Abstract
This papers aims to analyze the factors that lead to use of plural forms for the purchase of raw material in the coffee roasting and grind industry in Brazil. For that, it was made a quantitative study through the application of semi-structured questionnaires with 120 companies. It was possible to find that the plural forms happen in 16,6% of the sample. It was found that the time of work of the company has a negative and significant relationship with the use of plural forms, that is, the lower the age of the company, the more likely to use plural forms of governance. This indicates that the deregulation of the industry was an important factor for the occurrence of this form of governance, given that the companies that use plural forms has an average age of 19,5 years old, that is, they started to work two years after the deregulation. In addition, it was observed that the companies that entered in the industry after the deregulation use mechanisms more complex for the purchase of green coffee, such as vertical integration.
Keywords
Governance; Time of work; Deregulation