Logging contractors growth in the southern cone an analysis of contractor business strategies, innovation, and mechanization

Forest plantations have increased in South America for several decades. Harvesting is performed mainly through contractor companies. Our hypothesis is that logging contractors that innovate, grow more than others. We analyzed logging contractors through production and innovation, working in Argentin...

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Otros Autores: Mac Donagh, Patricio Miguel, Velazco, Santiago José Elías, Botta, Guido Fernando, Schlichter, Tomás Miguel, Cubbage, Frederick
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245 1 |a Logging contractors growth in the southern cone  |b an analysis of contractor business strategies, innovation, and mechanization 
520 |a Forest plantations have increased in South America for several decades. Harvesting is performed mainly through contractor companies. Our hypothesis is that logging contractors that innovate, grow more than others. We analyzed logging contractors through production and innovation, working in Argentina (22), Brazil (35) and Uruguay (10), through surveys between 2008 and 2012. Factors that affected firm growth were analyzed with linear mixed effect models. In all three countries there was a preponderance of logging contractors with cellulose companies. Our results show that logging firms that had mutualistic supply chain relations with the contracting organizations had better production indicators and lower cost per ton than other independent harvesting contractors. In the last 10 years, mechanization increased significantly, reducing the number of employees. Innovation was the most significant variable in enhanced logging production. For the period from 10 to 5 years before the survey period, the number of employees and type of contracting company were most significant on loggers`growth. During the last 5 - year period before the survey period, the number of employees and innovation were significant. Thus, during the last 10 years, logging companies shifted from growth based on type of the firm to the amount of innovation by firms, and contracting companies. 
653 |a FOREST PRODUCTION 
653 |a MECHANIZATION 
653 |a ENTREPRENEUR 
653 |a COMPETITIVENESS 
653 |a INNOVATION 
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700 1 |9 37790  |a Mac Donagh, Patricio Miguel  |u Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales. Eldorado, Misiones, Argentina. 
700 1 |a Velazco, Santiago José Elías  |u Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS). Misiones, Argentina.  |u CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS). Misiones, Argentina.  |9 68347 
700 1 |9 26142  |a Botta, Guido Fernando  |u Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Escuela para Graduados Ing. Agr. Alberto Soriano. Buenos Aires, Argentina.  |u Universidad Nacional de Luján. Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
700 1 |9 7495  |a Schlichter, Tomás Miguel  |u Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Escuela para Graduados Ing. Agr. Alberto Soriano. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
700 1 |a Cubbage, Frederick  |u North Carolina State University. Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. USA.  |9 58227 
773 |t Forests  |g vol.10, no.1 (2019), art.69, 12 p., grafs., tbls. 
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