Recognizing the diversity of actors in the interorganizational network, this study adopts the institutional perspective and a conception of environment in which different groups of actors may perceive differently the same institutional context. Therefore, the study investigates how the sharing of the values of the reference institutional context relates to the governance setting in three local productive arrangements (LPAs). The results showed differences concerning the origin environmental pressures perceived, which highlights that the sharing of values about cooperation affects positively the governance setting. Therefore, the main contribution of the study is about the way that the actors organize themselves in the context of productive arrangements, as it seems to be result of the local relations, regardless the context level in which is referred. This fact allowed to show that the interactions in local level are the ones that enable the concept of LPA to gain concreteness.
institutional context; governance; cooperation; competition; local productive arrangements
