Un sol naciente en el Perú (1900-1945): Inmigrantes empresarios. Los casos de Nikumatsu Okada y Cintaro Tominaga

The entrepreneur-immigration relationship is a phenomenon with a long history in Peru. More precisely, during the first decades of the 20th century this country lived a period of growth and structural changes in various areas, that began with the migration process of people from different parts of the world. Particularly, this article focuses on the analysis of the business trajectory of Japanese immigrants Cintaro Tominaga and Nikumatsu Okada in Peru (1900-1945). This work is related to business history, a branch of economic history that has produced important studies for Latin America during the last two decades.La relación empresario-inmigración es un fenómeno que en el Perú cuenta con una larga historia. Durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX, este país vivió un periodo de crecimiento y cambios estructurales en diversos ámbitos, en el cual, además, se dio inicio al proceso migratorio de extranjeros provenientes de diversos lugares del globo. Particularmente, este artículo se centra en el análisis de la trayectoria empresarial de los inmigrantes japoneses Cintaro Tominaga y Nikumatsu Okada en el Perú (1900-1945). Este trabajo está relacionado con la historia empresarial, rama de la historia económica, que en los últimos veinte años ha producido estudios importantes en América Latina

Gringo Entrepreneurship in Latin America. The Thorndikes of Peru, 1901-1938

This article studies with a business history framework the history of immigrant entrepreneurship of a North American family in Peru, whose origin goes back to the second half of the nineteenth century and its development takes place in the first forty years of the twentieth century. The origins go back to Ernesto Thorndike, a North American businessman whose business trajectory was situated principally in Peru. At the end of his life, he saw the decline of his fortune despite his social and intellectual capital, of being part of the economic and social elite of Lima at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth, and of the diversification of its businesses. The article analyzes this evolution and indicates driving factors of success and decline: intellectual capital un-exploitable because of Peru´s political and economic instability (the construction of railroads was paralyzed at the end of nineteenth century); the lack of speed to produce the necessary tacit technical knowledge to diversify of its businesses; and the lack of bonding social capital, which prevented the constitution of a family business group that capitalized contacts and relationships that extends in time the existence of firms beyond a generation

Gringo Entrepreneurship in Latin America. The Thorndikes of Peru, 1901-1938

This article studies with a business history framework the history of immigrant entrepreneurship of a North American family in Peru, whose origin goes back to the second half of the nineteenth century and its development takes place in the first forty years of the twentieth century. The origins go back to Ernesto Thorndike, a North American businessman whose business trajectory was situated principally in Peru. At the end of his life, he saw the decline of his fortune despite his social and intellectual capital, of being part of the economic and social elite of Lima at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth, and of the diversification of its businesses. The article analyzes this evolution and indicates driving factors of success and decline: intellectual capital un-exploitable because of Peru´s political and economic instability (the construction of railroads was paralyzed at the end of nineteenth century); the lack of speed to produce the necessary tacit technical knowledge to diversify of its businesses; and the lack of bonding social capital, which prevented the constitution of a family business group that capitalized contacts and relationships that extends in time the existence of firms beyond a generation

Inmigración y empresariado: La trayectoria empresarial de John y Ernesto Thorndike (1870-1938)

Los estudios sobre empresarios y empresas desde una perspectiva histórica han tenido un crecimiento importante durante los últimos treinta años en América Latina. En lo que respecta al desarrollo de la historiografía empresarial en el Perú, esta aún se encuentra en una fase de desarrollo, destacando los aportes realizados a este campo por Martín Monsalve Zanatti (2015, 2019, 2021, 2022). La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la trayectoria empresarial de John Larkin Thorndike (1834) y Ernesto Thorndike (1859) en el Perú entre 1870-1938. Además, entender las razones del por qué algunas de las inversiones de estos empresarios se quedaron en su fase de despegue para luego desaparecer con el paso del tiempo. Para ello, emplearemos la conceptualización hecha por Mark Casson (1982) sobre el empresario, mientras en lo que respecta para empresa familiar, familia empresaria y grupo económico utilizamos como marco de análisis los trabajos realizados por Paloma Fernández y Andrea Lluch (2015 y 2021). Pero estas categorías sin un acompañamiento teórico metodológico carecen de sentido, por tanto, utilizamos a nivel teórico en el trabajo de los historiadores españoles de la empresa, Jesús Valdaliso y Santiago López (2000) y el aporte metodológico hecho a la historia empresarial por Carlos Dávila (2017), con su Esquema de análisis para adelantar estudios de historia de empresarios (EAHE)

Appraising Gabriela McEvoy's La experiencia invisible

This an apprasal of Gabriela McEvoy's groundbreaking study on the Irish immigration in Peru.Keywords: Irish migration; Peru.This an appraisal of Gabriela McEvoy's groundbreaking study on the Irish immigration in Peru.Keywords: Irish migration; Peru