State, Business and Relational Strategies in the Configuration of a New Local Industrial Sector in Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

The objective of the article is to analyze the incidence of relational strategies of the provincial State and Businessmen in the configuration of a new industrial sector, through the study of case of Software and IT Services sector of Cordoba - Argentina since the year 2000. The methodological strategy is qualitative and consists in a historical reconstruction of the sectoral development process around the installation of the issue, the setting of the relevant public policies and the subsequent sectorial economic performance, using bibliographic and documentary analysis techniques and interviews with key informants. The main results show that the articulation between high quality state interventions and local business action-oriented to sectoral growth, with high degrees of embededdness and reciprocity, favored the growing dynamism of the sector under analysis during the 2000s.