Modular consortium and industrial condominium: an analysis of new productive configurations in the automobile industry. / Consórcio modular e condomínio industrial: elementos para análise de novas configurações produtivas na indústria automobilística.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

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This study aims to analyse two new productive arrangements found in the Brazilian automobile industry - the "modular consortium" and the "industrial condominium". Those new configurations involve new relationship forms between assemblers and suppliers: in the industrial condominium, first tier suppliers build their facilities close to the assemblers plant, in some cases in the same land, from where they deliver components or subsets in a just-in-time or just-in-sequence basis. In the modular consortium, first tier suppliers and the assembler operate under the same building, and the whole vehicle assembly is accomplished by the suppliers - or "partners". The assembler does not possess direct labour and investments are shared. We discuss, in this study, the "hows and whys" of such arrangements: which is the logics that leads to consortia and condominiums; which products and companies are chosen as participants; which advantages and disadvantages can be obtained for assemblers and suppliers. As a background, we show the global politics of choice of suppliers adopted by the assemblers in the 1990s - global and follow sourcing. As general conclusions, we have the following: such arrangements result from a logic of cost decrease through improvements in the supply chain; in general, with the condominiums and consortia, assemblers may obtain many short term advantages, while the main advantages for suppliers will be reached in the long term; the issue of the power of assemblers in the productive chain is central, as they coordinate the whole settlement of such arrangements, defining who will participate and how; and, due to intrinsic characteristics of such configurations, direct delivers are more and more restricted to multinational companies, moving Brazilian companies to more distant positions in the supply chain.

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automobile industry condomínio industrial consórcio modular globalização globalization indústria automobilística industrial condominium modular consortium

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