INNOVATING BEHAVIOUR IN LOCAL PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS BASED ON SMEs

Consolación Adame-Sanchez (), Ana B. Escrig-Tena () and Isidre March-Chordà ()
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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

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2001, vol. 05, issue 01, 1-20

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.

Keywords: innovation; local productive systems; change; strategy; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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