Resumen

OLGUIN, Patricia. Public Enterprises and Economic Development Projects: Government Plans for the Company Bodegas y Viñedos Giol (Mendoza, Argentina, 1954-1964). Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.1, e925. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.925.

The paper analyzes the government plans developed for a leading firm in the Argentine wine market. It focused on the plans that prompted its purchase by the State of Mendoza in 1954 and in those that promoted its transformation into an instrument of prices and vertical integration of producers in 1964. It is part of a broader discussion of the role played by industrial public enterprises as promoters of economic development projects in Latin America and in Argentina. The hypothesis is that, if the business functions have a broad consensus, the implementation mechanisms depended on the trajectory of the officials in charge. From a business history approach, public and private sources are examined and quantitative indicators on agro-industrial performance are constructed.

Palabras llave : public enterprises; economic development; industrial policy; wine industry.