Business Groups And Transnational Capitalism In Central America

Author : Benedicte Bull,F. Castellacci,Yuri Kasahara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137359407

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Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America by Benedicte Bull,F. Castellacci,Yuri Kasahara Pdf

This book investigates Central America's political economy seen through the lens of its powerful business groups. It provides unique insight into their strategies when confronted with a globalized economy, their impact on development of the isthmus, and how they shape the political and economic institutions governing local varieties of capitalism.

Author : William I. Robinson
Publisher : Verso
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1859845479

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Transnational Conflicts by William I. Robinson Pdf

Capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars, and pacification in Central America; William Robinson maps the shape of change in the region.

Author : Benedicte Bull,F. Castellacci,Yuri Kasahara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137359407

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Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America by Benedicte Bull,F. Castellacci,Yuri Kasahara Pdf

This book investigates Central America's political economy seen through the lens of its powerful business groups. It provides unique insight into their strategies when confronted with a globalized economy, their impact on development of the isthmus, and how they shape the political and economic institutions governing local varieties of capitalism.

Author : William I. Robinson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801890390

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Latin America and Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson Pdf

2009 Best Book, International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his theory of globalization and discusses how Latin America’s political economy has changed as the states integrate into the new global production and financial system, focusing specifically on the rise of nontraditional agricultural exports, the explosion of maquiladoras, transnational tourism, and the export of labor and the import of remittances. He follows with an overview of the clash among global capitalist forces, neoliberalism, and the new left in Latin America, looking closely at the challenges and dilemmas resistance movements face and their prospects for success. Through three case studies—the struggles of the region's indigenous peoples, the immigrants rights movement in the United States, and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela—Robinson documents and explains the causes of regional socio-political tensions, provides a theoretical framework for understanding the present turbulence, and suggests possible outcomes to the conflicts. Based on years of fieldwork and empirical research, this study elucidates the tensions that globalization has created and shows why Latin America is a battleground for those seeking to shape the twenty-first century’s world order.

Author : José J. Villamil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X000037918

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Transnational Capitalism and National Development by José J. Villamil Pdf

Monographic compilation of essays on the impact of multinational enterprise capitalism on national level economic development and dependence of developing countries (incl. Latin America and Africa) - considers the origins of the dependence development theory in context with modernization and neoclassical economic theories, analyses underdevelopment effects of mass media, arms, technological change, etc., and examines alternative development policy options based on self-reliance, references and statistical tables.

Author : Frederick Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429978982

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Latin America In The World Economy by Frederick Weaver Pdf

Latin America in the World Economy considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture, politics, and social groups). Weaver skillfully demonstrates how domestic social conflicts and power relations have consistently capitalized on changes in the international economy while, conversely, engagement with the international economy has consistently constrained local struggles and patterns of change. Over half of Latin America in the World Economy focuses on the short twentieth century (after 1930), and the way that the book frames recent events and processes in broad historical and comparative terms is appropriate for courses on world history and comparative development as well as for more specialized courses on Latin America.

Author : Jeb Sprague
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439916551

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Globalizing the Caribbean by Jeb Sprague Pdf

The beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around the region, as national regulations are reworked to promote conditions benefiting private capital. Globalizing the Caribbean offers a probing account of the region’s experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of workers. Jeb Sprague focuses on the social and material nature of this new era in the history of world capitalism. He combines an historical overview of capitalism in the region with theoretical analysis backed by case studies. Sprague elaborates upon the role of class formation and the restructuring of local states. He considers both U.S. hegemony, and how various upsurges from below and crises occur. He examines the globalization of the cruise ship and mining businesses, looks at the growth of migrant labor and reverse flow of remittances, and describes the evolving role of export processing and supranational associations. In doing so, Sprague shows how transnationally oriented elites have come to rule the Caribbean, and how capitalist globalization in the region occurs alongside shifting political, institutional, and organizational dynamics.

Author : Kevin Funk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253062567

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Rooted Globalism by Kevin Funk Pdf

Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class? In Rooted Globalism, Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based, Arab-descendant elite class, some of whom also occupy positions of political power in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Based on extensive fieldwork, Funk illuminates how these elites navigate their Arab ancestry, Latin American host cultures, and roles as protagonists of globalization. With the term "rooted globalism," Funk captures the emergence of classed intersectional identities that are simultaneously local, national, transnational, and global. Focusing on an oft-ignored axis of South-South relations (between Latin America and the Arab world), Rooted Globalism provides detailed analysis of the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities, global capitalism relies on them.

