Jaime Humberto Sierra-González

Jaime Humberto Sierra-González
Pontifical Xavierian University · Department of Business Administration

PhD

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Introduction
Been working recently on the financing of innovation (sectoral perspective). Currently, a project on innovation financing in the power generation sector in Colombia is under way.
Additional affiliations
February 2004 - July 2005
Universidad del Rosario
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
February 2002 - November 2003
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Position
  • Lecturer
March 1999 - December 2001
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Position
  • Researcher
Education
September 2010 - December 2015
The University of Manchester
Field of study
  • PhD in Business and Management
January 1997 - December 1999
Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Field of study
  • Master in Economics of the Internationalisation of Business and Finance
January 1994 - December 1996
Pontifical Xavierian University
Field of study
  • Master in Economics

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Publications (32)
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Innovation financing in Colombia is troublesome for a number of reasons. Colombian (manufacturing) companies declare they prefer to invest their own money and, when insufficient, to obtain private bank loans. Yet, the main funding obstacles identified by those companies themselves are, precisely, the lack of internal funds and the difficulty to hav...
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic and international policy circles were very active debating about the importance of—and ways for—designing and implementing effective innovation policies for sustainable development and social inclusion across the globe.
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This chapter reflects upon the role of science, technology, and innovation in boosting inclusive development in two top-three economies in Latin America. In fact, Mexico and Colombia—the second and third economies of the region—drag a bulk of long-time social unrest and face serious challenges concerning the construction of inclusive development ba...
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The introduction of the concept of governance in Latin America belongs to the neoliberal policies of privatization that tried to trace and assure that public funds, especially international loans, can overcome several corruption problems and the lag in the bargaining between public and private actors. The idea that transparency and accountability i...
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This chapter explores different impacts that the pandemic has had on athletes from bodybuilding, aikido, and squash practices in Colombia. It seeks to analyze the effects produced by the COVID-19 crisis and the response actions, seeking a structure that allows for the understanding of changes in sports practices as individual adaptation to the new...
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This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to social inclusion and sustainability, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the goals and institutional arrangements around sustainable development in the context of Latin American cou...
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This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to innovation policy and governance systems, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the role of governments in promoting innovation in Latin-American contexts as well as barriers and oppo...
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The global refugee crisis reveals refugees and other forcibly displaced persons (FDP) are uniquely vulnerable consumers on a dynamic pathway precipitated by trigger events that have disrupted or fractured marketing systems requisite for safety and well-being, resulting in dangerous journeys to temporary or permanent settlements. The Syrian Conflict...
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Purpose The funding of innovation is explained by typical cost-based financial approaches. This paper breaks away from such tradition, and the purpose of this paper is to propose an alternative view where innovation funding decisions are strategic and concern interactions between actors – each with their own characteristics and strategic intention...
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Propósito Este artículo aborda la relación emergente entre la Sociedad Civil y el sistema de innovación en América Latina y el Caribe –la financiación de la innovación, en particular– con la intención de sugerir una perspectiva conceptual diferenciada y plantear algunos de los interrogantes más relevantes en la actualidad. Enfoque Existe una des...
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The use of derivative instruments is especially important in risk management because it directly influences the net worth of organizations and their potential to generate value. This study explores an explanatory hypothesis for the Colombian industrial and commercial companies’ use of derivative instruments before the Colombian Stock Exchange Deriv...
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El artículo evalúa el Programa de Fomento a las Exportaciones (PFE) de Colombia. Su proceso y resultados se analizan a la luz de la literatura consultada sobre estrategia internacional y cultura exportadora en países desarrollados y en desarrollo. Los resultados acerca de organismos de fomento a las exportaciones y PFE alrededor del mundo se comple...
