All the Partners have undergone or are in the process of undergoing significant environmental organizational changes. This phenomenon is not limited to the current wave of “re-engineering” which is occurring in many U.S. industries. Additional competitive pressures, brought on by dynamics such as the globalization of industry and political policy changes such as NAFTA, have caused the Mexican Partners to undergo significant organizational changes as well. (Recall that Partner companies ranked NAFTA-driven environmental changes as relatively uninteresting during the planning session.)