Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile

Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the importance of diversified family business groups in twentieth-century Chile, their dynamics, organisation, and management, and their interaction with foreign investors and the state. Using a range of company and government archives, as well as other contemporary sources in Chile, Britain, and the United States, the individual authors pay particular attention to many key topics: the evolution of the Edwards family businesses, those of Pascual Baburizza, Chilean corporate networks, British firms in the nitrate industry, the Anglo South American Bank, the Copec group, Compañía Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego, the energy sector, SOFOFA (the industrialists' association), and the recent growth of Chilean multinationals.

Manuel Llorca-Jaña is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Rory M. Miller is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK.

Diego Barría is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Auteur
Manuel Llorca-Jaña is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Rory M. Miller is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK.
Diego Barría is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Business History in Chile in the Twentieth Century

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Rory M. Miller, and Diego Barría

2. Entrepreneurial Families, Inheritances and Wealth Transfers: The Edwards Family and their Transition from Entrepreneurs to Rentiers, 1880-1914

Ricardo Nazer Ahumada

3. Baburizza: A Business Group in Chile in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Gonzalo Islas Rojas

4. Managed Decline, Headlong Retreat or Entrepreneurial Failure? British Nitrate Producers and the Withdrawal from Chile, 1920-1930

Robert Greenhill

5. Riding on a Roller-Coaster: The Rise and Decline of the Anglo South American Bank

Rory M. Miller

6. Economic Policy and Foreign Capital in the Creation and Rise of Copec

Marcelo Bucheli

7. Chile´s Business Network in 1939: Between the Global Crisis and Adaptation to State-led Industrialization Policies Erica Salvaj, Andrea Lluch & Constanza Gómez

8. Electricity Generation and Electric Power in Chile before 1975

César Yáñez

9. On the Origins of the '(Neo)liberal Project' in Chile: Entrepreneurs in the 1950s

Luis Ortega

10. Chilean Multinationals: Contexts, Paths, Strategies

María Inés Barbero