  This study presents longitudinal evidence on the dissension of Management and
Business Research (MBR) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It looks
after intellectual bridges linking clusters among such dissension. It was
implemented a coword network analysis to a sample of 12,000+ articles published
by authors from LAC during 1998-2017. Structural network scores showed an
increasing number of keywords and mean degree but decreasing modularity and
density. The intellectual bridges were those of the cluster formed by
disciplines/fields that tend toward consensus (e.g., mathematical models) and
not by core MBR subjects (e.g., strategic planning).
