DEGREE OF VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY: A STUDY OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES ; Grado de integración vertical y ambidexteridad organizativa: un estudio de las cooperativas agrícolas ; Grau de verticalização e ambidestralidade organizacional: um estudo em cooperativas agropecuárias

Agricultural cooperatives play a key role in promoting the Brazilian agribusiness sector. Given this scenario and the challenges faced by these organizations, it becomes necessary to align efficiency in business management with adaptability to changes in order to balance the exploration and exploitation of actions and achieve a well-integrated supply chain. Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the degree of vertical integration and ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation of actions) in agricultural cooperatives located in the Brazilian state of Goiás. This study examines the constructs of “vertical integration” and “ambidexterity,” and was conducted through the application of a questionnaire to target cooperatives and the use of data from the 2019 Census of Cooperative Activity in Goiás. The data were analyzed based on cluster analysis and non-parametric mean tests. The main contributions of this study lay on the observation of a growth in both the degree of vertical integration, which refers to the increased amount of activity within the agricultural cooperatives’ supply chain, and ambidexterity, as observed by the increased exploitation and exploration of actions by cooperatives. ; Las cooperativas agrícolas desempeñan un papel importante en la promoción del agronegocio brasileño. Ante este escenario y los desafíos que enfrentan, es necesario alinear la eficiencia de la gestión empresarial y la adaptabilidad al cambio para equilibrar las acciones de exploitation y exploration y lograr una cadena de suministro bien integrada. El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar la relación entre el grado de integración vertical y la ambidexteridad (acciones de exploitation y exploration) en cooperativas agrícolas brasileñas ubicadas en el estado de Goiás. Se trata de un estudio que analiza los constructos “integración vertical” y “ambidexteridad”. El estudio se realizó aplicando un cuestionario a las cooperativas y utilizando datos del Censo del Cooperativismo de Goiás de ...