"Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises during the argentinian textile industry boom, 1929-1955"

BELINI, CLAUDIO

Marché et Organisations

L'Harmattan

Lugar: Paris; Año: 2017 p. 71 - 94

1953-6119

Small andMedium-sized Enterprises have had (and still have) a leading role in industrializationof Argentine both in the employment creation and in the development of productiveand technological capabilities. This article aims to analyze the growth of the textileindustry between the world crisis of 1929 and the overthrow of Juan Peron in 1955.The analysis focuses on the cotton and rayon industry, which were the mostdynamic sub-branches in those crucial years. The article studies the conditionsthat made possible SMEs retain and even increase their weight in textile industry.On this subject, the paper analyzes the economic and industrial policies, thecharacteristics of the sectoral growth, and their structural transformations.