Fred William Guimarães

This paper aims to interpret the regional integration as an organizational structure involved for space, bounded by economic events and their relations with the territory, due to dynamic movements of sites developed by major international groups. They seek to emphasize the changes stemming from new economic environments that have created a new urban hierarchy, result in part of diseconomies of scale and externalities, these contradictions that have led to movements of devolution in space. The reciprocal influences of the regional environment imposed a challenge for the region processor, the new forms of organizational innovation, technological and productive from the new technological paradigm. Additionally, seeks to examine the recent movement occurred in the area of Sao Paulo related to merger and the devolution productive in the processing industry from 1996 to 2007. To obtain the results shall be used in the sectoral analysis of major regions and Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, through the distribution of data related to gross domestic product and value of industrial processing, as well as statistics on foreign trade by categories of household and factor use for the State of Sao Paulo, Southeast (excl. São Paulo) and Brazil (excl. Southeast). It follows that the devolution productive found in space Paulista in recent period is directly related to the changes imposed by the passage of the Fordist mode of production for the model of flexible specialization, and that these transformations affect the shares on the sectors of services and Industry, chained by the nature of its processes and the influence of the globalization process in productive activity.