Abstract

The main source of competitiveness are the elements of trust and cooperation between companies, obtained through close relations of economic, social, and community nature. Therefore, this type of territorial manifestation is determined not only by the characteristics of the physical environment, but also by cultural, social and historical characteristics present in a geographically defined area. However, there are few studies that relate the existence or not of conditionings and indicators that show the performance of the Local Productive Arrangements (LPA), since the conditionings cannot be considered as performance determinants of a LPA. The problem is that both are incomplete; there is the difficulty of working only with conditionings and to work only with indicators. So the purpose of this article is to construct a more robust theoretical model of assessment of LPA through association of performance indicators to the territorial conditionings existent in the literature, which is able to generate information to measure behaviors of LPA.