.

The region offers a setting to revisit core theories of governance, ownership, and stakeholder capitalism under conditions of concentrated power and institutional fragility.

This track covers corporate governance in Latin/Ibero-America, inviting diverse theoretical perspectives and disciplines for a holistic understanding. It seeks to explain the effects of the roles, attributes, and interactions of boards of directors, board committees, CEOs, Top Management Teams, and other governance actors, alongside internal governance mechanisms and diverse ownership structures, including private equity ownership, cooperatives, non-profit organizations, state ownership and state-controlled enterprises, institutional investors, and activist shareholders. The track also examines external governance mechanisms, including institutional rules and cultural norms; the role of stakeholders and governance intermediaries, such as proxy advisors, external auditors and assurance providers, and credit rating agencies; and the market for corporate control and governance implications of M&A. Additionally, it welcomes comparative analyses of corporate governance across national contexts, considering the influence of transnational institutions and multi-level governance interactions in a globalizing economy.

General Tracks

Economics & Development, Public Policy & Global Issues

This track addresses economic analysis, development, and public policy, with particular attention to Latin America and its economic and political institutions, markets, firms, and business environment. Topics include economic growth, income and inequality, employment, inflation, interest rates, productivity, wealth distribution, economic and regulatory policy, industrial policy, trade and trade blocs, natural and critical resources, and the role of the state in shaping markets and firms. It also welcomes interdisciplinary research on political and social trends, geopolitics, climate change, systemic crises, institutional change, and economic and institutional resilience, including their implications for regional and global business.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Ecosystems

This track welcomes research on entrepreneurship, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems at regional, national, and sectoral levels. Entrepreneurship topics include entrepreneurial intentions and action, opportunity recognition and creation, entrepreneurial processes, startups, small businesses, new venture creation, corporate entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial internationalization. Innovation topics include product, service, process, and business model innovation, R&D, knowledge transfer, intellectual property, and innovation systems. Ecosystem topics include venture capital and entrepreneurial finance, incubators and accelerators, Triple and Quadruple Helix models, ecosystem governance, and interactions among ecosystem actors such as entrepreneurs, firms, universities, governments, investors, civil society, and local institutions. Comparative research across countries and regions is also welcome.

Family Business & Ownership Structures

This track focuses on family firms, business families, and family ownership structures in Latin America and other emerging and developed economies. Topics include family ownership and control, family governance, family involvement in management and boards, family-controlled business groups, family succession and intergenerational ownership transfer, socioemotional wealth, family entrepreneurship, professionalization of family firms, family management control, family strategy, family dynamics, and owner-family relationships, as well as their implications for strategic decisions, organizational behavior, continuity, and firm performance. Comparative research across countries and regions is encouraged.

Finance, Accounting, Investments & Risk

This track focuses on financial decision-making at the firm, market, and institutional levels in Latin America. It welcomes research on corporate finance, accounting, auditing, taxation and control systems, financial markets, investments, and risk management. Topics include financing and capital structure, investment and cash flow, mergers and acquisitions, IFRS, financial reporting, disclosure, securities issuance and trading, asset pricing, portfolio management and performance, derivatives, institutional investment and investor behavior, financial institutions, financial and market risk, and regulation of financial markets and institutions at national and international levels. Comparative and cross-country research offering broader Latin American perspectives is particularly encouraged.

Digital Transformation, AI & Operations

This track focuses on Information Technology and Information Systems (IT/IS), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Operations Management, and their transformation through digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Topics include IT management, information systems, IT governance, AI governance and adoption, data governance, cybersecurity, blockchain, business intelligence, data analytics, digital platforms and infrastructures, software and technology management, IT strategy and change management, as well as supply chains, manufacturing and service operations, materials and inventory, transportation and logistics, infrastructure, planning, quality management, process efficiency, productivity, performance measurement and improvement, and operational resilience. Research may also address technology-enabled partnerships and organizational and operational transformation.

