Alfred Chandler's recent passing is cause to review and celebrate his many contributions to business history. It also presents an opportunity to highlight links between his rich historical analyses concerning organizational and industrial innovation and contemporary management studies of the...

Between 1917 and 1938, the Mexican government wrote a series of nationalist laws affecting the operations of the foreign multinationals operating there. This nationalism reached its peak in 1938, when the Mexican government expropriated foreign assets in the oil industry. During this period, the...

The US corporations United Fruit and Standard Oil (New Jersey) have been historically considered the purest representatives of American imperialism in Latin America, generating strong nationalist feelings and hostile actions from both working classes and local elites. By studying these two...

The US multinational United Fruit Company has been considered the quintessential representative of American imperialism in Central America. Not only did the company enjoy enormous privileges in that region, but also counted on authoritarian governments in dealing with labor unrest. The...

The historiography of Latin America’s oil industry has evolved since the period between the 1960s and the 1980s, when most scholars were focusing on the rise of nationalism in reaction to the multinationals’ control of the oil sector. Beginning in the 1990s, the emergence of new...

The process of vertical integration by multinational corporations in the extractive sector of poor countries is not only an economic process, but also a political one affected by the host country's social and political dynamics, the relationship between host country and home country, and the...