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2010

This study identifies both enabler and inhibitor factors to the strategic alignment of information technology with existing entrepreneurial strategy in a takeover environment, i.e., the merger of two companies within a retail environment. The characteristics of the enabler and inhibitor factors for alignment were identified by means of an analysis of managerial team perceptions. The results suggest the presence of factors that are associated with those considered classic found in the literature review. The occurrence of these factors was recorded both prior to and during the initial merger process and they have been denominated, therefore, as recurrent elements. New characteristics, however, were also discovered in the takeover scenario that only appeared after the merger as formulated. Both IT managers and division heads from the post-merger business structure were interviewed. The link of each respondent to his original company was recorded so as to produce an effective set of factors that could be identified by both specific division and company. The uniqueness of the case study has to do with the fact that, although the organizational structure of the acquiring company was much larger than that of the acquired one, the profile of the IT management team of the latter was much more structured than that of the former. This provided a very interesting research scenario.

Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2011

A abordagem cognitiva pode ser útil na compreensão dos elementos que permeiam o processo de análise do ambiente competitivo das organizações, por respeitar a complexidade do fenômeno e permitir o entendimento das intenções dos gestores e seus processos de representação do mundo. Coerente com esta proposta, os objetivos deste artigo são identificar e descrever os construtos mentais utilizados pelo dirigente para avaliação de seu ambiente competitivo e determinar se existe associação entre os construtos mentais dos dirigentes de pequenas organizações e contexto de referência e setor de atividade. A metodologia aliou procedimentos qualitativos e quantitativos e diferencia-se por empregar a grade de repertório de Kelly, cuja premissa é o entendimento do mundo associado à categorização de elementos da percepção. A amostra foi composta de 48 empresas industriais de pequeno porte localizadas em Curitiba, PR. Os resultados indicam que o conjunto de construtos utilizados é único para cada di...

REBRAE, 2010

2015

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Sócio-Econômico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, Florianópolis, 2015.A presente tese propõe um modelo que subsidia o desenvolvimento do pensamento estratégico nas organizações. Tem como objetivo maior responder a seguinte pergunta de pesquisa: Quais são os atributos que formam o conceito do pensamento estratégico, e quais são os elementos organizacionais que desenvolvem tais atributos nos membros de uma organização? Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa descritiva, e utilizado o método de pesquisa estudo de caso único e em profundidade, realizado de modo indutivo. A coleta de dados foi realizada através de pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental, entrevista semi-estruturada e observação sistemática. A análise dos dados deu-se de forma qualitativa, através de uma análise inferencial do material empírico à luz da fundamentação teórica. O embasamento teórico que norteou a pesquisa...

2009

2009

This study aimed to identify the social practices that sustain superior academic results in two Ph.D. programs in Management: USP e UFRGS. It utilizes as academic results indicator, the CAPES triennial evaluation (2004-2007). The study uses an interpretive and social constructivist epistemological approach and has as theoretical orientation the "strategy as social practice" perspective. For a better understanding of the phenomenon, it has in its corpus topics that discuss: a short history of the strategy field; the strategy as practice; University conceptions and sociology of education; stricto sensu post-graduation and Ph.D. in Management in Brazil; organizational and academic results. The empirical research was qualitative and is a comparative case study. The data collection was done with the researcher's 1 month-near permanence in each University. The data was obtained based on 22 semi-structured interviews, non-participant observation, informal conversations and documental analysis. These data were triangulated and treated through content analysis, in order to get the shared meanings from the actors that effect the individual activities and collective practices that sustain superior results. The organizational characteristics of both post-graduation programs and Universities were not discarded, as well as historical and environmental questions from these courses that were perceived as relevant. As main results, it is shown that some characteristics and activities of the program's coordination, students and professors are relevant, for instance: commitment and dedication, from the students; research inclination and being in touch with the organizations real world, from the professors; coordinate the program and offer incentives based on CAPES' metrical, from the courses' coordination. Regarding the collective practices, the performance of the whole group of actors in research groups and in collective scientific production, is highlighted. For conclusion, it shows that the voluntarism and determinism conceptions should be avoided in order to understand the results gathered. And it shows that the structures, both material and symbolic, as well as actions, both individual and collective, are recursively constituted in the social practices that sustain the superior academic results of these Ph.D. courses.

Revista de Administração …, 2011

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Revista de Administração …, 2009

Este artigo contribui, por meio de análise empírica de comportamentos em jogos de empresas, para a discussão das teorias clássicas da tomada de decisão, notadamente os estudos de Simon. Foram produzidos dados primários em jogos de empresas operados como experimentos laboratoriais encadeados. Buscaram-se evidências empíricas de como os indivíduos processam a informação recebida para tomar decisões. Em concordância com os teóricos de economia e finanças comportamentais (