Revista Psicologia Organizações e Trabalho
On-line version ISSN 1984-6657
Abstract
ALBUQUERQUE, Francisco José Batista de and CIRINO, Carlos da Silva. Expectations and beliefs of the users about agricultural cooperatives. Rev. Psicol., Organ. Trab. [online]. 2001, vol.1, n.2, pp.73-96. ISSN 1984-6657.
The present study has the purpose of analyzing the psychosocial aspects involved in the process of formation and maintenance of cooperatives, attracting attention to the semantic valuation that the cooperative and cooperativism constructs incorporates and becomes self-justificative of its existence. Data of research, done with 11 technicians of different government organs, are to the cooperativism and 80 cooperative's partners. lt was verified the presence of believes that value the cooperatives and cooperativism. ln spite of the empiric evidences of failure of those organizations, they tend to support themselves, on the technician's side, because they can't foresee others types of organizations that substitutes them, and on the partners' side, because they observe those organizations as a government benefit
Keywords : cooperativism; rural development; public policies.