This panel proposal links selected topics of Mexican business history of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. A majority of the most important Mexican companies still have a family structure in their boards of directors. The paper of Araceli Almaraz focuses on the identification of the arrival and generational change processes in the most important companies in Mexico, as well as the positioning of new generations as shareholders and directors. José Galindo's paper complements this idea by examining the financing strategies of family businesses through their links with banking institutions and the widespread practice of insider lending throughout the twentieth century. Víctor Flores studies another side of the banking business by analyzing the importance of workers for the growth of Mexican banking deposits between 1920 and 1940. Finally, Gustavo del Ángel shows the motivations and financing strategies of the Mexican government in the mining sector in Mexico between 1940 and 1990.
This panel will be held in Spanish, to support the BHC’s Latin American Business History initiative promoting the participation of scholars from the region. Several members of the board of directors of the Mexican Economic History Association (Asociación Mexicana de Historia Económica, AMHE) participate in this panel, seeking to strengthen ties between Latin American scholars and researchers of other nationalities working on economic, business and financial history. The panel aims deliberately to strengthen ties between AMHE and BHC.