El sistema de transportes en España y Francia, 1750-1850. A propósito de dos libros recientes

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La formación de un sistema transnacional europeo de transportes y comunicaciones en los siglos XIX y XX

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The liberalisation of transport infrastructure and Spanish investment in the international market: Latin American airports and the case of AENA

The liberalisation of the international air transport markets has also affected transport infrastructure. This paper studies how the airport management affiliates of the Spanish construction companies took advantage of the privatisation of the airport systems in Latin American countries at the end of the 1990s in order to enter these markets. This overall framework included the Spanish public company AENA which has internationalised in this new market segment. It adopted a strong capital investment policy which, in turn, became a public economic policy instrument to support private Spanish construction companies seeking to exploit new markets in emerging businesses

The internationalisation of family SMEs in the Valencian region: the growing role played by Latin America, 1980-2018

SME's and family businesses are central elements in Spain's modern economic growth. However, their process of internationalization has been little explored in recent research, particularly when it has been primarily aimed at emerging economies.  The article aims to understand and explain the internationalisation process of SME's in the Valencian region in Latin America. Through a set of cases of companies from different sectors (Metal, Machinery, Chemical, Ceramics, Textile, Furniture) it is showed that since 1990, the different Latin American countries have been increasing their presence in the preferential markets of most of the 22 companies studied. The growing role of the region in the investments of Valencian SME's shows the diversification and expansion of destination markets, including geographically not only the traditional European or Arab countries but also those of Latin America. Different reasons underlie this internationalisation: but the enterprises analysed based on a case studies approach showed different models of expansion. The common denominator being that of strategies specifically developed and adapted to the destination country's local environment: from an incremental and gradual expansion