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OLIVERA LOZANO, Guillermo. Encadenamientos productivos de la micro y pequeña industrias en las ciudades de Aguascalientes y Mexicali. Invest. Geog [online]. 1997, n.34, pp.51-75. ISSN 2448-7279.

A survey was carried out with small firms in Aguascalientes and Mexicali. Mexico, with the aim of analizing the characteristics of commodity chains, taking into account subcontracting linkages between firms, and their labour, capital, sales and raw material markets results indicated that the manufacturing sectors in each city were quite disarticulated and that, their regional linkages were minimum, which reduced the sector's efficiency and competitiveness. It is considered necessary, to rethink the official manufacturing plans, and to adopt an inter-firm cooperation agreement in the production process of small firms; giving the same importance to the internal market as to foreign trade. Likewise, attention has been drawn to the importance of commodity chains to support local and regional development.

Palavras-chave : small firms; commodity chains; regional development.