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Relacionamentos interorganizacionais e resultados: estudo em uma rede de cooperação horizontal da região central do Paraná

Abstract Due to a gap in the literature, the objective of the present study is to understand the results of an interorganizational cooperation network in the retail segment of building materials. With this purpose, the motivating factors were first identified, in addition to the facilitating and complicating factors in order to achieve results and identify how they relate to these factors, and these factors and their link with the results of relationships are the center of the discussion presented in the literature review. The case study was regarded as the most effective strategy for this descriptive research since its inherent flexibility allowed both for a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. It was seen that the main difficulty mentioned was the low level of cooperation and the high levels of competitiveness among the companies that were members of the association. In turn, concerning the results of the relationships, it was certified that the relationship motivators do not correspond with the results of such relationships. The study also demonstrates an apparent positive correlation between the complicating factor related to cooperation and competition with the fact that the association’s actions do not produce the desired effect.

O ideário de escola na ótica dos docentes: pura subjetividade ou padrões estruturados de cognição nos Cursos de Administração?

No presente estudo buscou-se identificar, a partir da percepcao de docentes, quais sao osfatores fundamentais para a construcao e manutencao da qualidade do Ensino SuperiorPrivado nos Cursos de Administracao de Curitiba, PR. A Perspectiva Institucional deAnalise e a Abordagem Cognitiva dos Estudos Organizacionais figuraram como referencialpara tal investigacao. Apos entrevistas em profundidade com alguns docentes foi possivelo desenvolvimento de um questionario estruturado para a realizacao de um

Contexto institucional de referência e governança de redes: estudo em arranjos produtivos locais do estado do Paraná

Reconociendo la diversidad de actores que componen las redes interorganizacionales, este estudio adopta la perspectiva institucional y una concepcion de ambiente en que diferentes grupos de actores pueden percibir de manera diferente el mismo contexto institucional. De ese modo, el estudio se propone investigar como el intercambio de los valores del contexto institucional de referencia se relaciona con la configuracion de la gobernanza en tres arreglos productivos locales. Los resultados senalaron diferencias en la fuente de las presiones ambientales percibidas, lo que demuestra que compartir valores relativos a la cooperacion afecta positivamente a la configuracion de la gobernanza. Asi, la principal contribucion del estudio se refiere a la forma en que los actores se organizan en el contexto de los arreglos productivos, pues parece ser el resultado de relaciones locales, sin tener en cuenta el nivel del contexto en lo cual se referencia. Esto posibilito demostrar que son las interacciones en el nivel local que permiten que el concepto de arreglos productivos locales gane concrecion.

Análise de efetividade das políticas públicas de Arranjo Produtivo Local para o desenvolvimento local a partir da teoria institucional

The aim of this paper was to identify to what extent public policies were responsible for the strong economic development seen in the Arapongas/PR furniture-focused Local Productive Arrangement (LPA), between 2000 and 2012, as seen from an institutional perspective. The research for this paper based itself on a case study using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative phase involved the analysis of the thematic content of documents, carried out in 2012, which then supported the quantitative phase through the application of a structured questionnaire in 2013 to 38 companies within the LPA. The conditions of the institutional environment altered the technical environment in terms of allowing for the level of development observed to be sustained. However, they proved much weaker than expected in terms of improving the competitiveness of and economic benefits to these companies as per the APL model disseminated. This was evident in the limitations seen in social relations, which were too weak to offer local actors a degree of trust and to reduce isolation in small groups and individual competition.

Governança no contexto das redes interorganizacionais: um estudo nos arranjos produtivos locais paranaenses a partir da abordagem institucionalista

Recognizing the diversity of actors in the interorganizational network, this study adopts the institutional perspective and a concept environment in which different groups of actors may perceive differently the same institutional context. Therefore, the study investigates how the sharing of the values of the institutional context groups of actors relates to the governance of the network in local productive arrangements (LPAs) located in Parana, Brazil. The quantitative and qualitative results showed that the differences in origin of perceived pressures. Furthermore, the study showed that the shared values regarding cooperation positively affects the configuration of governance. This provided insight into how are interactions at the local level that allow the concept of APL gain concreteness over time, indicating the possibility of thinking a corporate governance applied to APLs.

Contexto institucional de referencia y gobernanza de redes: estudio de arreglos productivos locales del estado de Paraná

Reconociendo la diversidad de actores que componen las redes interorganizacionales, este estudio adopta la perspectiva institucional y una concepcion de ambiente en que diferentes grupos de actores pueden percibir de manera diferente el mismo contexto institucional. De ese modo, el estudio se propone investigar como el intercambio de los valores del contexto institucional de referencia se relaciona con la configuracion de la gobernanza en tres arreglos productivos locales. Los resultados senalaron diferencias en la fuente de las presiones ambientales percibidas, lo que demuestra que compartir valores relativos a la cooperacion afecta positivamente a la configuracion de la gobernanza. Asi, la principal contribucion del estudio se refiere a la forma en que los actores se organizan en el contexto de los arreglos productivos, pues parece ser el resultado de relaciones locales, sin tener en cuenta el nivel del contexto en lo cual se referencia. Esto posibilito demostrar que son las interacciones en el nivel local que permiten que el concepto de arreglos productivos locales gane concrecion.

Institutional context of reference and governance network: study in local productive arrangements of Paraná state

Reconociendo la diversidad de actores que componen las redes interorganizacionales, este estudio adopta la perspectiva institucional y una concepcion de ambiente en que diferentes grupos de actores pueden percibir de manera diferente el mismo contexto institucional. De ese modo, el estudio se propone investigar como el intercambio de los valores del contexto institucional de referencia se relaciona con la configuracion de la gobernanza en tres arreglos productivos locales. Los resultados senalaron diferencias en la fuente de las presiones ambientales percibidas, lo que demuestra que compartir valores relativos a la cooperacion afecta positivamente a la configuracion de la gobernanza. Asi, la principal contribucion del estudio se refiere a la forma en que los actores se organizan en el contexto de los arreglos productivos, pues parece ser el resultado de relaciones locales, sin tener en cuenta el nivel del contexto en lo cual se referencia. Esto posibilito demostrar que son las interacciones en el nivel local que permiten que el concepto de arreglos productivos locales gane concrecion.

A relação entre perfil e práticas dos docentes dos cursos de administração

Interested in the issue of quality in higher educations the present study attempts to inquiry the likely relations between the professional profile of the administration’ professors with their current lecturing practices, more specifically the teaching and evaluation technologies. These relationships were explored through a survey with more two hundred faculty members in Curitiba (PR). The paper begins with a brief overview of the business administration programs and quality of education. Yet show professional profile’ professors and your practices. With the support of descriptive statistics and the Chi-square test, a profiling of the specialists, masters and doctorates was made together with the description of the lecturing and evaluation practices. Finally, the paper shows that there is great homogeneity of such practices among teachers with different levels of training and suggest general guidelines regarding the quality of business administration teaching at college level.