Marketing, Consumer Behavior & Digital Markets

This track welcomes research on marketing and consumer behavior in Latin America, across traditional and digital markets. It includes perspectives from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and related fields, examining consumers as individuals and members of groups, including families, gender, and socio-economic segments, and their responses to marketing activities. Topics include marketing of products and services, marketing strategy, relationship marketing, market orientation, international marketing, product, price, place and promotion management, marketing analytics and modeling, customer equity, branding and brand equity, as well as consumer-facing digital platforms, e-commerce, marketplaces, digital consumers, and data-driven marketing.

People, Leadership & Organizational Behavior

This track welcomes research on leadership, organizational behavior, human resource management, and organizational culture. Topics include motivation and coaching, personality, workplace attitudes, work-life balance, employee voice, employee performance, careers, power and diversity, group dynamics, decision-making, teams and teamwork, cross-functional interactions, organizational citizenship behaviors and employee green behaviors, and organizational change. It also examines the evolving world of work, including AI in the workplace and hybrid work, as well as culture as a social variable shaping individuals and organizations across institutional and social contexts. Research addressing these dynamics in Latin America, as well as the people and organizational implications of Latin American firms expanding into Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, is particularly welcome.

Strategy, International Business & Competitiveness

This track covers strategy and international business, with an emphasis on competitiveness, multinational enterprises (MNEs), multilatinas, global value chains, and firm adaptation across diverse institutional and regional contexts. Topics include competitive and corporate strategy, internationalization and foreign market entry, foreign direct investment, cross-border expansion, global and regional strategies, industry dynamics, strategic alliances and interfirm relationships, and global value chain positioning, participation, and upgrading. It welcomes research on both Latin American firms expanding internationally and foreign firms investing and operating in Latin America, including the effects of policy and institutional environments, industry conditions, and cross-border relationships on firm strategies and competitiveness.

Sustainability, Ethics & Social Impact

This track addresses sustainability, ethical, social, and ESG-related challenges faced by firms and institutions, with particular relevance to Latin America. Topics include corporate social responsibility (CSR), ESG, business ethics, social impact, climate and environmental responsibility, human rights, social and environmental accountability, corruption, ethical decision-making, organizational misconduct, and social inclusion and responsible employment practices. It also welcomes research on environmental, social, and ethical impacts of globalization and foreign investment, cross-cultural dimensions of ethics and sustainability, and responsible business practices, including their implications for firms, MNEs, stakeholders, and society at the individual, organizational, and country levels.

Business, Economic, and Management History

This track explores the historical evolution of business, economics, management, and organizations in Latin America and beyond. It integrates business history, economic history, management history, organizational history, and historically informed perspectives on strategy, entrepreneurship, and managerial thought. Topics include the development of industries, firms, and entrepreneurship; labor dynamics involving race, gender, class, and migration; managerial practices, management education, ideologies, and organizational forms; and the role of business in public goods, corporate social responsibility, and state-building. The track also welcomes comparative and transnational research and studies of the strategic use of historical narratives by organizations. It encourages theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work using archival research, oral histories, and other historical sources to explain how organizations and business systems evolve in response to institutional, political, economic, and cultural forces.

Teaching Cases & Management Education 

This track welcomes research and pedagogical innovations in management education and case-based teaching, with particular attention to Latin America and diverse institutional settings. The management education focus includes pedagogical projects, curriculum design and curricular frameworks, interdisciplinary integration, learning outcomes, assessment and institutional self-evaluation, theories of education and teaching-learning processes, teaching practices and methodologies across levels of higher education, and virtual and in-class learning environments. The teaching cases focus welcomes classroom-ready cases and teaching case methodologies; teaching notes should be included and are exempt from the page limit applicable to other papers. Real-life cases are preferred over hypothetical cases, while games and other learning exercises designed for use by other instructors are also welcome.

Doctoral Colloquium

The Doctoral Colloquium provides a developmental forum for doctoral students to present and discuss their research projects with senior scholars. It offers feedback on theory, methods, and positioning, supporting the advancement and professional development of early career researchers.

Concerning the Doctoral Colloquium details, click HERE.

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