A Typology of the Collaboration Between Multinational Corporations, Home Governments, and Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from German Investors in Argentina

Meta Stephan ()
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Meta Stephan: Humboldt University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America, 2021, pp 237-261 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter offers a typology for the study of the collaboration between multinational corporations, their home governments, and authoritarian regimes. The chapter defines four types of collaboration: (a) doing business directly with the authoritarian regime, (b) promoting the acceptance of the authoritarian regime in the home country, (c) promoting the home country’s support of the authoritarian regime, and (d) directly collaborating with the authoritarian regime’s repressive apparatus. I use evidence from the operations of the German multinationals Siemens and Daimler-Benz in Argentina during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. The chapter also sheds light on the way the Federal Republic of Germany interacted with right-wing authoritarian regimes during the Cold War.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43925-5_9

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