The Agribusiness Cooperatives in the Meat Sector Regarding Business Results and Economic Social and Environmental Sustainability: Reflections in Strategic Perspective

This essay grew out of an empirical research conducted in Cooperativa Agroindustrial Aliança de Carnes Nobres Vale do Jordão – COOPERALIANÇA, and aims to reflect if this same sector cooperatives use economic social and environmental sustainability actions as strategies to their business, or if they are used overweight as strategies for the environment, and in which way they can reconcile or attend to the needs of organizational results concerning competitiveness and sustainability. For this paper, three agro-industrial cooperatives were studied, more specifically the meat cutting sector, that has strategic alliances with producers, meat stores, and retails, as well as an alliance made up of producers, meat stores and retails association. A content review based on this theoretical study was made using empirical analyzes and core concepts of business strategy, the main focus of the strategy is in the environmental school, agribusiness cooperatives and socio-environmental and economic sustainability. In general, the study analyzed legal, health and commercial aspects. Some discussions were conducted on studies of agribusiness cooperatives that operate in the meat sector, and their performance regarding legal obligations and sustainability actions.Este ensaio originou-se de uma pesquisa empírica realizada na Cooperativa Agroindustrial Aliança de Carnes Nobres Vale do Jordão – COOPERALIANÇA, e tem como objetivo refletir se cooperativas desse mesmo setor utilizam ações de sustentabilidade econômica socioambiental como estratégias para seus negócios, ou se elas são utilizadas como estratégias preponderantes pelo ambiente, e até que ponto podem conciliar ou atender às necessidades de resultados organizacionais em face da competitividade e da sustentabilidade. Para este trabalho, foram estudadas três cooperativas agroindustriais do setor de corte que possuem alianças estratégicas com produtores, frigoríficos e varejo e uma aliança composta por associação de produtores, frigorífico e varejo. Realizou-se uma revisão de conteúdo base deste estudo teórico, utilizando análises empíricas e conceitos centrais de estratégia empresarial, o foco principal da estratégia está na escola ambiental, cooperativas de carne e sustentabilidade econômica socioambiental. Em termos gerais o estudo analisou aspectos legal, sanitário e comercial. Algumas discussões foram realizadas em estudos de cooperativas agroindustriais que atuam no setor de carne, como se comportam diante das obrigações legais e ações de sustentabilidade

Circular Economy Initiatives: Strategic Implications, Resource Management, and Entrepreneurial Innovation in a Brazilian Craft Beer Ecosystem during the COVID Era

A new brewery is founded in Brazil every two days. Yet with climate change, drinking water is increasingly scarce. Previous studies have begun exploring the brewing industry, but an examination of circular economy initiatives in Latin America is lacking, particularly during the COVID era. This study analyzes strategic implications of circular economy initiatives, together with their role in the coevolution of the craft beer sociotechnical system in Brazil from a resource perspective during the COVID pandemic. Using a qualitative methodology based on analytic induction, 11 in-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with key actors from the craft beer sociotechnical system in Guarapuava. For the content analysis, we triangulated the interviews with an analysis of 74 related documents. We found evidence of circular economy practices and sociotechnical transitions with the simultaneous coevolution of the system actors. Increasing rejection of the linear take–make–waste economy was observed as subject organizations largely adopted a regenerative model reducing operational waste. Hence, entrepreneurial innovation was apparently crucial for resource allocation during the COVID era. This work contributes to further understanding resource configurations in the circular economy, with practical implications for integrating sustainability into strategy, business models, and production