No. 70 (2016): Gestión Pública y Encadenamiento Productivo

The Productive Linkages generate competencies in innovation and efficiency among the entities involved; since the aim is to know the factors that influence the development of new technologies and knowledge and, thus, be able to generate greater economic growth.

The analysis of linkages can be visualized from three spheres of action: micro, meso and macro levels. At the micro level is the relationship between a central company and the competitiveness of a network of suppliers to identify strategic partners.

At the meso level there is the intra- and inter-sectoral linkage, in which linkages interact with the promotion and regulation policies at the national level of each country.

Finally, in the case of macro analysis, the specialization pattern of a country's or region's economy as a whole and its projection at the international level are studied.

In this direction, the Public Administration has a clear interest in promoting and encouraging those actions that can generate an improvement in the competitive advantage of national companies and producers towards the market and the economies that interact at a global level.

Therefore, it has become of regional interest to study/analyze the current conditions of productive linkages and the involvement of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

This issue of the Central American Journal of Public Administration, ICAP Magazine, offers its readers a compendium of texts that analyze productive linkages from the perspective of public management in various links of the national, regional and international economy, providing information on initiatives and good practices that promote the socio-economic development of the countries.