Rede de cooperação na agroindústria: um estudo exploratório de agroindústrias localizadas na Mata Sul do Estado de Pernambuco

Abstract

The agribusiness in Brazil represents an important sector of the economic activity. It uses around 52% of the economically active population (PEA), something around 36 million people and had it historical record in 2007, with R$ 611,8 billion of its sectorial GIP, approximately 33% of the national GIP. This research studied the cooperation in the agribusiness sector, under the point of view of management and operational aspects, under the optics of the managers of seven agribusiness enterprises located in South Mata of the state of Pernambuco, in the cities of Belém de Maria, Bonito, Catende, Quipapá, São Benedito do Sul and Sirinhaém. It was studied the correlation between the different aspects of the cooperation and to test the significance of the relations between the time of activity of the companies and the diverse aspects to the cooperation. For the attainment of the data, questionnaires were applied to the managers of the agribusiness enterprises in number of 42 questionnaires, distributed in seven number for each manager. It was used as technique of analysis of the data the descriptive statistics, the coefficient of correlation of Spearman and the accurate test of Fisher. It could be evidenced that 78.57% (33) of the interviewed managers said that they already had heard to speak of nets of cooperation between companies and 21.43% (9) said that they did not have knowledge of what is the net of enterprise cooperation. It was observed that the managers had been unanimous in affirming the importance of the cooperation, mainly in the aspects of the existence of advantages for the companies to cooperate between themselves; and the importance of a good relationship with its fellow workers. In relation to the perception of the managers towards the management aspects of the cooperation, it is evident that the strongest importance is attributed to the aspects of the collective bargaining with the suppliers, therefore there are some situations in which, the all of the managers answered that they consider of extreme relevance the cooperation for this type of negotiation. With regard to the perception of the managers on the importance of the cooperation, there is a tendency of affirmative answers (yes), the longer is the time of performance of the managers in the agribusiness enterprises.