Small and medium sized timber enterprises capable of exporting

Abstract

The Misiones, Small and Medium Sized forestry-industry Enterprises, have not shown, up to the present (2004), the necessary dynamism for the integral use of the existent forest plantations in the region, to generate solid goods and services suppliers markets, and to significantly favour the development of related activities. On the contrary, what one observes in general is that there are few enterprises that achieve and have technological and exportation dynamism. In a market of great competitiveness, without development of the second transformation of raw material, they must have qualitative jump to improve their productivity level, and to surpass the first transformation stage from timber to the second transformation and to the final product, managerial organization technological jump. Due to this, our research pursues as general objective the determination of the conditions to increase competitiveness and production through the exercise of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises exports of forestry-industry timber products, located in the Province of Misiones, Argentina; for that it was necessary to: Prospect and determine the specific geographical, economic, social and cultural factor conditions where Small and Medium Sized Enterprises are found in the territory. To describe the structure of the forest-industry to which the enterprises belong, including an outline of rivalries between each other. Prospect and determine the specific geographical, economic, social and cultural factor conditions where Small and Medium Sized Enterprises are found in the territory. To describe the structure of the forest-industry to which the enterprises belong, including an outline of rivalries between each other.