type="main" <p>Multinational corporations in the extractive sector have historically faced challenges to their property rights, particularly in oil. International business scholars argue that firms can decrease these challenges by approaching domestic legitimating actors or seeking home government...</p>

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...

During the 1920s and 1930s, most Latin American countries drafted nationalist legislations for the oil sector seeking to control the power of foreign multinational corporations. While most initiatives sought to limit the foreign companies' control on oil production, countries which were not...

This paper undertakes a comparative and historical analysis of the subsidiaries of a large US oil multinational to examine how each subsidiary reacted to nationalist policies by different types of political regimes, host country regime changes, and the relationship of the host country government...

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 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 labour unrest. The...