Contemporary Influences on International Business in Latin America

William Newburry is Department Chair and the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University (FIU), USA, in the Department of International Business. Before joining FIU, he was employed at Rutgers University Business School, USA. He just completed a six-year term as President / Chapter Chair of the AIB Latin America Chapter. He also serves as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Center for Emerging Market Studies and as Series Editor for Research in Global Strategic Management.Leonardo Liberman is an Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes, Chile, in the Faculty of Business and Economics. He has worked as a lecturer and assistant professor in Sweden, Australia and Chile, and has authored and co-authored more than a dozen top-tier, peer-reviewed journal articles. He has also held leadership roles in academic and business organizations and is the founder of AIB-LAT and its first Chapter Chair. Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Jr. is full Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Business Administration at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He was previously Visiting Scholar in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK, (1997-1998) and Visiting Professor in universities within the EUA, EU and Latin America. Moacir is currently the Chief Editor of Innovation & Management Review, and an Executive Committee member of AIB-LAT.

• 1. Building a Whole from the Parts: Environmental, Firm and Individual-level Factors; William Newburry, Leonardo Liberman and Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Jr..- 2. Public Instruments to Support Internationalization: The Case of Brazil Machinery Solutions; Diego Bonaldo Coelho.- 3. Regime Structure, Institutional Stability and Pro-market Reforms; Elizabeth Marie Moore, Luis Alfonso Dau and Catherine Bradley.- 4. Country Development Stage and the Level of Corporate Social Disclosure; Simone Ruchdi Barakat, Greici Sarturi and Keysa Manuela Cunha de Mascena.- 5. Overcoming Institutional Barriers when Entering Brazil: A Legitimacy Perspective; Jason A. Hoop, Daniel Rottig, Nicholas J. Cid and David M. Peterson.- 6. Internationalization and the Tale of the Cabo Frio Beachwater Cluster; Angela Da Rocha, Batriz Kury and Jorge Ferreira da Silva.- 7. Investigating the Export Behavior of Family SMEs from Chile; Constanza Bianchi.- 8. Acculturation Process in Cross-Border M&A: A CaseStudy of a Brazilian Automobile Firm; Bruno de Oliveira Carvalho and Mario Henrique Ogasavara.- 9. Exploring the Relationship between International Service Performance and Personal Characteristics in the Latin American Context; Leonardo Liberman and David Kimber.- 10. Examining the Influence of Self-efficacy, Optimism and Curiosity on the Performance of International Locals; Leonardo Liberman, David Kimber and Javier Pinto.