Condicionantes do desenvolvimento de relacionamentos intercooperativos no cooperativismo agropecuário

Abstract

In the business vocabulary of the last decades, terms such as strategic alliances, partnerships, clusters, consources, joint ventures, nets and others are gaining expressivity, even though among competitor companies. These terms are expressions of international relations among non cooperative companies. At the same time the so-called cooperativism, guardian of the cooperation principle among cooperatives named intercooperation, presents difficulties to express actions of this nature. This way, this current research aims to identify and describe which are the conditions of intercooperative relations. In order to accomplish this goal, the following methodological procedure has been adopted: theoretical reflection about the theme and semi-structured interview with experts from the agribusiness field. One of the results is the identification of the twelve conditions of the intercooperation development, which are: projects, leadership, trust, control, compensation, communication, commitment, interdependency, transparency, professional management, vanity elimination and cooperative doctrine clarity.