25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (BALAS)
Innovation and Wealth Creation in Latin America
2009 BALAS Annual Conference
April 1-3 2009
Hosted by Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Paper Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2008
Innovation is a mechanism to transform the challenges faced by many countries and regions into opportunities. The BALAS Conference will discuss innovation as a source of integration, development, aggregate value, creation of new markets to generate income and wealth.
To be part of this discussion, BALAS invites you to submit papers that study the main components that lead toward innovation in its different stages and scopes, deriving at the end to new business models and strategies. The creation of new products, services and processes; the implementation of new organizational models at large and SMEs; the development of new distribution channels; and many other innovations are ways to create areas of opportunity and impetus toward the development in Latin America.
In addition to these topics, the BALAS conference welcomes papers related to the business and economic environment of Latin America and the Caribbean in the following tracks:
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GENERAL LATIN AMERICAN
BUSINESS TRACKS
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Accounting, Taxation, and Management Information and Control Systems
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Economic Environment and Regional Integration
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Entrepreneurship
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Human Resource Management
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Strategies for Global Competitiveness
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Culture, Social, and Ethical Issues
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Marketing Management
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Consumer Behavior
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Corporate Finance
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Financial Markets, Investment and Risk Management
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Information Technology Management
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Supply-Chain and Operations Management
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Management Education and Teaching Cases
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For submission, registration, and local information please go to: http://www.balas.org
Program Chair: Raúl Montalvo, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara.
BALAS2009.GDL@servicios.itesm.mx
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