This paper analyzes the different trading networks, the flux of merchandise, and the actors involved in the act of crossing goods through the United States-Mexico border, particularly in the Tijuana-San Diego region. It argues that the line dividing both countries works differently depending on...

This chapter analyses the Multinationals corporations in Mexico, particularly theirlinkages with small and medium enterprises. Mexico has been an important magnet offoreign direct investment (FDI), particularly during the last forty years of the lastcentury. The FDI has played a very important...

The European thematic network CoCKEAS (Coordinating Competencies and Knowledge in the European Automobile System [EAS]) was an attempt to analyse all of the structural changes that affected the EAS via an approach focusing on the new issues involved in coordinating the competencies and knowledge...