Andrea Lluch

• National Scientific and Technical Research Council

This article explores how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development...

This edited volume constitutes the first available comprehensive business history of Latin America available in English. It offers a unique synthesis of the development of capitalism in Latin America that takes into consideration the complexities of each country, while simultaneously understanding broader commonalities. With chapters written by a g...

This article examines the development of educational programs for developing managers in Argentina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Research on management education during this period has tended to be US-European focused and has looked at the impact of American models. In Argentina, new institutions began to emerge in the 1940s. This process gained mom...

This article analyses the structure and changes of large companies based on a new database of the 200 largest non-financial firms operating from 1913 to 1971 in Argentina. The main contribution of the research consists of the elaboration of the rankings of the 200 largest companies according to their paid-up capital between 1913 and 1971 and the co...

Este ensayo provee una síntesis del desarrollo del campo de la historia empresarial en América Latina, destacándose los puntos centrales de la trayectoria en las últimas décadas. Para ello repasa los temas y debates centrales en las últimas décadas. Al finalizar propone una posible agenda de temas de investiga- ción para los años futuros.

Este ensayo provee una síntesis del desarrollo del campo de la historia empresarial en América Latina, destacándose los puntos centrales de la trayectoria en las últimas décadas. Para ello repasa los temas y debates centrales en las últimas décadas. Al finalizar propone una posible agenda de temas de investiga- ción para los años futuros.

El artículo presenta un análisis demográfico de las grandes empresas en Argentina con el fin de identificar sus niveles de rotación y de perdurabilidad en distintas coyunturas históricas desde la primera globalización hasta el final de la industrialización dirigida por el Estado. La aplicación de una mirada dinámica y nominal de la población de las...

The boundaries of Business History, as a discipline, are constantly revisited. There have been contradictory views on the nature of our field for many decades, and they still exist today, reformulated by new generations and interest groups. As if these differences were not enough, there are also substantial disparities on when and how the subject h...

This article analyzes changes in the composition of Colombia's entrepreneurial class since the 1990s. We identify an increasing heterogeneity among the country's entrepreneurs, marked by greater diversity in gender, social class, and educational level. We also note more diverse regional origins, career trajectories, and political orientations among...

p>El presente libro sintetiza algunos de los resultados del proyecto “Desarrollo y capacidades estatales: empresas, instituciones y políticas públicas en el largo plazo” (PIO-CONICET-UNLPam). Los siete capítulos analizan distintos procesos económico-sociales y las políticas públicas implementadas en la actual provincia de La Pampa, así como su vinc...

The literature about women’s roles in corporate structure does not provide clear, systemic, integrative answers to fundamental questions such as which factors shape board gender composition and women’s roles in business and corporate networks? With the intention to help overcome this gap in the literature, this paper examines the dynamics of women’...

La relación entre grandes empresas y la evolución de la economía es una pregunta clave de la historia económica argentina. Este libro propone un estudio integral sobre el perfil y las transformaciones de la cúpula empresarial argentina en largo plazo desde el siglo XIX hasta el siglo XXI, basado en una serie homogénea de rankings de empresas. Aport...

Hablamos de un mundo sin COVID-19, cuando realmente de lo que se trata es de un punto de quiebre. Hay muchos discursos que están hablando de que estamos en un cambio de época más que una época de cambios; otros están hablando de que estamos en una aceleración de la historia o que se trata de un shock de una envergadura desconocida en la historia re...

Si bien el estancamiento de la economía argentina reconoce un momento de inicio a mediados de la década de 1970, ya promediando los años cincuenta, el desenvolvimiento de la industrialización se vio sometido a diferentes trabas y su comportamiento estuvo signado por recurrentes conflictos por la distribución del ingreso y una persistente y elevada...

The first globalization wave from 1850 to 1914 is considered to be a period when global trade and investment increased at a steady pace, impacting on global economic growth. Global trade, for instance, grew at an average rate of 4.5 percent per year between 1875 and 1914, a growth rate that was only paralleled again from 1980s. And yet that evoluti...

The disintegration of the ‘first global economy’, accelerated by the Great Depression, had a profound and negative impact on the Chilean economy. Previous studies have focused on the economic behaviour of Chile in the 1930s. However, there is little historical research on the processes of adaptation that occurred in the corporate strategies of the...

Resumen. Argentina dominó el mercado mundial de carnes desde inicios del siglo , y los frigoríícos representaron una de las principales industrias radicadas en Argentina. Este artículo se propone revisitar un tema clásico dentro de la historiografía económica argentina desde una nueva perspectiva, al enfocarse en los actores empresariales e inserta...

Argentina was viewed as the least Americanized country in Latin America at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, the role U.S. companies in shaping the Argentinean economy in the first decades of the twentieth century has not yet been fully documented. For this reason, this article provides a new estimate of the scope and characteristics...

Las empresas extranjeras han desempeñado un papel fundamental en la economía argentina desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Su presencia ha generado debates y ha tenido alto impacto no sólo durante las fases de auge de la inversión extranjera sino también en los períodos en los que disminuyó la entrada de nuevos capitales al país. Este libro des...

Foreign investment is at the core of discussions around the long-term development of Latin America’s economy. However, some aspects of foreign firms’ Latin American operations have not been analyzed extensively, such as management staffing strategies. This article examines recruitment patterns, managerial styles, and the professional development of...

