Commodity Chains: what can we learn from a business history of the rubber chain? (1870-1910)

Felipe Tamega Fernandes ()
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Felipe Tamega Fernandes: Harvard Business School, Entrepreneurial Management Unit

No 10-089, Harvard Business School Working Papers from Harvard Business School

Abstract: The literature on the rubber boom applied a Dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though a sizable surplus was generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the Global Commodity Chain approach that argues that manufacturing/core economies absorb the bulk of surplus generated in the commodity chain. This paper challenges both frameworks and asks for a more careful examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain.

Keywords: Rubber; Commodities; Commodity Chains; Business History; Amazon Region; Brazil. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L1 L2 L73 N56 N86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2010-04
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