COOPERAÇÃO EM CADEIAS PRODUTIVAS: UM DEBATE ENTRE A ECONOMIA DOS CUSTOS DE TRANSAÇÃO E A ECONOMIA DO APRENDIZADO

Abstract

The present paper discusses the explanation learning economy and transaction cost economy to the presence of cooperative structures in productive chains. More complex organizational and coordinating frameworks than the market price system characterize these structures. The transaction cost economy shows that these structures became from the search for the mitigation of risks related to specific asset investments. In the learning economy approach, the associative formation in a productive chain is explained by the benefits of knowledge creation and diffusion between relationship members. This paper builds an analysis in defense of the simultaneous use of these approaches in order to improve the ability of real world phenomena interpretation.