ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTS OF THE BELO MONTE HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT IN THE LIGHT OF THE LEGITIMACY THEORY MAIS SOBRE ANALYSIS

Abstract

This article analyzes the legitimacy strategies proposed by Suchman (1995) at the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant. The study is characterized as a case study, with a quantitative approach to the data and documentary analysis. To achieve the general objective, the annual and socio-environmental reports for the years 2017 and 2018 of the company Norte Energia S.A., responsible for the construction and operation of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant, were used. These reports, whose data were quantified and tabulated, allowed to appreciate, and to identify the strategies used by the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant, in the management of its social legitimacy. according to the results, the “pragmatic” legitimacy category was identified in 40.32% of the speeches analyzed, followed by the “cognitive” categories, with 34.27% and, finally, “moral”, with 25.40% of the evidences with socio environmental themes, used by the company studied. Norte Energia S.A used mainly strategies aimed at gaining legitimacy, which stood out 68.95% of the disclosures related to socio-environmental issues. Then, the purposes “keep”, with 29.44% and “recover”, stood out with 1.61% of the disclosures.