Author: Maria Beatriz Nofal
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This comprehensive volume is a detailed examination of the dynamics of the motor vehicle industry in Argentina against the background of development and underdevelopment in Argentina, changes in world industry, and the changing relation of Argentina to the world economy. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author explores the internal economic evolution and geography of the industry through various phases, such as importing, assembling, and manufacturing, and analyzes the processes of change in organizational structure, production, and trade. The development of the motor vechicle industry in Argentina is an important example of how national and international forces interact within a specific industry, at a particular locale, and within a state system. This comprehensive volume is a detailed examination of the dynamics of this industry against the background of development and underdevelopment in Argentina, changes in world industry, and the changing relation of Argentina to the world economy. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author explores the internal economic evolution and geography of the industry through various phases, such as importing, assembling, and manufacturing, and analyzes the processes of change in organizational structure, production, and trade.
Absentee Entrepreneurship and the Dynamics of the Motor Vehicle Industry in Argentina
Author: Maria Beatriz Nofal
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This comprehensive volume is a detailed examination of the dynamics of the motor vehicle industry in Argentina against the background of development and underdevelopment in Argentina, changes in world industry, and the changing relation of Argentina to the world economy. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author explores the internal economic evolution and geography of the industry through various phases, such as importing, assembling, and manufacturing, and analyzes the processes of change in organizational structure, production, and trade. The development of the motor vechicle industry in Argentina is an important example of how national and international forces interact within a specific industry, at a particular locale, and within a state system. This comprehensive volume is a detailed examination of the dynamics of this industry against the background of development and underdevelopment in Argentina, changes in world industry, and the changing relation of Argentina to the world economy. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author explores the internal economic evolution and geography of the industry through various phases, such as importing, assembling, and manufacturing, and analyzes the processes of change in organizational structure, production, and trade.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This comprehensive volume is a detailed examination of the dynamics of the motor vehicle industry in Argentina against the background of development and underdevelopment in Argentina, changes in world industry, and the changing relation of Argentina to the world economy. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author explores the internal economic evolution and geography of the industry through various phases, such as importing, assembling, and manufacturing, and analyzes the processes of change in organizational structure, production, and trade. The development of the motor vechicle industry in Argentina is an important example of how national and international forces interact within a specific industry, at a particular locale, and within a state system. This comprehensive volume is a detailed examination of the dynamics of this industry against the background of development and underdevelopment in Argentina, changes in world industry, and the changing relation of Argentina to the world economy. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author explores the internal economic evolution and geography of the industry through various phases, such as importing, assembling, and manufacturing, and analyzes the processes of change in organizational structure, production, and trade.
The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976
Author: James Brennan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674028753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Cordoba is Argentina's second-largest city, a university town that became the center of its automobile industry. In the decade following the overthrow of Juan Peron's government in 1955, the city experienced rapid industrial growth. The arrival of IKA-Renault and Fiat fostered a particular kind of industrial development and created a new industrial worker of predominantly rural origins. Former farm boys and small-town dwellers were thrust suddenly into the world of the modern factory and the multinational corporation. The domination of the local economy by a single industry and the prominent role played by the automobile workers' unions brought about the greatest working-class protest in postwar Latin American history, the 1969 Cordobazo. Following the Cordobazo, the local labor movement was one characterized by intense militancy and determined opposition to both authoritarian military governments and the Peronist trade union bureaucracy. These labor wars have been mythologized as a Latin American equivalent to the French student strikes of May-June 1968 and the Italian hot summer of the same period. Analyzing these events in the context of recent debates on Latin American working-class politics, Brennan demonstrates that the pronounced militancy and even political radicalism of the Cordoban working class were due not only to Argentina's changing political culture but also to the dynamic relationship between the factory and society during those years. Brennan draws on corporate archives in Argentina, France, and Italy, as well as previously unknown union archives. Readers interested in Latin American studies, labor history, industrial relations, political science, industrial sociology, and international business will all find value in this important analysis of labor politics.