Este capítulo analiza las estrategias y prácticas de relacionamiento, coordinación y colaboración entre las mayores empresas de Chile en el año 1939. Aportando a la investigación histórica sobre el proceso de adaptación de las estrategias corporativas de las empresas y empresarios chilenos durante la desintegración de la primera economía global y l...

This paper analyses the evolution of the corporate networks in two Latin economies – Argentina and Italy – from 1913 to 1990 by using the interlocking directorates’ technique. The paper focuses on six benchmark years for which the largest 25 banks and 100 non-financial companies have been selected in both countries. After showing a descriptive stat...

Intermediation has been largely neglected in Latin American economic and business historiography. This study focuses on financial intermediation and on the links between the banking system and the commercial sector during Argentina’s export boom in the first few decades of the twentieth century. To that end, it shows how rural merchants served as f...

During the first global economy of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Argentina became one of the richest countries on earth, while Chile was an economic backwater. During the contemporary era of globalization, liberalization and institutional reforms in Chile provided a context in which business grew, while in Argentina, inst...

This article analyzes the global and local factors that shaped foreign direct investment (FDI) in Argentina and the strategies of foreign multinationals to adapt to challenging circumstances and to exogenous shocks from the early twentieth century to the emergence of a new global economy in the 1950s. The central argument is that Argentina was a ho...

From a Business History approach, the article examines the historical role of multinational firms and its characteristics in Argentina. Based on a new database of foreign companies in Argentina (Foreign Companies in Argentina Database - FCAD), we identify the organizational forms, the sectoral distribution, the entry strategies and investment decis...

This article analyzes the local and global factors that shaped direct foreign investment in Argentina. Using information provided by a new database on foreign companies in Argentina (BDEEA-FCAD), an analysis is carried out of the changes in organizational structures and entry strategies of the 100 largest foreign multinationals during the period of...

This chapter focuses on factors that fueled changes and shifts in Argentine interlocking directorates (IDs) throughout the twentieth century. Our research shows that the corporate networks built by Argentina's largest firms never achieved a very cohesive structure and, by the mid-twentieth century, they lost any cohesiveness they might have had. Du...

This article examines the interlocking directorates' structure of prominent Argentine business groups at the end of the import substitution period (1970–72), identifying corporate relations among and between business groups and the largest companies, during a period characterised by high institutional and macroeconomic instability. Applying social...

Abstract Trademarks are highly valuable devices that serve a relevant purpose in trade and consumption patterns. However, trademarks have been largely neglected by Argentina's economic history historiography. This article discusses how and when trademarks emerged and spread in Argentina's rural area in the early 20th century. It describes this grad...

La investigación sobre redes de directorios se ha llevado a cabo principalmente en los Estados Unidos y los países europeos. Escasos son los trabajos de investigación, ya sea de la naturaleza teórica o empírica, que han estudiado las características y los factores que afectan a esta importante red inter empresarial en economías periféricas y turbul...

Research on interlocking directorates has been conducted primarily in the United States and European countries. Little work of either theoretical or empirical nature has been done to study the characteristics and the factors that affect this important business network in peripheral and turbulent economies. In this comparative and historical study,...

En los albores de la primera guerra mundial, Argentina era el primer país receptor de la inversión directa europea. Luego del temprano ingreso de las firmas británicas, la corriente de inversión directa en el país se consolidó con el ingreso de empresas alemanas, belgas, francesas, holandesas e italianas, atraídas por la expansión del mercado regio...

By the end of the 19th century, Latin America became a primary destination for European foreign direct investments, and Argentina soon became the recipient of the largest share of European flows, mainly from the United Kingdom. The early arrival of British firms was then followed by German, Belgian, French, Dutch and Italian companies, especially a...

An edited collection of essays which exam the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile in a comparative perspective. Currently only available in Spanish.

Este artículo analiza algunas de las características de los fracasos de empresas argentinas a principios del siglo XX. El fracaso empresario en este trabajo se ha asociado con las quiebras y con otros procesos judiciales. Estas páginas se concentran en el universo de los “fallidos”, la magnitud de los capitales pasivos, su periodización, y los rubr...

In the first global economy, Argentina qualified as one of the most dynamic economies, attracting a record volume of foreign investment. It ranked fourth in terms of the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) by 1914. The article aims to present an overview of the relationships between multinationals (mainly American and European) and the host co...

During the last decades, economic theory has devoted considerable attention to the role of information asymmetry in credit markets and problems connected with this phenomenon. However, institutional aspects —particularly, how information is gathered and shared— have not been studied as thoroughly. Only recently has research been conducted on the or...

Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y el primer tercio del XX, la expansión agraria desempeñó un papel central en la formación del capitalismo argentino. Articulando este proceso se desarrollaron una serie de mecanismos de intermediación, encargados de canalizar la producción de la campaña hacia los puertos además de proveer una serie de insumos...

Interlocking directorates have been associated with a wide range of economic and corporate outputs. Research on interlocks has studied primarily the US and European corporate structures. Little work of either theoretical or empirical nature has been done to study the factors that affect the characteristics and the evolution of corporate networks in...

Without intermediation, it is difficult for trade to take place. In this paper, I explore the centrality of local agents in the export boom at the beginning of the twentieth-century in Argentina, a country that ranked among the top five exporters of wheat in the world. 1 Agrarian expansion was the motor of the economic growth of Argentina and it wa...