Abstract

BELINI, Claudio. Business strategies in a context of economic crises and uncertainty. The Compañía General Fabril Financiera and the cotton agroindustry in Chaco, 1974-1982. Folia [online]. 2023, n.47, pp.35-56. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0475962.

This article aims to analyze the productive and financial strategies of the Compañía General Fabril Financiera between 1974 and 1982. This was a brief but crucial period in Argentine economic history, characterized by the hyperinflationary process that followed the Rodrigazo of 1975 and the impact, in the next year, of the successive stabilization programs and banking reform that culminated in liberal trade and financial policies, currency appreciation and positive real interest rates during the last military government. In this macroeconomic context, Fabril Financiera reinforced its investment strategy in the textile industry, investing in a new cotton weaving mill in Resistencia. Based on company archives, this article studies the strategies of the firm and analyzes the role of this new industrial project in Chaco in the first call for creditors in 1981. This business history study attempts to provide new evidence for the analysis of the crisis of Import Substitution Industrialization.

Keywords : business history; Economic Groups; cotton textile industry; Chaco.

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