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Mexico: Global engagement driving e-Commerce adoption and impacts
No full textAfter implementing a comprehensive economic liberalization program in the 1990s, Mexico has become one of the most open economies to foreign trade and investment, and has positioned itself among the ten largest economies in the world. The resulting substantial integration into the global economy has created both the conditions and the pressures for the business community in Mexico to adopt the Internet to improve coordination, expand markets, and cut costs to face a highly competitive environment in both national and international markets. Mexico has long been a major production platform for subsidiaries of numerous multinational corporations (MNCs), many of which operate as maquiladoras, a situation reinforced as it has become increasingly engaged in international trade. Those MNC subsidiaries, along with a small but growing echelon of internationally oriented domestic companies, account for a large share of the country’s total exports, and are the most dynamic and technologically advanced business establishments in the Mexican economy. Accordingly, they have led in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for commercial purposes. Major improvements in the country’s telecommunications infrastructure since the mid-1990s have facilitated and spurred the use of both personal computers and the Internet. Economic liberalization, along with aggressive promotion campaigns by trade and industry associations, have further paved the way for the adoption of e-commerce by large and small, domestic and foreign enterprises. This has occurred particularly in finance, distribution, and manufacturing, and largely in the country’s main industrial hubs (Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City). © Cambridge University Press 2006 and Cambridge University Press 2009
Multinational corporations and the economy of networks: An overview
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Mejorar la calidad preservando la identidad. Elementos teórico-contextuales y metodológicos para crear el Programa de Tutorías Académicas y la Orientación Profesional en la licenciatura en nutrición
No full textAfter implementing a comprehensive economic liberalization program in the 1990s, Mexico has become one of the most open economies to foreign trade and investment, and has positioned itself among the ten largest economies in the world. The resulting substantial integration into the global economy has created both the conditions and the pressures for the business community in Mexico to adopt the Internet to improve coordination, expand markets, and cut costs to face a highly competitive environment in both national and international markets. Mexico has long been a major production platform for subsidiaries of numerous multinational corporations (MNCs), many of which operate as maquiladoras, a situation reinforced as it has become increasingly engaged in international trade. Those MNC subsidiaries, along with a small but growing echelon of internationally oriented domestic companies, account for a large share of the country´s total exports, and are the most dynamic and technologically advanced business establishments in the Mexican economy. Accordingly, they have led in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for commercial purposes. Major improvements in the country´s telecommunications infrastructure since the mid-1990s have facilitated and spurred the use of both personal computers and the Internet. Economic liberalization, along with aggressive promotion campaigns by trade and industry associations, have further paved the way for the adoption of e-commerce by large and small, domestic and foreign enterprises. This has occurred particularly in finance, distribution, and manufacturing, and largely in the country´s main industrial hubs (Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City). " Cambridge University Press 2006 and Cambridge University Press 2009.",,,,,,"10.1017/CBO9780511488603.010",,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/42789","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84927075489&partnerID=40&md5=e5f4a02ec6ebd3ac6844d0b3bf81eedf",,,,,,,,"Global E-commerce: Impacts of National Environment and Policy",,"30
Corporate citizenship and social responsibility in a globalized world
No full textThis article addresses the rise of corporate citizenship in the context of the changes in the nature of individual citizenship and the emergence of new, non-territorial forms of national identity that are occurring in the current era of intensifying globalization. It also ponders the power of corporate citizens and the role they play in the prevailing global governance framework, as well as the extent to which they can behave responsibly and pursue sustainable development goals. More generally, the article discusses the limits to corporate social responsibility and the extent to which capitalism can be 'caring'. The argument advanced is that, by virtue of their very nature, transnational corporations (TNCs) cannot become fully responsible and accountable citizens. Nonetheless, they can be induced to transform themselves in ways that may be compatible with socially and environmentally desirable objectives. Lastly, the article explores paths for action and, in particular, the potential of NGOs and anti-globalization social movements to become civil regulators able to push for the introduction of binding rules and regulations and the construction a governance framework capable of restraining and harnessing the power of TNCs. � 2004 Taylor & Francis Ltd
The development of e-commerce in Mexico: A business-led passing boom or a step toward the emergence of a digital economy?
No full textSince its inception in the early 1990s, e-commerce has grown swiftly in Mexico, making inroads into some of the most dynamic sectors of the Mexican economy. The actual extent of e-commerce use, however, is still very limited, as diffusion is hindered by both the low income levels of most Mexican households and the fact that the overwhelming majority of business establishments are very small, lacking the resources to invest in computers and the business culture to go online. This article examines the emergence of e-commerce in Mexico arguing that the main drivers of the process have been the initiatives of large private firms and the work of specialized organizations. It concludes that this is not just a passing boom but a concrete step toward the rise of an Internet-based economy in Mexico along the lines of the New Economy that took shape in the United States in the 1990s and is assumed to spread into developing nations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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