Abstract

PALACIOS HERNANDEZ, Lylia. Failed Business Strategies for Integration or the Difficult Shift from Protectionism to Open Competition: CYDSA (1945-2005). Secuencia [online]. 2008, n.72, pp.83-110. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i72.1054.

The study of large prívate firms within the context of globalization has focused more on the socalled successful cases. Conversely, this paper explores a failed experience related to the sphere of a large family firm established in the northeast of México, calling itself a "selfmade firm." The aim is to gauge the importance of state protection in the establishment of these large prívate corporations, which, despite encouraging the development of managerial capacities, also encouraged dependent behaviors that failed to develop other business skills designed to achieve innovation and social commitment in Mexican businessmen.

Keywords : Family firm; corporate firms; subordínate collaboration; trade liberalization; business responses.