caa a22 4500 38636866X CHVBK 20180307111946.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3115428 doi S0007680500042781 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3115428 O'Brien Thomas F. Thomas F. O'Brien is associate professor of history at the University of Houston. "Rich beyond the Dreams of Avarice”: The Guggenheims in Chile [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas F. O'Brien] This article focuses on the roles of business-government relations, technology, financing, entrepreneurship, and management in the evolution of multinational corporations. It describes the Guggenheims' successive involvements in Mexican silver, Chilean copper, and Chilean nitrates and stresses the brothers' strategic use of technical innovation and relations with host governments to accomplish these major changes in the focus of their business. The essay's findings suggest the need for a more sophisticated treatment of business-government relations and for the incorporation of entrepreneurship and organizational structure as dynamic variables in theories of the MNE. It also points to the importance of historical conjunctures that shape technology in understanding the emergence of the MNE. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989 Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/1(1989), 122-159 0007-6805 63:1<122 1989 63 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3115428 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3115428 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- O'Brien Thomas F. Thomas F. O'Brien is associate professor of history at the University of Houston NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/1(1989), 122-159 0007-6805 63:1<122 1989 63 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge