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The aim of this work is to identify the main obstacles that Mexican companies face in providing goods and services to the maquiladora export industry, and to identify recommendations through the theory of resources and capabilitie...
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The aim of this work is to identify the main obstacles that Mexican companies face in providing goods and services to the maquiladora export industry, and to identify recommendations through the theory of resources and capabilities as well as network theory, in order to help companies to take advantage of its capital and potential strategic alliance. The study method was based on a theoretical and literature review, and studies a case of success. The analysis of results shows in the case of success that an efficient use of resources and the effective establishment of an alliance can improve competitive conditions.
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In the last century, Mexico witnessed a population rise in the northern border region which was largely connected to the availability of maquiladoras employment. The conditions of employment have been deplorable which impacts on t...
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In the last century, Mexico witnessed a population rise in the northern border region which was largely connected to the availability of maquiladoras employment. The conditions of employment have been deplorable which impacts on the dwellers in the city into precarity. In the understanding of precarity, the paper defines the subject within the context of two positions, one from the epistemological and the class structure positions. This paper addresses what precarity means within the context of those living in the colonia Mexico 68, having considered the conditions of employment, either informal or formal work. The spatial identification of precarityin colonia Mexico 68, an irregular settlement to the west of the city was identified where the state of living based on the ethnographic findings underlying it within the subjective philosophical submission of Luckman and Berger, through random sampling of respondents across gender, age, formal and informal work disposition. Subjective philosophical positon of Berger Peter and Luckmann (1966) suggests that individual experiences explain inhabitants' lived realities. It was observed that the condition of precarity was largely pertinent with similar experiences amongst respondents, the habitat and work environment. It is of note that to curb the problem of precarity questions of the embodied state of those submerged in it must be uplifted beyond just safety-nets but inclusion through social trust disposition.
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This paper presents 12 body dimensions of female workers of the maquiladora industry along the border of Mexico and the United States (US). These data are compared with anthropometric characteristics of Mexican-American females an...
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This paper presents 12 body dimensions of female workers of the maquiladora industry along the border of Mexico and the United States (US). These data are compared with anthropometric characteristics of Mexican-American females and females inColombia, Japan, Korea, and the US. The results indicate that anthropometric characteristics for female maquiladora workers were significantly different from those of the Mexican-American females. On the average, the maquiladora females were 47 mm shorter in stature than Mexican-American females. The maquiladora females also had smaller biacromial breadth by 18 mm, and wider bitrochanter breadth, by 25 mm, than the Mexican-American females. The results also show that maquiladora females and Japanesefemales shared similar anthropometric characteristics.
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Mexico is one of the world's most important locations for facilities that manufacture for export (maquiladoras). The rate of maquiladora closure, however, is quite high. This study is an analysis of maquila closure by urban place ...
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Mexico is one of the world's most important locations for facilities that manufacture for export (maquiladoras). The rate of maquiladora closure, however, is quite high. This study is an analysis of maquila closure by urban place between 1990 and 2000. Five hypothesized variables of plant closure are analyzed: distance from the U.S. border, wages-by-wage zone, size of urban location, predominant nationality of plant equity, and predominant product(s) manufactured by urban place. Higher rates of plant closure manifested by closure quotients are associated with important maquila locations in high-wage areas, and places dominated by low-value-added assembly ("Fordist") manufacturing. Fordist maquilas have experienced the highest number of plant closures but many have found short-term respite in small interior urban places. The results provide evidence of the evolution of maquilas by product and by location. The future of the maquiladora industry, considering Mexico's waning comparative advantage, is structural reform in education and training for a labor force that must compete on the basis of a different manufacturing paradigm.
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Using an ongoing land conflict in Ciudad Juarez as a case study, I seek to show how maquiladora decision makers stabilize a regional development model even at times of extreme social and economic crisis. I argue that the current k...
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Using an ongoing land conflict in Ciudad Juarez as a case study, I seek to show how maquiladora decision makers stabilize a regional development model even at times of extreme social and economic crisis. I argue that the current killings associated with drug trafficking play an ambivalent role in the reproduction of order in Juarez. At first sight, the violence is represented as a threat, unmasking as it does a regional development model as failure. Decision makers accordingly respond by doing everything possible to distance the maquiladora industry from the violence. On the one hand, this is being done by familiar means, not unlike in previous moments of crises. But on the other hand the events around Lomas del Poleo additionally assume a new quality, as maquiladorization goes hand in hand with an explicit strategy of spatial distanciation, integrating places and people that have hitherto been linked only marginally to the industry. And it is here that the narco-related violence plays different roles: as a convenient veil that allows what might be termed 'ordinary' assertions of brute force to be used under the cover of extraordinary, excessive, violence; and as a welcome excuse in moments of emergency that legitimize violent measures for the sake of a greater good.
