The objective of this work is to analyze the Arte Rio Cooperative’s decision making process to assess how far it comprehends itsmembers’ cooperative production system, i.e. if there is a logic governing the process that is different from utilitarian economics. Itwas inferred that the logic...

The analysis and measurement of production and transaction costs is an important tool in guiding decisions and in comprehendingthe behavior of the agents in a particular institutional environment. Although production costs have been widely studied in theliterature, transaction costs have not...

Measurement Cost Theory (MCT) and Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) are both theoretical frameworks applied to the studyof economic transactions. In the MCT, the attributes’ measurability is a key variable for identifying efficient modes of governance.The application of MCT to agri systems...

This paper is a preliminary analysis of the governance structure of the faire trade of orange juice between Brazil andFrance. Fair trade is an organizational field composed of complex organizational networks that maintain relationsof mutual dependence and share the same values system. As fair...

Due to growing consumer demands regarding product quality and the social and environmental aspects of theproduction process, there is a need to redefine the agricultural productive structure so as to make it sustainable.The Integrated Production System in Coffee (CIP) aims to meet these new...

The pharmaceutical industry invests its sales force in contacts with doctors, making visits and publicizing its drugs, in orderfor them to prescribe these products to their patients. This work discusses the structure of the pharmaceutical market and howmarketing strategies are used by...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the characteristics of the transactions between economic agents to identify their attributes and to determine their impacts on the governance structure of the forest biomass energy production chain in Lages, Santa Catarina state. The Economic Transaction Cost...

The new tendencies of the fine wine global consumer market have challenged organizations to observe their resources more efficiently in order to better structure and organize their strategies towards greater competitiveness and sustainability. Based on the Competitiveness and Resource-Based View...

The debate surrounding the need to bring together research and society, through a greater application of scientific knowledge, is increasing. This article addresses the issue, connecting the macro and micro scopes of analysis around the concepts of institutional and immediate specificities of...

The changes in the worldwide competitive scenario have posed difficulties to the survival of companies, forcing them to establish necessary cooperative relations for maintenance and survival in the markets. However, the lack of coordination and cooperation is considered a classic problem in the...