João Marcelo Crubellate

Dinâmica de relacionamento e prováveis respostas estratégicas de programas brasileiros de pós-graduação em administração à avaliação da Capes: proposições institucionais a partir da análise de redes de co-autorias

The aim of this study is to describe and analyze the changes that have taken place in the structural configuration of the co-authorship networks among professors linked to national programs of post graduate (stricto sensu) in Administration and to formulate propositions, based on the institutional theory, regarding the probable strategic answers of such programs to the CAPES evaluation. A longitudinal cutting was adopted encompassing a six-year period, subdivided into two triennials: 2001-2003 and 2004-2006. The researched population includes 32 post-graduate programs that were evaluated by the Capes in 2001, as well as their 703 identified researchers. The data were collected based on the Lattes curriculum of professors who were active in those programs and were analyzed through routines made available by the the Ucinet 6.0 and Pajek 1.10 softwares. The results show an increase in co-operation through co-authorship from one triennial to the other, which would appear to indicate increased consent of the programs in relation to the requirements of the evaluating agency. These interactions may both reject or heighten coercive and normative institutional pressures on the part of the CAPES concerning the definition of the norms that serve as guidelines for the three-yearly evaluation of stricto sensu post-graduate programs in Brazil.

Unlocking the institutionalization process: insights for an institutionalizing approach

The neoinstitutional theory has been characterized by some scholars in the field of organizational studies as a supposedly deterministic approach. We will demonstrate in this paper that this characterization cannot be impinged on the neoinstitutional perspective in a generalized way, but only to a dichotomic reading of it, that is typical of monoparadigmatic views of the process of institutionalization. With this demonstration, we defend the idea of the institutional theory as a multiparadigmatic theory. To this end, we present arguments for a recursive approach of the institutionalization process, highlighting that the notions of structure, agency and interpretation are more suitably dealt with when defended as fundamental elements of institutionalization as a recurrent, guaranteed process that is conditioned, not determined, by a certain degree of stabilization of social systems. We conclude the essay with methodological considerations on the consequences of the use of the proposal for a recurrent systemic-process approach of institutionalization for the development of research in the field of organizational studies

Redes de coautorias entre docentes de programas brasileiros de pós-graduação (Stricto Sensu) em Administração: aspectos estruturais e dinâmica de relacionamento

This article describes and it analyzes characteristics and changes occurred in the configuration of the network of co-authorships formed by professors of Brazilian programs of post graduate (stricto sensu) in administration in the period from 2001 to 2006. The empiric reference includes 703 professors linked to national programs of post graduate in Administration. For the analysis of the social networks and co-authorships of the publications we used the softwares Ucinet 6 and Pajek 1.21. There was significant growth in the number of coauthorships of one triennial as in the other (2001-2003 and 2004-2006). The increase in the interaction among researchers might have occurred for changes which occurred in the criterion of the evaluation of Capes; formation of new research groups and/or maturation of those already existent; the search for larger quality of the researches; elevation of the specialization degree in the scientific field; and predominate methodology in the disciplines, among others. The results suggest that the area is consenting to the exigencies of the official organs of accreditation of the post graduate.

Stress in organizations: between efficiency and the institutionalization of fear

Sometimes organizations described as benevolent, focusing on stable procedures and cordial relations are regarded as examples of collective indolence and likely to be out-competed by aggressive, merciless and stress-prone organizations. In this paper we suggest that some managers and organizations follow a requisite stress principle, according to which stress inside organizations is treated as a variable to be equated to the stress level perceived to prevail in the institutionalized environment the organization operates. We thus predict the relationship between stress-inducing practices, individual responses and performance to be recursively explained. When organizations induce stress at levels that are different from those admitted institutionally as normal levels, there will be a negative response to this induction. When induced stress levels are considered excessive, activities will be inhibited because fear will control the capacity of people to deal with situations and act in an appropriate manner. The validity of this principle implies that control of stress in organizations is as complex as the level of stress in society: it will depend on the control of stress levels coming from society. The principle consequently puts an end to any management aspirations to use stress as a managing mechanism and for inducing behavior.

Ambiente regulativo, respostas estratégicas e qualidade de ensino superior em organizações de ensino superior (IES) do estado do Paraná

Abstract Our main purpose in this paper was to investigate the meaning of education quality in higher education organizations (IES) located in Parana State, Brazil. To achieve that purpose we planed a survey to describe strategic responses in IES to governmental quality patterns in the period of 2001-2003. We used Brazilian legislation related to Higher Education and a structured questionnaire as main sources of data. The questionnaire was sent to 130 profit Higher Education Organizations during 2004, with 35 valid and complete questionnaires were sent back. We used multivariate methods to analyze answers according to our purposes. Results suggested that education quality was understood in those organizations as a source of institutional legitimacy (in some organizations) and as a source of real improvement of education process, in other organizations. Concluding, we could suggest the importance of further investigation about possible relations between cognitive and interpretive patterns in organizations and strategic responses to environment pressures as a way to understand ways of institutionalizing social processes and structures.

Complexidade institucional: um estudo bibliométrico na publicação recente em teoria institucional

In this bibliometric study we discuss the institutional complexity in eleven journals in business administration and organization studies. We try to identify the main features of the present Institutional Theory discussion in organization theory. The main research techniques we used were citation, co-citation, factorial bibliometric analysis and multidimensional scaling to identify the most influential studies and the main themes that are interwoven in institutional complexity (institutional logics, conflicts, changes and identity). The sample consisted of 43 articles and more than 3000 references cited. The most cited works were grouped into three factors that represent the emergent topics in institutional complexity. The results show the emergence of a new set of important concepts in the context of the institutional theory, such as institutional logics, conflict, change, identity, strategy. That set of concepts is diverse from that one typical of the institutionalism in organizations, in the 90´s. Complementarily, we identify authors and papers that can be considered central in organizational institutionalism, according to the journals that we take as part of our sample.

O ideário taylorista, a gestão da subjetividade e o poder pastoral

This essay aims to analyze the Taylorist ideology concerning the relation between laborers and managers through the pastoral power category, proposed by Michel Foucault. If the disciplinary power is focused on the body, the pastoral power is focused on the individual’s soul, implying – through confessional techniques – the direction of consciousness. Under Taylorism, one may conclude, such power manifests itself, but not in a parrhesiastic sense, revealing in Taylorism a truth configuration process with regard to the working subject, or laborer, which puts him in a condition of management object in the relations established between management and laborer.

E-Diagnosis: Knowledge management and organizational chance in virtual times

This paper discusses E-diagnosis, i.e., organizational diagnosis in electronic terms. E-diagnosis is taken as an instrument of meaningful knowledge construction for managers, based on a set of data and organizational information obtained in almost real time. Actually, based on a criticism of conventional modes of organizational status assessment, the intention is to configure a virtual mode of approaching the problem faced by those who manage — how to assure organizational long term survival. Attention is not focused too much in Information Technology — IT, however current IT advances are considered and taken as a support to organizational virtualization. Thus, the possibility of assuring appropriate information for managerial decision processes is delineated considering four dimensions — format, content, time, and cultural space.