MODELOS DE ASOCIATIVIDAD EN LAS PYMES AGROINDUSTRIALES EN LA PROVINCIA DEL GUAYAS

Abstract

The following analysis focuses on the different associability models that can develop the small and medium agro-industry enterprises (SMEs). These models such as associations, consortiums and cluster are consider as business management tools that allow entrepreneurships for the regional economic development, based on opportunities in selfsustaining of small agricultural production units (APU) in the Province of Guayas, so they need to select courses of action to be taken and to project benefits in the economy sector. An analytical method was used to conceptualize the associability on diverse forms to understand them. The competitiveness was identified as the main axis of analysis that will allow the sector revitalization to achieve economies of scale, promoting these associative models to consolidate the system development and the establishment of productive linkages.