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Industrial Elites in Mexico: Political Ideology and Influence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The socioeconomic behavior and belief systems of industrial elites in Latin America have received considerable attention from social scientists, but research on the political ideology and activities of these important groups has been surprisingly limited. The socioeconomic literature has focused on the development or underdevelopment of entrepreneurial attitudes and values among Latin American industrialists. The major conclusions, documented by considerable quantitative research, are that industrial entrepreneurship in Latin America has been inhibited by international and domestic structural factors. It is accepted that national industrial elites in general tend to resist economic change and innovation, prefer the maintenance of traditional values such as family ownership, paternalistic labor relations, and laborintensive, low-technology means of production. National industrial elites are furthermore dominated by "internationalized" entrepreneurs and direct state investment.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 351 - 376
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1983
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