Estágios de desenvolvimento de Arranjos Produtivos Local: o caso da cerâmica estrutural em Ituiutaba: desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

A The companies entered in APL's bond of articulation, combine skills, increase purchasing power, offer a range of diversified products, interact by exchanging information with each other creating improvements and new ideas, which allows improve competitiveness. However, some authors have already awakened to analyze that there is a life cycle that involves, including a well-structured CLUSTERS. Nete sense, wonders: what factors can take APL, once constituted, to cease to exist. Thus, the present study aimed to analyse in which stage of development is the Local productive Arrangement of structural ceramics in the municipality of Ituiutaba-MG.. To this end, bibliographic searches for conceptualizing the local productive systems, particularly the indicators and characteristics that classify a group as an APL. The data collection method used was the questionnaire drawn up by the RedeSist. The survey was conducted between February to March 2019. It was found that in certain period there was in fact an APL structural ceramic in Ituiutaba-Mg, classified as a vector of Development, given the importance of your site. However, at the expense of lack of governance and cooperation, lack of articulation and innovations, and for pressures of environmental regulations, especially those over 80% of businesses have closed down your activities in short period of time. Currently, only two companies, can no longer be classified as APL.