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674028753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Cordoba is Argentina's second-largest city, a university town that became the center of its automobile industry. In the decade following the overthrow of Juan Peron's government in 1955, the city experienced rapid industrial growth. The arrival of IKA-Renault and Fiat fostered a particular kind of industrial development and created a new industrial worker of predominantly rural origins. Former farm boys and small-town dwellers were thrust suddenly into the world of the modern factory and the multinational corporation. The domination of the local economy by a single industry and the prominent role played by the automobile workers' unions brought about the greatest working-class protest in postwar Latin American history, the 1969 Cordobazo. Following the Cordobazo, the local labor movement was one characterized by intense militancy and determined opposition to both authoritarian military governments and the Peronist trade union bureaucracy. These labor wars have been mythologized as a Latin American equivalent to the French student strikes of May-June 1968 and the Italian hot summer of the same period. Analyzing these events in the context of recent debates on Latin American working-class politics, Brennan demonstrates that the pronounced militancy and even political radicalism of the Cordoban working class were due not only to Argentina's changing political culture but also to the dynamic relationship between the factory and society during those years. Brennan draws on corporate archives in Argentina, France, and Italy, as well as previously unknown union archives. Readers interested in Latin American studies, labor history, industrial relations, political science, industrial sociology, and international business will all find value in this important analysis of labor politics.
The Limits of Convergence
Author: Mauro F. Guillén
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824206
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development trajectories. Analyzing the social, political, and economic conditions underpinning the rise of various organizational forms, Guillén shows that business groups, small enterprises, and foreign multinationals play different economic roles depending on a country's path to development. Business groups thrive when there is foreign-trade and investment protectionism and are best suited to undertake large-scale, capital-intensive activities such as automobile assembly and construction. Their growth and diversification come at the expense of smaller firms and foreign multinationals. In contrast, small and medium enterprises are best fitted to compete in knowledge-intensive activities such as component manufacturing and branded consumer goods. They prosper in the absence of restrictions on export-oriented multinationals. The book ends on an optimistic note by presenting evidence that it is possible--though not easy--for countries to break through the glass ceiling separating poor from rich. It concludes that globalization encourages economic diversity and that democracy is the form of government best suited to deal with globalization's contingencies. Against those who contend that the transition to markets must come before the transition to ballots, Guillén argues that democratization can and should precede economic modernization. This is applied economic sociology at its best--broad, topical, full of interesting political implications, and critical of the conventional wisdom.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824206
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development trajectories. Analyzing the social, political, and economic conditions underpinning the rise of various organizational forms, Guillén shows that business groups, small enterprises, and foreign multinationals play different economic roles depending on a country's path to development. Business groups thrive when there is foreign-trade and investment protectionism and are best suited to undertake large-scale, capital-intensive activities such as automobile assembly and construction. Their growth and diversification come at the expense of smaller firms and foreign multinationals. In contrast, small and medium enterprises are best fitted to compete in knowledge-intensive activities such as component manufacturing and branded consumer goods. They prosper in the absence of restrictions on export-oriented multinationals. The book ends on an optimistic note by presenting evidence that it is possible--though not easy--for countries to break through the glass ceiling separating poor from rich. It concludes that globalization encourages economic diversity and that democracy is the form of government best suited to deal with globalization's contingencies. Against those who contend that the transition to markets must come before the transition to ballots, Guillén argues that democratization can and should precede economic modernization. This is applied economic sociology at its best--broad, topical, full of interesting political implications, and critical of the conventional wisdom.
The Sociology of Economic Life
Author: Mark Granovetter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429962886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This book incorporates classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology and related disciplines to provide students with a broad understanding of the many dimensions of economic life. It discusses Max Weber's key concepts in economics and sociology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429962886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This book incorporates classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology and related disciplines to provide students with a broad understanding of the many dimensions of economic life. It discusses Max Weber's key concepts in economics and sociology.
