Análise de desempenho econômico e social do cooperativismo no agronegócio: um estudo de caso da Cooperativa Agroindustrial Amambai - COOPERSA

Abstract

Given the complexity of agribusiness, organizations need skillful information that contributes to making decisions which involves sustainability in their business. Among the agribusiness organizations are the agricultural cooperatives which moves the production in the field and are competing with companies of another nature as public companies, requiring efficient management in order to keep them competitive. The work of cooperative organizations can be understood through the Cooperative Theory and correlated to the concepts of sustainability, a proposal presented in the bibliometric analysis of this study, which the objective was to verify Brazilian and international scientific productions that relate the themes sustainability and cooperativism and check the years of the publications as well as their periodicals, keywords, authors and co - authors. Based on this research it was verified that the publications are recent and that the authors propose more analyzes concerning the relation between the two themes and that they include the three areas of the tripod of the sustainability. From a case studied in an agricultural cooperative, the indicators were selected, they were necessary to indicate the index of economic and social sustainability of the management of the cooperative. It was verified through the Sustainability and Organizational Performance Index (ISDOR) that the cooperativism of the organization studied is maintained according to the principles that created the cooperativism, attending its cooperatives with a social level considered very good and economical considered good, , attending its cooperatives with a social level considered very good and economical considered good, besides pointing the social and economic indicators that needs to be improved so the cooperative can obtain better results of competitiveness toward the market of action.