Export Pioneers in Latin America

Charles Sabel, Gabriel Sanchez (), Inés Butler, Ricardo Rozemberg, Hernán Ruffo, Maria Arbelaez (), Marcela Meléndez Arjona, Nicolás Soler, Angela Da Rocha, Beatriz Kury, Joana Monteiro, Manuel Agosin, Claudio Bravo Ortega, Edgar Aragón, Alexandre Darzé, Regis Bonelli, Armando Castelar Pinheiro, Michele Snoeck, Lucía Pittaluga, Alejandro Artopoulos, Daniel Friel and Juan Hallak
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Claudio Bravo-Ortega

No 380 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Export Pioneers in Latin America analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn how pioneers jump-start a virtuous process leading to economic transformation. The cases of blueberries in Argentina, avocados in Mexico, and aircraft in Brazil illustrate how an initially successful export activity did not stop with the discovery of a single viable product, but rather continued to evolve. The book explores the conjecture that costly burdens to entrepreneurial self-discovery (due to the deterrent effects of imitation by competitors) have held back potential exporters in post-reform Latin America. It also considers the conjecture that new export activities are a complex enterprise that can only come to fruition when innovative contributions of many actors are somehow provided jointly.

JEL-codes: F14 F19 O14 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 1597821411
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DOI: 10.18235/0012389

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