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  • Bananas and Business

    The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000

    For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an overwhelmingly powerful corporation that shaped and often exploited its host countries. In this first history ... Read more

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    Organizations in Time

    History, Theory, Methods

    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    Why does history matter to our understanding of management, organizations, and markets? What theoretical insights can it offer into organizational processes? How can scholars use historical sources and methods to address research questions in management and organization studies?This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and ... Read more

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  • A Business History of Latin America

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    This edited volume constitutes the first available comprehensive business history of Latin America available in English. It offers a unique synthesis of the development of capitalism in Latin America that takes into consideration the complexities of each country, while simultaneously understanding broader commonalities.With chapters written by a group of internationally renowned senior scholars ... Read more

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  • Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America

    A Transnational History of Profits and Repression

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile ... Read more

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  • Latin America at 200

    A New Introduction

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  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based ... Read more

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