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Abstract
This paper aimed to identify the barriers to mobility in the agribusiness of
pork from southern Brazil, considering the strictly coordinated subsystem. There were
used as methodological strategy for collecting data, 26 semi-structured interviews
with pig farmers in the Western region of Paraná and 6 interviews with experts and
agricultural industries of Paraná and Santa Catarina. The results show as barriers to
entry the availability for effectuation of the contract with the agribusiness, obtaining
environmental licenses, the availability of manpower, the high value of the initial
investment in construction and equipment, and the availability of working capital. Asset
specificity and the degree of dependence of the revenue of the activity are barriers to
exit. Restrictions on mobility for the execution of contracts with other integrators were
also identified. It is concluded that mobility barriers present in the agro-industrial system
of pork influence on structure of pig production and are associated with the presence
of market power on the part of the integrator.