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Dell has recently concluded a site selection process in Brazil to determine where is will locate its manufacturing plant in that country, which will be its first manufacturing plant in Latin America. After a lengthy site selection process in the first half of 1998 involving five states in Brazil - São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Parana´, Minas Gerais, and Rio Grande do Sul - Dell has decided to locate the plant in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Although a number of factors influence Dell's decision, one of them is the generous incentives that Governor Antonio Britto of the relatively centrist Partido do Movimento Democratico Brasileiro (PMDB) has offered Dell. However, after Dell makes this decision, a new governor, Olivio Dutra of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, or Workers' Party) is elected in October 1998 and takes office in January 1999. The PT is a socialist party. Having made an issue of what he considered to be overly generous incentives offered to transnational corporations during his campaign, Governor Dutra seems likely to rescind the incentives that the Britto government had offered.

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Business & Economics

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Copyright © 2003 by the Thunderbird Global School of Management. All Rights Reserved.

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Thunderbird Global School of Management

Content Type

Case study

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Original Publication Date

2003

Page Count

14

Publication Year

2003

Publisher

Thunderbird Global School of Management

Place Published / Released

Glendale, AZ

Subject

Business & Economics, Social Sciences, International Business, Sciences, Markets, Organizational change, International trade, Negotiation in business, Management of Companies and Enterprises, Negócios Internacionais, Negocios Internacionales, Dell, Brazil, Host-Home Country Benefits of FDI

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Negócios Internacionais, Negocios Internacionales