CLADEA 2011 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Economic Future of Latin America - XLVI Annual Assembly of CLADEA

Papers may be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Text, quotes and bibliographic references must follow style guidelines established by the American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition. Papers will be reviewed by scholars in each track under a blind review process.
To personally present a paper and have it included in the Conference proceedings publication, at least one of the authors must be dully registered to attend the CLADEA 2011 Annual Conference and have paid the corresponding registration fee. The presented papers may be considered for publication on a special issue of ACADEMIA.
The papers must be unpublished and must relate directly to one of the following tracks:

I. Entrepreneurship
a. Business Development
b. SME’s
c. Social Entrepreneurship
d. Family Business
e. Sustainable Development
f. New Ventures
II. Management of Innovation and Technology
a. Commercialization
b. Technology Transfer
c. New Venture Creation through Web based Technologies
d. Management of Information Security
III. Management and Operations Management
a. Business Policies and Strategies
b. Business Competitiveness
c. Corporate Governance
d. International Management
e. Supply Chain
f. Operations Management in Services Industry
g. Transparency
IV. Economic Policies and Economic Development
a. Economic Models
b. Economic Development and Regional Integration
c. Globalization
d. The Impact of Neoliberal Economic Policies
e. Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Government
f. The Impact of Public Policy on Economic Development
V. Human Resources and Business Social Responsibility
a. Organizational Behavior
b. Diversity
c. Gender Studies
d. Expatriates Management
e. Motivation on the Workplace
f. Leadership Styles
g. Labor Relations
h. Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet, Profit)
i. Social Capital Development
VI. Accounting and Finance
a. Financial Markets
b. Investments and Risk Management
c. International Accounting and International Finance
d. Microfinance and Micro-lending
e. Banking Policies
f. Forensic Accounting
g. Auditing
h. Behavioral Finance
VII. Marketing and Sales
a. The Marketing Concept
b. Pricing and Product Decisions
c. Consumer Behavior
d. Retail Sales Management
e. The Massive Distribution
f. Markets and Marketing Research
g. Marketing Ethics
VIII. Professional Development Workshops
a. Learning Assessment
b. Bloom’s Taxonomy
c. Teaching and Research Strategies
d. Use of Technology in the Classroom
e. Teaching using the Case Methodology
f. Business Simulations