Catching up through collective capability: globalization and standards in the salmon farming industry in Chile

Michiko Iizuka
SPRU, University of Sussex

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Abstract
Knowledge management is considered important in the global economy of today and this is particularly so for catching up economies. This paper examines the standards setting and compliance processes as a case of knowledge management, looking at the salmon farming industry in Chile in an attempt to illustrate how the industry achieved the transformation from ‘passive’ to ‘active’ learning and intends to go even beyond the learning stage through enhancing its collective capability through a meso-level institution, the Association of Salmon Industries. This example may have lessons for catching-up through natural resource based industries in other developing countries.