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Within the agricultural activities of greater transcendence in Mexico is the cafeticultura, the surface of lands dedicated to the cultivation of this product represents about 3%, being also the first export product and the 4th place in the total sales abroad. Chiapas our state, despite being one of the most outstanding in agricultural production, has not achieved the expected regional development, raising several assumptions of this problem. In this sense, it was pertinent to carry out this research because of the contribution of the study of the Leadership and Authority dimensions in the organizational performance in these agricultural organizations, little studied, insofar as it provides comparable information on the influence of the dimensions: Leadership and Authority in the Performance of two coffee plantations in Soconusco, Chiapas. Based on this approach, the question arises: ¿How does Leadership and Authority influence the organizational performance of coffee farms: Ireland and Hamburg located in Soconusco, Chiapas, México? For its analysis, the case study was established as an analysis method, with the corresponding research objectives described in the corresponding section. For which the following methodological strategy was carried out: a) To determine the influence exercised by Leadership and Authority in the performance of coffee farms, the Case Study was used as it is a qualitative method, since it refers to the collection and detailed presentation about particular participants or small groups frequently included in the subject; b) The farms chosen to carry out the Case Study were: Ireland and Hamburg, which are located at 57 and 50 kilometers respectively from the City of Tapachula, Chiapas, at a height of 850 to 1240 meters above sea level, in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. Both farms with offices in the City of Tapachula, Chiapas; c) For this, a preliminary interview was conducted with the owners of both farms, to request their authorization and thus initiate the investigation; d) Later a series of visits was made to both farms to have a general view of them; e) For the fieldwork, he stayed on the farms for three days a week, until the field work was completed, which was carried out with a guide to ask questions for carrying out in-depth interviews with the owners, managers, administrative workers, permanent field workers and casual field workers and f) To this end, technical devices were used, such as: recorder, video recorder, camera.

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