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Building Competitiveness: US Expatriate Management Strategies in Mexico (Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity)

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This book was referred to me by a friend when he heard I was thinking about doing business in Mexico's Maquiladora Industry (I noticed the maquiladora industry is not one of your subject links; it should be). He said it would be helpful and it was. I would recommend it to anyone who is considering the same thing. The book had a lot of statistical tables and jargon that I wasn't interested in; but the bottom line, the point that the author drove home, was real interesting. That point is that companies from the U.S. can and are working successfully in the maquiladora industry and are overcoming the cultural differences your hear so much about. In the examples the author uses, U.S. companies were sending their own managers down to their plants in Mexico and then they were hiring Mexican citizens to work for them. The real success story in this was that these same managers were using teamwork in their plants and it was working great. gjd