Editorial

ID: 17143

Authors: Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 1-1, January-April, 1999. 1 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Avanços e barreiras ao fornecimento enxuto da indústria automobilística brasileira: a perspectiva dos fornecedores

ID: 17144

Authors: Rebecca Arkader.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 7-21, January-April, 1999. 15 page(s).

Keyword: brazilian automotive industry , buyer-supplier relationships , supply management

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This paper deals with the perspective of autoparts suppliers in Brazilian automotive industry in the context of the renewed buyer-supplier relationships under lean production practices, based on a comprehensive case study research. The suppliers perceived advances in relationships as far as operational issues were concerned. On the other hand, they saw less advances in terms of strategic issues. The suppliers also identified both organizational, firm-specific barriers and environmental barriers originated in the peculiarities of local economic and business environment. These results are discussed in view of the perspective of buyers (the assemblers) uncovered in the same research, leading to the identification of elements to formulate an explanation for the path of buyer-supplier relations in Brazilian automotive industry.

A produção mais limpa como geradora de inovação e competitividade

ID: 17145

Authors: Ângela Denise Lemos, Luis Felipe Nascimento.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 23-46, January-April, 1999. 24 page(s).

Keyword: agribusiness , cleaner production , competitiveness , environmental issues , innovation

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This paper results from a research for a Master in Business Administration dissertation. Its objective is to disclose results related with the adoption of strategies of Cleaner Production (CP), as a manner of beginning to adapt agronomical activity to new patterns of healthy and cleaner products, demanded by the consuming market, and that culminated with the generation of innovations and competitiveness for the firm. The research method was the case study. The research was made in a farm called Fazenda Cerro do Tigre (FCT), located in Alegrete, RS, Brazil, which deals with the irrigated rice cropping. The results indicate that when the firm begins to concern about the environmental issues and adopts strategies of Cleaner Production, it begins to make good use of a continuous improvement process, which propitiates the appearance of innovations in all segments (process, product and management). As an import conclusion, it is possible to say that the CP adoption facilitates the generation of innovations. The innovations, by their turn, facilitate the attainment of the competitiveness.

Comércio eletrônico: um estudo no setor bancário

ID: 17146

Authors: Alberto Luiz Albertin.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 47-70, January-April, 1999. 24 page(s).

Keyword: banking sector , electronic commerce , information technology

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The new business environment, as national as international, has deeply changed, and the information technology has a special value on the changes. This situation includes since new technologies, or new applications, to attend the requirements of the new environment, up to the new organizational opportunities created by new technologies or their new applications. At this new environment, the electronic commerce, with its new and revolutionary applications, is considered as a powerful emergent trend for business process innovation. The electronic commerce applications signifies an important impact for the banking sector, giving the characteristics of the sector and its products, services and clients. This article has the objective to present the electronic commerce integrated model and the main results of the research done at banking sector, which utilized multiple case study methodology, stressing the trends of this information technology application and the relationship with some of the most important issues of the business environment.

Comércio eletrônico: fazendo negócios por meio da internet

ID: 17147

Authors: Eduardo Henrique Diniz.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 71-86, January-April, 1999. 16 page(s).

Keyword: EDI , electronic commerce , internet , IT limitations

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Electronic commerce has potential for levering business activities to add value to products and services, either in business-to-business or in business-to-customer transactions. Based on the Internet, which supports the global on-line business infrastructure, electronic commerce is growing fast all over the world. However, this speed and reach confront many obstacles. There are technological, cultural, organizational and structural barriers braking electronic commerce development. These barriers to develop the on-line commerce must be considered for a better understanding of the potential effects on business environment.

Terceirização e reestruturação agroindustrial: avaliando o caso citrícola brasileiro

ID: 17148

Authors: Luiz Fernando Paulillo.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 87-103, January-April, 1999. 17 page(s).

Keyword: agribusiness , citriculture , outsourcing

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This paper analyses the insetion of the outsourcing process in the Brazilian agro-industrial complexes. Similarly to the world economy in the end of the century, the advancement in the service sector represents a meaningful change in the organisational forms of work and production. This implies structural changes in agriculture, in the processing agro-industry and in the conformation of their respective national or international markets. In this sense, the strategies of flexibility and diversification represent the unchaining of the orientation towards entrepeneurial rationalisation that complex under a wider angle, in wich the State actions lose weight as the entrepeneurial strategies determine a new conformation of the countrys citrus sector.

Descentralização organizacional, acesso aos meios e adequação ao ambiente externo

ID: 17149

Authors: Tarcízio Rego Quirino.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 105-125, January-April, 1999. 21 page(s).

Keyword: agricultural research , organizational centralization , organizational performance , organizations of C&T , research quality

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Results of decentralization and its relationships to demand satisfaction are studied in an organization of agricultural research. Three questionnaires relative to 2011 research projects in progress, filled by researchers, project coordinators and technical directors generated the data. Performance, inputs, process and external organizational environment are found to be empirically related to decentralization as predicted by contingencial theory. Centralized research benefits from human resource quality and access to information. Decentralized research benefits from users' proximity. As a consequence, centralization suggests academic quality and decentralization suggests stronger impact in agricultural practice. A decentralization agenda should be beneficial to the producers' demands as far as access to the means (physical, human, economic and organizational resources) is provided as they use to be unsatisfactory in typical decentralized conditions.

Descentralização em unidades de negócio: o caso de uma empresa do setor financeiro

ID: 17150

Authors: Lucia Barbosa de Oliveira, Marcos Gonçalves Avila.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 127-146, January-April, 1999. 20 page(s).

Keyword: business units , decentralization , management control

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This study reports and discusses the case of a private company of the financial sector, located in Brazil, which, a few years ago, was decentralized in business units. The authors tried to understand the motivations for the decision, the challenges that followed its implementation, and the structure of the management control system adopted to monitor the performance of each division. The results indicate that the decision to decentralize helped the company to implement its strategies of increasing market share. Top management is aware that many challenges still persist but believes that the company has adopted the appropriate organizational structure to deal with the competitive and complex market of the early nineties in Brazil.

Produção científica em Administração de Empresas: provocações, insinuações e contribuições para um debate local

ID: 17151

Authors: Carlos Osmar Bertero, Miguel Pinto Caldas, Thomaz Wood Jr..

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 147-178, January-April, 1999. 32 page(s).

Keyword: administration , assessment criteria , scientific research

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article approaches the issue of quality in scientific research within the management field in Brazil. More specifically, it deals with the criteria used in the country to review research presented in scientific conferences or published in journals. At first we discuss the recent quantitative growth of research in the Brazilian management realm, as well as the limitations of such research in terms of quality. Afterwards, we report an empirical investigation, conducted among Brazilian scientific outlets, senior scholars and referees in the field. Such investigation was focused on the utilization of research assessment criteria, and revealed significant diversity in terms of which criteria were used and in terms of the meaning they were given. As a response to such situation, we suggest an Assessment Criteria Model, which could be used to review scientific management research in Brazil. Such model is designed to be generic and adaptable to different contexts and objectives. It is our belief that, to strengthen the field of management research in Brazil, clear and well defined criteria need to be better established. We also believe that the moment has come - after the recent quantitative growth - for us to deeply examine the quality of Brazilian scientific research within the management domain.

Sobre os autores

ID: 17152

Authors: Revista de Administração Contemporânea.

Source: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, v. 3, n. 1, p. 179-182, January-April, 1999. 4 page(s).

Document type: Other (Portuguese)