The Challenge of Collaborative Governance in a Cooperation Context: Analysis of Strategic Change Process of a Local Productive Arrangement – LPA

Abstract

This study context is the interdependency of local and specific organizations factors in the sense of create sustainable competitive vectors. From this, a group of initiatives and relations emerge to organize and produce a minimum alignment between a set of companies from the Panambi-Condor/RS Post Harvest Local Productive Arrange (LPA), subject of this investigation. From the inquiry regarding the way in which the collaborative governance was operated in this environment, the study analyzed the way that the relations between different actors from APL were established and how they interfered on the system force as a whole. Based on the perception of the members of management committee and companies managers included in this arrangement, the investigation is qualitative in nature, developed in a longitudinal way, with cross-sections, in the period of 1990/2017, identifying content, context and APL displacement process. The results indicate that the LPA trajectory is composed of four strategic phases, consolidating a
relationship configuration through three groups of actors, the anchor companies that, when establishes weak ties are involved in innovation processes; the systematic companies that densify the vertical and strong ties; and other LPA companies that complete strong and horizontal ties of these relations. The conflicts between several actors were also analyzed, beyond the dynamic of trust between the companies and the Director Board and also the limits to the constitution of organic governance systems.