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The Politics of Vertical Integration in Extractive Industries: Business History and Political Economy

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Bucheli, Marcelo (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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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 relationship between the multinational and the home country. This essay argues that some of these complexities cannot be fully captured by the quantitative methodology that currently dominates the social sciences, but rather require a detailed historical case analysis. I illustrate this by studying cases of the banana and the nitrate industries in the 19th and 20th centuries in Latin America.

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Paper provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business in its series Working Papers with number 07-0112.

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