Micro Governance in Collaborative Networks: an application in partnership with a Agroecological Farmers Association

• Autor(a) principal: Cândido, Gesinaldo Ataíde
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Pontes, Renata Rodrigues de Medeiros, Silva, Ana Maria Vicente
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/16812
• topic: Redes; Gobernanza; Entorno colaborativo; Redes; Governança; Ambiente Colaborativo; Networks; Governance; Collaborative Environment

Discussions involving governance within inter-organizational networks have been gaining more and more importance in recent years. Despite the efforts directed towards this topic, there are still specific gaps regarding the understanding of how governance can be operationalized and improved in order to offer efficient contributions on the daily activities that network leaders need to carry out to promote a collaborative environment. From this, the objective of the article is to analyze the forms of operationalization of governance that occurred in the Association of Agroecological Farmers of Várzea Paraibana (ECOVÁRZEA) and its forms of contributions to cooperation practices and better functioning of its governance. In methodological terms, this is a single case study, with a qualitative approach, using the content analysis technique, based on a set of predefined categories by Wegner and Vershoore Filho (2021), with the means of collecting data: conducting interviews, accessing secondary data and non-participant observation. Such data were analyzed with the support of the QSR NVIVO 11 software. The results indicate that the governance functions and practices performed by the Association's leaders positively influence the generation of governance results, given that, when relating the prominent functions of the network, with the practices according to agreement and engagement, there is evidence of strong predispositions to building and maintaining a collaborative environment, strengthening trust and relationships between members.