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Business History in Latin America: A Historiographical Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

María Inés Barbero
María Inés Barbero
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MARÍA INÉS BARBERO is director of the Centra de Estudios de Historia y Desarrollo de Empresas at the Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), where she teaches economic and business history.
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Abstract

In this survey of the trajectory of Latin American business history, the focus is on its development over the course of the past twenty years, when the discipline began to be recognized as a field of specialization within historical studies. The first section is a consideration of the origins of business history in Latin America, from the 1960s to 1985. The second section, covering 1985 to the present, is an analysis of the institutionalization of Latin American business history as research expanded and practitioners in the field began to adopt a more professional approach to their work. In the third section, the focus is on the topics that have attracted the most attention during the previous two decades, identifying research trends that have transcended national differences as well as some notable traits of Latin American business. The last section, a consideration of how Latin America can contribute both to business history and to comparative studies, concludes with proposals for a new research agenda.

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Business History Review , Volume 82 , Special Issue 3: Business in Latin America , Autumn 2008 , pp. 555 - 575
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2008

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18 Cerutti, Burguesía y capitalismo en Monterrey (1850–1910).

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20 Miller, “Business History in Latin America: An Introduction.”

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23 The import-substitution model is an economic strategy adopted by Latin American countries at different points between the 1930s and the 1970s that rested on two pillars—a closed economy and a strong state role—designed to encourage national industrial growth in order to reduce their need to import manufactured goods.

24 Retreat does not mean disappearance.

25 Important contributions are those from Stephen Haber, Industry and Underdevelopment; Dye, Alan, Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929 (Stanford, 1998)Google Scholar; Summerhill, William, Order Against Progress (Stanford, 2003)Google Scholar; Aldo Musacchio and Ian Read, “Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization,” Harvard Business School Working Paper, (2006); and Maurer, Noel, The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876–1932 (Stanford, 2002)Google Scholar.

26 In Mexico, paradigmatic cases are Mina Real del Monte, Banco Banamex, and Fundidora de Monterrey. See Marichal, “La Importancia de los Archivos de Empresas en la Época Contemporánea.” Many scholars used the Banco Banamex files as the main source for their research projects and their Ph.D. theses. In Brazil the most important experience was the classification of the archive of “The Light”—Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited. A wide array of research projects have used this archive. See Soares, Luzia, De Paula, Dirce, and Poleti, Iraci, “A formaiçao do grupo Light: Apontamentos para a sua história administrative,” in América Latina en la Historia Económica: Boletín de Fuentes 8 (1997): 55–69CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The Mexican journal América Latina en la Historia Económica, edited by the Instituto Mora of Mexico City, published several articles during the 1990s on sources for historians in different Latin American countries. This information is available at the Instituto Mora Web site (www.institutomora.edu.mx).

27 Reber, Vera Blinn, “Archival Sources for Latin American Business History,” Business History Review 59 (Winter 1985): 670–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Miller, “Business History in Latin America: An Introduction”; Le Grand, Catherine and Corso, Adriana, “Los archivos notariales como fuente histórica” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 31 (2004): 159–208Google Scholar.

28 Dávila, “La historia empresarial en America Latina.”

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30 The issue of Enterprise and Society, edited by Tamás Szmrecsányi an d Steven Topik, was published in 2004. It includes articles from American an d Latin American scholars (Anne Hanley, Julio Moreno, Maria Teresa Ribeiro de Oliveira, and Gabriela Recio).

31 María Inés Barbero (from Argentina) is part of the editorial board of the Business History Review, and Enterprise and Society. Andrea Lluch (from Argentina) is associate editor of Enterprise and Society. Arturo Grunstein (from Mexico) is part of the editorial board of Enterprise and Society.

32 Some collective works that reflect the state of the art of Mexican business history are: Cerutti, Mario and Marichal, Carlos, eds., Historia de las grandes empresas en México (Mexico City, 1997)Google Scholar; Cerutti, Mario and Marichal, Carlos, eds., La banca regional en México (1870–1930) (Mexico City, 2003)Google Scholar; Cerutti, Mario, Marichal, Carlos et al. , Del mercado protegido al mercado global: Monterrey, 1925–2000 (Mexico City, 2003)Google Scholar; Basave, Jorge and Hernández, Marcela, eds., Los estudios de empresarios y empresas: Una perspectiva internacional (Mexico City, 2007)Google Scholar. For more information about recent contributions, see Marichal, “Historia de las empresas e historia económica en México.”

