{"599798":{"#nid":"599798","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fuentes\u0027 Article Published in Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlberto Fuentes, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, published his article \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/revistas.ucr.ac.cr\/index.php\/anuario\/article\/view\/31553\/31160\u0022\u003ELos ap\u0026oacute;stoles del desarrollo y la modernizaci\u0026oacute;n de la industria azucarera guatemalteca\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; in the Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos of the University of Costa Rica.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article addresses the reasons for the sugar industry\u0026rsquo;s modernization in Guatemala. Fuentes uses a novel framework that shows how worker mobilization, the collapse of the industry\u0026rsquo;s main markets, and enhanced competition generated an opportunity for business strategy innovation. In that context, a group of Catholic Social Doctrine-inspired managers, the \u0026ldquo;Apostles of Development,\u0026rdquo; introduced a wide range of transformative practices in one of the sugar industry\u0026rsquo;s mills, and then diffused those practices to other mills, triggering a far-reaching transformation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Fuentes\u0026rsquo;s article, \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0305750X17301729\u0022\u003ESpurred to Upgrade: A Review of Triggers and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading in the Global Value Chain Literature\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; was published in World Development. The article explores the development prospects for firms from the Global South participating in global value chains.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlberto Fuentes is co-appointed with the School of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on the political economy of industrial policy and industry-level transformation in Latin America. He has studied industrial change in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico and Brazil. Fuentes is also the co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/globaldev.inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGlobal Development Minor\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlberto Fuentes, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, published his article \u0026ldquo;Los ap\u0026oacute;stoles del desarrollo y la modernizaci\u0026oacute;n de la industria azucarera guatemalteca\u0026rdquo; in the Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos of the University of Costa Rica.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alberto Fuentes, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, published his article \u201cLos ap\u00f3stoles del desarrollo y la modernizaci\u00f3n de la industria azucarera guatemalteca\u201d"}],"uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2017-12-12 15:40:02","changed_gmt":"2017-12-12 19:18:34","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"571791":{"id":"571791","type":"image","title":"fuentes","body":null,"created":"1472741472","gmt_created":"2016-09-01 14:51:12","changed":"1475895381","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:21","alt":"fuentes","file":{"fid":"207103","name":"fuentes.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fuentes.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fuentes.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20031,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fuentes.jpeg?itok=TYc0jhNf"}}},"media_ids":["571791"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/c53735aa-1d0e-55b9-a5a5-91428946a8c6","title":"Alberto Fuentes\u0027 Biography"},{"url":"https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs "},{"url":"https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu","title":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169728","name":"sugar"},{"id":"169209","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJessica Palacios\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdministrative Professional II\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ejessica.palacios@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}