Title: Responding to global competitive pressure : local co-operation and upgrading in the Sinos Valley, Brazil

Authors: Schmitz, Hubert

Place: Brighton

Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies

Year: 1998

Journal: IDS working paper

Volume: 82

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Innovation Systems

Keywords: industrial concentration, shoe industry, industrial subcontracting, industrial efficiency, innovations, globalization, international competition, rio grande do sul, brazil

Abstract: The failure of a cluster of leather footwear industries in Brazil to address intensified global competition shows that the centrifugal forces of globalization make local co-operation increasingly difficult.

URL: http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/Wp82.pdf

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