This study analyses the National Programme for Production and Use of Biodiesel launched by the Brazil Federal Government in 2005 as a public policy to generate sustainable employment and income within the context of development of new alternative sources of energy. It also verifies the impact of...

This article analyzes management elements in traditional and popular cooperative, as part of a debate that is taking place in Brazil since the 1990´s. Based on the empirical assessment of two agricultural cooperatives - a traditional agribusiness cooperative – COCAMAR, and a popular...

This work intends to assess the evaluation of analytical categories related to the identification of transaction costs. Assuming an analytical model for the identification of the transaction costs proposed by Arbage (2004) in which categories are discussed in terms of which analyses to be made...

The objective of this work was to study the consumer habits of street market customers in the municipality of Alfenas, Minas Gerais state. More specifically, the aim was to characterize the customers according to their social and economic status and purchasing habits and to identify the...

This article discusses the utilization and the relations between different resource categories in the strategies adopted by an agroindustrial cooperative in Paraná state. The research was carried out through longitudinal with transversal cuts case study. Examining the different resource...

Private labels, also known as store brands, are an important component of competitive strategy among multi-product retailers, as they can increase retailers’ power over suppliers in the vertical channel or facilitate horizontal differentiation among retailers. This paper seeks to identify...

This paper examines structural breaks in the vertical price relationships in U.S. beef/cattle and pork/hog sectors using monthly data of the past 40 years. A major methodological issue addressed is how to estimate price relationships when data contain intermittent structural breaks with unknown...