The competitive dynamics in local clusters is influenced for the frequency and impact of new technologies and for the specific characteristics of the market. Such factors press the companies to constant reevaluation of their strategies, methods and organizational routines, leading to a technological stratification process in the local cluster. In the micro-dynamic level, that stratification can be verified through resources endowment and performance indexes of the firms. That approach is based on the evolutionary theory of technical change, which has been adopted in a exploratory research accomplished the North Fluminense red ceramic cluster (North of Rio de Janeiro State) to analyze the impact provoked by the process of technological change in the competitive dynamics of that local productive arrangement. Starting from a representative sample of that diversity, a typology was elaborated for identification, characterization and stratification of specific groups on the local arrangement. As result, it is provided the competitive stratification for the arrangement with their respective characteristics, the case conclusions and some relevant final considerations.
Technological change; local cluster; red ceramics
