Abstract
This paper investigates how the business and management issues of Latin American countries are being covered in cross-cultural research. In so doing, this paper analyzes articles published in the JIBS and MIR during the period 1987–1997. The analysis shows that Latin America is an under-represented area in contemporary international business research and there has been no noticeable increase in the coverage of Latin American business and management issues in the JIBS and MIR articles during the period under review. The findings also suggest that there has been no increase either in the number of Latin American authors or in collaborative research efforts involving researchers from researchers from Latin American countries. The paper stresses the need for more coverage of Latin American issues in the leading management and business journals and recommends some institutional initiative to foster research interest on Latin America.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to thank the Special Editor of the IJOTB Professor Chris Robertson and two anonymous reviewers of the IJOTB for their comments. We also thank Professor Ercan Nasif, Chair, Department of Management, Marketing, and International Business at the University of Texas-Pan American for his comments on an earlier draft of this paper. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS). Mohammad Niamat Elahee and Sameer Vaidya made equal contribution to this article. Their names appear in an alphabetical order.