Governance in Local Productive Arrangements (APLs): Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

Abstract

This article aims to explore in more depth one of the major aspect and more difficult to understanding and systematization in studies on clusters and Local Productive Arrangements (APLs): its forms of governance. We understand that governance in clusters represents a kind of coordination between agents that build in a continuous process of conflict and cooperation pacts and commitments for economic development of local and regional territories. That said, our analysis is based on a set of bibliographic references selected that allow us to analyze the governance of production arrangements in the following aspects: concept, methodologies, public policy and its limitations as a subject of scientific and practical tool for intervention. It is also important to consider the historical, cultural and socio-economic peculiarities of the various manifestations of territorial productive specializations, this study not having a normative character, but prospective and preliminary.