... by the Brazilian ethanol industry, comparing two specific years (2000 and 2012) to evaluate the performance of governance structures adopted by fuel distributors in the resale of ethanol in Brazil in this period. Design/methodology/approach – In this work, the analysis is restricted to the ethanol trade...

...). Findings – The simultaneous use of more than one type of governance structure to coordinate similar transactions has been termed plural forms of governance in the literature. In Brazil, new forms of governance, such as formal and informal contracts, have been adopted for transactions between beef...