Dra. Hebles-Ortiz, Melany

Purpose: This article explains the causal mechanism supporting sustainable longevity by analysing the last three generations of one of the oldest family firms in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach: An explanatory single-case qualitative research based on critical realism explores why and how this family firm has been able to maintain its multigenerational longevity. Findings: Los Lingues's evolutionary strategy, driven by transgenerational entrepreneurship under effectuation, has supported this family firm's sustainable longevity. Its effectual logic emerged mainly from the richness of the firm's historical resources embedded in its identity, knowledge and social capital and priority to preserve socioemotional wealth. Originality/value: This study integrates socioemotional wealth and effectuation theory to explain a family firm's ability to survive through generations and sustain longevity. The study demonstrates the relevance of effectual logic in the entrepreneurial dynamics of a multigenerational family firm. Effectual logic drives the firm evolution and adaptation for sustainable longevity.

Given the dynamics of the business environment, training in teamwork competence is becoming increasingly important vis-à-vis improving entrepreneurship and innovation development processes in a multidisciplinary context. In this paper, we estimate differences in differences (DID) regressions to analyse the effect of cooperative learning on teamwork competence for a sample of individuals whose training is geared towards acquiring key competences such as entrepreneurship and innovation. A quasi-experimental design is used with a treatment and a control group of two cohorts of individuals. Our results show a significant effect of cooperative learning on collective efficacy, planning, establishment of objectives, problem solving and conflict management. We contribute to student training in a competence that is highly valued in the professional sphere and to current understanding of what effect cooperative learning has from its different components in teamwork training.