COOPERATION NETWORKS AND ENTERPRISE COMPETITIVENESS IN AGRICULTURAL LOCALITIES OF SINALOA: THE CASE OF MANGO PRODUCTION

• Main Authors: Rafael Ruiz-Ortega, Wilfrido Ruiz-Ochoa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2014-07-01
• Series: Ra Ximhai
• Subjects: enterprise networks; rural development; relational capital; local policy
• Online Access: https://drive.google.com/a/uaim.edu.mx/file/d/0B3tidJTiCU5eck4tTk9CUk9wRTA/edit

Networks of business cooperation in rural localities, can be as critical as other traditional factors to promote competitiveness. Such is the case of Sinaloa’s municipalities of Esquinapa and El Rosario, specializing in the cultivation and commercialization of mango. However, among the investigated farmers of that localities, still prevail cooperation networks that depend of family and neighborhood relationships, which are of low intensity, limited geographical scope and poorly diversified. Moreover, most of them reach a weak level of insertion into networks, which partly explains their low business competitiveness. To deal this problem, we propose to consider various territorial factors that could contribute to maintaining the economic viability of rural communities such as the investigated.