Space-time trajectory of a network Corporation: the multifunctional evolution of the Algar Group

Abstract

The multifunctional and multi-sited corporations maximize advantages executing spatial diffusion and functional diversification. However, the urge for constant expansion doesn’t exempt from the political-institutional arrangements necessary to create new spaces for the capital sum. Thus, they are organizations that practice a flagrant influence over the production processes in the geographic space. This paper analyses the spatialities of the Algar Group, considering its horizontality and verticality cuttings, as well as its network organization. Therefore, it enters the arena of space strategies, organizational and sociopolitical ones which permeate the case on screen, the scope of clarifying the capacities of influence, of bargain and the primary power relations. The methodological procedures were based on bibliographic researches, documental ones and on the mapping of the obtained information. The analysis points out, therefore, that the spatialities of the Algar Group are like an amalgam of intrinsic distortions to the territorial division of labor in force in the country.

Keywords: Space, corporation, technical and organizational networks, Algar Group.