Integrating the National Production System: The New Challenge for Chile

Abstract

This chapter expands the argument made in the Introduction about the fracture arising nowadays within local production systems in developing countries, and more specifically, in Latin America. In this case, special reference to Chile is made because of the extreme clarity of process indicators that this economy presents with regard to that problem: the fracture in the national production system between a small modem sector of large and medium enterprises versus a large group of micro and small traditional enterprises.