Social Advancement as a Critical Success
Factor in a Model of Translation
and Control of Strategy
in Agro-Industrial Cooperatives
Reginaldo Ferreira Barreiros, Roberto Max Protil,
Vilmar Rodrigues Moreira, and Luiz Carlos Duclós
1 Introduction
Since the successful case of the Rochdale Cooperative in the nineteenth century, the
modern cooperative movement has spread around the world, based on solid values
and principles. Since then, it has offered economic agents an alternative for the
development of economic systems, which prioritize the production factor of labor
over capital, in the search for a fairer distribution of financial surpluses in economic
business and the consequent desired long-term social advancement.
Several branches of cooperatives have developed since then, such as consumer
cooperatives, agricultural cooperatives, financial cooperatives, labor cooperatives,
housing cooperatives, infrastructure cooperatives, and others. In this paper, we
analyze agricultural cooperatives. These cooperatives usually arise in contexts of
market imperfection, to increase farmers’ bargaining power in oligopolies and
oligopsonies.
R. F. Barreiros (B)
Zootechnics Department, Ponta Grossa State University, Av. Carlos Cavalcanti, 4748, Uvaranas,
Ponta Grossa, PR 84030-3072, Brazil
e-mail: rfbarreiros@uol.com.br
R. M. Protil
Department of Agricultural Economics, Viçosa Federal University, Av. Purdue s/nº–Campus
Universitário, Viçosa, MG 36570-000, Brazil
e-mail: rmprotil@gmail.com
V. R. Moreira
Business School, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, R. Imaculada Conceição, 1155–Prado
Velho, Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: vilmar.moreira@pucpr.br
L. C. Duclós
NTS Núcleo de Tecnologia de Software, R. Cel. Mauricio S. de Souza, 756–Santa Mônica,
Florianópolis, SC 88035-110, Brazil
e-mail: luiz.duclos@gmail.com
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Factor in a Model of Translation
and Control of Strategy
in Agro-Industrial Cooperatives
Reginaldo Ferreira Barreiros, Roberto Max Protil,
Vilmar Rodrigues Moreira, and Luiz Carlos Duclós
1 Introduction
Since the successful case of the Rochdale Cooperative in the nineteenth century, the
modern cooperative movement has spread around the world, based on solid values
and principles. Since then, it has offered economic agents an alternative for the
development of economic systems, which prioritize the production factor of labor
over capital, in the search for a fairer distribution of financial surpluses in economic
business and the consequent desired long-term social advancement.
Several branches of cooperatives have developed since then, such as consumer
cooperatives, agricultural cooperatives, financial cooperatives, labor cooperatives,
housing cooperatives, infrastructure cooperatives, and others. In this paper, we
analyze agricultural cooperatives. These cooperatives usually arise in contexts of
market imperfection, to increase farmers’ bargaining power in oligopolies and
oligopsonies.
R. F. Barreiros (B)
Zootechnics Department, Ponta Grossa State University, Av. Carlos Cavalcanti, 4748, Uvaranas,
Ponta Grossa, PR 84030-3072, Brazil
e-mail: rfbarreiros@uol.com.br
R. M. Protil
Department of Agricultural Economics, Viçosa Federal University, Av. Purdue s/nº–Campus
Universitário, Viçosa, MG 36570-000, Brazil
e-mail: rmprotil@gmail.com
V. R. Moreira
Business School, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, R. Imaculada Conceição, 1155–Prado
Velho, Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: vilmar.moreira@pucpr.br
L. C. Duclós
NTS Núcleo de Tecnologia de Software, R. Cel. Mauricio S. de Souza, 756–Santa Mônica,
Florianópolis, SC 88035-110, Brazil
e-mail: luiz.duclos@gmail.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_2
19