Social business and social innovation: the Brazilian experience

ID: 66432

Authors: Graziella Maria Comini, Rosa Maria Fischer, Edison Quirino D’Amario.

Source: Innovation and Management Review, v. 19, n. 2, p. 140-155, April-June, 2022. 16 page(s).

Keyword: Social business , Social entrepreneurship , Social innovation , Socio-environmental value Paper type Research paper

Document type: Article (English) Show Abstract

Purpose – The aim of this article is to contribute to the field of social businesses, particularly considering the dimension of social innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors adopted a qualitative approach, whose purpose is to gather in-depth insights into a problem to understand its contextual elements and interrelations. The authors used an exploratory descriptive design and a multiple case study, which allows the identification of similarities and differences in the research subjects. They developed a scale that enables the classification of the operation logic of the social businesses analyzed. Findings – It became evident that social businesses present a few differences in their modus operandi: those based on a social logic are more concerned with the generation of socio-environmental value, however with small-scale innovation; in contrast, social business guided by a market logic do not intend to generate socio- environmental value in different dimensions and are more concerned with the wider range of their innovations. Research limitations/implications – This research analyzed social businesses from a founder and manager perspective and did not comprise all stakeholders. The purpose of this study was not to measure the effective impact generated by innovation, but to understand its potential to generate socio environmental value. Practical implications – The generation of socio-environmental value and the strategies to expand practices of social innovation are associated with the operation logic of social business. Originality/value – The created scale allowed the classification of social businesses in terms of operation logic (greater emphasis on market or social aspects) and proposes a few dimensions to evaluate a socio-environmental innovation.

Human Capital and Sustainability: A Proposal of a Multidisciplinary Approach

ID: 37193

Authors: Wilson Aparecido Costa de Amorim, Rosa Maria Fischer, Graziella Maria Comini, Juliana Rodrigues Loreto.

Source: Gestão & Regionalidade, v. 31, n. 92, p. 151-163, May-August, 2015. 13 page(s).

Keyword: Human capital; sustainability , social and environmental responsibility

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The concept of sustainability, originally coined to define an environmental philosophy of preservation of natural resources, expanded its explanatory power becoming a more complex construct, concomitantly including a wide range of components of social life. Sustainability was resignified to different contexts ranging from public policies to corporate actions and personal behaviors. Different dimensions of economic, environmental and social life with its various players, among these complex organizations, are integrated in the search for longevity of life. From this perspective, another concept that emerges with equal importance for the construction of this new common future of humanity (WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, 2013) is the concept of human capital, a construct comprised by knowledge, skills and competences of people, expressed in the context of organizations, which can play a catalytic role in this mobilization for a sustainable world. This essay foresees the possibility to relate them to each other, sustaining a reflection on the opportunities to improve relationship strategies of organizations to ensure that they concomitantly incorporate sustainability attributes and appraisement of human capital.

Compreender os interesses e relações - estudo de projeto de implantação de incubadora de empreendimentos solidários

ID: 43466

Authors: Silvia Gattai, Douglas Murilo Siqueira, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: Pensamento & Realidade, v. 29, n. 3, p. 73-97, July-September, 2014. 25 page(s).

Keyword: social field , stakeholder’s theory , symbolic dispute

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article was based on a job - search and technical support that is being done by the process of deploying an incubator of cooperative solidarity enterprises in São Bernardo do Campo. In the context of this project aimed to study what are the relationships that are established between social actors and institutions involved, as well as what are the interests that drive these agents. The institutions participating in the project are: the City of the municipality, a private university and civil society organizations. To perform, specifically, the analysis of the dynamics of relationships and interests that arise during this process, this text was based on a literature which highlights the possibilities for use of the concepts of the social field and stakeholders organizations. These conceptual foundations were considered important to identify and describe the plot behind the empirical situation of research.

Compreender os interesses e relações - estudo de projeto de implantação de incubadora de empreendimentos solidários

ID: 43498

Authors: Silvia Gattai, Douglas Murilo Siqueira, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: Pensamento & Realidade, v. 28, n. 3, p. 1-24, July-September, 2013. 24 page(s).

