Multinational corporations, totalitarian regimes and economic nationalism: United Fruit Company in Central America, 1899-1975

Business History

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-454

  Bucheli, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

1970s oil crisis; Banana industry; Central America; Costa Rica; Economic nationalism; Foreign direct investment; Guatemala; Honduras; Multinationals and democracies; Multinationals and dictatorships; Panama; United Fruit Company

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IMPERIALISM; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; NATIONALISM;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 45949095533     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076790802106315     Document Type: Article

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