Consórcios de exportação como instrumentos de cooperação e competitividade nas micro, pequenas e médias empresas: um estudo de caso na indústria de confecção de vestuário

• Autor(a) principal: Porto, Elvio Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/2297
• topic: Administração da produção; Consórcios de exportação; Cooperação; Alianças estratégicas; Pequenas e médias empresas; Alianças estratégicas; Administração de empresas; Consórcios de exportação - Brasil; Alianças estratégicas (Negócios); Concorrência; Pequenas e médias empresas - Brasil; Vestuário - Indústria - Brasil

The increase of international trade by enhancing competitiveness of the internal productive structure is defined as the second major objective in the Brazilian new official agenda for economic development. For that, it establishes that industrial policies shall dedicate efforts to raise the national export basis specially among the small and medium companies, and search for technologies in economic fields where Brazil possesses comparative advantages not fully developed yet (BRASIL, 2003). According to this idea, the job performed by the Brazilian agency for export promotion (APEX-Brasil), in particular with projects involving export consortia, provides support to both the export basis enlargement and strengthening of small businesses through the construction of horizontal cooperative networks, thus creating opportunities for market expansion to the associates plus all other benefits that come along from that. The objective of this monograph is to identify the elements that allow an assessment of cooperative practice inside the export consortia and contribute to the understanding of internal relations in what concerns the balance of individual and collective interests, as much as its functionality for learning and evelopment of an exporting mentality or culture as an important part of competitive capabilities for those small business. The Brazilian textile industrial complex has been chosen as a background for this research based on actual evidences of an impressive overcoming of adverse competitive positioning that emerged in the nineties. However this economic recovery has not yet achieved the magnitude intended for the textile activities in the country. The industry recognizes that it is not enough to export more, it is necessary to export better, improving the amount of addedvalue in products sent abroad. In the textile complex it corresponds to the apparel industry which is technically dominated by micro and small factories that require large amounts of labor and few high-tech appliances. This monograph has been developed as an exploratory approach for a case study of an export consortia inside the Brazilian apparel industry that is regarded as successful in its performance as expected for an inter firm arrangement of this nature.