Keyword: social field , stakeholder theory , symbolic dispute

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article was based on a job - search and technical support that is being done by the process of deploying an incubator of cooperative solidarity enterprises in São Bernardo do Campo. In the context of this project aimed to study what are the relationships that are established between social actors and institutions involved, as well as what are the interests that drive these agents. The institutions participating in the project are: the City of the municipality, a private university and civil society organizations. To perform, specifically, the analysis of the dynamics of relationships and interests that arise during this process, this text was based on a literature which highlights the possibilities for use of the concepts of the social field and stakeholders organizations. These conceptual foundations were considered important to identify and describe the plot behind the empirical situation of research.

Editorial

ID: 8516

Authors: Nicolau Reinhard, Rosa Maria Fischer, Graziella Comini.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 47, n. 3, p. 362-362, July-September, 2012. 1 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Sustainable development: from responsibility to entrepreneurship

ID: 8517

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer, Graziella Comini.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 47, n. 3, p. 363-369, July-September, 2012. 7 page(s).

Document type: Article (English) Show Abstract

In this special issue of RAUSP, the authors charged with editing the material wrote this introduction to the theme, covering the theoretical and empirical development of the subject, from the studies of cross-sector strategic alliances to the emergence of social entrepreneurship and of socioenvironmental business as a means of operating while also pursuing multidimensional sustainable development.

The succession process at social enterprises in Brazil

ID: 8526

Authors: Edileusa Godoi-de-Sousa, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 47, n. 3, p. 473-488, July-September, 2012. 16 page(s).

Keyword: associations , social entrepreneurship , succession

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This research was based on a study of social enterprises in Brazil, to find out if and how these organizations plan and manage the succession process for their senior positions. The study investigated the subset of the associations dedicated to collectively producing goods and services, because they are formally set up and aimed at speeding up the dynamism of local development. The empirical research consisted of two stages. The first was a survey covering a sample of 378 organizations, to find out which of those had already undergone or were undergoing a succession process. The second interviewed the main manager of 32 organizations, to obtain a description of their succession experience. In this stage, the research aimed to analyze how the Individual, Organization and Environment dimensions interact to configure the succession process, identifying which factors of each of these dimensions can facilitate or limit this process. The following guiding elements were taken as the analytical basis: Individual dimension – leadership roles, skill and styles; Organization dimension – structure, planning, advisory boards, communication (transparency), control and evaluation; and Environment dimension – influence of the stakeholders (community, suppliers, clients, and business partners) on the succession process. The results indicated that succession in the researched associations is in the construction stage: it adapts to the requirements of current circumstances but is evidently in need of improvement in order for more effective planning and shared management of the process to be achieved.

Social Observatory Institute (IOS): the analyze of a transformation process of a NGO

ID: 3416

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer, Wilson Aparecido Costa de Amorim, Amyra Moyzés Sarsur.

Source: Revista Gestão & Tecnologia, v. 11, n. 2, p. 1-14, July-December, 2011. 14 page(s).

Keyword: Change , internationalization , NGO , third sector , unionism

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The article analyzes the processing of an organizational change in a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), called Social Observatory Institute (IOS). Its creation is part of the effort of national and international unions to build innovative management technologies, through conception of new organizational knowledge. This NGO is actually facing challenges similar to those faced by private and public firms in their processes of transformation and internationalization, such as: cultural divergences; power conflicts; lack of support for new demands; and deviation of their original goals. We developed a case study analyzing the NGO intern and extern environment and the impacts of those organizational transformations on its structure, processes and staff. The academic support is based on Pettigrew (1985b, 1986), Pettigrew and Fenton (2000) e Fischer (2002) studies. The field research includes analysis of institutional documents, interviews and workshops with the intern social actors and the NGO stakeholders.

Confiança Como Fator de Redução da Vulnerabilidade Humana no Ambiente de Trabalho

ID: 3911

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer, José Gaspar Nayme Novelli.

