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Desempenho Social no Agronegócio Brasileiro: aplicando DEA no segmento de usinas de processamento de cana de açúcar

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  • Macedo, Marcelo Alvaro da Silva
  • Cipola, Fabricio Carvalho
  • Ferreira, Francisco Ritter

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A importância das questões sócio-ambientais nas empresas advém da crescente demanda, por parte da sociedade, de informações a respeito dos impactos que as atividades empresariais exercem sobre os trabalhadores, a comunidade e o meio ambiente. Ou seja, a sociedade passa a cobrar das empresas uma consciência social corporativa, que representa o nível de compromisso com a busca de soluções para os problemas sócio-ambientais existentes. A partir daí as empresas começaram a ter que provar que o seu custo-benefício é positivo, porque agrega valor à economia e à sociedade, porque respeita os direitos humanos de seus colaboradores e, ainda, porque desenvolve todo o seu processo operacional sem agredir o meio ambiente. É neste contexto que se insere este trabalho, que tem por objetivo verificar, através da aplicação de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA), a relação entre capacidade de investimento e benefícios sócio-ambientais, de forma que quanto maiores forem os benefícios para uma menor capacidade de investimento, maior será a eficiência e, por conseguinte, o desempenho sócio-ambiental da empresa. Os resultados do estudo de dezenove usinas de processamento de cana de açúcar no Brasil mostram que a Agrovale (principal benchmark) é a melhor e a São José Estiva a de pior desempenho sócio-ambiental. Além disso, observou-se uma relação entre desempenho sócio-ambiental e tamanho (medido pela receita), onde as maiores empresas tinham desempenho melhores. Por fim, o investimento ambiental se mostrou como a variável que mais precisa de incrementos.------------------------------------------------------The importance of the social and environmental tags in companies come from the growing demand, by the society itself, of information concerning to the impacts that the business generate over the employees, the community and the environmental. It means that the society demands from the companies a corporate social consciousness, which is the commitment level with the search of solutions to the social and environmental dilemmas that exist. From this on the organizations began to have to prove that its cost-benefit is positive, because it adds value to the economy and to the society, because respects the employees´ human rights and, thus, because it developes all its operational process without damaging the environmental. Is in this context that this research is related, which has the main focus to verify, through the applying of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the relation between investment capacity and social and environmental benefits, in a way that the higher are the benefits to a lower investment capacity, higher will be the efficiency and, consequently, the social and environmental performance. The study results of nineteen sugar cane processing industries in Brazil show that the Agrovale (top benchmark) is the best one and São José Estiva is the worst in terms of social and environmental performance. Besides, it was observed a relation between social and environmental performance and the size (measured by the income), where the bigger companies had best performances. To sum with, the environmental investment were showed as the key point which needs more increases.

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  • Macedo, Marcelo Alvaro da Silva & Cipola, Fabricio Carvalho & Ferreira, Francisco Ritter, 2008. "Desempenho Social no Agronegócio Brasileiro: aplicando DEA no segmento de usinas de processamento de cana de açúcar," 46th Congress, July 20-23, 2008, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil 118705, Sociedade Brasileira de Economia, Administracao e Sociologia Rural (SOBER).
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:sbrfsr:118705
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.118705
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