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About Antonio Lecuna

Antonio holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from ESADE Business School, a Master of Business Administration from Boston University, and a cum laude B.S. in Economics from Babson College. Before moving into academia, Dr. Lecuna worked as a financial analyst at Bankers Trust Company in New York. He then became an entrepreneur affiliated with Margaritaville Restaurant and Bongo Beach Bar on Margarita Island in Venezuela.

Before joining FLC, he worked as a small business instructor at La Salle Business Engineering School in Spain and as an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) in Chile. Antonio is passionate about teaching, and UDD twice awarded his commitment to this profession with the Best Teaching Award (2016 and 2018).

As a complement to his teachings, his research lies at the crossroads of minority entrepreneurship, the inequalities and entrepreneurship relationship, and the role of entrepreneurial imaginativeness in the process of idea generation. His most recent work has been published in journals including Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, and Entrepreneurship Research Journal.

Selected publications

Heredia, W., Lecuna, A., Heredia, J., Geldes, C., Flores, A. (2023). Effect of corruption and crime on growth-oriented informal firms. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. (Forthcoming). 

Mahn, D., Lecuna, A., Chávez, G., Barros, S. (2022), Drivers of growth expectations in Latin American rural contexts. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. doi:10.1108/JEEE-10-2021-0388

Lecuna, A. (2021), Understanding imagination in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Research Journal. doi:10.1515/erj-2021-0103

Chávez, R., Yu, W., Sadiq Jajja, M. S., Lecuna, A., Fynes, B. (2020), Can entrepreneurial orientation improve sustainable development through leveraging internal lean practices? Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(6): 2211-2225. doi:10.1002/bse.2496

Lecuna, A., Cohen, B., & Mandakovic, V. (2020), Want more high-growth entrepreneurs? Then, control corruption with less ineffective bureaucracy. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 45(4): 525-546. doi:10.1080/03080188.2020.1792128

Lecuna, A. (2020), Income inequality and entrepreneurship. Economic Research, 33(1): 2269-2285. doi:10.1080/1331677X.2019.1663545

Lecuna, A. (2021), Populism in Venezuela: The nature of Chavismo. Telos, 195(Summer): 53-64. doi:10.3817/0621195053

Lecuna, A. (2019), Inflation and FDI in Latin America’s Populist Left. Revista de Ciencia Política, 57(1): 35-51. doi:10.5354/0719-5338.2019.61550

Lecuna, A. (2018), Subnational atomization as a factor of increasing corruption in Venezuela. Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales, 17(Jan-Jul): 5-27. doi:10.32457/riem.vi17.327 

Lecuna, A., Chávez, R. (2018), Entrepreneurship and weak institutions in Latin America. Journal of Private Enterprise, 33(3): 25-47. Scopus/SJR=0.316 

Lecuna, A., Cohen, B., Chávez, R. (2017), Characteristics of high-growth entrepreneurs in Latin America. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 13(1): 141–159. doi:10.1007/s11365-016-0402-y

Chávez, R., Yu, W., Jacobs, M., Fynes, B., Wiengarten, F., Lecuna, A. (2015), Internal lean practices and performance: The role of technological turbulence. International Journal of Production Economics, 160(Feb): 157-171. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.10.005

Lecuna, A. (2014), High-income inequality as a structural factor in entrepreneurial activity. Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 9(1): 13-26. doi:10.4067/s0718-27242014000100002

Lecuna, A. (2013), From Chavismo to a democratic left in Venezuela. Dissent, 60(3): 26-28. doi:10.1353/dss.2013.0067
Lecuna, A. (2012), Corruption and size decentralization. Journal of Applied Economics, 15(1): 139-168. doi:10.1016/s1514-0326(12)60007-5