Purpose For the past 20 years, Latin American countries have gone from being a low-cost region to significant players in the world economy, with five of its countries ranked among the world’s 50th largest by gross domestic product. This paper aims to study the contribution of Latin American researchers in the field of supply chain management (SCM) to aid an understanding of the Latin American impact within global supply chains (SCs). Design/methodology/approach The authors present a study which includes a bibliometric analysis of the papers authored by Latin American researchers in the SCM field and which were exclusively published in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports. In addition, the authors conducted a survey to Latin American researchers and consultants to gain greater understanding of the main difficulties, which in their opinion, have negatively affected the SCM area in Latin America within the past five years, and identify possible misalignment between Latin American research and the challenges for SC in the region. Findings The results show that Latin American research on SCM in the past nine years is not significant for the field considering the number of papers, citations and the papers published in top journals. Another interesting finding is the lack of collaboration among researchers from different Latin American countries, as well as with corporate. Finally, survey results reveal significant differences regarding the main difficulties each country perceived as relevant. Practical implications Comparing results from both analyses, relevant misalignments stand out between published research and the main difficulties detected. These suggest a challenging opportunity for Latin America, emphasizing the need to increase research contribution of the scientific community, through collaboration and alignment toward overcoming the most troublesome difficulties for Latin America. Therefore, the authors suggest future regional research directions which could also help global companies to tackle the challenges faced and optimize performance of their Latin American SCs. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no previous research on the quality and impact of Latin American research in SCM has been conducted. Also, misalignments between researchers and practitioners in the region, which allow identifying weaknesses of Latin American SCs, have not been studied before.
If there is an issue that is particularly hard to understand for students in statistical inference that is the concept of the distribution of a combination of random variables: an estimator. In a massive, 300 or more students’ classroom, the challenge is even greater. This situation is common at the Faculty of Economics of the National University of Córdoba (FCE- UNC), Argentina, with more than 12,000 students. The purpose of this work is to show how to take advantage from the production of Scorm materials that facilitate the integration of resources available on the web to improve the study of statistical issues in mass classrooms through the interaction with Moodle platform. Based on Exe Learning, an SCORM was developed. This is an interactive material to complement the study of Sampling Distributions. Includes sections designed to ensure understanding of the concepts, based on the use of simulators from the Rice University and auto evaluation questions. You may visit the site at: http://aulas.eco.unc.edu.ar/course/view.php?id=7 Implemented in a course of statistical inference at FCE-UNC it seems to be a very good alternative in the search for high degree of personalization in the interaction with the students, despite the massiveness of the number of attendees. A personal score is assigned on the base of the student interaction with the Scorm and registered in Moodle. Feedback is automatically generated while using the app (correct answers are stimulated with Genial! Well done!, etc. and those wrong with clues to get to the correct answer and an expression of encouragement: Try again! It is important to remark that this kind of materials also seem to be an excellent tool to motivate teachers (materials production) and students (Statistics education in the age of social networking and distance education). Also are intended to close the gap in advancing Statistical education using technology and mobile devices.
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