• An agent-based model of school choice with information asymmetries 

  Díaz, Diego A.; Jiménez, Ana María; Larroulet, Cristián (2019)

  Going from a neighbourhood-based to a choice-based system of school selection can have positive effects on enrolment in higher achievement schools, increasing average student achievement. We develop an Agent-Based model ...
• Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems in Mexico: a comparative analysis 

  Villegas Mateos, Allan Oswaldo; Amorós, José Ernesto (2019)

  Purpose – The entrepreneurial ecosystem approach tries to understand the mechanisms underlying new business creation and helps develop tools, governmental policies and support systems that enhance the outcomes of ...
• An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation: evidence from Chile 

  Parada‑Contzen, Marcela; Vásquez Lavín, Felipe (2019)

  We perform a cost–beneft analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indiferent between donating and not donating a kidney ...
• Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s 

  Giacomin, Valeria; Jones, Geoffrey; Salvaj, Erica H. (2019)

  This article examines non-profit investments by business in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from a recently developed oral history ...
• Signaling Quality in the Presence of Observational Learning 

  Figueroa, Nicolás; Guadalupi, Carla (2019)

  We study the optimal pricing strategy for a privately informed monopolist in the presence of observational learning. Early adopters learn quality before purchasing the product. Late adopters learn quality from frst-period ...
• Listening and perseverance – two sides to a coin in quality evaluations 

  Janakiraman, Narayan; Bullemore, Jorge; Valenzuela-Fernández, Leslier; Fernando Jaramillo, Jorge (2019)

  Customer evaluation of service provider’s offer quality (OQ) can vary even when there is no tangible difference in quality. This is because a customer’s assessment of quality also depends on their attitude toward the ...
• Parental endowments versus business acumen: Assessing the fate of low-tech, service-sector spinouts 

  Hunt, Richard A.; Lerner, Daniel A.; Townsend, David M. (2019)

  Research Summary In recent years, scholarship on intraindustry entrepreneurial spinouts has coalesced around a heredity‐focused perspective, propounding the notion that spinouts from high‐quality parent‐firms outperform ...
• Bringing It All Back Home: Corporate Venturing and Renewal Through Spin-ins 

  Hunt, Richard A.; Townsend, David M.; Asgari, Elham; Lerner, Daniel A. (2019)

  More often than not, corporate acquisitions are expensive and difficult, especially those transacted for the purpose of advancing the aims of corporate entrepreneurship (CE). Motivated by frequent, high-cost failures, firms ...
• Home court advantage? Knowledge-based FDI and spillovers in emerging economies 

  Matusik, Sharon F.; Heeley, Michael B.; Amorós, José Ernesto (2019)

  Research Summary: Emerging economies increasingly try to stimulate innovation as a path toward economic development. One side effect of this is that foreign ownership of innovation in these contexts is increasing. This ...
• Comanagement of small-scale fisheries and ecosystem services 

  Gelcich, Stefan; Martínez Harms, Maria José; Tapia Lewin, Sebastián; Vasquez Lavin, Felipe; Ruano Chamorro, Cristina (2019)

  Marine ecosystem services are in global decline, which requires new transformational changes in governance to cope with multiple anthropogenic stressors. We perform a systematic literature review of the biodiversity and ...
• REORIENTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY TO TACKLE CHILE’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS: A RAPID RESPONSE 

  Muñoz, Pablo; Naudé, Wim; Williams, Nick; Williams, Trenton; Frias, Rodrigo (2019)

  Chile is experiencing its worst economic and social crisis in decades, which is adversely impacting entrepreneurs and SMEs. Chile’s Economic Development Agency is seeking to support recovery efforts by reorienting its ...
• RESTORATIVE ENTREPRENEURING: A NEW CROSS- DISCIPLINARY AGENDA TO SUPPORT AT-RISK SOCIAL GROUPS 

  Wainwright, Lee; Muñoz, Pablo (2020)

  In this paper we uncover and systematize practical challenges and research priorities at the intersection of entrepreneuring, rehabilitation and at-risk social groups. Our work draws on practical challenges identified ...
• Consumer confidence and consumption: empirical evidence from Chile 

  Acuña, Guillermo; Echeverría, Cristián; Pinto-Gutiérrez, Cristian (2019)

  This paper examines whether consumer confidence forecasts future consumption in Chile. The results show that consumer confidence indicators are positively related to consumption growth during the month following the ...
• The role of climate variability in convergence of residential water consumption across Chilean localities 

  Acuña, Guillermo; Echeverría, Cristián; Godoy Faúndez, Alex; Vásquez Lavin, Felipe (2019)

  This paper analyses the existence of convergence in residential water consumption across geographical regions by using econometric methods taken from the economic growth literature and a panel of water consumption of 348 ...
• Do employees’ generational cohorts influence corporate venturing? A multilevel analysis 

  Guerrero, Maribel; Amorós, José Ernesto; Urbano, David (2019)

  Organizations are facing an interesting phenomenon in the composition of their workforce: the concurrence of multiple age generations that demand suitable strategies regarding work design, job satisfaction, and incentives. ...
• Effectiveness of Technology Transfer Policies and Legislation in Fostering Entrepreneurial Innovations across Continents: An overview 

  Guerrero, Maribel; Urbano, David (2019)

  The purpose of this article and the special issue is to improve our understanding of the theoretical, managerial, and policy implications of the effectiveness of technology transfer policies on entrepreneurial innovation. ...
• Strategic knowledge management within subsidised entrepreneurial university-industry partnerships 

  Guerrero, Maribel; Herrera, Fernando; Urbano, David (2019)

  Purpose: This paper analyses how collaborative/opportunistic behaviours subsidised universityindustry partnerships are influencing the design/implementation of strategic knowledge management practices in emerging ...
• Blockchain technology and startup financing: A transaction cost economics perspective 

  Ahluwalia, Saurabh; Mahto, Raj V.; Guerrero, Maribel (2019)

  Cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin, EOS, Etherum, Litecoin, and others) are disrupting the traditional banking and financial systems. The cryptocurrencies are based on a set of technologies commonly referred to as blockchain ...
• Ecosistema y actividad emprendedora en México: Un análisis exploratorio 

  Guerrero, Maribel; Santamaría-Velasco, Carlos Alberto (2019)

  Este artículo analiza los elementos que componen un ecosistema emprendedor para comprender la vinculación entre el emprendimiento y el desarrollo económico. Se utiliza una metodología cuantitativa y cualitativa, la cual ...
• How do motivational factors influence entrepreneurs’ perception of business opportunities in different stages of entrepreneurship? 

  Poblete Cazenave, Carlos; Sena, Vania; Fernández de Arroyabe, Juan Carlos (2019)

  The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it analyses the relationship between optimism about the emergence of future entrepreneurial opportunities and the length of the entrepreneurial experience; second, it aims to ...

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