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This high tech semiconductor chip manufacturing plant on the border of California and Mexico was in serious trouble. Its reputation had been tarnished, its image seriously damaged, and its future uncertain due to the plants lingering quality and delivery issues. The corporation was on the verge of losing one of their top customers due to the Mexican plants performance. Change was needed and urgency was the order for the day! This true story describes how the author, a born and bred U.S. citizen, was cast into a new unfamiliar and uncomfortable environment in Mexico with the task of leading the operational transformation of a large Mexican maquiladora plant, whose output controlled the majori...
In 1955 the Fortune magazine list of America's largest corporations included just 18 with headquarters in the Southeast. By 2002 the number had grown to 123. In fact, the South attracted over half of the foreign businesses drawn to the United States in the 1990s. The eight original essays collected here consider this stunning dynamism in ways that help us see anew the region's place in that ever-accelerating, transnational flow of people, capital, and technology known collectively as "globalization." Moving between local and global perspectives, the essays discuss how once faraway places like Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent are now having an impact on the South. One ...
List of members in v. 1, 3-6, 9-11, 14-16, 18.
English-language dictionary index of terms derived from proper names (eponyms), including biographycal notes and an extensive bibliography of source literature.
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American government securities); 1928-53 in 5 annual vols.:[v.1] Railroad securities (1952-53. Transportation); [v.2] Industrial securities; [v.3] Public utility securities; [v.4] Government securities (1928-54); [v.5] Banks, insurance companies, investment trusts, real estate, finance and credit companies ( 1928-54)