The auto industry, since the 1960s, showed substantial growth in South Korea causing the country at the end of the 1980s was among the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. In the early 1990s, associated with the opening up of the economy held by the Korean government, the auto industry...

The new strategies of internationalization of production lie in the fact many industries leave the condition of bounded entities nationally for the condition of fragmented business networks, in organizational terms, globally distributed, leading companies to engage in the production of a good or...

Production fragmentation - dispersion of the individual steps involved in the production of a particular good across different countries and several companies - means that the fabrication of an increasingly large number of goods is taking place in global value chains, with different patterns of...

Brazil has the fifth biggest population and territory and is on its way to become also the number five on the GDP world ranking list. The country should be expected to be one of the leading countries in the reform of the world power system in an active and creative way. It was in this...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU), one of the most important symbols of the European regional integration process, completed fifty years in 2012. At first glance, many of its positive aspects, which places the EU as the global largest exporter position of agri-food...

In Brazil, it has been difficult to elaborate governmental planning surpassing the four-year spectrum from the Pluriannual Plans. Despite the fact of long-term planning attracting a wide range of sectors, it still occupies a small space in both political and bureaucratic agendas. Hence, the...

From the 1990s, it intensified in the global economy the implementation of strategies for companies of fragmenting their production processes and allocate their productive activities in various countries and regions, forming with this global value chains to recreate the international division of...

This study analyses ten strategic indicators analyzed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the greater purpose of analyzing Brazil's performance compared to OECD member countries. The indicators analyzed were: i) water withdrawals; ii) wastewater treatment;...

The aim of this article is connecting and systematizing the elements that make up the consolidation of China as a world leader in energy transition, an active and engaged participant in multilateral climate negotiations and an international source of funding to green projects with low...