Juana García

Juana García
Los Andes University (Colombia) | UNIANDES · Faculty of Administration

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Introduction
Associate Professor at the Business School from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her research activity in international development includes : (i) the role of international cooperation and private sector in peacebuilding process and the study of (ii) internationalization and emerging economies. Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University 2019-2020

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Este capítulo describe las trayectorias de atención y los perfiles sociodemográficos de las personas que hacen parte del proceso de reincorporación de las FARC-EP. Analizamos una base de datos única de la Agencia de Reincorporación y Normalización (ARN) con información mensual de las interacciones y atenciones entre más de 13.000 exintegrantess y l...
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Since the end of the Cold War, international third parties such as the United Nations (UN) have become frequent guarantors of peace agreements. Existing studies document that third parties provide assurances that help maintain peace, yet these studies nearly exclusively marshal evidence at the macro-level and focus on elites rather than foot soldie...
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This chapter describes the historical evolution of the EU’s international development cooperation in Colombia. This has continued to favour peacebuilding, which began two decades ago with the Peace Laboratories and has continued to the present day. The internationalization of the Colombian armed conflict during the mandate of President Pastrana att...
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El presente capítulo analiza las características de las dos misiones consecutivas de Naciones Unidas en Colombia y su decisiva contribución a la implementación de diferentes disposiciones del Acuerdo de La Habana. Representan dos etapas de la implicación de la ONU y se diferencian en sus mandatos, objetivos y actividades. La MNUC (Misión de Nacione...
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Objective: This article discusses why digital start-ups are flourishing in Latin America. Method: Our research setting is Latin American digital companies. Our analysis is based on digital companies from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. We examined lists of Latin unicorn companies (valuation + US$ 1B) and other prominent digital comp...
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En Colombia como en los demás países del mundo, la pandemia por la covid-19 generó una dinámica sin precedentes en el último siglo. Por su naturaleza impactó todas las esferas de vida: individual, familiar, social, comunitaria, económica, política, entre otras. Este impacto también se dio por el alto grado de interconexión física que caracteriza a...
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Después de firmar el acuerdo de paz en el 2016 entre el gobierno nacional y la guerrilla FARC-EP, Colombia está sufriendo la agitación social, los ajustes institucionales y los desacuerdos políticos posteriores al acuerdo, situación que también ha marcado a otros países involucrados en la transición del conflicto armado a la paz. En esa transición,...
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Since the advent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), companies have implemented multiple approaches towards achieving a new balance between their financial, environmental, and social objectives with mixed results. Emerging markets are no exception. In Latin America, companies have further responsibility in this domain; given the enormous biod...
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The international community is a key actor in fostering, establishing and maintaining peace in conflict-affected regions through multiple forms of cooperation. Official development assistance (ODA), for example, is one of them. It encompasses peacebuilding initiatives and includes diverse actors and partnerships. This paper provides a better unders...
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The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has been seen as a great recipient of international cooperation and foreign aid. Likewise, in recent years, LAC has positioned itself as an experienced provider of South-South Cooperation (SSC) in diverse development fields. Moreover, China has played an important role as a political and economic act...
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Social unrest and warfare in emerging markets can create opportunities for innovation. By focusing on Colombia, where armed conflict and post-conflict challenges have motivated innovation in the military and business domains, this chapter examines innovation in places where social demands create opportunities for deep societal transformations. We d...
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In the past 15 years, emerging markets have come to repre- sent about half of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Led by China, they have made gains in economic development as well as political influence; in turn, their companies have tak- en on a new level of importance in driving innovation, local development, and global competition (Casanova &...
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In this AIB-Insights article, we discuss the drivers, types and outcomes of innovation management and delineate the elements of an innovation framework for emerging markets focusing on Latin America. Drawing on examples from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and some others countries, the piece explores how innovation contributes to the re...
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Construcción de paz: las empresas en la reintegración de excombatientes analiza el papel que el sector privado ha desempeñado en la construcción de paz en el país. Partiendo de un planteamiento teórico de los mecanismos mediante los cuales el sector privado construye paz en el contexto colombiano, describe cinco diferentes iniciativas productivas q...
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Construcción de paz: las empresas en la reintegración de excombatientes analiza el papel que el sector privado ha desempeñado en la construcción de paz en el país. Partiendo de un planteamiento teórico de los mecanismos mediante los cuales el sector privado construye paz en el contexto colombiano, describe cinco diferentes iniciativas productivas q...
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Domestic peacebuilding initiatives are frequently part of the national agenda in emerging economies. Many emerging MNCs (EMNCs) are called to build their international competitive advantage while participating in domestic peacebuilding. After studying the peacebuilding initiatives that 11 of the largest Colombian multinationals launched after the 2...
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En este libro se realiza un análisis multidisciplinario sobre distintos aspectos del proceso de paz entre el Gobierno colombiano y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), así como de los retos de la implementación temprana del acuerdo logrado en el 2016. Los autores de Excombatientes y acuerdo de paz con las...
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Despite a fairly solid economic performance, and thus classification as a middle-income country, Colombia struggles with the legacies of uneven development. Macroeconomic success and the end of internal conflict have led many donors to plan exit strategies; however, with the new “fragile peace” and the impact of slow international economic recovery...
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The challenges faced by Latin American multinational companies, or multilatinas, often require unique strategies tailored to a demanding global environment. This book studies the strategies of internationalism exercised by large multilatinas, offering the first systematic, quantitative effort to examine the pattern of their international investment...
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The Peace Agreement of La Habana between the Government of Colombia and FARC, becomes an opportunity to address decisively some development issues, particularly issues related to rural aspects. In this regard the contribution of international cooperation, who has accompanied Colombia in the conflict, postconflict and peacebuilding, has valuable con...
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Colombia se encuentra desde hace unos años en una paradoja, por un lado con un crecimiento sostenido por encima de algunos países de la región, entró en el 2010 a ser parte de los CIVETS, uno de los acrónimos de los nuevos países emergentes, durante los últimos diez años los niveles de exportaciones y de Inversión Extranjera han crecido año a año,...

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