Abstract
Due to the competitive environment faced by micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and the limitations caused by their size, these firms often seek solutions through new forms of organization, such as local productive arrangements (LPAs). Most articles on LPAs focus on the factors motivating the creation of these arrangements, while only a few analyze the factors that hinder cooperation in this type of network. The objective of this article is to identify the factors that can lead to disarticulation among the participants in the LPA formed by small clothing manufacturers in the city of Tobias Barreto, Sergipe. The study is quantitative in nature, based on the responses to 224 questionnaires answered by representatives of companies listed in the public record as participating in this LPA. We applied the Mann-Whitney test to analyze the hypotheses and univariate logistic regression to shed light on what factors have this influence. The results of the survey show that the number of participants, the lack of trust among them and the appearance of opportunistic behavior are the factors that contribute to disarticulation among the actors in local productive arrangements.
Highlights
Due to the competitive environment faced by micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and the limitations caused by their size, these firms often seek solutions through new forms of organization, such as local productive arrangements (LPAs)
As indicated by Verschoore (2006), due to the current economic situation, inter-organizational networks have appeared as a new structure to meet the needs of these firms, among them industrial districts, joint ventures, strategic alliances, clusters and local productive arrangements (LPAs)
The main focus of this study is to identify the factors that disrupt cooperation, from the perspective of entrepreneurs participating in the local productive arrangement among clothing producers in Tobias Barreto, in the state of Sergipe
Summary
Ith the increasing openness of the global economy, new theories and Wforms of business organization have appeared to attempt to enhance competitiveness, especially among micro and small enterprises (MSEs). For Escobar, Ferreira and Crespo (2000), the cooperation factor explains the functioning of networks formed by organizations and underpins the importance of this type of agglomeration to the context and region where it is inserted, since it permits enhancing the advantages obtained by the participating companies This reality can be observed in the www.bbronline.com.br information technology cluster in Estonia, composed mainly of micro and small enterprises. In this case, the government cooperates with the companies to enable the development of information technology for the government and of ideas and innovations that permit the cluster to export products and services to other countries, to promote their development (HIRT; SANNAMEES; ZALJEVIC, 2013). We highlight the factors that contribute to the breakup of local productive arrangements
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