28 de Octubre, 2015
Décimonovena sesión Seminario FEN - José Ignacio Barrera presentará "Opportunity recognition and its effects on innovation management in international firms located within emerging countries"

Fecha de inicio: 30 de Octubre, 2015, 13:00 hrs.

Fecha de término: 30 de Octubre, 2015, 14:00 hrs.

Estimados profesores,

Este viernes 30 de octubre se llevará a cabo la décimonovena sesión del seminario interno de FEN donde se expone trabajos en progreso de académicos y avances de tesis de estudiantes.

En esta ocasión, José Ignacio Barrera presentará "Opportunity recognition and its effects on innovation management in international firms located within emerging countries", cuyo resumen se encuentra más abajo.

El seminario se llevará a cabo a las 13:00 hrs en la sala P307 de la FEN. Se solicita confirmar asistencia con Pamela Fuentes al correo pamela.fuentes@econ.uchile.cl a más tardar el día jueves 29 de octubre a las 13:00 horas, ya que el seminario contempla almuerzo.

Quienes deseen inscribir presentaciones para futuras sesiones, por favor dirigirse con Damián Vergara al correo damian.vergara.d@gmail.com.

Atentos saludos,

Dirección de Investigación FEN

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Título - Opportunity recognition and its effects on innovation management in international firms located within emerging countries

Autores - José Ignacio Barrera

Abstract - The aim of this paper is to analyze the microfoundation of the opportunity recognition capabilities of innovation in Latin American firms when they are looking for internationalization. We validate an instrument to measure the dynamic capability of opportunity recognition on innovation practices in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. We use a sample of 721 Latin American firms to validate the reliability of this instrument. This study identifies 4 constructs that form part of the dynamic capability of innovation opportunities: (1) The Detection of Innovation, (2) Knowledge Management Activities, (3) The Intention to Innovate, and (4) The Impact of Innovation. Our results suggest that opportunity recognition is a dynamic capability that depends on the convergence process between the intention to innovate, innovation detection, knowledge management, and innovation impact. This work contributes to existing literature of innovation management by providing evidence with respect to the ability to recognize opportunities of innovation abroad has an impact on a successful internationalization of Latin American companies.