Propriedade e decisões de gestão em organizações cooperativas agropecuárias brasileiras

Resumo

According to the dominant view in economic theory, organizations characterized by diffuse ownership structure and complex structure such as agricultural cooperatives should promote the separation of ownership and management. This way these type of organizations increase their survive rate. In the developed countries these organizations adopted governance models that promote the separation of ownership and management. In other words, the owners delegate a formal rights of control to the board of directors and there is separation of the decision control from decision management. However, in Brazil, previous studies pointed out that the cooperative organization have not adopted the same organizational model, that is, they do not promote separation of the ownership from management. The present research is motivated by this, apparent misalingment between the theoretical predictions and the observed organizational models, and by the divergence between the organizational model in Brazilian cooperatives and the organization of American cooperatives. .The objectives of this study are twofold. First, to measure the separation between ownership and decision management in Brazilian agricultural cooperatives. Second, the identification of the determinats of this organizational choice. We surveyed 77 organizations in order to empirically verify, through an index, the level of separation between ownership and management decision. Using an index value, we were able to classify the separation in: separated de jure or de facto, partialy separated or concentrated. In addition, we used a logit and tobit model to investigate the determinants of delegation of formal authority and the separation between decision control and decision managment. The results showed that, in opposite to developed countries, different governance models coexist in Brazilian agricultural cooperatives. Although there are signficante amount of organizations that do not separate ownership from management, we also found some cooperatives applying governance models in which the owners do not have any role in management de facto. Moreover, the results pointed out that dispersed ownership, in opposite the theory, do not affect the decision to delegate the formal rights of controls. Nevertheless, this delegation are negatively affected by the presence of private benefits of control and positively affected by the reputation of the board to proceed in favor to the owners’ interest and the level of information regarding the cooperatives acitivities. Notwithstanding the complexity not affects the separation of decision system, it is important to note that the likelihood to separate decision control from decision management is incresead when the formal rights of control are delegated to the Board and in precesence of rules that limit the re-election of chairman. This study suggests futher research in this topic. In particular, it is important to assess whether the Brazilian agricultural cooperatives are using other contractual arrangements that differ from those used by economic developed countries.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Tese

Ano

2010

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/8310

Temas

EconomiaGovernança

Palavras-chave

CooperativesCorporative governanceOwnership rightsCooperativasGovernança corporativaDireitos de propriedadeEconomiaCooperativas - Administração - BrasilDireito de propriedadeAgropecuária - Brasil