LA TÉCNICA DE LA CONSULTORÍA EXTERNA (“OUTSOURCING”) EN LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE LOS AGRONEGOCIOS

At present companies are trying hard to reduce productive assets by reducing general expensesand increasing flexibility toward what they call “lean production”. For this reason they arehiring specialized companies under long term agreements in order to supply parts, operations,and services, with quality responsibility, integrating them into their production line with theirown workers. Worldwide, a new phenomenon has occurred where technology has taken over agreat deal of the company's performance through simplified processes. After which there hasbeen the need to implement an integration phase, and finally there is a tendency towardsoptimization. Agribusiness is part of this new tendency. “Tercerización” is more known for itsEnglish term “outsourcing”. Nevertheless, “tercerización” is becoming a more and morefamiliar term. This is good for the Spanish Language as foreign expressions should beavoided. Currently this technique is applied in big agricultural and agribusiness corporations,however during research, it was determined that other companies, such as accounting offices,service companies, and food-analysis labs, are using something similar to what has beendescribed.