Exploratory analysis on problem resolution linked to agricultural family business management at the National University of Río Cuarto Region of influence in Argentina

Abstract

This work corresponds to an exploratory research carried out in 2020 on the resolution of problems related to the management of different agricultural family businesses in productive areas, size of activities and magnitude of the invested family assets. Its objective was to expand the information obtained in other investigations to guide academic and scientific actions in rural administration. It analyzes the situation of thirty-eight companies in relation to recommendations on: work organization, company administration, priority given to problems that affect both business and family life, definition of objectives and measurement indicators, remuneration and retirement policies, inheritance and administration, availability of information systems to support management, family meetings and the legal form; and regarding the findings of diagnostic investigations carried out in 2019 and 2008 in other family businesses using the same methodology. The results show that in these organizations, independent of productive areas, scales and magnitudes of the invested assets, as in previous research, there is little inclusion of recommendations given to overcome management problems that affect both the company and the living conditions of the people involved.