Apresentação

ID: 34585

Authors: Silvio Popadiuk.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 1-1, November-December, 2014. 1 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Introdução à edição especial das melhores produções científicas selecionadas do Eneo 2014 sobre Estudos Organizacionais Brasileiro

ID: 34586

Authors: Ana Sílvia Rocha Ipiranga, Eloisio Moulin de Souza, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 13-16, November-December, 2014. 4 page(s).

Document type: Other (Portuguese)

Institutional work and knowledge in network interorganizational: a proposal to investigate LPAs

ID: 34587

Authors: Márcio Jacometti, Sandro Aparecido Gonçalves, Marcos de Castro.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 17-47, November-December, 2014. 31 page(s).

Keyword: Institutionalization , Institutional work , Interorganizational networks , Local productive arrangements , Widespread knowledge

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article aims to provide an outline analysis of local productive arrangements (LPAs) by way of institutional and networks perspectives to evaluate the institutionalization of the LPA model in clusters of firms. Along the theoretical basis of the work, we propose a set of 13 hypotheses that explore new relationships between the constructs used in the analysis. The arguments are based on institutionalist assumptions and introduce the logic of change from the work of institutional actors immersed in an interorganizational network exchanging knowledge through social relation. The scheme of analysis, defined as micro procedure of institutionalization, is built upon acceptance, deployment, diffusion and internalization of standards, knowledge and social actions; taking into account the influence of institutional and relational contexts in the organizational field level. The methodology for empirical treatment of model proposes to initiate research using a qualitative basis through thematic content analysis of the sources of research at the field level; and the intersection of these data on the actors immersed level using quantitative tools. Thus, research is characterized as comparative multiple case study whose individual cases are studied and compared to show similar or contrasting characteristics and achieve a better understanding of the phenomenon. Using the theoretical model can explain how the institutionalization happens in a logical bottom-up rather than a deterministic view based only on the institutional context. The analysis schema proves to be consistent, unique and suitable for evaluating the institutionalization in LPAs, and to empirically test the hypothesis presented. This more focused approach in the agency, taking into account the influence of the institutional context and the character of its evolutionary logic is consistent with comprehensive sociology of Weber, and shows consistency with the epistemological assumptions of social constructivism, resulting in the required use of various methods of research. In conclusion, besides the their contributions, the paper presents a research agenda on institutionalization in clusters and other objects of research, and proposes an empirical test of the model and other institutionalist theories.

The gender scientific production in Brazil: an overview of administration research groups

ID: 34588

Authors: Luís Fernando Silva Andrade, Alex dos Santos Macedo, Maria de Lourdes Souza Oliveira.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 48-75, November-December, 2014. 28 page(s).

Keyword: Administration research groups , Bibliometrics , Gender , Scientific production , Sociometrics

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article aims to map the activities developed by gender research groups in the administration field and to understand the relationships between them. Gender identity is seen as an important social category for understanding power relations and human interactions in organizations. To understand these relations, the methodological approach includes bibliometric and sociometric studies of the production of gender research group leaders, whose work lines or research impacts and actions presented in description of the group are related to gender, supported by descriptive statistics in order to facilitate data viewing. A total of 32 groups were found, and most of them are recent (half of them having less than 5 years of formalization) that have, altogether, 42 leaders that produced, as authors or co-authors, 88 articles on gender, between January 1995 and January 2014, with a concentration in A2 and B3 scientific journals. The sociometric study reveals a low density network of co-authorship, without a centralizing actor, featuring a small number of co-authoring relationships and a limited number of authors who have publications on gender. This information indicates that the issue is not researched by these authors or the gender works and projects are not meant for scientific production. It also indicates the importance of postgraduate mentoring, to spread the subject in different universities and to create and mantain relations of co-authorship between researchers who were at any given time, mentors and mentees. The relevance of the results is in the initial understanding of the scientific field, from the research groups, which constitute a major element to postgraduate programs and scientific production. As limitations, the partial analysis of the groups, only considering the production of group leaders, and the possibility of lagged data in the Groups Directory may undermine the analysis. An in-depth study of scientific literature analyzed by sociometrics, the historical restoration of the groups constitution, and their relationships with research and extension projects funded by agencies are shown as perspectives of future investigation.

From artisan to entrepreneur: the refraiming of craft work as a strategy for reproduction of unequal power relations

ID: 34589

Authors: Fábio Freitas Schilling Marquesan, Marina Dantas de Figueiredo.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 76-97, November-December, 2014. 22 page(s).

