Conceptualización y papel de la cadena productiva en un entorno de competitividad

Conceptualization and Role of the Productive Chain in a Competitive Environment

El presente artículo ha sido elaborado como parte del trabajo propuesto por la línea de Desarrollo e investigación en Gestión de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y constituye un aporte a las nuevas estrategias generadas por el Gobierno Nacional en torno al tema de productividad y competitividad, siendo útil como término de referencia para el manejo de criterios tanto macroeconómicos, por su naturaleza, como microeconómicos, por sus efectos aplicativos debido a la unificación de conceptos.

This article has been written as part of work proposed by the division of Research and Development Management of the National University of Colombia and constitutes a contribution to the new strategies generated by the National Government for productivity and competitiveness, being useful, by its very nature, as a point of reference for the management of macroeconomics criteria, as well as microeconomics, given their applied effects due to the unification of concepts. In this document some definitions exposed in the literature are examined, about the processes of interaction and integration in the companies, as much at a national level as an international level, and several terms are presented in a systematic manner which in one form or another are related with the chain. In the last section, the article makes a revision of the concept with experts from academia, the industry, and other diverse entities, derived from the result of the application of an instrument that finally allows to elaborate a definition of productive chain In agreement with the confrontation between the theoretical revision and its practical managerial application, generating a support tool which contributes toward conspicuous communication among the various agents who participate in the processes of improving competitiveness.