This volume contains two previously unpublished papers, written initially in 1998 and 2007 for different conferences. Both reflect the collaboration that I have enjoyed with Carlos Dávila of Universidad de los Andes for the last twenty years, which commenced when Carlos invited me to participate in a panel he was organising on Business History in Latin America at the CLADEA congress held in Bogotá in 1992 by contributing a paper on Peruvian busin...