Brazil has become one of the core locations of the automobile industry. In 2015, Brazil was
among the world's ten largest producers of automobiles and among the largest automobile …

The automotive industry has of late undergone significant shifts in terms of production
patterns around the world. This considerable restructuring is seen in the declining market …

The globalization of the automotive industry in the last twenty years has manifested itself ina
rapid increase in the assembly of automobiles and the production of automotive components …

In the context of the stabilization and economic growth that has followed the Real plan
introduced in mid 1994, the latest effort to curb dramatically high inflation, the Brazilian …

1 Introduction he global automotive sector has undergone sweeping transformations over
the past decade in terms of markets, competitive standards and capacity building. All this …

The objective of this chapter is to illustrate the impact of global and regional factors on the
development and changes in the distribution of the automotive industry in Brazil and Mexico …

In the mid 1950s, Brazil initiated an effort to start large-scale motor vehicle production in the
country. The so-called 'auto plan'was part of the Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) …

The automobile sector is often presented as the archetypal global industry. In this view, the
auto business is one of the main drivers behind the homogenization of the world, both …

The article presents information on a symposium that analyses the changing geography of
auto industry over the course of the coming decade. The importance of the emerging …

The late twentieth century was marked by a host of strategic challenges associated with a
new phase in the internationalization of the world's economies, a phenomenon commonly …