Governança no sistema agroindustrial sucroenergético: estudo de uma usina paulista de gestão familiar

Abstract

From the perspective of New Institutional Economics, a major goal of the organizations is to reduce their transaction costs. The Transaction Cost Theory assumes to aim best cost optimization, consider the governance and organizational arrangements adopted by agents to increase economic efficiency. From this perspective, the objective of this study aimed to analyze the institutional arrangements (governance) adopted by a family managed sugarcane industrial plant in São Paulo facing coordination, motivation and transaction costs among sugarcane industrial plant and its suppliers. Operationalized by the method of descriptive qualitative analytical case study, using primary and secondary data collected from semi-structured interviews with a sugarcane industrial plant manager, and a officer of sugarcane processing plants class association and document analysis, in order tod identify attributes based on the following Bogetoft and Olesen (2002, 2004) ten rules of design contracts: coordination (production, measuring pros and cons of decentralization and mitigation costs of risks and uncertainties), motivation (reducing the opportunism costs ex-ante and ex-post, cooperation maintenance, long-term contracts incentives and measurement of renegotiation advantages and disadvantages) and transaction costs (reduction of direct costs of contracts and transparent contracts usage) to reach the proposed objectives. The conclusion is that the hybrid forms adoption of governance and coordination of selected case study, mainly through partnerships minority, the usage of traditional suppliers and the vertical integration of production is configured as a pioneering governance way in the sugarcane industry, focused on coordination of agricultural partnerships with various risks and required learning with adjustments and adaptations to reduce their hierarchical and production costs, seeking to expand its competitive advantages and higher economic efficiency.