Reflections on the Coordination of the Agricultural System of the Cassava: Challenges for Research

Abstract

The competitiveness of the cassava chain is mainly due to poor governance. Such difficulties have been presented and analyzed in numerous researches; however, academic production has basically focused on describing the governance structure, transactions and the institutional environment and defending contractual forms that have not shown practical adherence by agents. In view of this, the objective is to understand, based on the results already presented in previous scientific literature, the ways in which research can take to advance the dissemination of knowledge about efficient governance formats in the cassava agroindustrial system. Through bibliographic research in a sample of 58 researches, followed by content analysis, we highlight specific study requirements, such as the analysis of the elements that interfere in the limited rationality of the agents, the forms that opportunism assumes the effective weight of frequency of transactions and the breadth and convergence of the institutional environment. Analyzes of governance structures diverge as to the understanding of the advantages of differentiated modes of organization of firms, which requires more in-depth studies with more scientific rigor to equate such discrepancies. As a contribution, the study enables reflection on the academic perception of the coordination of the cassava agroindustrial system, defends the research activity as an element that propels actions
that generate competitiveness and encourages the continuity and sophistication of studies on the cassava chain.