This term follows the same logic of generic use applied to a section of agribusiness activities, requiring the due qualification when applied.
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Knowledge Management in Agro-Industrial Productive Chains: An Initial Discussion
Carlos Francisco Bitencourt Jorge (Faculty of Business and Management, Marília University, Brazil), Joao Guilherme de Camargo Ferraz Machado (Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil), and Ana Lívia Cazane (Faculty of Philosophy and Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6512-4.ch010
Abstract
The main objective of this chapter is to foster the discussions on the perspectives and actions of knowledge management and use in agribusiness, especially in the coordination of agro-industrial production chains, or in the so-called agrifood systems, connecting agribusiness professionals and researchers under knowledge management and use in this context, without, however, ending the discussion. The adequate management of information and its rapid transfer within the agrifood system is a competitiveness factor, as trust and cooperation are elements which enhance knowledge construction, resulting in the consideration, by companies, of articulation forms, in addition to organizational boundaries. It is believed that knowledge management, applied in the production chains coordination, will have an important role in overcoming the challenges generated by the pandemic the world is going through.