Best paper award for MSM dean

At the 49th CLADEA Annual Conference held 3 -5 September at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, the Best Paper Award went to MSM’s Dean, Professor Wim Naudé, and his co-authors, Drs Ernesto Amoros and Oscar Cristi, from the UDD, Santiago de Chile.

Their paper, entitled “Entrepreneurship and well-being: a cross-country analysis”, explore the relationship between entrepreneurship and subjective well-being at individual level, using individual level data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) adult population survey of 2013 covering 244,000 individuals from 70 different countries. For the first time this survey included subjective well-being measures. Their results suggest that on average entrepreneurs enjoy higher levels of subjective well-being than those that are not involve in business of their own.

This paper builds on their earlier work on entrepreneurship and happiness, and published recently in the Small Business Economics Journal.

CLADEA (Latin American Council of Management School) is one of the largest networks of business schools worldwide. This international organization provides a system of global cooperation and sustains relations of reciprocal membership with leading academic institutions worldwide. The governing body consists of the President, CEO and Executive Coordinator, as well as by a steering committee, academic committee and the team of the executive headquarter, which is responsible for the areas of marketing and communications.

Currently, CLADEA has 202 affiliated institutions - both private and public-belonging to Latin America, North America, Europe and Oceania.