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Brazilian agriculture is increasingly consolidating as one of the world’s leading food producers. The major challenge of this branch is to meet global demand for food, which, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will be 60% higher in 2050 than today. This challenge is aggravated by changes in dietary habits, climate change, and environmental impacts. This research was based on the Resource Dependency Theory, which assumes that no organization is capable of generating all the types of resources that it needs for its survival and growth, and therefore depends on its external environment to obtain resources that enable its operation. The general research objective was to discuss the dependence of resources for research and innovation in agriculture in five Research Foundations in the south of Brazil. The study was descriptive and comparative, with a qualitative approach. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the managers responsible for the five selected Research Foundations. The results pointed out that, despite the existence of financing lines and fiscal incentives, there is still a predominance of private resources in researching for innovation in agriculture. The researched foundations rely on maintainers, who are responsible for providing resources not coming from the public sector or from the entity’s organic revenues.

This article is based on two books, Administração e contexto brasileiro (Administration and Brazilian context) and A nova ciência das oganizações (The new science of organizations), written by Guerreiro Ramos. The study presents the main aspects of the organizational theories analyzed by the author, observing particularly what he calls “blind spots”. Guerreiro Ramos exposes four crucial points that organizational theories fail to address and, in the development of these points, demonstrates concepts that are absorbed and transformed. The “blind spots” are: a) the notion of rationality that dominates not only organizational studies but also economics, political science, and social sciences; b) the non-distinction between substantive and formal meanings of organization; c) organizational theories have no clear understanding of the role of symbolic interactions; and d)finally, organizational theories rely only on a mechanomorphic view of the human. Guerreiro Ramos lists the points in a specific chapter of the book A nova ciência das organizações (The new science of organizations), and analyzes and explains them throughout the two works guiding this research. It appears that the author needed to present these blind points thoroughly before proposing his multidimensional model of society (which is not addressed in this study), a measure that may be explained by the extension and depth of his work, observed by the numerous possible agendas presented by several scholars in order to continue the study of Guerreiro Ramos’ contributions. It is possible to conclude that Guerreiro Ramos’ ideas remain current, and the criticisms and concerns he brought to the field of organizational studies are relevant and fundamental for those who intend to develop critical studies both in teaching and development managerial approaches.

This work verifies the influence of venture capital on the propensity of Brazilian startups to innovate. The central argument lies in the theoretical indication that venture capital is one of the best financing mechanisms to stimulate business innovation. The study adopted a quantitative approach to define the dimensions that were explored qualitatively in a second stage. The research applied questionnaires to companies that received funding from a venture capital fund, and then selected some of the respondents for interviews. The results indicate that the venture capital invested aim mainly at the commercial insertion of technologies that investees already developed or are in development process. This type of funding fails to prioritize research and development, which would allow the creation of new technologies to expand the investees’ competitiveness in the future.

Cooperation among firms through networks is a form to obtain a variety of resources. Over time, networks can become an exclusive provider of some resources used by members, leading to dependencys. This study is interested in this phenomenon, and aims to examine how firm-network interdependence grows throughout the development of inter-organizational networks. The research was conducted with networks that were in distinct stages of evolution (formation, development, and professionalization). Interviews were carried out with the presidents of the networks and two member firms of each network. The study identified an inversion in the relation of interdependence investigated, where the network is dependent of its members in the first stages of evolution and, as its governance and structure consolidate, members develop a dependency relationship toward the network and the benefits it offers.

This article aims to analyze the recent scientific production about 4.0 Industry from BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), published in leading academics journals. The 4.0 Industry incorporates nine technological innovations, which are related, directly and indirectly, to the evolution of Science and Technology (S&T) in BRICS, diagnosed by the evolution of the financial support, the participation in S&T in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the number of researchers and publications, in each member country. The descriptive and exploratory research was built using bibliometrics. The population was made up of texts of the databases Scopus and Web of Science, and the final sample was composed of 51 interdisciplinary articles. The analysis considered indicators of characterization of scientific production, to a certain degree co-occurrence of scientific productivity and scientific collaboration of methodological features of the study. It is concluded that Chinese articles are predominant, and the research indicated the increase of studies about Industry 4.0 in S&T in BRICS. There is still a need to effectively strengthen the cooperation of these countries in the aspects related to the subject, according to agreements already established in recent years. In addition, the academic production shows a vast field to be explored, with the need for cooperation and effective development of common S&T objectives in BRICS.

