Transnational Corporations and the Latin American Automobile Industry

ECLAC, transnational corporations and the quest for a Latin American development strategy

This paper analyses the role assigned to foreign direct investment and transnational corporations in the ECLAC development project, examining the history of the institution and its most representative publications. With impressive continuity in its vision and policy recommendations, ECLAC has recognized the need for foreign investment as an aid for Latin American development, but has been cauti...

Groupware Effectiveness in Large Latin American Corporations

Large corporations are looking at Third World countries, particularly in Latin America, to expand their supply and production channels with foreign offices and personnel. Access and experience with technology of those enterprises will determine, in part, the speed at which an organization can expect to fully integrate these new channels and manage remote projects in this area of the world. This...

Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability

Innovation Processes in Transnational Corporations

If innovation is considered as a process, then the differentiation of the innovation process into two phases creates several benefits. These two phases are, firstly, a pre-project phase fostering creativity and effectiveness, and a secondly a discipline-focused phase to ensure efficiency of implementation. This differentiation enables transnational companies to replicate and scale innovation ef...

Suppliers and Product Development in the Early American Automobile Industry

Joint product development, in which suppliers and automakers hare the responsibility for component design, has given Japanese auto companies an important competitive advantage in both quality and new model lead times [Clark, 1989]. In contrast, U.S. automakers until recently left little room for suppliers' participation in the design process; vendors typically manufactured components to assembl...