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se plantea la posibilidad de desarrollar en Colombia alternativas de ahorro e inversión en el marco de las Finanzas Éticas dadas las condiciones de desigualdad social y las restricciones -entre ellas las financieras- que afectan la creación y el desarrollo de las actividades de las micros, pequeñas y medianas empresas como vehículo de desarrollo. L...
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Resumo Os programas de Responsabilidade Social Corporativa (RSC) na América Latina, e particularmente no Brasil, aumentaram significativamente nas últimas duas décadas. Este artigo revisa a literatura sobre RSC no contexto latino-americano e descreve as contribuições de atores corporativos do Brasil, Colômbia e México para a validação de um quadro...
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Os programas de Responsabilidade Social Corporativa (RSC) na América Latina, e particularmente no Brasil, aumentaram significativamente nas últimas duas décadas. Este artigo revisa a literatura sobre RSC no contexto latino-americano e descreve as contribuições de atores corporativos do Brasil, Colômbia e México para a validação de um quadro conceit...
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Colombia is a country of north of South America with a population near to 42,888,592 (June 2005 according to the Census 2005) and an area of 1,141,748 sq. km. with tropical climate along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands.The Colombian economy in 2006 had good results, the same behavior since 2002 with a 4% annual average growth rate. On...
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This article examines the need for and the opportunity of developing ethical finance initiatives, specifically ethical banks and ethical investment funds, as alternatives to strengthen development in Colombia. The validity of such alternatives La is justified through the empirical verification of economic inequality, the limited depth of the tradit...
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This article examines the need for and the opportunity of developing ethical finance initiatives, specifically ethical banks and ethical investment funds, as alternatives to strengthen development in Colombia. The validity of such alternatives La is justified through the empirical verification of economic inequality, the limited depth of the tradit...
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This paper proposes a concept of "culture for internationalization" or "exporting culture," a highly relevant concept for developing countries' firms that are likely to follow a gradual internationalization process based on the strong relationship that binds the proposed concept to strategy and systemic competitiveness. These two items are paramoun...
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RESUMEN El trabajo indaga por la relación entre la financiación y la innovación en la industria de Bogotá y Cundinamarca. Para ello explora las fuentes y los mecanismos de financiación a los que acuden las empresas cuando innovan, la existencia de restricciones financieras y la efectividad de los instrumentos de política pública de apoyo a la finan...
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El artículo examina los elementos fundamentales de las decisiones de internacionalización de las empresas desde la perspectiva del impacto generado por los diversos grados de separación entre la propiedad y el control. Se trata de articular en una síntesis, que incluye diversas perspectivas teóricas, el papel de la propiedad y el control en las dec...
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Strategic decision-making is a very complex process. Concerning firm internationalisation, such complex process involves the strategic, tactic and technical levels in a dynamic perspective. As a matter of fact, the interaction between a firm's ownership/control distance and the formulation and implementation of an international strategy is paramoun...
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The paper investigates the determinants of bankruptcy in three representative unbalanced samples of Italian firms for the periods 1989–91, 1992–94 and 1995–97. Two important results are that: (i) the degree of relative firm inefficiency measured as the distance from the efficient frontier has significant explanatory power in predicting bankruptcy (...
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and an anony-mous referee for their useful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies. El artículo se recibió el 07-02-03 y se aprobó 19-02-03.
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The paper investigates the determinants of bankruptcy on three representative unbalanced samples of Italian firms for the periods 1989-1991, 1992-94 and 1995-97 with two different estimating techniques. The first (logit) approach shows that: i) the impact on the probability of bankruptcy of both level and trend balance sheet variables is sample - a...
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This inductive study offers an examination of 23 cases in which informants from firms engaged in large-scale global projects reported unforeseen costs after failing to comprehend cognitive-cultural, normative, and/or regulative institutions in an unfamiliar host societal context. The study builds on the conceptual framework of institutional theory....
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AbstrAct This paper makes an assessment,of the Colombian Export Promotion Program (EPP). The process,and the results of such a program,are considered,in the light ofthe,literature on international strategy,and,exporting,culture in developed,and developing,countries. Literature findings on EPAs and EPPs around,the world are complemented by informati...

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