Economia social e solidária: mapeamento dos empreendimentos solidários eficientes nos municípios paraenses

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study the efficiency of Social Enterprises (SEs) present in the municipalities of Pará, according to the most recent studies and mappings produced in the country in 2013 and published in 2014, extracted from the National System of Solidarity Economy (SIES). The starting point of this research work is the following question: how to measure the efficiency of social enterprises present in the state of Pará only with data existing prior to 2013? The importance of this study lies in the possibility of a greater understanding of the Solidarity Economy in the Amazon, specifically in the state of Pará, from a conceptual approach of the social enterprises of Pará. The study seeks to measure the number of efficient and inefficient social enterprises that are dedicated to predominantly collective activities in the region of Pará. There is still no appropriate legal and institutional framework in Brazil to define solidarity-based economic enterprises according to their reality, and today there are still strong debates about their origin, which means that they need to be better understood both in terms of their format and nature. For this investigation, an efficiency model known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was adopted, through descriptive statistical procedures, which consist of a scientific method used to solve a problem. Thus, we will make frequent use of the data collected, in the form of statistics, from which the results of all the indexes collected for the proposed study will be presented systematically. As a result, it was possible to observe that social enterprises do not resemble traditional cooperativism, called third sector. However, the Solidarity Economy, through the ES, has been opposing the legal forms of the so-called Brazilian associativism and cooperativism. Throughout their existence, these social entities seek institutional recognition, in their design as a social organism, towards a space of recognition of their socioeconomic activities.