Abstract
Abstract Studies on supply chain management have been focused on competitiveness from the alignment of suppliers to the company's main strategic interests, with the assumption that this alignment benefits all chains. In this approach, unmet interests of these suppliers are hidden when submitted to the subordination of the main company. This work aimed to understand how the supply chain of the agricultural machinery industry is managed, with the sociology of absences as a category of analysis. This is a descriptive and qualitative approach research, with the participation of six respondents, executives of companies providing implements for the three main agricultural machinery companies in the world. During the research, we sought to connect seven dimensions of supply chain management with the macro-sociological procedure of investigation of the sociology of absences. The results showed that the supply chain management of the agricultural machinery industry promotes the five non-logical existence (monocultures), putting smaller companies' supply chain members in a situation of absence and concealment, disregarding their knowledge and interests.
Highlights
In recent years, the world has lived in a historical context of deep crisis and contradictions
It is possible to view this crisis as interdependent symptoms of a cause crisis linked to the paradigmatic limits of a model of civilization and development that has been consolidated in the West in the last centuries and intensified in the last 30 years, with the predominance of Anglo-Saxon liberal capitalism who has endeavored to standardize humanity (Machado et al, 2012)
The results of this research, indicated that the supply chain management of the agricultural machinery and implements sector is influenced by the macro-sociological investigation procedure defined as the sociology of absences
Summary
The world has lived in a historical context of deep crisis and contradictions. Taking into account the standardization model, based on the process of neoliberal globalization, it is possible to notice a social inability to generate wealth without generating, at the same time, exclusion and inequality, social violence, environmental degradation, and information manipulation and thought standardization (Boltanski & Chiapello, 1999). From this scenario, the concept of sociology of absences emerges, based on the research of Prof. It is believed that the thought of the Portuguese sociologist can point out alternatives for the understanding of organizational phenomena
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