Strategic alliances and cooperative practices that promote inclusion and territorial development: Proposal for a cooperative and territorial governance construct

• Autor(a) principal: Büttenbender, Pedro Luís
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Sausen, Jorge Oneide, Büttenbender, Bruno Nonnemacher, Sparemberger, Ariosto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/14259
• topic: Cooperativism. Inclusion. Development. Territories. Border.; Cooperativismo. Inclusión. Desarrollo. Territorios. Frontera.; Cooperativismo. Inclusão. Desenvolvimento. Territórios. Fronteira.

This article aims to study cooperative practices that can generate greater social and economical inclusion in a region located on the international border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, proposing a construct for the reflection and analysis of the process of cooperative and territorial governance. The study is characterized according to its purposes, as a multicast, exploratory and descriptive study, of qualitative nature, and as for the means as field investigation using semi-structured questionnaire applied to leaders and social agents, aggregated from a bibliographic and documentary research and direct observation. The systematization and analysis of the data related and contemplated the empirical evidences identified, the conceptual foundations, considerations of different authors and conclusive interpretations of the study authors. In the end, the study offers the proposal of an explanatory construct for the process of cooperative and territorial governance. Cooperatives operate according to the laws of each country and are influenced by various other features of international border regions. Advances in territorial development give cooperativism even greater relevance for promoting the economic and social inclusion growing and its promotion. The perspectives of cooperativism and development indicate prioritizing the strengthening of the cooperative system, the qualification of management and governance, investments in cooperative education, productive and technological innovation and the formation of new strategic cooperative alliances between cooperatives and society.