A terceirização de máquinas e equipamentos na produção de grãos no município de Palotina-PR

Abstract

The outsourcing of services in the agricultural process has been, especially in commodity chains, the choice of producers who seek skilled services and are also considering cost reduction. Therefore, the proposal of this dissertation aimed to investigate this movement of grain farming, specifically in soybean, wheat and corn. To prove the hypotheses of this study, it was performed a case study in rural communities of Alto Alegre, Dois Irmãos and Vila Paraíso, located in the city of Palotina. The research was based on quantitative and qualitative approaches and it aimed to analyze the occurrence of this phenomenon in the area surveyed. Data collection was performed using in loco interviews. The literature review sought to find factors that influences the choice of governance structures in the outsourcing process, from the perspective of New Institutional Economics (NIE), the characteristics of transactions, agents and the organizational and institutional environments in which they operate, aiming to identify collective actions present in the process, considering that Brazilian agribusiness has been marked by increasingly presence of partnerships between individuals and organizations. The results showed that hypothesis of the research, which were: the lack of financial resources, the size of the property and the cost reduction that influence the moment of choosing whether to immobilize machinery or outsource, entirely or some stages of the process; have been proved. Then, it was proposed for this search, to measure the outsourcing rates in order to present your real scenario, in order to point out the potential of this new governance structure present in grain farming.