Corporação em rede: um estudo sobre a moto Honda da Amazônia

Abstract

The large Corporation constitutes one of the most important agent spatial reorganization of capitalism. His action, after world war ll world, has produced a new international division of labor, characterized the formation of numerous and complex networks that connects in a geographical home to a large corporation with several subsidiaries in different regions and countries. Therefore, it is from this point that puts the purpose of this research: to understand the spatial organization of Moto Honda Amazonia company to effect the production and distribution of motorcycles nationwide. This is a case study, and as a theoretical foundation, a literature review was done on large corporations and the formation of networks of geographic locations, and field research at the headquarters of the company. Inaugurated in 1976 at the Pole Manaus Industrial, Moto Honda da Amazonian is one of the industry s most in the country, given its volume of production represented in 2011 79% of the domestic motorcycle. I organized a dense and branched network of geographic locations, involving a large number of companies subsidiaries, warehouses, distribution centers, banks, services financial as well as hundreds of dealerships that effectively articulate the activities of the company, consolidating an integrated area in the country and beyond its borders, considering the sum of exports involving motorcycles all countries in the Americas and some countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. Moto Honda Amazonia is actually a branch of Honda Motor Company, a powerful conglomerate based in Tokyo that is a leader production of motorcycles in the world and a major producer of cars and power products. It is, therefore, a large industrial conglomerate that, with financial resources injected from outside, found in Brazil an incredibly promising market and established a progressively performance space at the national level