Latin American Business Cultures - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349368695 ISBN 13: 9781349368693

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

How often has an American or European businessman been astonished to have his Mexican or Brazilian counterpart break off discussions without explanation and refuse to return his calls? This book helps non-Latin American businessmen or MBA students address the region. If you want to study or work in Latin America this is a must read.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This concise, practical book was written to better understand the business cultures in eleven Latin American countries.

• Fifteen authors with backgrounds in business, academia, politics, and the. highest levels of policy making investigate the Latin American business culture.
• New insights are given into Latin America as a diverse, not homogeneous, continent with specific and regional perspectives.
• Coverage is provided of different countries, cultures, and languages, but similar objectives. Sub-regions, regionalism, and globalism are discussed in depth.
• Europe as a model diversity and pluralism the role of indigenous peoples potential conflict between the regional blocs and NAFTA democracy in Latin America regional stability

Topics include:

• Europe as a model
• diversity and pluralism
• the role of indigenous peoples
• potential conflict between the regional blocs and NAFTA
• democracy in Latin America
• regional stability

About the Author:

LIC. KATHERINA FERNÁNDEZ Economic Consultant for the House of Representatives National Government of Argentina and Assistant Professor in Economics and Macroeconomics at Universidad del Cema, Argentina DR. ROQUE FERNÁNDEZ Former Minister of Economics and Public Works, former Chairman of the Central Bank of Argentina, co-founder and Member of the Board of the University of Cema, member of the National Academic Board of Economic Sciences OTTO NOGAMI Professor of Microeconomics at FAAP and Managerial Economics at Ibmec Sao Paulo, Brazil MARCUS VINICIUS FREITAS Professor of Law and International Relations at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP JOSÉ MARIA RODRIGUEZ RAMOS Economics Program Coordinator at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) LUIZ ALBERTO MACHADO Dean of the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) School of Economics HERNÁN FELIPE ERRÁZURIZ CORREA, lawyer, is a partner of the law firm: Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa & Errázuriz, Advisor to the Chilean Foreign Minister; Member of the editorial board and columnist of El Mercurio newspaper; member of the board of Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo RICARDO MONGE-GONZÁLEZ Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Costa Rican Council on Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) and Professor of Economics at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology ANA LAURA TORRENTES GARCÍA economist who works as Project's Assistant at the High Technology Advisory Committee Foundation - CAATEC DR. ROBERTO B. SALADÍN Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the USA LUIS VALENCIA RODRÍGUEZ, Lawyer, Member of the Ecuadorean Foreign Service. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Ecuador to Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Permanent Representative to the United Nations MERCEDES DELGADO Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business BOBBY J. CALDER Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, and currently the Chair of the Marketing Department, at the Kellogg School of Management NICOLÁS ARDITO-BARLETTA President of Asesores Estrategicos, S.A., Chairman of Panama Development Corp, and Director General of the NGO Centro Nacional de Competitividad. Former President of the Republic of Panama CARLOS STENERI Director of the Debt Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, Uruguay SEBASTIÁN SOSA Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) IGNACIO DE POSADAS Partner at the law firm of Posadas, Posadas & Vecino in Montevideo, and Director at Merrill Lynch, P.F. & S, Uruguay ALVARO EGUIRON Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A ANTONIO MITRE is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1349368695
• ISBN 13: 9781349368693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295
• Editor: Crane R., Rizowy C.