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Business groups in Portugal in the Estado Novo period (1930-1974): family, power and structural change

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  • �lvaro Ferreira da Silva
  • Luciano Amaral
  • Pedro Neves

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This article analyses the seven largest business groups in Portugal from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, a period in which they attained an unprecedented scale and scope. The analysis involves a comprehensive reconstruction of the groups' equity participations and corporate networks, using new sets of data. A few common features are found: these groups were based on family ownership and remained inward-looking, holding large equity participations in affiliate firms and segmenting them from more inclusive partnerships with other groups. But diversity should also be stressed: they displayed enormous plasticity in their dynamics of growth, combining exogenous and endogenous explanations. It is this plasticity that explains their resilience, capacity for adaptation, and ultimately their ubiquitous nature.

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  • �lvaro Ferreira da Silva & Luciano Amaral & Pedro Neves, 2016. "Business groups in Portugal in the Estado Novo period (1930-1974): family, power and structural change," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(1), pages 49-68, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:58:y:2016:i:1:p:49-68
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2015.1044520
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    1. Buchnea, Emily & Elsahn, Ziad, 2022. "Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(5).

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