%0 Journal Article %T Relacionamento, coopera£¿£¿o e governan£¿a em arranjos produtivos locais: o caso do APL de madeira e m¨®veis do estado de Rond£¿nia %A Teixeira %A Marcia Cristina %A Teixeira %A Rivanda Meira %J REAd. Revista Eletr£¿nica de Administra£¿£¿o (Porto Alegre) %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1413-23112011000100009 %X this research had as objective to identify economic and institutional agents of rond£¿nia wood and furniture cluster and analyze its relationship, cooperation and governance. the methodological approach were the case study, with the adoption of a perspective of transversal analysis. the analysis level was the cluster and the analysis unit were the cluster and institutional management. the population was of thirty-five participant organizations of the wood and furniture cluster of rond£¿nia and, from those, twenty-four were visited and their managers interviewed. for the accomplishment of the research, sources of primary and secondary data were used, semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation were adopted. results conclude that the wood and furniture cluster of rond£¿nia does not exist as a cluster yet, but as three sub-groups in different stages in their cooperation ties. collaboration was perceived in one of the three sub-groups, making the companies more prepared and skilled. thereby, the main challenge is understand this cluster with different necessities and capabilities where organizations are in the different levels of development. %K cluster %K inter-organizational network %K organization relationships %K cooperation %K governance. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-23112011000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en