Source: Revista de Administração de Empresas, v. 48, n. 2, p. 67-78, April-June, 2008. 12 page(s).

Keyword: cohesion , relationships , trust , vulnerability , Work

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The currently predominant working environment in complex organizations may either operate in favor of enhanced productivity or weaken the cohesion and ties of cooperation in the workplace. In the latter case it causes professionals to experience a feeling of vulnerability, which translates into more ephemeral and supercial relationships that have the effect of moderating people's actions. This article worked with the assumption that establishing an atmosphere of trust may neutralize this feeling. The purpose of the study was to investigate if professionals perceive any fragility in their working relations, how they react to the situation and how it inuences the management process. The material collected from in-depth interviews with managers of major and medium-size multinational and national organizations provides explanations for the reasons that lead to the installation of a feeling of vulnerability at work. These reections allow us to infer that it is possible to install management procedures, behavior standards and an organizational culture that operate to reverse this state of affairs and to develop a favorable working environment.

Interpersonal trust factors in labor environment

ID: 16960

Authors: José Gaspar Nayme Novelli, Rosa Maria Fischer, José Afonso Mazzon.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 41, n. 4, p. 442-452, October-December, 2006. 11 page(s).

Keyword: ANOVA , factorial analysis , relationships , risks , trust , vulnerability

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The current context remodels the interdependence among people and brings new risks and uncertainties for the organizational relationships. Considering these circumstances, the role and contribution of interpersonal trust is studied in order to improve the management process, with the identification and the grouping of factors that form and support trust in labor environment. The theoretical constructs transactional trust and transformational trust, both originated in interpersonal trust and proposed by Reina and Reina (1999), were tested in the Brazilian reality using factorial analysis technique as well as analysis of variance (ANOVA). The field research interviewed 200 managers from corporations of diverse size and nature in the cities of São Paulo and Brasília. The results presented revealed, on one hand, significant correlation among some variables, and on the other hand, the grouping of components of trust in two distinct factors of the proposed model by Reina and Reina. The achieved results provide tools for the improvement of relationship strategies used by collaborators inside the company.

State, Market and Third Sector: a conceptual analysis of cross-sector partnerships

ID: 16825

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 40, n. 1, p. 5-18, January-March, 2005. 14 page(s).

Keyword: corporate social performance , cross-sector alliances

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This here article is inserted in the effort for producing systematized knowledge about the social performance of enterprises and the formation of alliances among them, civil society organizations and state agencies, aiming to understand the characteristics of such partnerships in the environment of involved organizations and the impacts and trends caused by partnered actions. The text includes a historical analysis of the evolution in the standard of cross-sector cooperation in Brazil and offers an outline of the socioeconomic context in which this development is circumscribed. Data and conclusions obtained from three previous studies accomplished by Ceats (Centro de Empreendedorismo e Administração em Terceiro Setor) are then presented and analyzed: the first one being a qualitative study on cross-sector cooperation that integrates a broader comparative international analysis project from the Institute for Development Research, Boston, developed in 1998. The second one analyzes the entrepreneurial social action in Brazil (1999) in order to identify practices of stimulus to corporate volunteerism. And the third one — Cross-Sector Strategic Alliances — maps the partnered corporate action (2002). These undertakings have allowed confirming the tendency of growth and consolidation of corporate social action practices, contributing to disseminate the concept of Social Responsibility. Cross-sector alliances are not the only structure possible; however, they are the arrangement more frequently adopted for developing corporate social action. The current state of these alliances indicates that they have full potential to effectively become management role models of social performance. However, it also points at a broad space open to technical, administrative and managerial improvements of such shapes of organizational articulation.

Voluntariado empresarial – estratégias de empresas no Brasil

ID: 16581

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer, Andres Pablo Falconer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 36, n. 3, p. 15-27, July-September, 2001. 13 page(s).

