Luis Miguel Bolivar Caro

Doctor en Gestión Estratégica y Negocios Internacionales, magíster en Negocios Internacionales y administrador industrial. Profesor de la Universidad EAFIT. Su trayectoria se enfoca en comercio internacional y cadenas de suministro.

Área de Gestión Global

Grupo de investigación en Estudios Internacionales

Resumen/Summary

Luis Miguel Bolívar Caro, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Area of Global Management at Universidad EAFIT and Faculty Coordinator of the Trade Lab Student Research group. He holds a Doctorate in Strategic Management and International Business from the University of Seville, with appointments as Visiting Professor at Cornell University and Honorary Researcher at Seville.

His research examines supply chain resilience, geoeconomic fragmentation, and trade decoupling, drawing on both quantitative modeling and qualitative case-based methods. Ongoing projects include a structural network typology of trade decoupling, sustained work on Colombia-Venezuela trade dynamics, and the development of experiential learning frameworks for Global Value Chain Management.

Since 2013 he has taught graduate courses in International Marketing, International Management, and Foreign Trade across multiple Colombian universities, alongside undergraduate and graduate courses at EAFIT and previously at UTB, where he served as full-time faculty for nearly a decade. Before academia, he spent seven years as Strategic Marketing Coordinator at Cotecmar, leading market intelligence for Colombia's naval industrial sector. He also advises firms and chambers of commerce on internationalization strategy, foreign direct investment, and global markets entry.

Intereses académicos e investigativos/Research and Teaching Interest

International business and the internationalization of firms, with emphasis on entry modes, speed of expansion, and resource mobilization.

Network perspectives on strategy: alliance portfolios, strategic alliances, coopetition, and relational structures.

Trade wars, geoeconomic fragmentation, and global economic decoupling.

Foreign direct investment and trade flows in Latin America.

Internationalization of multilatinas.

Sustainable economic development in Latin America.

Estudios realizados/Education

Doctorado en Gestión estratégica y negocios internacionales, Universidad de Sevilla, España, 2021.

Maestría en Negocios Internacionales e Integración, UTB, 2012.

Administrador Industrial, Universidad de Cartagena; 2007.

Publicaciones

Bolívar, Luis Miguel; Casanueva, Cristóbal; Castro, Ignacio; Global foreign direct investment: A network perspective, International Business Review, 28, 4, 696-712, 2019, Pérgamo.

Bolivar, Luis Miguel; Educating the Global-Minded Business Professional and Manager, Contemporary Global Issues in Human Resource Management, 163-182,2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Bolívar, Luis Miguel; Roldán, José Luis; Castro-Abancéns, Ignacio; Casanueva, Cristóbal; Speed of international expansion: the mediating role of network resources mobilisation, Management International Review, 62, 4, 541-568, 2022, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg.

Bolivar, Luis Miguel; Rodriguez, Gabriel Orlando; Forero, Daniel Alfonso; “La inversión extranjera directa y su desempeño en Colombia, 1994-2014", Economía & Región, 10, 2, 2016.

Bolivar, Luis Miguel; Castro-Abancéns, Ignacio; Casanueva, Cristóbal; Gallego, Angeles; Network resource mobilisation limitations and the alliance portfolio network, Baltic Journal of Management, 16, 3, 424-445, 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Bolivar, Luis Miguel; Maza-Avila, Francisco Javier; Losing Your Main Trade Partner: Adapting Trade Networks Amid Commercial Blockages, "Business Under Crisis, Volumen II: Organisational Adaptations", 19-41, 2022, Springer International Publishing.

Bolivar, Luis M. "Redes de globalización, integración y desarrollo en Latinoamérica", Problemas y Retos del Desarrollo en América Latina, 93-114, 2022, Editorial Universitaria.

Bolívar Caro, Luis Miguel; Redes y la expansión internacional de la empresa: el caso de la industria de las aerolíneas, 2022, Cartagena de Indias.

Bolivar, Luis Miguel; Casanueva, Cristóbal; Castro Abancéns, Ignacio; "International alliance networks, expansion modes and coopetition", Multinational Business Review, 31, 2, 197-219, 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Bolivar Caro, Luis Miguel; Botero Lopez, Michelle; Quiroga Castro, Valentina; Vergara Arrieta, José Julio; Multilatinas: Financial performance and speed of international expansion, Panorama Económico, 30, 2, 79-89,2022.

Ospina-Mateus, Holman; Marrugo-Salas, Lina; Castilla, Luna Castilla; Castellón, Liliana; Cantillo, Ana; Bolivar, Luis Miguel; Salas-Navarro, Katherinne; Zamora-Musa, Ronald; Analysis in circular economy research in Latin America: A bibliometric review, Heliyon, e19999, 2023, Elsevier.

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