FORMS OF GOVERNANCE, INTERACTION AND PROXIMITY: PRODUCTION ARRANGEMENTS OF PARANÁ’S CAPS AND CHILDREN EMBROIDERY

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the influence of the actors and the institutional design present in clusters of confections (forms of governance) for coordination of production systems, productive and innovative capacity of the MSE of the selected arrangements in Paraná. This paper focuses on two case studies: caps confection, in Apucarana, and children embroidery-confection, in Terra Roxa. It adopted an analytical model useful for the study of productive agglomerations, which emphasizes the learning environment and innovative strategies that emerge from the interaction of the different characteristics of production systems and knowledge systems. The production configuration of the systems analyzed suggests: (a) APL caps - a governance structure with a predominance of networks, local associations who had not developed stable coordination mechanisms, and a combination of a learning infrastructure very little structured with learning mechanisms more active intra-firm; and (b) APL child embroidery - a production structure that are mostly micro and small companies, a governance network form, with a low complementarity in production, a complementary governance of private type, despite the presence of the local public body, and a framework of knowledge that had not generated significant effects on the development of innovative capacity.