Entrepreneurship in South America

Léo-Paul Dana is a professor at Dalhousie University, Canada, and affiliated with Sorbonne Business School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A graduate of the Faculty of Management at McGill University and of HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and visiting professor at INSEAD. He has published extensively in a variety of journals and is the author of several books.

Christian Keen is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval, Canada. He has extensive research and working experience in Latin and North America, and Europe, where he teaches international entrepreneurship at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has presented his research on international business, entrepreneurship, and family business in numerous international conferences.

Veland Ramadani is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Faculty of Businessand Economics, South East European University, North Macedonia. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, and family businesses. He authored or co-authored around 170 research articles, 12 textbooks, and 20 edited books. He has published in Journal of Business Research, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. Dr. Ramadani has recently published the co-authored book Entrepreneurial Family Business (Springer). Dr. Ramadani is co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Enterprising Communities (JEC). He has received the Award for Excellence 2016 - Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing. In addition, Dr. Ramadani was invited as a keynote speaker in several international conferences and as a guest lecturer by President University, Indonesia, and Telkom University, Indonesia. During the 2017- 2021, he served as a member of Supervisory Board of Development Bank of North Macedonia, where for 10 months acted as Chief Operating Officer (COO), as well.