Desregulación de sectores estratégicos en contexto semiperiférico: las comunicaciones satelitales en la Argentina, 1991-2003

DIEGO HURTADO; NATASA LOIZOU

AMéRICA LATINA EN LA HISTORIA ECONóMICA

CONACyT

Lugar: México; Año: 2019 vol. 26 p. 1 - 24

1405-2253

In 1994, Nahuelsat ?the rst satellite communication rm based in Argentina and European majority shareholders? was created. We reconstruct the Nahuelsat trajectory from primary sources and analyze its performance and the reasons leading to its collapse in 2006 as a case study of the performance of a rm within an economically strategic sector in a semi-peripheral country. We nd that satellite communication privatization and deregulation, the State inability to inuence the global ?rules of the game?, as well as the lack of incentives oriented to coordinate their activities with the Argentine space policy and to produce embeddedness in the local economic ecosystem help explain the unfeasibility of Nahuelsat, despite the very positive ?signals? of the regional market. The analysis of the decision-making process shows the incompatibility between the dynamics of the global big corporations and the deregulation initiatives of the sector.