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| Author(s): |
Leandro Guedes de Aguiar
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Tupã. 2020-05-10. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Engenharia. Tupã |
| Defense date: | 2020-02-20 |
| Advisor: | Giuliana Aparecida Santini Pigatto; Luiz Fernando de Oriani e Paulillo; Sandra Cristina de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
The Brazilian citrus sector reveals organizational and institutional peculiarities that, if well understood and studied, can represent an alternative to the well-known process of reduction of small citrus producers operating in the orange belt. In the 21st century, the growing participation of small citrus producers in associations and cooperatives, in order to deal with market uncertainties, calls for the studies of these forms of governance that represent a less vertical and more cooperative arrangement between agents. Taking that into account, this work has the following research problem: The network governance structure adopted by small producers’ citrus cooperatives allows the reduction of risks in transactions, ex-ante (adverse selection) and ex-post (moral hazard), and the problems of opportunism downstream and upstream of the production chain? The general objective of the research is to analyze if the network governance structure adopted by small producers’ citrus cooperatives has allowed the reduction of risks in transactions, ex-ante (adverse selection) and ex-post (moral hazard), and the problems of opportunism downstream and upstream of the production chain. The planned methodological procedure included the structuring and research of two case studies in cooperatives of small orange producers in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The analyzes were supported by the Transaction Cost Economics and Social Network approaches. As a result, the importance of the cooperatives and their network format, as economic agents, in maintaining small producers in the citrus industry activity was attested, allowing the reduction of risks in transactions and the problems of opportunism, downstream and upstream of the chain. It was also verified the academic contribution to the theory of hybrid governance formats, through the empirical surveys and results produced by this study. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/12221-5 - Governance and social network: analysis of cooperatives of small citrus farmers in the regions of Bebedouro-SP and Itápolis-SP |
| Grantee: | Leandro Guedes de Aguiar |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |