Governance structures and strategic resources in distilleries located in the state of Parana: an analysis based on TCE and RBV complementarity/Estruturas de governanca e recursos estrategicos em destilarias do estado do Parana: uma analise a partir da complementaridade da ECT e da VBR/Estructuras de gobernanza y recursos estrategicos en destilerias del estado de Parana: un analisis a partir de la complementariedad de la ECT y de la VBR

• Published in: Revista de administração (São Paulo) 2013-01, Vol.48 (1), p.179
• Main Authors: Augusto, Cleiciele Albuquerque, de Souza, Jose Paulo, Cario, Silvio Antonio Ferraz
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 0080-2107
• DOI: 10.5700/rausp1081

This article seeks to understand how to configure governance structures, by considering transaction costs (TCE) and different capacities and resources (RBV), in relationships between producers and processors in the case of distilleries in the state of Parana. For this, a qualitative and descriptive study was conducted, employing both a cross-sectional and longitudinal perspective. The study involved semi-structured interviews with managers and agricultural producers associated with five of the seven distilleries located in the state of Parana. Unusually, the results showed a strong tendency towards vertical integration, occurring for the most part through partnership-type leases. Other choices of organizational arrangement included agricultural partnership contracts, followed by supply contracts. Location and distance of the average contracted properties were the most cited strategic resources capable of generating competitive advantages for the distilleries. Others included capacity expansion (due to soil fertility, abundance of mechanized areas, and absence of competitors), transparency and reputation, loyalty, and tradition and knowledge. Complementarity arises from the consideration that distilleries' internal resources and capabilities such as location, distance, knowledge influence the choice of more vertically-integrated governance structures. These in turn are chosen to exploit, protect, and gain competitive advantage obtained through control over those resources. Keywords: governance structures, transaction costs economics, resourced-based view, complementarity, distilleries in Parana State. Neste artigo, apresenta-se como objetivo compreender como se configuram as estruturas de governanca, ao se considerarem custos de transacao (ECT) e recursos estrategicos (VBR), nas relacoes envolvendo produtores e processadores em destilarias no estado do Parana. Sua compreensao justifica-se quando se tem em vista a forte interdependencia produtiva dessas partes. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva e de corte transversal, com perspectiva longitudinal. O estudo envolveu entrevistas semiestruturadas com gerentes agricolas e produtores contratados de cinco, das sete, destilarias presentes no estado do Parana. Os resultados demonstraram forte tendencia para estruturas tendendo a integracao vertical, que se dao, em sua expressiva maioria, por meio de parceria do tipo arrendamento. A segunda opcao de arranjo organizacional tem sido o contrat