The research aimed at finding the link between the governance structures and the coordination in Brazilian beef alliances. The paper provides a review of the literature on the coordination of the Brazilian and International beef agribusiness system that shows the importance of adequate...

Increasingly, economists study narratives and their causal impact on economic processes. This paper proposes a new theoretical framework of narrative analysis that is based on the philosophy of language, especially speech act theory, motivated by the observation that the economic approaches...

The research aims to relate Mato Grosso's south-eastern beef producers to cattle marketing arrangements. The sample was based on interviews with fifty-nine cattle producers that live in Rondonópolis (MT). It ranked ranchers in three categories: (N1) producers that only sell animals for cash...