Información General

• Autores: María Vázquez Fariñas (ed. lit.), Francisco Cabrera Gallardo (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Springer Alemania
• Año de publicación: 2026
• Colecciones: Frontiers in Economic History
• País: Alemania
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-3-032-16213-7, 978-3-032-16214-4
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Resumen

• This edited volume offers a fresh look at how business in Spain has evolved from the 18th century to today. It examines how entrepreneurs, families, foreign investors, and public institutions shaped the country’s shift from a rural economy to an industrialized society. Through detailed case studies, from steel and coal to tourism and agriculture, it shows how business decisions were influenced by politics, social change, and global capital.

  The book challenges the idea of Spanish economic “backwardness” by highlighting innovation, resilience, and strategic adaptation. It blends economic history and business studies to provide a rich, multidimensional view of Spain’s business landscape. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and researchers of economics, business studies, and economic and business history, as well as to anyone interested in how historical business practices inform today’s economic challenges.

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Listado de artículos

• • Companies and entrepreneurs: an economic history perspective

    María Vázquez Fariñas, Francisco Cabrera Gallardo

    págs. 1-17

    

  • The spanish system of grain banks (sixteenth–nineteenth centuries

    Rafael Barquín Gil, Pablo A. Martín Grande

    págs. 19-33

    

  • Entrepreneurship and spanish bourgeoisie at the start of the liberal revolution: study of Antequera (Málaga), 1835-1836

    Antonio J. Pinto Tortosa

    págs. 35-49

    

  • Foreign capital in the gas industry in Spain, Lebon et Cie (1841-1925)

    Mercedes Fernández Paradas, José Joaquín Luque García

    págs. 51-63

    

  • A century-old coal company: hullera vasco-leonesa

    Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas, Julio Tascón Fernández

    págs. 65-81

    

  • The business history of the Málaga steel industry

    Víctor Manuel Heredia Flores

    págs. 83-94

    

  • Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, businessman and politician: a technocratic president?

    Jorge Lafuente del Cano, Pedro Pablo Ortúñez Goicolea

    págs. 95-105

    

  • Hotel companies and entrepreneurs in twentieth-century spain

    Marta Laguna García, Carlos Larrinaga Rodríguez

    págs. 107-121

    

  • The figure of the executive in the management of the modern company: Pedro Durán Farell and Catalana de Gas (1950-1970)

    Juan Manuel Matés Barco, María Vázquez Fariñas, Mariano Castro Valdivia

    págs. 123-136

    

  • Business history in times of change: Cycles, crises, and recovery at Construcciones Calderón

    Francisco Cabrera Gallardo

    págs. 137-148