Openness and industrial response in a Wal-Mart world: a case study of Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactant producers (Record no. 296913)
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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 667 |
Item number | J2O7 |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Javorcik, Beata S. |
9 (RLIN) | 4934 |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Openness and industrial response in a Wal-Mart world: a case study of Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactant producers |
Statement of responsibility, etc. | Javorcik, Beata S. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Washington |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | World Bank |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2006 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 35 p. |
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
Title | Policy Research Working Paper, no. 3999 |
9 (RLIN) | 195914 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
General note | Includes bibliographical references |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | "This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex fundamentally changed the retail sector, forcing SDS firms to cut their profit margins and innovate. Those unable to respond to this new environment tended to lose market share and, in some cases, disappear altogether. Second, partly in response to Walmex, many Mexican producers logged impressive efficiency gains during the previous decade. These gains came both from labor-shedding and from innovation, which in turn was fueled by innovative input suppliers and by multinationals bringing new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share of the U.S. detergent market over the past decade, Mexican sales in the U.S. were inhibited by a combination of excessive shipping delays at the border and artificially high input prices (due to Mexican protection of domestic caustic soda suppliers). They were also held back by the major re-tooling costs that Mexican producers would have had to incur to establish brand recognition among non-Latin consumers and to comply with zero phosphate laws in many regions of the U.S." "--World Bank web site." |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cleaning compounds industry |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Competition |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Keller, Wolfgang |
9 (RLIN) | 109199 |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Tybout, James |
9 (RLIN) | 52596 |
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Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Non-fiction | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad | 12/06/2007 | Recd. as gratis from World Bank | 667 J2O7 | 162587 | 04/09/2009 | 09/04/2020 | Book |