Blank and Haar examine how dynamic changes in the North American business environment, accelerated by NAFTA, have transformed corporate strategies and structures and affected patterns of U.S. investment in North America. Using a series of survey questionnaires and focused interviews with U.S. multinational-subsidiary executives in Mexico and Canada, the authors determine what firms hope to gain from the new North American rationalization and integration strategies, and analyze the factors that have driven those strategies.

Stephen Blank is professor of management and international business at the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Jerry Haar is senior research associate and director of the Inter-American Business and Labor Program of the North-South Center at the University of Miami.