Large Firms and Business Groups in Latin America: Towards a Theory Based, Contextually Relevant Research Agenda

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Relevant Research

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC EXPENSES: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARISSA MARCHIORI PACHECO ◽  
MARINA KOLLAND DANTAS ◽  
CLÁUDIA SOUZA PASSADOR ◽  
LARA BARTOCCI LIBONI-AMUI
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Future Research Agenda

Abstract Several studies analysed the environmental public expenditures, its allocation and role as an instrument for public action. However, there is still a gap in the literature, since there are no works that integrate and systematize the existing knowledge. Therefore, we conducted an integrative literature review, and selected thirty articles for synthesis, classification and coding based on a system proposed by the authors. We identified that researches on this field are still recent and publications are concentrated in Europe and Latin America. Regarding the research methods, the qualitative approach based on case studies was used to develop the majority of the studies. Also, the studies in general combined different spheres of analysis, discussing topics on performance and description of expenses. The results showed that there is a need for studies that promote themes such as transparency, accounting organization and the creation of indicators, enabling deeper analysis. An agenda with eight research suggestions was proposed based on observed theoretical limitations.

scholarly journals Ocean Science Diplomacy can Be a Game Changer to Promote the Access to Marine Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Polejack ◽  
Luciana Fernandes Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
Science Diplomacy ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Marine Technology ◽  
Game Changer

Ocean science is central in providing evidence for the implementation of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. The Convention’s provisions on transfer of marine technology to developing countries aim at strengthening scientific capabilities to promote equitable opportunities for these countries to exercise rights and obligations in managing the marine environment. Decades after the adoption of the Convention, these provisions are under implemented, despite the efforts of international organizations, such as IOC-UNESCO. Latin America and the Caribbean struggle to conduct marine scientific research and seize the opportunities of blue economy due to the limited access to state-of-the-art technology. Ocean science communities in these countries are subject to constraints not foreseeing in international treaties, such as unstable exchange rates, taxation, fees for transportation, costs of maintenance and calibration of technology, challenges to comply with technical standards, and intellectual property rights. Action is needed to overcome these challenges by promoting a closer tie between science and diplomacy. We discuss that this interplay between science and international relations, as we frame science diplomacy, can inform on how to progress in allowing countries in this region to develop relevant research and implement the Convention. We provide concrete examples of this transfer of marine technology and ways forward, in particular in the context of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030).

Post-Hegemonic Regionalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pía Riggirozzi ◽  
Diana Tussie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
World Order ◽  
Political Space

The concept of post-hegemonic regionalism describes the scenario that has characterized Latin American regionalism in the last two decades. It first builds from Amitav Acharya’s work, in which he envisaged the end of United States hegemony and a world order of multiple leadership and power competitions, a scenario that he calls a “multiplex world.” To a large extent, post-hegemonic regionalism grew at odds with U.S. regional and hemispheric ambitions of market-led governance and in a context of weakened U.S. hegemony in Latin America. As a concept, denotes the region as a political space in which transborder governance is anchored in a new consensus about what cooperation and diplomacy is and is for, giving way to a reorganization of the regional scenario and the emergence of diverse efforts in new areas of cooperation. With this in mind, post-hegemonic regionalism is both a theory-based concept, contributing to a debate and a research agenda that branched out in the study of southern regionalism, as much as a manifestation of governance that re-signified and valued the regional space as one of action and contestation.

Paradiplomacy in Latin America: Between the Policy and the Research Agenda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Mauad
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Subnational Governments

Paradiplomacy refers to the international politics of subnational governments, such as cities and states. Latin American subnational actors have been actively performing paradiplomacy actions since the 1990s, fostering a research agenda that is closely connected with the policy practice. In a context of democratization and regional integration, paradiplomacy tends to grow and expose challenges regarding legal and institutional settings within federalist countries while dialoguing with global dynamics.

The Organizational Consequences of Politics: A Research Agenda for the Study of Bureaucratic Politics in Latin America

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Polga-Hecimovich ◽  
Alejandro Trelles
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
The State ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Organizational Consequences ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Methodological Approaches

AbstractThe study of the bureaucracy in Latin America, within the study of politics, has long been little more than an afterthought. It is assumed to lie in the realm of public administration, distinct from other regional subfields that have increasingly gained the attention of political scientists. As a result, scholars' understanding of Latin American bureaucratic politics is limited. Here, we conduct a comprehensive survey of peer-reviewed articles to evaluate the state of this subfield. We find a thematically, analytically, and methodologically splintered discipline, but a prime one for exploitation and new avenues of research. This article summarizes salient trends in the literature, describes advances in the study of bureaucracy in Latin America, and discusses limitations in this scholarship. It suggests a roadmap for scholars by proposing a series of research questions and recommends a series of analytical and methodological approaches to address those questions.

Anthropology and Law in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Rachel Sieder
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Collective Rights

As a researcher working within the field of collaborative or ‘engaged’ legal and political anthropology in Latin America, law does very much shape my research agenda and that of most of my colleagues. I would also contend that anthropology does impact law throughout the region, although to a much lesser extent. This is most evident in the legalisation, judicialisation and juridification of indigenous peoples’ collective rights to autonomy and territory in recent decades. Yet, the influence of anthropology on legal adjudication in the region is not only limited to issues pertaining to indigenous peoples: engaged applied ethnographic research is playing an increasingly important role in revealing to legal practitioners and courts the effects of human rights violations in specific contexts, and victims’ perceptions of the continuums of violence to which they are subjected.

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