Organizational field and institutional pillars: understanding the pesticide field in Brazil and India

• Autor(a) principal: Diego Echevenguá Borges
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Carolina Pantuza Vilar Dos Santos, Ivan Beck Ckagnazaroff
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17648/aos.v10i1.1878; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/53614; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8179-269X; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9829-7855
• topic: Institutional Theory; Pesticide; Agriculture; Administração; Pesticidas; Agricultura

This paper aimed to discuss concepts that constitute and traverse institutional theory, so as to build a structuralist epistemology that might offer support to future researchers that intend to study the evolution of the pesticide field in Brazil and India. Specifically, we defined the concepts of organizational field and institutional pillars. This was made in order to propose a research agenda that seeks to investigate conflicts and actions taken by agribusiness multinationals, politicians, family farmers, small, medium and large agriculturists, researchers from different fields and organizations of the third sector, thus legitimizing their definitions about the pesticides. This is important because health researchers could define them as harmful to human health, thus suggesting that the government should forbid their commercialization. On the other hand, aiming at sensitizing politicians and society, agribusiness multinationals could define pesticides as fundamental technologies for providing high productivity and food safety to the population.