The interest-state relationship in the argentine oil company YPF

trajectories of the company's board members and executive directors, 2002-2020

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https://doi.org/10.14244/tp.v33i00.1074

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Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF), Argentine Political and Economic Elites, Prosopography, YPF Board Members and Executive Director

Abstract

This paper analyzes an apparent new link between economic and political elites with the Argentine state, examining the circulation and reconversion of directors and executive directors within the Argentine oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) between 2002 and 2020. In light of this, it becomes clear that there has been a change in the interest-state relationship. This article aims to analyze the life trajectories of YPF's directors and executive directors during the period 2002-2020, to identify their attributes and create ideal types that facilitate the understanding of the interest-state relationship in this specific case. The method employed is prosopography, using socio-demographic data, educational background, and employment history of the company's directors and executive directors. The partial conclusions of this work demonstrate not only a change in the profiles of professionals leading the company over the years, from engineers to internationally oriented administrators and economists, but also the emergence of a new ideal type, the transgressor, which seems to represent an innovative way for professionals in the sector to co-opt state resources.

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Nicolás Alfredo Vidal, Universidad Nacional Guillermo Brown

He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Guillermo Brown (UNAB, Argentina). He has a PhD in Political Science from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Capes Scholarship), with a sandwich period at Brown University (Capes-Print Scholarship). Researcher at the Núcleo de Estudos em Sociologia Econômica e das Finanças (NESEFi/UFSCar). He works in the areas of Sociology, Economic Sociology and Finance and Sociology of Organizations, with an emphasis on the following themes: State, companies, entrepreneurs and Elites.

Júlio César Donadone, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

He is currently a full professor at the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar and coordinator of the Núcleo de Sociologia Econômica e das Finanças (NESEFI / UFSCar). He was a visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley (1998 and 2018) and at EHESS -École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / Paris 2005. CNPq productivity scholarship 2. He has experience in the area of Sociology, with an emphasis on Economic Sociology, working mainly on the following topics: intermediaries, financialization and field dynamics.

Luis Miguel Donatello, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

PHD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/París (EHEES) and a PHD in social sciences (Summa Cum Laudem) from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He has postdoctoral studies at the University of California (Santa Barbara), the EHESS and at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ). He currently works as Associate Researcher of CONICET, Regular Associate Professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in the subject “political sociology”. Likewise, he is Director of the Department of Sociology in the same University and a Professor in Sociology at the UBA. He teaches different postgraduate courses at different National Universities and was a Visitant Professor at EHESS and Brown University. His lines of work are the political sociology of employer organizations, a historical sociology of nationalist forces and sociological theories and methods for working with social networks.

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2024-12-11

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VIDAL, N. A.; DONADONE, J. C.; DONATELLO, L. M. The interest-state relationship in the argentine oil company YPF: trajectories of the company’s board members and executive directors, 2002-2020. Teoria & Pesquisa Revista de Ciência Política, São Carlos, v. 33, n. 00, p. e024007, 2024. DOI: 10.14244/tp.v33i00.1074. Disponível em: https://teoriaepesquisa.ufscar.br/index.php/tp/article/view/1074. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

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