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INNOVATING BEHAVIOUR IN LOCAL PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS BASED ON SMEs

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  • CONSOLACIÓN ADAME-SANCHEZ

    (Universitat de Valencia, Departamento de Dirección de Empresas, Juan José Renau Piqueras, Avda. dels Tarongers s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain)

  • ANA B. ESCRIG-TENA

    (Universidad Jaume I, Departmento de Administración de Empresas y Marketing, Campus del Riu Sec, 12080 Castellon, Spain)

  • ISIDRE MARCH-CHORDÀ

    (Universitat de Valencia, Departamento de Dirección de Empresas, Juan José Renau Piqueras, Avda. dels Tarongers s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain)

Abstract

Our main purpose is to analyse the evolution experienced by a local productive system based on SMEs specialising in a traditional food segment: the nougat sector. This local system has undergone a serious crisis in the last decade due to a variety of factors. The Xixona SMEs have failed to behave as a real local productive system, fully integrated and benefiting from scale and agglomeration economies. In our empirically-based study on 21 Xixona SMEs, we look into the reasons that explain their failure to understand the nature of change, and we provide a Strategic Innovation Programme, which in our view, would help to convert the present Xixona productive system into an authentic local productive system.

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  • Consolación Adame-Sanchez & Ana B. Escrig-Tena & Isidre March-Chordà, 2001. "INNOVATING BEHAVIOUR IN LOCAL PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS BASED ON SMEs," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(01), pages 1-20.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:05:y:2001:i:01:n:s1363919601000269
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919601000269
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