Keyword: Comsumption , Craft , Enterprisation , Entrepreneurship , Inequality

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, an activity as old as the craft has been the target of economic incentives from the state and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Brazil. Intervention actions taken by organizations like the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises (Sebrae), aims to transform the Brazilian handicraft production in a generating activity of employment and income, linked to the international consumer circuits and/or tourist activity. In examining the proposals that underlie such interventions, is notorious the speech re-framing craft and artisan identity, through the enhancement of entrepreneurial action and the emphasis on management and on the urgent need to impose to the craftsmanship standards of competitiveness inherent in the capitalist economy. But the new entrepreneurs-artisans have in the redefinition of its activity the appearance of a social integration that fails to materialize itself. Because of the intervention processes that have re-framed the Brazilian handicraft production, we observe certain loss of material and symbolic traits that are peculiar to the craft production, culminating in the naturalization of the entrepreneurial ideology as a model for the configuration of the craft. In this context, what happens is the mere incorporation of more and more people entangled in the world-system that feeds the matrix of the modern/colonial capitalist power. And this process, which emphasizes enterprisation of crafts, trivializes as much as it reproduces the idea of development as a synonym for expansion of consumption capacity. The logic behind this ideology is the notion that the proclaimed freedom that would be inherent in the neoliberal policy lies in the potential of the consumer individual. A commoditization of craft closes a cycle that ultimately remove the autonomy of the craftsman, removes it from an emancipatory perspective and reproduces a situation of dependence in which there is no prospect of change. Social inclusion is a euphemism for the incorporation of new consumers in the mass market.

Alberto Guerreiro Ramos: sociological reduction contributions to the scientific field of public administration in Brazil

ID: 34590

Authors: Mauro Guilherme Maidana Capelari, Yedda Beatriz Gomes de Almeida Disman da Cruz Seixas Singer Afonso, Andréa de Oliveira Gonçalves.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 98-121, November-December, 2014. 24 page(s).

Keyword: Brazil , Guerreiro Ramos , Public administration , Scientific field , Sociological reduction

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The theoretical assay presents the proposal of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos on sociological reduction in the dimension of historical method and parenthetical position as suggested theme to study of scientific field of public administration in Brazil. We seek to dialogue with two questions: “How can we develop a more systematic understanding of national public administration?” and “What we need to (re)meet in order for the national field of public administration become more responsive, better corresponding to local public anxieties?”. Based on Guerreiro Ramos, we suggested that the field uses the meth the methodological use of history studies; and parenthetical-substantive action. The first concerns to the critical assimilation of foreign intellectual that would allow one communitu no to be restrict to other communities experiences to achieve their own historic projects. The second is related to a lucid and active positioning of humans in relation to the factors that influence them, allowing an active set of those in society and especially in economic organizations. Reviving the need of Brazilian researchers use of scientific knowledge and foreign productions in a subsidiary way, once there is an intention of meeting the needs of a reality that, in many points, is presented differently from the realities in which the theories/models have emerged; foster parenthetical-substantive conception of individuals to build models of organization which, althought not excluding, make the organizational economic models to divide spaces with more models designed to ensure the quality of life, self-actualization, the primary social interaction, social satisfactions and participation in the production of public goods.

Founding myths, invented traditions and meaning of cities: an incursion into Old and New Cataguases-MG

ID: 34591

Authors: Wescley Silva Xavier.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 122-148, November-December, 2014. 27 page(s).

Keyword: Founding myths , Invented traditions , Marxism , Materialism , Meanings of cities

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This paper aims a historical incursion into the formation of Cataguases-MG to understand how founding myths and invented traditions ascribe meanings to cities, which is an object increasingly present within the organizational studies. Invented traditions and founding myths constitute an indestructible link in that traditions represent a past that should be preserved as a way of regaining significant changes in society. This tradition demands ways to be recognized as the new status quo and rely on legal, political, cultural and economics apparatus, being stronger when tradition becomes more cohesive and institutionally supported. This study is based on the examination of local and national public collections dating from 1906 as well as the analysis of works recognized as official biographies of the city. Data were analyzed from a Marxist perspective, so that discourse could be viewed as an ideological element of a superstructure that holds dialectical relationship with the base, with issues of social life. The findings lead to the existence of three cores founding myths relating to the clearing, the foundation and the economic and cultural vocation of the city. The transition between these two last founding myths is central to this work, as it concerns a battle between representatives. The invented traditions are unveiled in this transition period, to the extent that the modernist calling delimits the change from the conservative to the progressive city. The imposed modernist tradition is a result of a dispute over political control of the city, in which one of the groups of participants consisted of industrialists. Thus capital sees in modernist architecture not only the possibility of taking over political control, but also of defining the foundation of a new town, distinct from the one inherited from a coffee economy run by old oligarchies.

The discourse theory of recife’s multicultural carnival: an analysis of Recife carnival party in the light of Theory of Laclau and Mouffe

ID: 34592

Authors: Brunno Fernandes da Silva Gaião, André Luiz Maranhão de Souza Leão, Sérgio Carvalho Benício de Mello.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 149-171, November-December, 2014. 23 page(s).

