GOVERNANÇA NO ARRANJO PRODUTIVO LOCAL DE CALÇADOS DO CARIRI

uma análise a partir da atuação dos atores institucionais

Abstract

The term Local Production Arrangement (APL) has become popular in Brazil to designate some of the clusters found in the country. Given that these arrangements are based on the articulation of a set of actors, governance plays an important role. In this view, the research presents the following problem: how do the productive actors evaluate the level of governance performance in the Cariri footwear APL? Thus, a methodology for measuring Governance in APL was used, with the application of questionnaires to the companies in the Arrangement to construct an Index for the Assessment of Governance in Local Production Arrangements (IGAPL), applying the Delphi Method and multicriteria analysis for decision-making, through the Analysis of Hierarchical Processes (AHP). In a ranking of the dimensions that present the best performance relative to GAPL, the following are available: Action of institutional actors III - Provision of consultancy, lectures and incentive to the development of human capital; Action of institutional actors I - Development of market strategies and identification of forms of financing, these with an intermediate level of governance; Action of institutional actors IV - Representation of interests and promotion of associations and cooperation; Action of institutional actors II - Promotion of research, innovation and socio-environmental responsibility, the last two having registered low levels of governance.