Almiralva Ferraz Gomes

Consubstanciação da imagem da Embrapa no campo científico

The agricultural scientific field is the object of this study, which aims to investigate the construction of the dominant position occupied by Embrapa between those who turn to this field of knowledge and to formulate some inferences. In achieving these purposes, we chose to use bibliometric and sociometric methods for a reading in a positivist paradigm approach, considering it as more friendly to the scientists in the agricultural field, asking them to reflect, facilitating it by using methods of the same nature as their research. The evidence collected suggests that the projection of Embrapa is not explained by scientific merit, which meant the need to probe alternative explanations, when we employed the concepts of Bourdieu for the task. We conclude that Embrapa is central in the scrutinized field in caring for the projection of an image, as real as it is, as long as it is not contested beyond non-systematized claims and those which dispense with objective data - which in itself cause further questioning, also referred to in this research.

Mecanismos de vigilância e dispositivos de controle: o caso de uma indústria familiar de confecções de Minas Gerais

ABSTRACT Political, social and economical transformations, more and more accelerated, change the businesses environment througout the world. In this context, companies of different branches, nationalities and sizes confront each other with aiming to win more market share or simply to guarantee their space in the market. This current context of constant environmental transformations demand from organizations, even family ones, new dynamics. Seeking to adaptat to this new situation and trying to give competitiveness to products, services and processes, the modern company often makes use of control and surveillance mechanisms. Thus, taking in view the social, political, and economical importance of the family organization, the present paper tried to investigate the interpretations of several social agents regarding the control and surveillance in the everyday working life. Through a qualitative-based approach this research studied the case of a family industry of clothes settled in the south of Minas Gerais. It was evidenced in the case analyzed that the control and the surveillance can be interpreted in way differentiated by the several social actors and that, to depend of the individuals hierarchical position, your perception will be different.

Desafiando a interdisciplinaridade na ciência administrativa: o caso da entropia

The stimulus of science and education to interdisciplinary efforts dates back decades. It seems that the movement has gained momentum and, in this dynamic, it is increasingly likely to be exposed to a discourse that has the advantages of interdisciplinarity and says nothing about its risks. Putting interdisciplinarity at stake was among the motivations for this qualitative and descriptive essay, which dealt with empirical data having a bibliographic and documentary nature, supplemented by interviews. The strategic objective was investigating peoples understanding within administrative science on the magnitude entropy, observed in the General Systems Theory (GST), which is seen as an interdisciplinary proposition with a current impact, sixty years after its introduction. It was concluded that Administration faces problems when working with this magnitude, because, while knowledge generated through the instrumental application of statistical interpretation of entropy realized itself as concrete, interpretations on entropy having a thermodynamic nature are likely to dispute, and they were ignored within the period, with negative and substantial implications, since entropy does not explain organizational disorder, such as embodied by Administration. This, though not proven, must be linked to the inability to deal with key concepts and laws imported from other disciplines, which, extrapolating, should be enough to make relative the combination of knowledge between knowledge fields: there are risks that interdisciplinarity produce and reproduce mistakes.