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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The firm in early Argentine industrialization, 1890--1930: A study of fifty-five joint-stock companies' owners, finance sources, productivity, and profits Abstract: The scholarly literature of Argentina's economic history has observed that the unfulfilled promise of Argentine industrialization can be attributed to its high levels of industrial concentration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine this hypothesis at the micro-economic level through analyses of fifty-five leading Argentine manufacturing firms during the formative period of Argentina's economic development from 1890 to 1930. Argentina had a noncompetitive and underdeveloped industrial structure because it came to be dominated by a handful of large firms owned by merchant finance groups. These groups were networks of financiers with the capital to afford the high costs of modern, large-scale manufacturing in Argentina. They were partly responsible for industrial concentration. These groups' companies survived Argentina's volatile and unpredictable business cycles between 1890 and 1930 because they used strategies to control market outcomes so as to outlive competitors. By 1930, these owners effectively consolidated investment capital, manufacturing assets, and successfully increased their market power. |
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