A relevância dos movimentos sociais de base na construção de trajetórias de desenvolvimento nas organizações: estudo comparativo entre o papel da APAEB(BA) e COOPFRUT(PA)

Abstract

This research analysis the performance of local social movements (association and cooperation) in building local development path, through a comparative study between an agave family’ production based association in Valente, Bahia (APAEB) and an açaí family production based association in Igarapé-Miri, Pará (COOPFRUT). Both associations were born from local associations APAEB stays for … years but COOPFRUT finished her activities by … Our main motivation was to investigate the reasons that led one association to be successful in their goals and the other to fail and die. The theoretical background is based on the concepts on endogenous local /regional development like family based agriculture, cooperation and association, institutional performance and social capita, trying to demonstrate that these strategies, when linked to efficient public policies, indeed promote socio-economic development in any particular setting. Primary data collection was base on questionnaire developed by World Bank on social capital. Data was collect with current members of APAEB and with former members of COOPFRUT. Both settings revealed high social capital, according to the questionnaire’s score. The main differences are in the level of human capital and the type of management one from within the group (APAEB) and the other exogenous to the original group (COOPFRUT). Thus as the social capital is similar, observations and main analysis showed the relevance of the role of social actors in conducting cooperation among members of associations (Fligstein, 1999?).