"Multilatinas" en las Américas: la dinámica de las políticas de campeón nacional y el comportamiento asimétrico

• Autores: Judith Clifton , Julio Revuelta López
• Localización: RIO: Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, ISSN-e 1886-4171, ISSN 2013-570X, Nº. 4, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Revisiting Multinational Corporations in the Twenty First Century), págs. 15-33
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.17345/rio4.15-33
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• Resumen
  • español

    Desde la década de 1990, dos de los ex-monopolios de telecomunicaciones "Telefónica de España y Telmex de México" surgieron como multinacionales y pronto dominaron este sector a lo largo de toda América Latina. Este artículo sostiene que, en ambos casos, las políticas de campeón nacional de los gobiernos domésticos coincidieron con un «comportamiento asimétrico» por parte de las empresas, que ayudó a las compañías en su búsqueda de una internacionalización exitosa. Los resultados empíricos apoyan alguna de las nuevas teorías sobre el comportamiento asimétrico de los antiguos monopolios que destacan la importancia de la secuencia temporal y el alcance de las políticas nacionales que coinciden con la estrategia empresarial.

  • English

    From the 1990s, two former telecoms monopoly incumbents "Telefonica of Spain and Telmex of Mexico" emerged as world player Multinationals and soon dominated this sector across Latin America. This paper argues that, in both cases, national champion policies by domestic governments coincided with an «asymmetrical behaviour» on the part of the firms, which helped them in their quest to successfully internationalise. Empirical findings support some newly emerging theories on the asymmetrical behaviour of former monopolies which stress the importance of the timing and extent of domestic policies which can combine with ambitious internationalization strategies on the part of the firms.

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