A percepção dos atores regionais sobre a cooperação no setor da indústria de confecção de artigos do vestuário e acessórios na região do Vale do Taquari-RS.

Abstract

This research seeks to investigate the sector of clothing and accessories industry present in the Vale do Taquari, region in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with the general objective of analyzing the perception of cooperation between the regional actors present in industrial clothing and accessories industry in the COREDE of Vale do Taquari. In order to achieve the general objective, the following specific objectives were listed: to socioeconomically characterize the clothing industry in the region from the productive, commercial and structural aspects of the companies; understand the interrelationships that exist between companies that develop clothing manufacturing in the region and other regional actors; identify cooperative actions and practices between companies and between them and other regional actors and, finally, analyze the perception of regional actors about the reasons, incentives and difficulties for carrying out practical cooperation actions among themselves. For the development of the proposed objectives, firstly it took place a bibliographic review of the concepts covered, such as cooperation, regional actors/agents and business agglomeration. This review was carried out based on a bibliographic survey of articles, theses, dissertations and books dealing with the theme. The research was characterized by qualitative, in an exploratory way, because it explored the situations, values and practices based on the world view of the actors, of how the phenomena are presented to their perception, in this case, how was the cooperation between regional actors perceived, their interrelationships and identification of existing cooperative actions and practices. It was also characterized by being descriptive-analytical, as it aimed to understand the actors' conception of cooperation and the factors that favor or disadvantage cooperation between them, based on the phenomenological approach method. For data analysis, content analysis with the technique of predefined categories was used (agglomeration, territory, cooperation, actors) and the coding of empirical data was used. It was concluded that although the entrepreneurs/managers understand the cooperation as being beneficial, not only for the companies, but for the sector and the society as a whole and even though there are reasons for the cooperation and a predisposition on the part of city halls, entities, university, service provider and business support entities for the same to occur, cooperation actions and practices proved to be limited and restricted between companies, based on solving operational problems, and not exactly strategic, contrary to what the other regional actors have to understand.