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| Gama, Zilda Joaquina Cohen; Santana, Antonio Cordeiro de; Mendes, Fernando Antonio Teixeira; Khan, Ahmad Saeed. |
| The furniture industry of the Metropolitan Region of Belém provides many jobs opportunities and help to reduce the environmental impacts of sawmill, given that the shavings and wood residues of these firms are used as raw material. Factorial analysis was used to estimate the index of competitive performance (ICP) and to determine the competitive position of the firms in the furniture industry. The results showed that most of the furniture firms were located in an intermediate competitive level, which is due to the limiting factors such as lack of workforce, low technological level, difficult access to credit and low level of horizontal and vertical integration in the supply chain. The final results showed that only one, among the furniture firms, achieved... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Index of competitive performance (ICP); Factorial analysis; Furniture firms; Technology; State of Pará; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55175 |
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| Filgueiras, Gisalda Carvalho; Santana, Antonio Cordeiro de; Homma, Alfredo Kingo Oyama; Herreros, Mario Miguel Amin Garcia; Barros, Paulo Luiz Contente de; Mendes, Fernando Antonio Teixeira. |
| At the present time, the State of Pará is the third in the ranking of exports and concentrates 75% of the extracted wood from the nation’s native forests. Of the extracted wood from the Legal Amazon, 64% is directed to the national market while 36% is directed to export markets. The objective of this study was identify and to map, using the Normalized Index of Concentration (NIC), during the 1998 to 2004 period, the municipalities which are specialized in the forest, wood and furniture activities and that show significant potential to be transformed in local clusters. The results showed the existence of nine municipalities specialized, simultaneously, in the two activities, indicating the possibility of implementing public policies directed to influence... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Forest economics; Concetration indexes; Local development; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54079 |
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