Processo sucessório e a sustentabilidade social de organizações pecuárias na Campanha Gaúcha

Abstract

The human actions that cause, year after year, the modification of the natural conditions of the ecosystem, awaken a growing search for sustainability within the organizations. In this spectrum, the very understanding of sustainability has provoked discussion and provided the emergence of theories. One of the most widespread is the theory that brings the concept of a tripod of sustainability, structured in the social, economic and environmental spheres. The present study focuses on the social dimension of sustainability, more specifically one of the phenomena that interact with this scope, the succession process. The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of the succession process on the social sustainability of livestock organizations in the Campanha Gaúcha. The methodology used was structured based on a quantitative research, of a descriptive and explanatory nature, with sampling of 115 livestock organizations of the Campanha Gaúcha. The MESMIS method was used for the construction of the data collection instrument, a posteriori using descriptive statistics to characterize the succession process and to identify the level of social sustainability of livestock organizations, sequentially applying the fuzzy logic to measure the level of the process succession, ending with the use of the simple linear regression technique to analyze the influence of the level of the succession process on the index of social sustainability of livestock organizations. The findings of this study indicate that the livestock organizations of the sample studied are above the social sustainability average, as well as with high indexes of possibility of succession of their succession processes. In addition, there is a positive and significant influence of the succession process on the social sustainability index of livestock organizations. In this way, the indications of the present study are that to strengthen the succession process of the Campanha Gaúcha organizations can be the way to generate better social indicators in the field, as well as the maintenance of the sustainable conditions of the Bioma Pampa, ensuring the continuity of the organizations of the beef cattle.