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RePEc team Participating archives Help RePEc and get material listed Volunteers Get papers listed Open a RePEc archive More detailed search Advanced Search Papers Articles Authors Institutions Data (FRED®) Top of page A trajetória empreendedora e o processo de internacionalização do grupo GERDAU Contents: Author info Abstract Bibliographic info Download info Related research References Citations Lists Statistics Corrections Author InfoFelipe Athia (felipe@athia.com.br) (Student of Economics, Universidade Federal do Paraná) Armando Dalla Costa (ajdcosta@ufpr.br) (Department of Economics, Universidade Federal do Paraná) Registered author(s): Armando João Dalla Costa Sr. AbstractWithin 50 years, Gerdau Group was capable of transforming a nail industry into one of Brazilian’s and Latin America’s biggest industrial conglomerates, being present in 14 countries and exporting for the five continents. It is considered, nowadays, the 13th biggest steel producer in the world, having produced around 20 million ton in 2008, owning many factories abroad. The internationalization process has started in 1980, when the company bought the uruguayan siderurgic Laisa. In the following step, the Group expanded its activities to Canada, Argentina, Chile, United States, Spain and Mexico, among others. The international expansion became significative in 1999, with the aquisition of AmeriSteel, in the United States. Even though the company was already present in Canada (Courtice Steel and Manitoba Rolling Mills, adquired, respectively, in 1989 and 1995), AmeriSteel was the “entrance door” for many other investments in North America; the Group is considered, nowadays, the 2o biggest productor of steel in this region. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productive and commercial expansion of the company, using the theory of the growth of the firm and, yet, identify – through the existing theories of internationalization of the firm – the profile of international activity of the Group.Download InfoIf you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large. File URL: http://www.economiaetecnologia.ufpr.br/textos_discussao/texto_para_discussao_ano_2009_texto_12.pdf Download Restriction: no Bibliographic InfoPaper provided by Universidade Federal do Paraná, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0094. Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML (with abstract), plain text (with abstract), BibTeX, RIS (EndNote, RefMan, ProCite), ReDIF Length: 28 pages Date of creation: 2009 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fup:wpaper:0094 Note: Creation Date corresponds to the year in which the paper was published on the Department of Economics website. The paper may have been written a small number of months before its publication date. Contact details of provider: Postal: Av. Prefeito Lothário Meissner, 632 - térreo, Bairro Jardim Botânico, 80210-170 Curitiba - PR Phone: (041)360-4350 Fax: (041)360-4471 Email: depecon@ufpr.br Web page: http://www.economiaetecnologia.ufpr.br/ More information through EDIRC For corrections or technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its listing, contact: luciano.nakabashi@ufpr.br (Luciano Nakabashi). 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