Keyword: Carnival , Discourse theory , Laclau and Mouffe , Politics , Recife

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Given the importance of Carnival party to the city of Recife, it is natural that the event involves a plurality of voices present in the construction of meanings related to the party. In this sense, we chose to rely on discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe – which deals with the discursive articulation of different agents around meanings in the construction of a discourse – in an attempt to seek answers to the following question: “How the discourse of Recife’s Multicultural Carnival was formed?”. Looking for ways consistent with the research methodological and theoretical choices we have established, we take a critical approach, post-structuralist and post-Marxist matrix, adopting a qualitative research strategy. The construction of our research corpus took place through two distinct stages. Firstly, through preliminary readings we identified the different relevant groups that set some involvement with Recife’s Multicultural Carnival. Then, research corpus was built, composed by documental research in order to access the discursive sources of our study. Concerning the data analysis, we used the discourse analysis of French strand in conjunction with the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The arguments against the current format of the party demonstrate they do not have enough articulatory strength to challenge all discursive positions that are articulated in favor of Recife’s Carnival. This favorable chain of equivalence seems enough articulated to make sense of the empty signifier “Recife’s Multicultural Carnival”, that points to the cultural diversity as nodal point that propitiates to the official discourse defined by municipal government occupies the hegemonic space around this discourse. The party emerges as a space of diversity and cultural plurality, source of economic opportunity for many agents. Finally, we point out a limitation of this study, as we focused our analysis on public policy arena, the state, not accessing private capital while influencing configuration of the party. In this regard, we point out as a possibility of further studies the analysis of Recife’s Multicultural Carnival from the perspective of private organizations involved in carrying out the party.

Organizational justice perceived by teachers of basic, technical and technological education

ID: 34593

Authors: Renata Gomes de Jesus, Diva Ester Okazaki Rowe.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 172-200, November-December, 2014. 29 page(s).

Keyword: Cross-cultural adaptation , Organizational justice , Perception of justice , Teacher , Validation

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The concept of justice is a social phenomenon that permeate both social life and organizational. The perception of organizational justice concerns the perception of how decisions are made regarding the distribution of results and the perceived justice in relation to these results and it is through it that employees determine whether they were treated fairly, and this perception can influence subsequent attitudes and behaviors of individuals, such as commitment, trust, performance, turnover and aggression. Rego (2001) considers that some professionals, such as teachers, have a different perception regarding the distributive dimension of organizational justice and he developed the scale of perceptions of justice of teachers in higher education with five dimensions: distributive of task, distributive of rewards, procedural, interpersonal and informational. To allow its application in the Brazilian context, this article aims to adapt and validate the scale since it was developed and validated in Portugal To allow its application in the Brazilian context, this article aims to adapt and validate the scale since it was developed and validated in Portugal and analyze how teachers perceive the organizational justice in a public federal institution of basic education, technical and technological. The scale passed by cultural adaptation process as suggested by Guillemin, Bombardier and Beaton (1993) and Beaton, Bombardier, Guillemin and Ferraz (2000). The adapted version was made available to 1,191 teachers, and only 415 completed the questionnaire. The sample was submited to exploratory factor analysis that did not confirm the structure proposed by the model structure, but ensured the validity of the construct and reduced to four the five factors of the model. The sample was then submited to confirmatory factor analysis in which all fit indices showed satisfactory values . The results revealed that teachers have a more positive perception of organizational justice in their interactional and distributive of tasks dimensions and that the substitute teachers perceive more positively than the effective teachers the interactional and distributive of rewards dimensions. For future studies we suggest the application of this scale of justice among teachers in private context and other public educational institutions, verifying the validity of the scale.

Ppsychological well-being and psychological distress for professors in brazil and Canada

ID: 34594

Authors: Ana Alice Vilas Boas, Estelle M. Morin.

Source: Revista de Administração Mackenzie, v. 15, n. 6, p. 201-219, November-December, 2014. 19 page(s).

Keyword: Bias of conformity , Faculty , Human resources , Life events , Mental health

Document type: Article (English) Show Abstract

Mental health, an important object of research in psychology as well as social psychology, can be determined by the relationship between psychological well-being and psychological distress. In this context, we search to understand: “How do compare mental health of professors working in public universities in an emerging country like Brazil with the one of professors working in a developed country like Canada?” and “What are the main differences in the indicators of mental health in work domain?”. This paper assesses psychological well-being and psychological distress for professors working in these two countries and test for their differences. The sample consists of 354 Brazilian professors and 317 Canadian professors. Data were collected through an on-line questionnaire assessing the following mental health indicators: anxiety, depression, loss of control, general positive affect and emotional ties. We compared the components of psychological distress and psychological well-being to analyse their relations. Additionally, we compared these components with work-life balance indicator. Reliability analyses demonstrated that all tested components are consistent to evaluate mental health. There are small mean differences between Brazilian and Canadian professors in all five components of mental health, but these differences are not statistically significant. Mean differences for work-life balance, gender, age, and bias of conformity are statistically different, although the size effects are small. Linear regression analysis, step by step, controlled for life events, showed that general positive affect, anxiety and emotional ties predict 31.5% of the scores of work-life balance. Additionally, we observed that Brazilian professors find more balance between professional and private life than do their Canadian colleagues. Promoting mental health is a challenge for public management sector, thus, public managers and governmental organizations can beneficiate from the studies of social psychology to improve work performance and the quality of the services offered to the society as well as to assist employees to improve their personal and professional life.