Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

There are serious contradictions between the proclaimed economic benefits obtained by localities where the mineral extraction industry historically operates, and the results recorded in research work. Studies have pointed out serious problems and negative consequences from the mineral extraction industry’s questionable form of management and relationship with the local environment. These practices have increased the socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability of the territories, both in local and regional dimensions. Studies about development indicate the existence of a positive relationship between governance and economic growth, and between innovation and economic growth. There are also studies that point out innovative processes as essential to local and regional development because they prioritize the territorial diversity and develop opportunities focused on the profile of each region. However, this discussion is still restricted to the economic and exclusive point of view of the industrial sector, which limits the analysis from the perspective of regional development. To unravel the nature of the still unclear relationship between territorial governance and social innovation and the effects of this relationship in regional development processes in mining territories, this article raises a set of six theoretical propositions, which forms a schematic model for further empirical investigation. The aim is to use this model to search for similarities and peculiarities, and to establish parallel or comparative analysis between diverse and different case studies.     

This article adopts a feminist perspective in the analysis of the infra-political resistance practices, a perspective that is needed in organization studies. The study aimed to understand the organization of everyday practices that involves “bid aesthetics” and resistance tactics and strategies, of an infra-political character, observing the art of an artisan and actions from a women’s network which she is a member of. The research methodology used the qualitative approach, focusing on case study, supported by direct observation, documentary research, field diary, and in-depth interviews. The narrative analysis identified the organization of different practices both from the artisan and the women’s network, which are based on the reuse of materials discarded by large companies. In the “bid aesthetics” context such materials emerge as a source of supply, income generation, and inspiration for the recreation of symbolic elements of the northeastern culture. In the context of the women’s network, the analysis also points to the bonds of affection and resonance as links of an infra-political movement that mobilizes women around objectives of struggle and resistance in different spaces. The theoretical articulation promotes advances in the field of Organization Studies by constructing a proposition that combines the studies of everyday life and aesthetics of Certeau (2014) with the questions of resistance discussed by Spicer and Böhm (2007) and the feminist debate.

This article aims to understand the so-called managing process in a public elementary school as a relational and emergent process, beyond the idea of management. Managing as a process in Brazilian public schools is a phenomenon with peculiar characteristics, since it involves multiple actors of a school community. Everyday practices, conflicts, uncertainties, negotiations, and diverse interests constantly arise in everyday school life. Hence, it is fundamental to study school management not from a perspective of something static and given a priori, but as a constant dynamic managing process, in which management itself is (re)constructed by continuous interactions between people and situations they experience in organizational everyday life. Data was collected using the shadowing technique, which consists of the daily monitoring of an organizational actor during a certain period, in their daily tasks, and documents of the school studied. Systematic observations occurred from February to May 2015, complemented by more sporadic visits to the field from June to September 2015. Data were analyzed through content analysis. The obtained results point to school managing as a constant process of evolution that is situated, transitory, and product of the dialogues, interactions, and experience of emergencies and critical moments in daily school life.

This study aims to explore the database of the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) produced by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) in order to investigate how couples from a dual-career perspective approach the demands of home and work. The study uses a quantitative-descriptive analysis of secondary data to update the model proposed by Berlato (2015), in which typologies were delineated from a sample of dual-career couples who were former students of a state university in São Paulo. From a sample of 890 individuals derived from the PNAD, it was possible to observe the predominance of traditional characteristics among Brazilian couples. Despite the suggestion of social change that comes with the dual-career phenomenon, there are still some features that accentuate gender disparities in the country.

This article reflects on the notion of subject and power characterized by Foucault, considering the three intellectual phases and possibilities of the subject, as portrayed in studies on organizations and management. The research assumes that the ways in which Foucault characterized the subject in intellectual phases reflects the ways the organization manages the individual. In addition, this work highlights the potential of the Foucaultian approach regarding the analysis of subjects and the relations of power in the organizations. In the archaeological phase the proposal is to prioritize the study of organizational discourses. In the genealogy phase, the idea is to advance the analyses of the disciplinary power, relational power, and biopolitics. Finally, in ethics, we suggest the need to analyze the constitution of subjectivities in the work space.

