Organizational Performance and Adoption of Sustainable Practices in the Agribusiness Industry

Abstract

Agriculture contributes a lot to the Brazilian economy, especially for the production and export of grains. Thus, logistics gain importance in the national scenario as a way to discard crop production, transferring them to ports and multimodal terminals. Considering the definition of sustainable development as "development that meets current needs, allowing future generations to meet their own needs". In order to achieving peak performance in this scenario should be a matter of balance between actions companies take in order to meet their performance and sustainable practices. The method used was the exploratory descriptive, through mixed analyzes that allowed the more precise characterization of the exposed subject. This study presents an analysis of the sustainable practices adopted by multimodal cargo terminals to comply with regulations and legal requirements. It was concluded that sustainable actions influence the performance variation of multimodal terminals, but the discussion and adoption of these practices are still superficial. In addition, sustainable actions may be related to company performance, although this theme needs further exploration.