Governança e inovação tecnológica em APLs: um estudo de caso no APL calçadista de Birigüi (SP) - (1990-2000). / Governance and technological innovation in the Local Productive Arrangements - APLs: a case study about the shoe industry in Birigüi (SP) along the 1990s.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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The purpose of this work is to explain the relations between Governance (G) and Technological Innovation (T) that occur in product manufacturing, process and management in the enterprises operating in Local Productive Arrangements - APLs (A). The study is the focused on the enterprises operating in the Birigüi (SP) shoe manufacturing APL along the 1990s. According to the specialized literature, such relations may be governed by market solutions, either of a firm or by cooperation. However, although this relation is discussed in the APL literature as from the early 1990s, it still shows to be very basic, that is, there are few studies directly approaching the issue, particularly those on APLs that do not participate in global productive chains. It is therefore relevant to investigate the ways in which governance structures (GS) appear in the technological dissemination hired by firms. For this end, the work initially involved the elaboration of a model, the construction of which was conducted as from the revision of theories in the literature. The model proposes a set of relations, in which the (T) in the APL firms is conceived, triggered by distinct influence factors (IF), which represent the forms by which (GS) are manifested. The empirical verification of the model was conducted by exploratory character qualitative research, using the case study method, with companies and leaderships of the Birigüi (SP) APL, in which the identification of the (T) was made as from (IF). Adherence to the model proposed was observed; that is, once the firms took the (T) decisions from (IF), (GS) were then identified in the origin of the (IF), revealing which were the actuating forms governing the inter-firms relations by means of different coordination mechanisms in the (T) process in the Birigüi (SP) APL along the 1990s. After this verification, conditions were established to explain between "G", "T" and "A" relation, clarifying the (T) solutions hierarchically imposed: the ones established at the bases (cooperation), the ones developed by the leading company, or market solutions. Finally, the study proposes an analysis of the (T) in the APL firms from (IF), as these are the ones making (GS) emerge.

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local productive arrangements technological innovation inovação tecnológica governança arranjos produtivos locais influence factors governance fatores de influência

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