Business History in Latin America
Author: Carlos Dávila
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781386242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A new edition of a book first published in Bogotá, this English edition is a crucial addition to the literature on Latin American business history for a wider English-speaking audience, and it will be of interest to business and economic historians generally. Essays are included by leading economic historians of Latin America from the UK and from other countries. Each contributor has managed to relate the business history of a selected country to the main trends in its economic development.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781386242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A new edition of a book first published in Bogotá, this English edition is a crucial addition to the literature on Latin American business history for a wider English-speaking audience, and it will be of interest to business and economic historians generally. Essays are included by leading economic historians of Latin America from the UK and from other countries. Each contributor has managed to relate the business history of a selected country to the main trends in its economic development.
Africa, Asia, and South America Since 1800
Author: A. J. H. Latham
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719018770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A reference for graduate and undergraduate students presenting the bibliographic details and sometimes describing and evaluating the content of over 5,000 books in English, most published since 1945 and many quite recently, but also some earlier works of enduring importance. A section of works on all three continents is followed by sections on each, which first consider the continent as a whole, then each country, usually by chronological periods and topics such as economics, politics, and society. Indexed only by author and editor, but the table of contents is detailed enough to provide adequate access. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719018770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A reference for graduate and undergraduate students presenting the bibliographic details and sometimes describing and evaluating the content of over 5,000 books in English, most published since 1945 and many quite recently, but also some earlier works of enduring importance. A section of works on all three continents is followed by sections on each, which first consider the continent as a whole, then each country, usually by chronological periods and topics such as economics, politics, and society. Indexed only by author and editor, but the table of contents is detailed enough to provide adequate access. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The New International Division of Labour
Author: Guido Starosta
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137538724
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon the distinction between the global economic content that determines the constitution and dynamics of the NIDL and the evolving national political forms that mediate its development. More specifically, the authors argue that uneven development is an expression of the underlying essential unity of the production of relative surplus-value on a world scale. They substantiate and illustrate this argument through several international case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Ireland, South Korea, Spain and Venezuela.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137538724
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon the distinction between the global economic content that determines the constitution and dynamics of the NIDL and the evolving national political forms that mediate its development. More specifically, the authors argue that uneven development is an expression of the underlying essential unity of the production of relative surplus-value on a world scale. They substantiate and illustrate this argument through several international case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Ireland, South Korea, Spain and Venezuela.
Models of Economic Liberalization
Author: Sebastián Etchemendy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139498479
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book aims to explain the variation in the models of economic liberalization across Ibero-America in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and the legacies they produced for the current organization of the political economies. Although the macroeconomics of effective market adjustment evolved in a similar way, the patterns of compensation delivered by neoliberal governments and the type of actors in business and the working class that benefited from them were remarkably different. Etchemendy argues that the most decisive factors that shape adjustment paths are the type of regime and the economic and organizational power with which business and labor emerged from the inward-oriented model. The analysis spans from the origins of state, business and labor industrial actors in the 1930s and 1940s to the politics of compensation under neoliberalism across the Ibero-American world, combined with extensive field work material on Spain, Argentina and Chile.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139498479
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book aims to explain the variation in the models of economic liberalization across Ibero-America in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and the legacies they produced for the current organization of the political economies. Although the macroeconomics of effective market adjustment evolved in a similar way, the patterns of compensation delivered by neoliberal governments and the type of actors in business and the working class that benefited from them were remarkably different. Etchemendy argues that the most decisive factors that shape adjustment paths are the type of regime and the economic and organizational power with which business and labor emerged from the inward-oriented model. The analysis spans from the origins of state, business and labor industrial actors in the 1930s and 1940s to the politics of compensation under neoliberalism across the Ibero-American world, combined with extensive field work material on Spain, Argentina and Chile.
Readings in Economic Sociology
Author: Nicole Woolsey Biggart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470754702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470754702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions.
International Bibliography of Business History
Author: Francis Goodall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136138285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136138285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.