Keyword: corporate citizenship , social enterprise , social responsibility , volunteerism

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This article presents the mainly conclusions of the research "Enterprises strategies for social action". The data stand out how the incentive for volunteer work could be a best management practice. The employees opinion is positive and the organizational image is strengthening.

Networks, terceiro setor e desenvolvimento social: a construção de um banco interativo de projetos sociais na Amazônia legal

ID: 16580

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 36, n. 3, p. 28-35, July-September, 2001. 8 page(s).

Keyword: civil society organizations , institutional development , inter-organizations nerwork , sustainable social development , Third Sector

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Bipsam is an interactive site based on Internet, which host civil society organizations working with social projects for the elimination of the exclusion in the region of the Amazônia Legal. The article describe Bipsam’s design, its creation and implementation. The concepts of virtual community and inter-organizational network are used as tools for the actions of sustainable social development.

Gestão de pessoas - os desafios de aproximar a teoria da prática e vice-versa

ID: 18164

Authors: Maria Tereza Leme Fleury, Maria Tereza Leme Fleury, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 33, n. 2, p. 90-94, April-June, 1998. 5 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese)

Desafios da parceria governo no terceiro setor

ID: 18151

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer, Andres Pablo Falconer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 33, n. 1, p. 12-19, January-March, 1998. 8 page(s).

Keyword: decentralization , management models , social inclusion , Third Sector

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article seeks, starting from the difficulty in characterizing the wide universe of non-profit organizations and the observed growth in number and diversity of these institutions in Brazil, discussing important challenges to be faced by entities of the called Third Sector, as: their insert in the new model of State proposed by the current government, conditions of improvement and evaluation of their management and the necessity of auto-sustainability.

Exclusão social na Amazônia Legal: a experiência das organizações da sociedade civil

ID: 18150

Authors: Dalberto Adulis, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 33, n. 1, p. 20-33, January-March, 1998. 14 page(s).

Keyword: civil society organizations , Legal Amazon region , social exclusion , state reform , sustainable development , third sector

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This paper contributes to the debate about the growing participation of civil society organizations in the public policies management in the Brazilian Amazon Region, based upon the analysis of results of a field research on projects in this region which aim to fight social exclusion and reduce social deficits. In the first part of this work the problem of social exclusion in the region is established and the rising of new social actors is as well as the civil society organizations which constitute the third sector. Following, the methodological aspects of the research are presented. In the second part, a characterization of the researched civil society organizations and the projects developed by these organizations and public entities is made with the purpose of alleviating the problems of social exclusion in the region. The third part of the article discusses some problems and challenges for the joint action of Civil Society Organizations with the Government.

Ceats – o espaço do terceiro setor na Universidade

ID: 18155

Authors: Oswaldo Scaico, Arnaldo França Mazzei Nogueira, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 33, n. 1, p. 74-76, January-March, 1998. 3 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese)

Labor relations and management policies: a present questions' history

ID: 18654

Authors: Maria Tereza Leme Fleury, Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 27, n. 4, p. 5-15, October-December, 1992. 11 page(s).

Keyword: human resources policies , Labour relations

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This paper aims to discuss the main challenge and impasses faced by Brazilian organizations, in the area of labour relations and human resources policies, fron an historical perspective.

The challenge of the change

ID: 18659

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: RAUSP Management Journal, v. 27, n. 4, p. 58-64, October-December, 1992. 7 page(s).

Keyword: human resources integrative system , management models , organizational change , organizational development

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This essay points out the contradictions of organizational changing process. It suggests the increase of competitiveness and efficiency depends on personnel development and human resources management systems.

Gestão do trabalho - dimensões institucionais e organizacionais

ID: 15072

Authors: Rosa Maria Fischer.

Source: Revista de Administração de Empresas, v. 31, n. 4, p. 85-90, October-December, 1991. 6 page(s).

Keyword: Human resources management , job managements politics , work as strategic factor

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This paper focuses the work as strategic factor for the modernization process of the complex organizations. The authors stress the necessit of integrations between the institutional and organizational aspects in the elaboration of the human resources management politics.