COOPERATIVE BEHAVIORS OF ALGERIN’S SME: CASE OF BEJAIA’S MANUFACTURING SMEs

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is the study of interorganizational cooperation in Algerian SME’s context. Based on Bejaia's manufacturing SMEs, this study consists of evaluating the scope of the cooperation, understanding and describing the behavior of these companies. To do this, a sample of 52 SMEs was the subject of a field survey. The use of the data collected shows that cooperation is a relatively rare practice among the SMEs studied; It also shows that the latter are in fact divided into three categories: SMEs which cooperate, SMEs which do not cooperate but are in favor of cooperation, SMEs which do not cooperate and are not interested.