Tendencias de especialización maquiladora: implicaciones de la configuración socio-técnica en Nogales, Sonora

Abstract

This article discusses the possibility of including the implicationsof the spatial movility of the firms in the specializing process of the Maquiladora Industry (MI). Strescing the importance of the socialtechnical configuration in the MI, the article explores its correspondence with the interaction process and expansion, throughout local peculinities and existing differences in the types of firms concentrated in the city of Nogales, Sonora. The idea developed throughout this article is that there should be a differentiation among localities and or regions in which the MI has been establishing, which should respond to the urgency of building typologies of industrial trajectories, reflecting of the organizational tendencies in the local and regional production and its connections to global markets.