Author : William I. Robinson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801896361

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Latin America and Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson Pdf

2009 Best Book, International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his theory of globalization and discusses how Latin America’s political economy has changed as the states integrate into the new global production and financial system, focusing specifically on the rise of nontraditional agricultural exports, the explosion of maquiladoras, transnational tourism, and the export of labor and the import of remittances. He follows with an overview of the clash among global capitalist forces, neoliberalism, and the new left in Latin America, looking closely at the challenges and dilemmas resistance movements face and their prospects for success. Through three case studies—the struggles of the region's indigenous peoples, the immigrants rights movement in the United States, and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela—Robinson documents and explains the causes of regional socio-political tensions, provides a theoretical framework for understanding the present turbulence, and suggests possible outcomes to the conflicts. Based on years of fieldwork and empirical research, this study elucidates the tensions that globalization has created and shows why Latin America is a battleground for those seeking to shape the twenty-first century’s world order.

Author : Asli M. Colpan,Takashi Hikino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191027833

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Business Groups in the West by Asli M. Colpan,Takashi Hikino Pdf

This volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's developed economies. It focuses on the economic institution of business groups and attempts to comprehend the factors behind their rise, growth, struggle, and resilience; their behavioral and organizational characteristics; and their roles in national economic development. The volume seeks to enhance the scholarly and policy-oriented understanding of business groups in developed economies by bringing together state-of-the-art research on the characteristics and contributions of large enterprises in an evolutionary perspective. While business groups are a dominant and critical organization model in contemporary emerging economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses, their counterparts in developed economies have not been systematically examined. This book aims to fill this gap in the literature and is the first scholarly attempt to explore the evolutional paths and contemporary roles of business groups in developed economies from an internationally comparative perspective. In doing so, it argues that business groups actually rose to function as a critical factor of industrial dynamics in the context of Second Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century. They have adapted their characteristic roles and transformed to fit to the changing market and institutional settings. As they flexibly co-evolve with the environment, the volume shows that business groups can remain as a viable organization model in the world's most advanced economies today.

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631224629

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The Transnational Capitalist Class by Leslie Sklair Pdf

While most of the popular and academic debates explore ideas of globalization, The Transnational Capitalist Class goes one step further and provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain and deconstruct the process of globalization as seen by the corporations themselves. Using personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty Fortune Global 500 corporations, as well as already published sources, Sklair demonstrates how globalization works from the perspective of those who control and oppose the major globalizing corporations and their allies in government and the media. The book explores two major crises of globalization - class polarization and ecological sustainability - and shows how the transnational capitalist class attempts to resolve these crises and evaluates its own success and failure. Sklair's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to what has become a key debate of our time.

Author : José J. Villamil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:785018354

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Transnational Capitalism and National Development by José J. Villamil Pdf

Author : Niall G. Mackenzie,Andrew Perchard,Christopher Miller,Neil Forbes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000802269

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Varieties of Capitalism Over Time by Niall G. Mackenzie,Andrew Perchard,Christopher Miller,Neil Forbes Pdf

This book looks at how varieties of capitalism emerge over time and across different geographies, and is comprised of submissions from scholars around the globe. Covering a wide range of territories including Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia across both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this edited volume considers the roles that the state and business working together play in the emergence of different economic systems. Whilst most analyses focus on identifying different types of capitalism, the chapters in this volume instead focus on how these different types develop, the drivers of their emergence, and the people and organisations behind the developments. The geographical spread of analyses allows the reader to delve into how different countries have managed and even created their economic systems providing comparative insights into our understanding of how different national economic models develop over time. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History.

Author : Michael Carney,Marleen Dieleman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110727968

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De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families by Michael Carney,Marleen Dieleman Pdf

The management field increasingly recognizes that most firms in the world are family firms and that these entities operate differently from the non-family firms on which most of our current management theories are based. The De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families brings together work from leading academics who explore emerging research themes relevant to business families, particularly drawing in new insights from adjacent disciplines that can advance the family business field. The handbook challenges the traditional notion of the "single firm–single family" that has characterized most early research on family business. Recognizing that families may simultaneously own or control multiple businesses as well as substantial wealth beyond these firms in the form of financial and non-financial assets, this handbook focuses on business families rather than the narrower construct of family business. The contributions in this handbook explore the relatively neglected dynamics between individuals with family ties that shape the interaction between family and business; business families with multiple businesses; how business families adopt formal rules and processes around their joint activities; and the institutionalization of wealth and business families in society. The De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families fills a gap in the family business research literature and is an essential reference work for researchers and graduate-level students in the area of business families.

Author : Margit Ystanes,Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319615363

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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America by Margit Ystanes,Iselin Åsedotter Strønen Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.