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This paper provides evidence against the popular notion that Mexican maquiladora employment falls considerably as Mexican wages increase relative to Chinese wages. Applying panel data and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) metho...
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This paper provides evidence against the popular notion that Mexican maquiladora employment falls considerably as Mexican wages increase relative to Chinese wages. Applying panel data and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) methods to Mexican maquiladora employment across border states between 1990 and 2001, we find negative wage effects in levels. In a two-step panel cointegration procedure, effects of relative wages on maquiladora employment vary between-0.076 and-0.091, while US real output growth yields strong coefficients ranging from 3.548 to 3.673. Compared to previous research, our results highlight the increasing integration between Mexican and US economies.
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Many manufacturing firms must overcome obstacles to TQM implementation. The purpose of this paper is empirically to investigate barriers that firms in the maquiladora industry experience, based on 25 potential obstacles to TQM suc...
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Many manufacturing firms must overcome obstacles to TQM implementation. The purpose of this paper is empirically to investigate barriers that firms in the maquiladora industry experience, based on 25 potential obstacles to TQM success, and to compare findings with prior research done with US firms. The findings of this study suggest that a prevalent TQM barrier in the maquiladora industry is high employee turnover. Obstacles to TQM implementation that are common to both maquiladoras and US firms include lack of employee training, failure to tie management's compensation to achieving quality goals, and employee resistance to change. Managerial implications of these obstacles are discussed.
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Export processing zones (EPZs) and regional trade agreements are two common initiatives utilized by developing country governments in order to increase the wealth creation effects of today's international trade and investment syst...
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Export processing zones (EPZs) and regional trade agreements are two common initiatives utilized by developing country governments in order to increase the wealth creation effects of today's international trade and investment system. In this paper,we argue that these two initiatives are driven by somewhat incompatible economic rationales. Based on the North American experiment in combining a major EPZ (Mexico's maquiladoras) within the terms of a regional free trade agreement (the North American Free Trade Agreement), we test to determine whether the logic of a regional integration initiative or that of the EPZ is dominate. Our results suggest that the competitive dynamics of Mexico's EPZ industry have not been fundamentally altered by NAFTA's regional incentives. We conclude with recommendations for policy makers in other developing countries that might be considering attempting to impose regional development schemes on the large and politically powerfully TNCs that tend to dominate the globalEPZ industry.
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Prior to the onset of the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994), most export-oriented manufactures (maquiladoras) in Mexico were agglomerated along the US border manufacturing low value-added products. By 2006 the majority of...
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Prior to the onset of the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994), most export-oriented manufactures (maquiladoras) in Mexico were agglomerated along the US border manufacturing low value-added products. By 2006 the majority of maquiladoras were located off-border with notable growth in higher value-added manufacturing. The evolving geography of export-oriented industrialization has been the subject of descriptive narratives that purportedly model manufacturing trends. This study reviews these models positing the flying geese metaphor provides an explanation for Mexico's transitioning maquiladoras. The study focuses on the metaphor's underlying themes, sectoral and spatial trends, and finds increasing product sector segmentation by value-added and location. Among the paper's contributions is the incorporation of statistical significance that differentiates explanation from description, thereby adding analytical underpinning for an understanding of transitioning export-oriented manufactures.
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Purpose - The goal of this study is to further the existing understanding of the diverging pollution prevention and occupational and safety practices undertaken in the Mexican maquiladora industry in order to promote the creation ...
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Purpose - The goal of this study is to further the existing understanding of the diverging pollution prevention and occupational and safety practices undertaken in the Mexican maquiladora industry in order to promote the creation of a sustainable production system. Design/methodology/approach - This study explores in detail the occupational health, safety and environmental practices performed by six electronic maquiladoras located in the State of Sonora, Mexico. The OSHA's program evaluation profile (PEP) and cleaner production and pollution prevention and worker surveys were the instruments used for collecting information. All instruments were complemented with short interviews and walkthroughs in the production lines. Findings - Evidences from this study suggest that today's trends in maquiladoras production patterns continue to go in an unsustainable direction because of the lack of good environmental and occupational and safety practices. Practical implications - This study reveals the most telling and significant sustainability themes associated to the maquiladora industry that holds the exciting potential of protecting the environment and labor and strengthening economic growth through more efficient and sustainable production. Originality/value - Sustainability production is an issue that is often neglected into the actual stock of published material about maquiladoras. This study fills this gap through a broad structural approach that takes into account economic, social, and environment aspects as a way to helping the adoption of sustainability practices in the maquiladora industry.
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