THE WORLD OF COOPERATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT/Perspectivas da cooperacao e do desenvolvimento sustentavel

• Published in: Retratos de Assentamentos Vol. 23; no. 2; p. 247
• Main Authors: Thesing, Nelson Jose, Kohler, Romualdo, Souza, Luciana Moro de, Tizotte, Tiago Rodrigo Lutzer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de Araraquara (Uniara) 01.07.2020
• Subjects: Brasil
• ISSN: 1516-8182
• DOI: 10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2020.v23i2.409

The cooperative movement has conquered over the centuries, a socioeconomic space, in several countries of the world, privileged for having the presence of thousands of associates, has qualified as a fertile working environment for scientific research. Thus, the study aims to bring a reflection on the opportunity for cooperation, in the dynamics of sustainable development, in a world that presents itself with high complexity, where the interfaces between the cooperative movement and sustainability, present the coexistence between cooperation and competition. These concerns follow the methodological path, based on bibliographic, descriptive, interpretive research, with a qualitative approach, when verifying cooperation in a credit cooperative. The research findings indicate that the Supervisory Board, in the credit union, is an organ that establishes a working relationship with the Board of Directors, providing an environment of transparency, of the cooperative's activities. This process presents the adoption of good management practices, contributing to the development of the membership and the community in which it operates. Thus, cooperation comes to be seen as a service delivery mechanism, in addition to presenting a work process with the power to generate a better distribution of income, in a democratic manner, with common economic and social objectives, distinct from other commercial societies., who do not always seek to minimize the scarcity of economic opportunities, social deprivation, obstacles to freedom, which, in a way, accredit the world of cooperation for the achievement of a sustainable society