Lecuna, AntonioChávez, Roberto2022-05-252022-05-252018Lecuna, Antonio; Chávez, Roberto. Entrepreneurship and Weak Institutions in Latin America. Journal of Private Enterprise Enterprise, 33(3), 2018, 25–47http://hdl.handle.net/11447/6137This paper seeks to explain how heterogeneity in governmental institutions across countries affects entrepreneurial activity. Drawing on insights from institutional theory and based on panel data from eighteen Latin American nations for the 2002–2014 period, the findings presented here suggest that (1) decreasing the number of days required to start a business increases the ratio of high-growth entrepreneurs; (2) corruption increases the number of newly registered corporations per 1,000 working-age people; and (3) increasing the time required to start a business decreases the growth expectation of early-stage entrepreneurial activity across nations.enEntrepreneurial activityCorruptionInstitutional theoryHigh-growth entrepreneursArticle