Abstract

LANGARD, Federico. Production of agricultural machinery in Argentina: Comparative Analysis of the Dynamics of National conglomerates and Global Value Chains. Trab. soc. [online]. 2016, n.27, pp.405-424. ISSN 1514-6871.

The work presented here is based on the doctoral thesis Consolidación de cadenas globales de valor y desarrollo de clusters locales: el caso de la maquinaria agrícola en Argentina (Consolidation of global value chains and development of local clusters: the case of the agricultural machinery in Argentina), defended on December 2014. This article presents some productive configurations, adopted by the production of certain agricultural equipment. Configurations linked to schemes in which transnational capital participates in some way. The analysis is based on comparing the segment of seeders manufacturing companies, a cluster of domestic capital SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), harvesters and tractors producing companies, industry directly linked to transnational capital. Additionally, it goes into detail on the study of this industry transnational nexus with the analysis of two in-depths interviews with two foreign firms producing in the country. In this way, some behavior characteristics of the transnational corporations (TNCs) in the agricultural machinery production and in Argentina are exhibited.

Keywords : Agricultural machinery industry in Argentina; Transnational Corporations; Global Value Chains.

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