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Thesis title: Mining, multinational corporations and regional development: enclave formation through the asymmetrical bargaining power.
Primary supervisor:聽Professor Nick Phelps
Secondary supervisor:聽Dr Jung Won Sonn
Sponsor: Becas Chile
Starting date:聽January 2012
Projected completion date:聽January 2016
The globalisation process has changed the way in which states and MNCs bargain, especially because of the incorporation of international institutions that have affected this process. These institutions have favoured the MNCs鈥� interests over the local鈥檚, which has historically led to enclave formation in mining regions. Nowadays, MNCs have the power to capture value, public goods and knowledge right at the start of the mining GPN, creating new ways of enclave where they do not need to build a company town around the ore. Weak governments and lax legislation are a result of the lack of bargaining power that local institutions and actors have, leading to an unsustainable development in mining regions. This research will address these1 issues updating the enclave model from an evolutionary perspective, taking into account the bargaining process between MNCs and local institutions in the mining GPN as a critical variable.聽
The bargaining model will be updated and some aspects of the GPN will be studied, all in order to provide a new enclave model that can be used to explain the current situation of several underdeveloped mining regions. This research will utilize a case study methodology, where the Antofagasta Region (Chile) will be analysed. This region is particularly interesting because its historical dependency to mining, its enclave presence and its wealth in terms of minerals deposits (it has the biggest supplies of copper, nitrates, lithium and molybdenum in the world).
- Publications and other work
Published Works
- Coauthor of the book 鈥淟a Pyme de la Regi贸n de Antofagasta: 2005 - 2009鈥� in the chapter 鈥淧r谩cticas de Gesti贸n y Modernizaci贸n Empresarial de las 聽Pymes de la Regi贸n de Antofagasta鈥�. Universidad Cat贸lica del Norte, 2012.
- Coauthor of the book 鈥淩egi贸n de Antofagasta: Pasado, Presente y Futuro 鈥渋n the chapter 鈥淚ndustrializaci贸n en la Historia de Antofagasta鈥�. Universidad Cat贸lica del Norte, 2010. I.S.B.N 978-956-287-289-8.
- Coauthor of the book 鈥淓voluci贸n de la PYME de la Regi贸n de Antofagasta: Hacia una Demograf铆a del Tejido Productivo Local鈥� in the chapter 鈥淎n谩lisis de las PYMES de la Regi贸n de Antofagasta Desaparecidas entre el 2005 y 2007鈥�. Universidad Cat贸lica del Norte, 2009.
Book Reviews
- Martin Sokol (2011). Economic Geographies of Globalisation: A Short Introduction, Regional Studies, 46:10, 1420-1421.
Papers
- Arias, M., Atienza, M. and Cademartori, J (2011). Large Mining and Local Development: Between the Enclave and Cluster, Master of Regional Science Thesis. Universidad Cat贸lica del Norte. Journal of Economic Geography (under revision).
Conference Presentations
- Arias, M., Atienza, M. and Cademartori, J (2012). Large Mining and Local Development: Between the Enclave and Cluster. 聽RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- Arias, M., Atienza, M. and Cademartori, J (2011). Large Mining and Local Development: Between the Enclave and Cluster. Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society of Regional Studies 2011, Concepci贸n, Chile.
- Arias, M., Atienza, M. and Cademartori, J (2011). Large Mining and Local Development: Between the Enclave and Cluster. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio 鈥� Economics, Madrid, Spain.
- Cademartori, J. and Arias, M. (2010). Enclaves y Modernizaci贸n: La Miner铆a Extranjera en la Regi贸n de Antofagasta. Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society of Regional Studies 2010, Talca, Chile.
- Cademartori, J. and Arias, M. (2010). Enclaves y Modernizaci贸n: La Miner铆a Extranjera en la Regi贸n de Antofagasta. Congress of Regional Studies, Iquique, Chile.
- Arias, M. (2009). M茅todo de Evaluaci贸n del PTI 鈥淐luster Minero鈥� a trav茅s de la representaci贸n gr谩fica del an谩lisis de multiplicadores Input 鈥� Output. Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society of Regional Studies 2009, Antofagasta, Chile.
Academic Experience
Lecturer: Undergraduated level courses for Business School. Lecturing and grading:
Introduction to Economics, Macroeconomics I, Macroeconomics II, Microeconomics, Economics for the High Direction, Research Methodology.