33 Gamboa, Los empresarios de ayer; Cerutti, Mario and Vellinga, Menno, eds., Burguesias e industria en América Latina y Europa Meridional (Madrid, 1989)Google Scholar. See also several is-sues of the journal Sigh XIX from 1990 to 1994.

34 Ficker, Sandra Kuntz, Empresa extranjera y mercado interno: El Ferrocarril Central Mexicano (1880–1907) (Mexico City, 1995)Google Scholar; Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, “El desempeño de la Fundidora de Hierro y Acero de Monterrey durante el Porfiriato,” in Historia de las grandes empresas en México, ed. Cerutti and Marichal.

35 In 1988 the first Confêrencia Internacional de História de Empresas took place in Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro), and since 1993 conferences on business history have been organized in the context of the periodical conferences on economic history. Papers were published in several books: Szmrecsányi and Maranhão, eds., História de Emprêsas e Desenvoluimento Econômico; II Congresso Brasileiro de História Economica e 3a Conferencia Internacional de História de Empresas, Anais (Niteroi, 1997)Google Scholar. More recently, they were published on CD-ROM. A multidisciplinary workshop on businessmen an d firms has taken place every two years since 1998 at different Brazilian universities, and the papers are published in edited volumes. See Kirschner, Ana Maria and Gomes, Eduardo, eds., Empresa, empresários e sociedade (Rio de Janeiro, 1999)Google Scholar; Kirschner, Ana Maria, Gomes, Eduardo, and Cappellin, Paola, eds., Empresa, empresrios e globalizaçao (Rio de Janeiro, 2002)Google Scholar; Gros, Denise et al. , Empresas e grupos empresariais: Atores sociais em transformação (Juiz de Fora, 2005)Google Scholar.

36 Armando Dalla Costa has adopted some Chandlerian concepts, while other authors, such as Flavio Saes, have discussed them in an explicit way. See Costa, Armando Dalla, “A Sadia e o pionerismo industrial na agroindustria brasileira,” História Econômica & História de Empresas 1 (1998): 109–44Google Scholar, and de Saes, Flavio A. Marques, “História de Empresas e História Econômica do Brasil,” Anais da 4a Conferencia International de História de Empresas (Curitiba, 1999)Google Scholar, CD-ROM.

37 References and contributions can be found in the historiographical article from Colin Lewis, “Historia empresarial brasileña, c.1850–1945,” in the collective books cited in note 37 and in the CD-ROMs published since 1999 containing the papers presented at the Brazilian Economic and Business History Conferences (many of them can be consulted on-line at http://www.abphe.org.br/eventos.html). See also a recent book edited by Costa, Armando Dalla, Fernandes, Adriana Sbicca, and Szmrecsányi, Tamás, Empresas, empresários e desenvolvimento econômico no Brasil (São Paulo, 2008)Google Scholar.

38 Luis Carlos Bresser Pereira, “Empresarios, suas origens e as interpretaçoes do Brasil,” in História de Emprêsas e Desenvolvimento Econômico, ed. Szmrecsányi an d Maranhão; Birchal, Sérgio de Oliveira, Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (London, 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

39 Sérgio de Oliveira Birchal, “O modelo empresarial brasileiro,” in Anais da 4a Conferencia International de História de Empresas (Curitiba, 1999)Google Scholar; Eulália Lahmeyer Lobo, “Características dos empresarios do setor privado no Brasil,” II Congresso Brasileiro de História Economica e 3a Conferencia Internacional de História de Empresas, Anais (Niteroi, 1997)Google Scholar.

40 Dávila, ed., Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia.

41 Dávila, El empresariado colombiano and “Estado de los estudios sobre la historia empresarial en Colombia.” A recent book from Marcelo Bucheli on the United Fruit Company in Colombia is a relevant contribution, since it is a case study about the strategy of the firm and its impact on the local economy from an innovative perspective. See Bucheli, Marcelo, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000 (New York, 2005)Google Scholar.

42 The CEHDE is run by María Inés Barbero. An antecedent was the Centro de Estudios Económicos sobre la Empresa y el Desarrollo, created in 1998 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires by María Inés Barbero, Raúl García Heras, Jorge Gilbert, Jorge Schvarzer, and other scholars.

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