This study applies the social entrepreneurs typology suggested by Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum et al. (2009): Social Bricoleur, Social Builder, and Social Engineer in interviews with evaluators and start-ups supported by Yunus Social Business Brazil. A case study was conducted to identify similarities and divergences between the characteristics of these types of social entrepreneurs, exploring their profile and motivation, considering the reality of the social businesses. Each type concentrates features of innovation and utilization of resources as those proposed by Hayek (1945), Kirzner (1973) and Schumpeter (1942). Social businesses, according to Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the creation of the Grameen Bank), unify in a single business model the positive socio-environmental impacts and economic-financial sustainability, without the distribution of dividends, which are intended to expand the businesses or fund new initiatives of the same nature. Thus, Social Business maximizes social wealth and restricts the concentration of individual income. The results showed that the start-ups researched have characteristics of the Social Builder type, as described in the work by Kirzner (1973). This study works as a starting point for empirical studies on entrepreneurship and social business, and helps entrepreneurs and investors guiding the first to align business models to receive funding, and investors to identify the best social business opportunity.

This study examined companies from two different groups of countries in Central and Eastern Europe and their partnerships with the Government for the development of four types of innovation (product, process, organizational, and marketing). The research included ex-soviet republics (Eu members and non-members), and observed how each type of innovation affects the firms’ financial performance. A sample of 1,143 manufacturing SMEs from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) were tested using multiple regression and logit. Based on the absorptive capacity theory, the results show that manufacturing SMEs from EU-member countries have a higher absorptive capacity and take advantage of the EU’s innovation promotion programs to innovate. On the other hand, the SMEs from non EU-member states perceive a quicker effect of the innovations in financial performance, considering that there is a technological gap between the two groups (non EU-members are less developed). Also, the introduction of different types of innovations simultaneously boosts the performance of firms from non EU-member countries in the short run.

This article aims to analyze empowerment as a practice of social innovation in a civil society organization (CSO) working with vulnerable children and adolescents in the Northeast of Brazil. The study adopted an ethnometodological approach, using interviews with the organization’s staff, children and adolescents that participate or participated in the project, and their families. In addition, the study used participant observation, photos, videos, and document analysis. The results show that besides the individuals empowerment, the participants of the project became multipliers of the acquired knowledge, contributing to the development of other people in their networks. The social innovation practice analyzed has changed over time based on the action and demands of the children and adolescents involved, following their personal development process. Also, the practice is improved based on the CSO’s planning and work of mapping community needs. This article contributes to delineate an integrative theoretical conception, helping to investigate how the practice develops over time and is legitimized in the context, evidencing its founding elements and means of materialization.

This research aims to understand the benefits of networks, based on their origin, for the process of companies’ accelerated internationalization. The study adopts as a reference the emergence of Born Global enterprises, International New Ventures (INV), and the Networking approach. An inductive and interpretative method was applied, using in-depth interviews, triangulated with public documents about the studied companies. The research analyzed two companies oriented to international markets since their establishment. The interviews’ transcripts were analyzed using matrices elaborated throughout the study, which were interrelated with the elements of early international business, identified in the interviewees’ responses. The analysis allowed the development of a chronology of the cases, and the networks’ origin, benefits, and strategies related to the accelerated internationalization model were identified. The results showed a diverse typology of networks by origin: family, previous work experience, academic (Undergraduate and Graduate), events, institutional (public and private), and partners. These networks promote the process of accelerated internationalization with: contacts, emotional support, knowledge (lessons, experiences, among others), resources (monetary and non-monetary), forming teams and networking, which are elements of the Born Global and INV companies. The research concludes that the scenario of products with low local demand and niches in the international markets form an appropriate context for the emergence of Born Global or INVs, and that networks in the first stage (even before the companies foundation) guide the internationalization strategies. These strategies support the growth and evolution of networks the company is connected to throughout its development process.

This essay presents a view on the history of citizenship in Latin America. The classical literature defines citizenship as a series of tensions between representations of universality and equality, derived from how prerogatives and obligations of the individual members of territorial political organizations developed through history. In addition, the literature considers citizenship as a material and symbolic status whose relative universality and equality depend on concrete historical situations. The study proposes a long-term view identifying moments in history where these tensions appear, showing periods of equilibrium and critical junctures, which allows the perception of interesting aspects of the history of political and social inclusion in Latin American countries. The period between the first decades of the twentieth century and the present day) witnessed dramatic and non-linear processes. This moment can be seen as a series of regional movements toward an equilibrium that guarantees deeper inclusion of citizens in most political and social aspects, due to broader political regimes and as states more capable of delivering effective public policies.