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GARCIA CASAL, Irene  e  LEONARDI, Viviana. Impacto de la relación proveedor - cliente en el desempeño de pequeños y medianos contratistas de Bahía Blanca.: Una aproximación econométrica. Estud. Econ. [online]. 2004, vol.21, n.43, pp. 1-24. ISSN 2525-1295.

The growing levels of world competitiveness have taken to big corporations to work with more degree of flexibility. Among the deployed strategies, the most important has been the creation of networks that join big and small productive units operating in different sectors, regions and even countries. This process of productive decentralization has allowed medium and small firms to recover a protagonistic role that seemed to be lost during the validity of the fordist paradigm.The central objective of the present work is to analyze, through an econometric model, the importance for a small and medium company to be a supplier of a great plant that manufactures commodities, both established in Bahía Blanca's city.

Palavras-chave : Industrial Economy; Smes; Networks.