This paper analyzes industrial clusters, characterizing and integrating the view of global and local governance and identifying the conditioning factors of producer competitiveness and local development. To this end, the paper investigates two Brazilian industrial clusters: the footwear industry in Franca, SP and the furniture industry in Bento Gonçalves, RS. The main findings show that the forms of global governance of the production chain are crucial conditioning factors of the development of capabilities among local producers.
global governance; local production systems; industrial clusters