An analysis of the impact of social and endogenous capital in relation to cooperation networks in the mato-grossense amazon: the case of family farmers in the municipality of cláudia
International Journal of Development Research
An analysis of the impact of social and endogenous capital in relation to cooperation networks in the mato-grossense amazon: the case of family farmers in the municipality of cláudia
Received 27th September, 2022 Received in revised form 25th September, 2022 Accepted 19th October, 2022 Published online 30th November, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Barbara Tairine Campos Gireli and Alexandro Rodrigues Ribeiro. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Small companies increasingly need to seek efficiency and effectiveness in competitive markets, cooperation networks are shown as an option for these, because when they are organized into networks it is possible to optimize resources in search of better results. The present study aimed to carry out an analysis using the Propensity Score matching method, to identify the impact of social and endogenous capital on the group of rural farmers who are or are not part of a cooperation network. In this way, the questionnaire was applied to farmers in the settlements of the Amazon biome in Mato Grosso, located in the municipality of Cláudia-MT. Bearing in mind that cooperation networks can generate a competitive advantage for their participants and that social and endogenous capital have more expressive rates of return than conventional capital, the results showed that farmers who participate in cooperation networks have higher levels of social and endogenous capital.
