CREDIT COOPERATIVES AND THEIR STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT: POINTS OF ATTENTION AND OBSERVATION

Abstract

This paper highlights, throughout its topics, the importance of administrative procedures in cooperatives, as well as demonstrating how cooperatives can be linked to the economic, social, and financial development of a given region. Over the years, cooperativism has gained strength and expanded within economic activities, something that promotes many analyses and observations by economists, administrators, managers, and other managerial components. The general objective is to highlight the importance of administrative routines and tools for the development of a cooperative. Secondary objectives include: highlighting the main tools present in the administrative process, emphasizing the positive and negative points related to cooperatives, and analyzing how a cooperative can impact the economic and social development of a given region. The work involved exploratory research, highlighting the main concepts and analyses regarding the evolution or application of cooperatives within the society in which they are embedded. Something that can be proven through the analysis of one of the most renowned credit cooperatives in Brazil, Sicoob, is highlighted throughout the research, emphasizing the main aspects that demonstrate how administrative routines can further consolidate or stabilize the activities and results obtained through cooperatives.