Eco-efficiency Actions or Process in the Companies of Agribusiness Production Chain of Swine in the Region of Toledo, Paraná, Brazil

Authors

  • Antônio Pedroso PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA - PPGA/UEL
  • Flávio Augusto Cella-de-Oliveira PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA - PPGA/UEL
  • Ivan de Souza Dutra PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA - PPGA/UEL
  • João Francisco Morozini UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO CENTRO-OESTE

Keywords:

Eco-efficiency, agroindustrial chain of swine, sustainability and organizations.Eco-efficiency, sustainability and organizations.

Abstract

This study highlights the theme of eco-efficiency as an aggregator of economic value coupled with the reduction and optimization of the consumption of the environmental natural resources. From that point, the objective of this research was to identify how the enterprises organization through business clusters can influence the eco-efficiency process, in the region of Toledo, Paraná State, Brazil, with activities in the agribusiness production chain of swine. In the theoretical referential, issues such as sustainable development, sustainability, organizational sustainability, ecological modernization, and clusters of businesses that converge to understand of Eco-efficiency. The field research was characterized as exploratory, based on a qualitative approach, with the case study method, in which data collection was by semi-structured interviews and in a personal way. Managers of four producer and industrial companies of swine were interviewed with particular interest in technological innovations that minimize the environmental impacts of the activity. The main results indicate the existence of eco-efficiency actions, but many of the actions of an environmental nature occurred by legal requirements. Regarding the links between companies, there was a long-term program that approaches a signaling of self-organization of the cluster of business as a feature found in Business Clusters.

Author Biographies

Antônio Pedroso, PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA - PPGA/UEL

Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina - PPGA/UEL, Brasil. Possui graduação em Administração com Habilitação em Comércio Exterior pela Universidade da Região de Joinville - UNIVILLE, Brasil.

Flávio Augusto Cella-de-Oliveira, PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA - PPGA/UEL

Possui metrado em Administração pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina - PPGA/UEL, Brasil. Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Paraná - PPGADM/UFPR, Brasil.

Ivan de Souza Dutra, PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA - PPGA/UEL

Possui doutorado em Administração pela Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo - FEA/USP, Brasil e mestrado em Administração pelo Programa de Mestrado em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina e Universidade Estadual de Maringá consorciadas - PPA/UEL-UEM, Brasil.

Professor do Programa de Mestrado em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina - PPGA/UEL, Brasil, e também do Programa de Mestrado em Bioenergia Associação em Rede - PPGB/UNICENTRO, Brasil.

Professor da Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste - UNICENTRO, Brasil.

João Francisco Morozini, UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO CENTRO-OESTE

Possui doutorado em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Brasil. Professor da Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste - UNICENTRO, Brasil.

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Published

21-08-2012

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2012): Environmental Discourse and Practice

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