Brazil's Economy
An Institutional and Sectoral Approach
- 180 pages
- English
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Brazil's Economy
An Institutional and Sectoral Approach
About This Book
The past century has witnessed profound transitions in Brazil's economy: from a surge of industrialization connected to export economy, to state projects of importsubstitution industrialization, followed by a process of neoliberal global market integration. How have Brazilian entrepreneurs and businesses navigated these contexts?
This comprehensive text explores the institutional and sectoral structure of the Brazilian economy through a collection of new case studies, examining how key institutions work within Brazil's specific economic, political and cultural context. Offering a long-term evolutionary perspective, the book explores Brazil's economic past in order to offer insights on its present and future trajectory. The contributions gathered here offer fresh insights into representative sectors of Brazil's economy, from aerospace to software, television, music and banking, paying particular attention to sectors that are likely to drive future growth. Chapters include questions about the roles of foreign and state capital, changes in market regulation, the emergence of new technologies, the opening of markets, institutional and organizational frameworks, and changing management paradigms.
When examined together, the contributions shed light not only on Brazilian business history, but also on the country as a whole. Brazil's Economy: An Institutional and Sectoral Approach offers fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in: Latin American Economics; the business history of the region; and in doing business in present-day Latin America.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: case studies in Brazil’s economy
- 1 The Brazilian banking industry: evolution, concentration, and competition after the 1990s
- 2 Private higher education expansion in Brazil: a case study
- 3 A short economic history of the television industry in Brazil
- 4 The story of Metal Leve S.A.: from birth to denationalization
- 5 Innovation, state partnership and growth strategies in the software industry: the case of TOTVS
- 6 Brazil’;s EMBRAER: institutional entrepreneurship
- 7 Entrepreneurship and competition in Brazil’s music markets: a taxonomy of two eras
- 8 Nationalism and the development of the Brazilian steel industry
- Index