“…Also noteworthy are the studies by Lodi (2018), that highlight the importance of the TCT in the definition of organizational strategy, by Bezerra (2018), that evidenced the recurrence of purchase transactions in the salt industry as a factor of good performance in negotiations and favoring partnerships with suppliers, by Melo, Sales, Oliveira, Almeida, and Souza (2018), who identified the importance of the frequency of transactions in reducing transaction costs in the activities of exporting companies in the melon segment, by Oliveira, Sales, Oliveira, Bezerra, and Souza (2019), which evidenced the recurrence of transactions as a facilitator of the value of the product in the salt industry, and the study by Fernandes (2020), which investigated the cost of transaction in the composition of the total costs of açaí (a typical northern Brazilian fruit) points of sale in the city of Belém, in the state of Pará.…”