scholarly journals Understanding Imagination in Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Lecuna
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
New Concepts

Abstract Using interviews to explore the role imagination plays in the South American Nikkei phenomenon (a fusion of Japanese haute cuisine with Peruvian ingredients) and employing the alternate templates research strategy to analytically compare three entrepreneurial behaviors (adaptive bricolage, strategic planning, and transformative effectuation), this case study found that the current theoretical boundary conditions are insufficient to separate the three archetypes. Therefore, based on data, new concepts are proposed to explain entrepreneurial behaviors where they overlap (e.g., creative imagination as a bridging construct of the entrepreneurial process). A novel entrepreneurial trilemma and a behavioral model focused on the conceptual overlaps are introduced to frame the new concepts and to visually depict the relationships between them.

Weed control in natural grasslands: A case study using a perennial native forb from the South American Campos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amparo Quiñones Dellepiane ◽  
Fernando A. Lattanzi ◽  
Néstor E. Saldain ◽  
Felipe Lezama
Keyword(s):  
Weed Control ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Natural Grasslands

Demographic and Architectural Retrodiction: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study in the South American Tropical Lowlands

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Forest Community ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Architectural Organization ◽  
American Tropics ◽  
Tropical Lowlands

This paper focuses on the demographic and architectural organization of a South Amerindian tropical-forest community. The household, as the most important social, economic, and behavioral unit in this society, is reflected in the strong quantitative relations between the floor areas of the various structure types and the associated number of occupants. In contrast, floor area/number of occupants relations at the nuclear-family level are quantitatively weak. Since the aboriginal household was also the most important economic and demographic social unit in the South American tropics, the present study may be used to estimate prehistoric settlement population levels using excavated data. As such, this study encourages the use of the direct-historical approach by archaeologists working in the lowlands of South America.

scholarly journals Designing an Accountability Index: A Case Study of South America Central Governments

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Hermosa del Vasto ◽  
Cristina del Campo ◽  
Elena Urquía-Grande ◽  
Susana Jorge
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Information ◽  
Empirical Framework

Abstract The aim of this paper is to evaluate accountability using a newly constructed multivariate accountability index based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), as well as on the accessibility of government disclosure for each country in the South America context. That will allow to analyse and compare the accountability disclosure issues among the South American countries. This study uses the statistical dimensional structure of data to identify the number of (dominant) dimensions. The findings were eight dimensions defined as Environmental, Expenditure, Social, Strategic, Economic, Information, Macroeconomic and Organizational perspectives. Scores are recorded for the twelve countries in South America that are classified accordingly. The contributions of this research represent an advance in the theoretical and empirical framework by creating an accountability index that takes into account the principles of good governance to improve the South America Central Governments’ transparency performance. This index could be used both by academics and practitioners to classify countries and their web site accountability.

scholarly journals OS TRIÂNGULOS COMPETITIVO-COOPERATIVOS NAS RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS: UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO TEÓRICA DO PODER A PARTIR DO ESTUDO DE CASO DAS FORÇAS POLÍTICAS INTERNAS E EXTERNAS NA AMÉRICA DO SUL

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Salgado Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International System ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Theoretical Formulation ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
South American Region ◽  
Realist View

In the 21st century, power projects in South America constitute disputes that comprise a dialectical correlation between Internal and External Political Forces. In this sense, this article aims to conduct an innovative debate based on the theoretical formulation called Competitive-Cooperative Triangles of Power, taking the South American region as a case study. From a realist view of international relations and by using an empirical-deductive methodology, the objective is to achieve an epistemological construction regarding power in the international system, explaining the challenges and possibilities of the South American Internal Political Forces.

scholarly journals Subtropical Cyclones over the Southwestern South Atlantic: Climatological Aspects and Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (22) ◽  
pp. 8543-8562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Felippe Gozzo ◽  
Rosmeri P. da Rocha ◽  
Michelle S. Reboita ◽  
Shigetoshi Sugahara
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Wind Shear ◽  
Austral Summer ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Subtropical High ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
Cutoff Low ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Hurricane Catarina (2004) and subtropical storm Anita (2010) called attention to the development of subtropical cyclones (SCs) over the South Atlantic basin. Besides strong and organized storms, a large number of weaker, shallower cyclones with both extratropical and tropical characteristics form in the region, impacting the South American coast. The main focus of this study is to simulate a climatology of subtropical cyclones and their synoptic pattern over the South Atlantic, proposing a broader definition of these systems. In addition, a case study is presented to discuss the main characteristics of one weak SC. The Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-Interim) and NCEP–NCAR reanalysis are used to construct the 33-yr (1979–2011) climatology, and a comparison between them is established. Both reanalyses show good agreement in the SCs’ intensity, geographical distribution, and seasonal variability, but the interannual variability is poorly correlated. Anomaly composites for austral summer show that subtropical cyclogenesis occurs under a dipole-blocking pattern in upper levels. Upward motion is enhanced by the vertical temperature gradient between a midtropospheric cold cutoff low/trough and the intense low-level warm air advection by the South Atlantic subtropical high. Turbulent fluxes in the cyclone region are not above average during cyclogenesis, but the subtropical high flow advects great amounts of moisture from distant regions to fuel the convective activity. Although most of the SCs develop during austral summer (December–February), it is in autumn (March–May) that the most “tropical” environment is found (stronger surface fluxes and weaker vertical wind shear), leading to the most intense episodes.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document