The eighteen biggest corporations in Pasig and their historical significance to Philippine industrialization, 1957 to 1999
Date of Publication
2002
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in History
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
History
Thesis Adviser
Amado A. Castro
Defense Panel Member
Ronaldo Mactal
Luis Dery
Rene Escalante
Abstract/Summary
This study confirms that the industrial concentration of the eighteen biggest corporations in Pasig was a significant part of industrialization in the Philippines. Using history as a test tube, the criteria for empirical selection was based on the highest annual rankings of gross sales/revenues achieved for a minimum period of twenty years, from the published list of the Top 1000 corporations, from 1967 to 1999. Only eighteen out of more than seven hundred companies could accomplish this benchmark. These firms incorporated and relocated to Pasig simultaneous to the earliest stages of heavy industry in the 1950's until the 1960's. Each corporation's industrial background genuinely represented large-scale manufacturing, processing, trading and utilities. The controlling interests behind management belonged to some Americans, Chinese and Filipinos who became pioneers in Philippine business. To initiate and sustain industrialization in Pasig the local government encouraged businesses and introduced incentives. Pasig was chosen as the site because of its relative proximity to Manila, its access to major land and river transport and availability of a trainable and highly literate population. The business histories of these eighteen corporations in Pasig are parts of local history and symbolic of Philippine industrialization.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TG03393
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
150 leaves ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Industrialization; Big business; Corporations; Economic development
Recommended Citation
Bayana, J. S. (2002). The eighteen biggest corporations in Pasig and their historical significance to Philippine industrialization, 1957 to 1999. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3005
