Local development and globalization: the case of the formation of the agroindustrial complex of lemon in Colima, México

• Main Author: Saúl Martínez González
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Colima 2008-03-01
• Series: Portes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico
• Subjects: aceite esencial de limón; región Colima; Coca Cola; empresa transnacional; complejo agroindustrial; desarrollo local
• Online Access: http://revistasacademicas.ucol.mx/index.php/portes/article/view/356

The multinational company has been the main vehicle of internationalization of capital and trade integration between countries. The global expansion phase of the transnational corporation is associated with the hegemony of capitalism in the United States, whose influence has been decisive in the territories where it operates. This essay is a case of the influence of transnational company Coca Cola in the formation of the region of Tecoman, Colima, as providing an input to the company during the period dominated by Fordism. This region is formed from exogenous impulses of the needs of lemon essential oil by transnational companies which in turn have determined the stages of growth and expansion in the region that occur in phases of boom and bust. Dependence on oil exports Mexican lime by an American multinational company is determined, in turn, by the behavior of the economic cycle in the United States. This study highlights the stage of formation of the agroindustrial complex and does not attempt to analyze the current situation