A miracle happened: US direct investment and Spanish enterprise (c. 1900-1975)

Authors

  • Adoración Álvaro Moya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2011.07.004

Keywords:

Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Enterprise, Joint Venture, Economic Nationalism, F23, L24, N44, N84

Abstract

After fifty years of academic analysis of the multinational enterprise, we still know very little about its long-term interaction with local firms and entrepreneurs. This is a key issue to assess the contribution of foreign direct investment to economic growth. For this reason this article examines that interaction through the analysis of US direct investment in a relatively backward country, Spain until 1975. The results achieved: 1) stress the role played by local partners facilitating US firms’ entry and operations in the country; 2) show that the constitution of temporary joint ventures was an increasingly frequent mode of entry; 3) give evidence of an increasing involvement of US firms in the host market; 4) limit the effect on US firms of the economic nationalism that characterized the period of study; and 5) suggest that an environment favorable to cooperation between foreigners and domestic entrepreneurs was built throughout the 20th century.

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Álvaro Moya, A. (2019). A miracle happened: US direct investment and Spanish enterprise (c. 1900-1975). Investigaciones De Historia Económica, 7(3), 358–368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2011.07.004

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RAMÓN CARANDE PRIZE