Forms of social organization of production: a case study on a planting pool

Abstract

The economic, productive, and social transformations that took place during the 1990s affected the agrarian structure of the Pampas region. In this context, new forms of capital articulation and penetration into the Pampas agriculture emerged with the formation of so-called planting pools. These enterprises, initiated by the interest of various social actors in investing in agricultural activities, refer to a mode of organizing production involving a limited-time investment of circulating capital on a land area while outsourcing labor. Through geographical and production diversification, they aim to reduce risk and generate economies of scale based on resource availability. The general objective of this work is to characterize a planting pool, considered as a business area of a transnational company operating in the Pampas region, based on the productive, managerial, and commercial strategies developed by it. To achieve this goal, a qualitative methodological approach is proposed, based on a case study that allows an understanding of the dynamics of the enterprise in its real context.