Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T20:26:34.035Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Economic Expansion of an Elite Business Family of French Origin in Central Mexico in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Jose Galindo
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This article describes how a French family, the Jeans, built and expanded its wealth in Central Mexico in the first half of the twentieth century. It explains how this family, using a different strategy than other French businessmen who settled in that region, began in textiles and diversified into the financial and housing sectors. The article also explores whether the Mexican Revolution and the early agrarian reform programs affected their properties and/or economic activities. Finally, the article explains how a branch of this family linked into the most powerful media family in Mexico and persisted among the Mexican economic elite until today.

Type
Articles
Information
Enterprise & Society , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 794 - 828
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bibliography of Works Cited

Books

Barker, Nancy. The French Experience in Mexico, 1821–1861. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979.Google Scholar
Buchenau, Jürgen. Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Colli, Andrea. The History of Family Business, 1850–2000. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Cruz, Maria Soledad. Crecimiento Urbano y Procesos Sociales en el Distrito Federal, 1920–28. Azcapotzalco, Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 1994.Google Scholar
Durand, Jorge. La Ciudad Invade al Ejido. Mexico City: Casa Chata, 1983.Google Scholar
Fernández, Claudia Paxman, Andrew. El Tigre: Emilio Azcárraga y su Imperio Televisa. Mexico City: Grijalbo Mondadori, 2000.Google Scholar
González, Moisés. Los Extranjeros en México y los Mexicanos en el Extranjero 1821–1970. Vol. 1. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1993.Google Scholar
Haber, Stephen. Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico 1890–1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Maurer, Noel. The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876–1932. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
México, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Directorio de las Fábricas de Hilados y Tejidos Registradas. Mexico City: Departamento de ImpuestosEspeciales, 1931and 1938.Google Scholar
Razo, Armando. Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection During Mexico’s Early Industrialization. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Tischendorf, Alfred. Great Britain and Mexico in the Era of Porfirio Díaz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1961.Google Scholar
Trujillo, Mario. Empresariado y Manufactura Textil en la Ciudad de México y su Periferia. Siglo XIX. Mexico City: CIESAS, 2000.Google Scholar
Zepeda, Jorge. Los Amos de Mexico, Mexico City: Temas de Hoy, 2008.Google Scholar

Articles and Essays

Chrisman, James Chua, Jess Sharma, Pramodita. “Trends and Directions in the Development of a Strategic Management Theory and the Family Firm.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 10 (2005):555–75.Google Scholar
Galindo, José. “El Movimiento Obrero, el Proteccionismo y la Legislación Laboral en México a Principios del XX.” Estudios, 102 (2012):33–59.Google Scholar
Galindo, José. “Some Considerations Regarding the Persistence of the Economic Elite in Mexico in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 32 (2013):149–62.Google Scholar
Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora. “Networks and Entrepreneurship: The Modernization of Textile Business in Porfirian Mexico.” Business History Review, 82 (Autumn 2008): 475–502.Google Scholar
Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora. “Los Barcelonnettes y la Modernización de la Comercialización y de la Producción de Textiles en el Porfiriato” in Los Barcelonnettes en Mexico: Miradas Regionales, Siglos XIX y XX, edited by Gamboa, Leticia.189–231 Puebla, Mexico: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2008.Google Scholar
Gouy, Patrice. “Peregrinaciones de Barcelonnettes a México.”In Artes de México, Francia-México. Imágenes Compartidas,vol. 39:62–67, 1997.Google Scholar
Nicolau d’Olwer, Luis. “Las inversiones extranjeras.”In Historia Moderna de México. El porfiriato. La vida económica. Vol. 6 Parte 2, edited by Villegas, Daniel Cosío.972–1185 Mexico City: Hermes, 1965.Google Scholar
Oropeza, Eduardo Martínez, Magdalena. “Participación de Contreras en la Lucha Zapatista.” La Voz de Contreras,28, 1986.Google Scholar
Pérez-Siller, Javier. “Los Franceses en México.”In Extranjeros en México Continuidades y Aproximaciones, edited by Rodríguez, Ernesto.331–66. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Migración/SEGOB, 2010.Google Scholar
Sharma, Parmodita Chrisman, James Chua, Jess. “Strategic Management of the Family Business: Past Research and Future Challenges.” Family Business Review, 10 (1997):1–36.Google Scholar
Shleifer, Andrei Vishny, Robert. A Survey of Corporate Governance Journal of Finance, 52 (1997):737–83.Google Scholar
Trujillo, Mario. “La Fábrica la Magdalena Contreras (1836–1910).”In Historia de las Grandes Empresas en México 1850–1930, compiled by Marichal y, Carlos Cerutti, Mario.245–74. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica / Univ. Autónoma de Nuevo León, 1997.Google Scholar

Newspapers

Diario Oficial de la Federación (Mexico City).Google Scholar
El Imparcial (Mexico City).Google Scholar
La Voz de Contreras (Delegación Magdalena Contreras Newspaper Mexico City).Google Scholar

Archives and Unpublished Sources

Anaya, Luis. “Colapso y Reforma: La Integración del Sistema Bancario y las Finanzas Públicas en el México Revolucionario, 1913–1932.”PhD dissertation, Colegio de México Mexico City 2000.Google Scholar
Archivo Central de la Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria, Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria, Mexico City, Mexico.Google Scholar
Archivo General de la Nación: Fondo de Gobernación; Fondo Departamento del Trabajo and Fondo de Presidentes Secretaría de Gobernación Mexico City, Mexico Google Scholar
Archivo General de Notarías de la Ciudad de México, Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Mexico.Google Scholar
Archivo Histórico del Banco Nacional de México, Banco Nacional de México, Mexico City, Mexico.Google Scholar
Berra Stoppa, Erica. “La Expansión de la Ciudad de México y los Conflictos Urbanos 1900–1930.” PhD dissertation, Colegio de México, Mexico City, 1980.Google Scholar
Camarena, Mario. “Formas y Formación: Historia Social de los Obreros Textiles de San Ángel.”PhD dissertation, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. 1999.Google Scholar
Castañeda, Gonzalo. “The Barcelonnettes: An Example of Network-Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: An Explanation Based on a Theory of Bounded Rational Choice with Social Embededness,” document de treballno. 04/2, Department d’Economia de l’Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2004.Google Scholar
Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora. “The Impact of Revolution: Business and Labor in the Mexican Textile Industry, Orizaba Veracruz 1900–1930.”PhD dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 1999.Google Scholar
Haber, Stephen Razo, Armando Maurer, Noel. “Political Instability, Credible Commitments and Economic Growth: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico.”Working Paper, Stanford University Stanford& Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City. 1999.Google Scholar
Maurer, Noel Tridib, Sharma. “Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Groups in Mexico’s Early Industrialization, 1878–1913.” Paper presented at the Conference on Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America, Stanford University, Stanford, CA:April 14–15, 2000.Google Scholar
Registro Público de la Propiedad y de Comercio del Distrito Federal: Sección Comercio and Sección Primera, Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Mexico.Google Scholar

Online Sources

“Censo de Población y Vivienda 1910, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI).” http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/TabuladosBasicos/default.aspx?c=16769&s=est. Accessed April 1, 2012.Google Scholar

Interviews

José Conde Cervantes, August 31, 2001.Google Scholar
Michel Jean, September 11, 2001.Google Scholar