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Publications in Journals: Salgado, Omar; Shi, Yongjiang. (2009). Emerging capabilities in manufacturing companies: a new taxonomy of multinationals’ transformation, Journal of Business History, Routledge, ISSN: 0007-6791 (Submitted Oct 2009, ID: FBSH-2009-0074). Salgado, Omar. (2009)¿Cómo destacar en nuevos mercados?, Revista énfasis Logística, Año X, No.112, México, Octubre 2009. Salgado, Omar. (2009). Plantas y subsidiarias: Logística y ...
Publications in conferences: Salgado, Omar. (2005).’Assessing the process of localization of parts in a Mexican car manufacturer and its effects on region’s growth: Convergent topics and research opportunities in emerging economies’. Working Paper for Academy of International Business – UK Chapter, Conference: “Innovation, Change and Competition in International Business”, 2005, Bath Spa, UK. Salgado, Omar; ...
Abstract: This article reports supply chain disruption cases in a foreign subsidiary caused by a high power distance in Mexican culture that in combination with a unidirectional and determined management style of German expatriates hinders early reports of deviations. Cases are analyzed based on supply chain disruption mitigation and risk literature. Keywords: Supply Chain Disruptions, ...
Abstract: One of the considerations for manufacturing transfers is the overall production cost gained from such location. Hence, foreign plants would compete for projects based on economic figures they are able to produce under the specific interaction of subsidiary capabilities and location characteristics. If HQ grants a mandate, it is expected that projected figures come ...
Abstract: The concept of doing business for the base of the economic pyramid proposes several reasons for which foreign subsidiaries operating in emerging economies, need to craft their own product strategies. Not only because they face adverse business conditions that are atypical and can hardly be endured by knowledge generated in developed countries but also, ...
Abstract: conventional internationalization cases are those carried out by companies from developed to undeveloped countries all over the globe; despite this pattern, there have been remarkable cases of companies from emerging countries that not only went international but also became world leaders. These companies took advantage of their position in the home country and learned ...
Abstract The speed of changes in the global business environment has pushed European multinationals to employ staff of its subsidiaries abroad to take over some corporate activity in a third country. This is the case with Latin American executives working in China, which face not only the culture shock, but are immersive in a complex ...
Authors: Omar Salgado – Tecnológico de Monterrey Carlos Ramírez-Sanchez – Volkswagen de México Abstract: The substitution of expatriates by host country nationals (HCNs) is part of a foreign subsidiaries’ (fSubs’) development process; the extent of substitution depends not only on multinationals’ (MNEs) strategies towards the host market but also on the economics of the site ...
Author: Omar, Salgado – University of Cambridge Abstract: The internationalization of firms’ activities is increasingly taking the attention of different research fields such as engineering, economics and management. The convergence of such research strands produce important opportunities to knit a wider approach to assess the strategies adopted by companies, throughout the internationalization process. The purpose of this ...