Atlas de la investigación en administración en América Latina Vol. 4

Abstract

Unlike the previous three volumes of the Atlas of Management Research in Latin America where networks based on information were modeled, analyzed, and discussed, this volume presents collaboration or co-authorship networks at the institutional level. The co-authorship networks were studied based on more than 17 000 articles in the field of business, management and accounting indexed in the Scopus bibliographic database published by authors from Latin America (LAC). The co-authorship networks for lac and each of the countries, were modeled and visualized, in addition to computing the density and betweenness of the networks and nodes, respectively. The institutions with the highest betweenness in LAC were the universities of São Paulo (Brazil), los Andes (Colombia), and Chile (Chile). There is no direct relationship between productivity and betweenness. Institutions in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Mexico have collaborated with universities in the global north and with higher betweenness worldwide, such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Maryland. Networks from Paraguay, Bolivia, or Honduras exhibit a closed or dense structure, while those in Colombia, Mexico, or Brazil, an open structure or with multiple clusters connected indirectly. The three universities with the highest betweenness also focus their research efforts on topics of high intermediation identified in the third volume of the Atlas, such as sustainable development and decision making. Like the three previous volumes, data are provided in open access.