Corporação, redes técnicas e poder: a trajetória têmporo-espacial da Algar Telecom

Abstract

Corporate groups, nourished by a territorial base, are networked and maintain a patent political-economic synergy with the state. Technical networks, in this sense, appear as indispensable elements to the multidivisional configuration of modern corporations, with a view to equalising the expanding pattern of accumulation within its multiloculated nature. Based on these considerations, this paper analyses the trajectory and spatial practices of Algar Telecom (formerly CTBC), the subsidiary of the Algar Group, the corporation with a strong track record in Triangulo Mineiro (a region located in the West of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais). The methodological procedures were based on analysis of IBGE statistical yearbooks, Telebrás reports, historical publications, Algar Group reports and mapping. The study shows that the technical networks are inseparable instruments for the spatial organisation of a multilateral corporation such as Algar Telecom, either in the intra-company context, in the immediate external, or in the actions that can be felt in the distance.