Eduardo Damião da Silva

PROCESSO DE FORMAÇÃO DE ESTRATÉGIA EM PEQUENAS EMPRESAS: UM ESTUDO BIBLIOMÉTRICO E SOCIOMÉTRICO

This study aims to analyze how the theme of the strategy formation process in small businesses is being studied in strategy for de Annual Meeting of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Administration (EnANPAD), as well as the Meeting of Studies in Strategy (3Es). To this end, we performed a literature search and bibliometric, reviewing articles published from 1997 to 2008 in the area of strategy EnANPAD and, 2003 to 2007, in 3Es. It uses the content analysis, there is the frequency of the analyzed elements and performs the analysis of social networks. The main approaches to data strategy formulation in the articles reviewed were: analysis of the process of strategies formation, strategies formation associated with cognition of leaders, formation for competitive analysis strategies and environmental analysis to strategy formation. The social

Capacidades organizacionais e desempenho em um setor geograficamente concentrado e com baixo potencial de diferenciação

This articles objective was to investigate the relationship between capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector, with numerous and neighboring competitors, in a group of small organizations and, therefore, with high resource constraints and frequently without professional management capabilities compared to large firms. The theoretical framework of the paper is the Resource Based Theory. The context chosen for the study was a collection of retail clothing stores in a main avenue downtown Curitiba, Parana. Initially, managers and owners of the retail stores were interviewed to verify the most important capabilities in this geographical market segment, which are: image, customers, prices and financial management. Considering this taxonomy, hypotheses were elaborated and tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results allow us to conclude that price and financial management capabilities are more important to produce positive effects over performance. The discussion of results highlights contingent aspects of the association between resources and performance in these organizations and also the reason for retail stores managers and owners to suggest some capabilities that not have a direct impact over performance as source of the competitive advantage. It is possible to conclude, due to the low potential of differentiation of the organizations that participated in the study, that the capabilities named Price and Finance are the only ones with significant influence on performance variation when compared to capabilities Image and Clients. Another finding that deserves note it was the fact that retailers interviewed pointed the capabilities Clients and Image, that empirically are not related to performance variation, as sources of competitive advantages. It is argued here that this happens because of the causal ambiguity that marks the relation between resources and performance in strategist judgement.ABSTRACT This article’s objective was to investigate the relationship between capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector, with numerous and neighboring competitors, in a group of small organizations and, therefore, with high resource constraints and frequently without professional management capabilities compared to large firms. The theoretical framework of the paper is the Resource Based Theory. The context chosen for the study was a collection of retail clothing stores in a main avenue downtown Curitiba, Parana. Initially, managers and owners of the retail stores were interviewed to verify the most important capabilities in this geographical market segment, which are: image, customers, prices and financial management. Considering this taxonomy, hypo-theses were elaborated and tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results allow us to conclude that price and financial management capabilities are more important to produce positive effects over performance. The discussion of results highlights contingent aspects of the association between resources and performance in these organizations and also the reason for retail stores mana-gers and owners to suggest some capabilities that not have a direct impact over

Organizational capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector with low differentiation potential

This articles objective was to investigate the relationship between capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector, with numerous and neighboring competitors, in a group of small organizations and, therefore, with high resource constraints and frequently without professional management capabilities compared to large firms. The theoretical framework of the paper is the Resource Based Theory. The context chosen for the study was a collection of retail clothing stores in a main avenue downtown Curitiba, Parana. Initially, managers and owners of the retail stores were interviewed to verify the most important capabilities in this geographical market segment, which are: image, customers, prices and financial management. Considering this taxonomy, hypotheses were elaborated and tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results allow us to conclude that price and financial management capabilities are more important to produce positive effects over performance. The discussion of results highlights contingent aspects of the association between resources and performance in these organizations and also the reason for retail stores managers and owners to suggest some capabilities that not have a direct impact over performance as source of the competitive advantage. It is possible to conclude, due to the low potential of differentiation of the organizations that participated in the study, that the capabilities named Price and Finance are the only ones with significant influence on performance variation when compared to capabilities Image and Clients. Another finding that deserves note it was the fact that retailers interviewed pointed the capabilities Clients and Image, that empirically are not related to performance variation, as sources of competitive advantages. It is argued here that this happens because of the causal ambiguity that marks the relation between resources and performance in strategist judgement.ABSTRACT This article’s objective was to investigate the relationship between capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector, with numerous and neighboring competitors, in a group of small organizations and, therefore, with high resource constraints and frequently without professional management capabilities compared to large firms. The theoretical framework of the paper is the Resource Based Theory. The context chosen for the study was a collection of retail clothing stores in a main avenue downtown Curitiba, Parana. Initially, managers and owners of the retail stores were interviewed to verify the most important capabilities in this geographical market segment, which are: image, customers, prices and financial management. Considering this taxonomy, hypo-theses were elaborated and tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results allow us to conclude that price and financial management capabilities are more important to produce positive effects over performance. The discussion of results highlights contingent aspects of the association between resources and performance in these organizations and also the reason for retail stores mana-gers and owners to suggest some capabilities that not have a direct impact over

Capacidades y rendimiento en una industria concentrada geográficamente y con menor potencial de diferenciación

This articles objective was to investigate the relationship between capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector, with numerous and neighboring competitors, in a group of small organizations and, therefore, with high resource constraints and frequently without professional management capabilities compared to large firms. The theoretical framework of the paper is the Resource Based Theory. The context chosen for the study was a collection of retail clothing stores in a main avenue downtown Curitiba, Parana. Initially, managers and owners of the retail stores were interviewed to verify the most important capabilities in this geographical market segment, which are: image, customers, prices and financial management. Considering this taxonomy, hypotheses were elaborated and tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results allow us to conclude that price and financial management capabilities are more important to produce positive effects over performance. The discussion of results highlights contingent aspects of the association between resources and performance in these organizations and also the reason for retail stores managers and owners to suggest some capabilities that not have a direct impact over performance as source of the competitive advantage. It is possible to conclude, due to the low potential of differentiation of the organizations that participated in the study, that the capabilities named Price and Finance are the only ones with significant influence on performance variation when compared to capabilities Image and Clients. Another finding that deserves note it was the fact that retailers interviewed pointed the capabilities Clients and Image, that empirically are not related to performance variation, as sources of competitive advantages. It is argued here that this happens because of the causal ambiguity that marks the relation between resources and performance in strategist judgement.ABSTRACT This article’s objective was to investigate the relationship between capabilities and performance in a geographically concentrated sector, with numerous and neighboring competitors, in a group of small organizations and, therefore, with high resource constraints and frequently without professional management capabilities compared to large firms. The theoretical framework of the paper is the Resource Based Theory. The context chosen for the study was a collection of retail clothing stores in a main avenue downtown Curitiba, Parana. Initially, managers and owners of the retail stores were interviewed to verify the most important capabilities in this geographical market segment, which are: image, customers, prices and financial management. Considering this taxonomy, hypo-theses were elaborated and tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results allow us to conclude that price and financial management capabilities are more important to produce positive effects over performance. The discussion of results highlights contingent aspects of the association between resources and performance in these organizations and also the reason for retail stores mana-gers and owners to suggest some capabilities that not have a direct impact over