The growing diffusion of collective work configurations in the current organizational environment has remained largely overlooked in the scientific body of work on the theme (BOREHAM, 2011). Paradoxically, however, certain currents in the debate about organizations highlight the role of collective work, as is the case with the literature on organizational routines (NELSON and WINTER, 2005; PENTLAND and FELDMAN, 2005). The question that motivates this investigation explores the relationship between those two themes: can the dynamics of corporate budgeting constitute an adequate space for the formation and development of collective competences? The objective of this question is an inquiry into the design of corporate budgets, from an organizational-routine approach, to identify evidence of teamwork and the formation of collective competences and attributes. The responses transit through a qualitative and phenomenographic investigation that pointed to four descriptive categories of collective work: commitment to deliver, reconfiguration of routines, shared availability, and building relationship networks. The contributions of the research include the potential of the organizational routines theory as a reference for the analysis of corporate processes, the identification of processes capable of contributing to the management of workgroups, and the use of the phenomenographic method as an alternative to frame somewhat intangible organizational phenomena.

This article analyzes the relationship between education investments and indicators that monitor the development of education quality, particularly the Index of Development of Basic Education (IDEB). The research carried out a quantitative and bibliographical and documentary investigation. Public statistical sources were consulted, provided by agencies such as the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research “Anísio Teixeira” (INEP). The data obtained allowed toidentify the performance of the schools in IDEB, correlating the IDEB score with the volume of resources destined for each school through the Programa Dinheiro Direto na Escola (program that offers grants directly to the institution) (PDDE) on a supplementary basis. Statistical tools of Pearson’s Linear Correlation and Scatter Diagram were used. The results show a low relationship between the schools’ budget and the result in IDEB, with situations where the institutions had received a comparatively high amount in grants but obtained a low score in IDEB, and schools that, even without receiving substantial grants, reached and sometimes surpassed the goals previously established for their score in IDEB. This shows that the correct application of available resources is crucial in school management.

This article proposes an integrated theoretical model, combining Polanyi and Peirce constructs – tacit knowledge and semiotics, respectively – under the symbolic interactionist perspective. It aims to understand how signs are manifested as mediators in the tacit knowledge sharing process among members of a cooperative organization. It is based on: a theoretical articulation of the principles of tacit knowledge, which defends the ineffability of this kind of knowledge; semiotic theory, in which signs are a representation of “something for someone” and imply that everything in the world is a sign; and the symbolic interactionist view. This theoretical integration presents a significant theoretical contribution because it proposes a process of semiotic perception to tacit knowledge sharing. This perspective suggests that tacit knowledge sharing occurs through symbolic interaction, mediated by semiotics; this innovative model depends both on internal and external conditions, albeit involving aspects outside organizational control.

The article aims to advance the understanding of the successive circumvention of regulations by organizations, to determine whether it is possible to characterize them as purposeful actions, while the institutional literature analyzes decoupling and circumvention as sporadic activities. It analyzes the responses adopted by health plan companies to favor their interests, responses that often fail to comply with the rules of the institutional context, and which boosted the phenomenon known as ‘judicialization’. The study analyzed 158 lawsuits collected from the electronic archives of the Court of Justice of São Paulo, where beneficiaries sue health plan companies because of treatment coverage denial. Using correspondence and thematic analysis, some associations between denials and allegations showed to be significant, suggesting companies’ strategic patterns. It was possible to identify different strategic practices adopted by companies to avoid complying with institutional guidelines, and to observe that certain regulatory features can contribute to non-compliance strategies. The article contributes to the institutional literature by identifying organizational practices meant to successively circumvent and confront institutional prescriptions, indicating that health plan companies apparently design specific strategies to respond to beneficiaries’ demands.

This article analyzes the construction of the professional identity of female managers who are baby boomers, generation Xers and millennials. The research adopted a qualitative and analytical descriptive approach, interviewing 32 women working in different sectors of the economy in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The group interviewed was chosen and divided by generations counting on 06 baby boomers, 11 generation Xers, and 15 Millennials. The data were analyzed considering the dimensions proposed by Hill (1993) when discussing the process of becoming a manager: learning what it means to be a manager; developing interpersonal judgements; gaining self-knowledge; coping with stress and emotions; and managing transformations. The study identified that although the generations have different characteristics (such as way of thinking, acting, and seeing the world), they have little influence in the process of building professional identity of the female managers.