This paper analyzes how globalization is impacting Mercosul's industrial enterprises. It stresses that Mercosul has the power to foster the development of industrial virtual enterprises between organizations of the participant countries. Since the most important structural condition of industrial virtual enterprises is their dependency on electronic links to complete the production process, the paper also presents the current technological infrastructure of the average manufacturing organization of the region. Specifically, the paper presents the stage of integration of IT applications in Mercosul's industrial organizations and its levels of interoperability.
Mercosul; industrial virtual enterprises; cooperation; information infrastructure