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Aspectos semânticos, formais e funcionais do conceito desempenho em estudos organizacionais e estratégia : um modelo analítico
Get PDFOrientador : Prof. Dr. Sergio BulgacovTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração. Defesa: Curitiba, 21/08/2009Inclui bibliografiaÁrea de concentração: Estratégia e organizaçõesResumo: O desempenho organizacional é reconhecido como um fenômeno complexo e multifacetado. Trabalhos anteriores de desenvolvimento de esquemas de classificação multidimensional de desempenho organizacional buscaram fornecer regras gerais para classificação e mensuração do desempenho. Entretanto, esses trabalhos demonstraram falta de consistência interna e exaustividade das categorias propostas. O propósito do presente estudo é apresentar um novo modelo multidimensional de análise de desempenho organizacional, o qual foi desenvolvido com base em trabalhos anteriores mas pretende superar as limitações identificadas. Portanto, a partir da revisão de literatura e com base em um método de classificação conceitual, foi desenvolvido um Modelo Multidimensional de Análise de Desempenho Organizacional por meio da agregação de atributos, propriedades e dimensões. Finalmente, o modelo foi utilizado para a realização de uma análise de conteúdo comparativa, categorial, transnacional, longitudinal, descritivo-quantitativa e inferencial qualitativa de pesquisas empíricas brasileiras e estrangeiras das áreas de estudos de organizações e de estratégia, publicadas entre 2005 e 2007. Concluiu-se que, no contexto dessas áreas de estudo, o conceito desempenho apresenta uma estrutura multidimensional homóloga, de natureza polissêmica, polimórfica e poli funcional. Os resultados também mostram diferenças e similaridades entre as opções de pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros quanto ao uso dos atributos, propriedades e dimensões. O estudo amplia trabalhos anteriores ao reforçar a base conceitual de classificações de base teórico-empírica.Abstract: Organizational performance is acknowledged as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Previous works on multi-dimensional classification schemes of organizational performance have tried to provide general guidelines on how to conceptualize and measure performance. However, these efforts have lacked internal consistency and collective exhaustiveness. The purpose of this study is to propose a new multi-dimensional analytical model of organizational performance, which is developed upon previous works but is expected to correct their flaws. So, proceeding from the literature review and on the basis of a conceptual classification method, a Multi-dimensional Analytical Model of Organizational Performance was developed by means of the aggregation of attributes, properties and dimensions. Finally, the model was used to accomplish a comparative, categorical, cross-national, longitudinal, descriptive-quantitative and inferential-qualitative content-analysis of Brazilian and Foreign empirical studies from Organizational Studies and Strategy areas, published from 2005 to 2007. The study concluded that, in the context of these areas, the concept of performance reveals a multi-dimensional homologous structure, of polysemic, polymorphic and polyfunctional nature. The results also show diferences and similarities between Brazilian and Foreign researchers'use of attributes, properties and dimensions. This study also extends earlier works by increasing the conceptual base of more empirically-based classifications of organizational performance dimension
Process philosophy's potential contributions to innovation process research within organization studies
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss process philosophy's potential contributions to understanding and investigation of innovation processes associated with organizational contexts. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is a theoretical piece that examines the concept of process philosophy by relating it to the relevant literature and use of examples. Findings: In particular, the authors develop some ideas and encourage future discussion around two aspects: process philosophy-oriented conceptualizations of innovation processes and process philosophy-oriented methods of investigation about innovation processes. The authors conclude that more process philosophy-oriented research of innovation processes must be conceptually multidimensional and methodologically performative. Originality/value: There is a recent claim about a "process turn" within organization studies, which is partly represented by attempts to develop and apply a deeper meaning of process. The presentation of the concept is novel, and does add to the literature. These aspects provide clarification regarding implications of thinking and enquiring procedurally into innovation processes
Anacronismo conceitual e construção social do conhecimento em estudos organizacionais: uma análise a partir da história conceitual
Get PDFResumo Este trabalho propõe a utilização dos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da História Conceitual de Koselleck como base para análise do anacronismo conceitual em estudos organizacionais. Ilustrativamente, descrevemos um exemplo do modo como estudiosos podem incorrer em erro ao negligenciar mudanças semânticas relacionadas a determinado conceito e, desse modo, gerar um tipo de anacronismo como efeito da utilização de conceitos polissêmicos e historicamente determinados para definir fenômenos e contextos contemporâneos. Para tanto, os significados originais atribuídos por Taylor ao conceito de ‘organização’ - levantados a partir do método onomasiológico e semasiológico - foram comparados à sua interpretação por sociólogos funcionalistas na década de 1960. Esperamos, por meio da discussão aqui apresentada, prevenir futuras distorções causadas por anacronismo na interpretação de conceitos científicos, em particular no campo das ciências sociais e de estudos organizacionais
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Organização como evento: implicações conceituais e teóricas da adoção de uma ontologia processual strong-view
Get PDFEstudos organizacionais com base em metafísica processual têm gerado crescente interesse ao longo das últimas décadas. Segundo essa perspectiva ontológica, uma visão processual demanda a substituição de explicações simplificadoras da realidade fundamentadas na ideia de substância por explicações mais complexas com base na noção de processo e de relacionalidade. O objetivo central deste artigo consiste em discutir implicações da adoção de uma noção de evento de base ontológica processual strong-view no campo de estudos organizacionais. Para tanto, foi desenvolvido um ensaio teórico fundamentado na: (i) exploração do conceito de evento com base na ontologia processual de Alfred North Whitehead e (ii) identificação de possibilidades da adoção dessa noção de evento para os estudos organizacionais. Como principal resultado do trabalho, destaca-se a discussão de seis princípios ou proposições relacionadas ao conceito de organização com base nessa noção strong-view de evento: organização como estrutura de eventos, ontologia organizacional ancorada em sua temporalidade, eventos como unidades de análise organizacional, organização como processo contínuo, organização como resultado de mecanismos de estabilização dinâmica, organização como reiteração de padrões
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Strategic organizational adaptation under multiple theoretical lenses: sudy og Weg Between 1961-2013
No full textStudies on strategic organizational adaptation are related to the development and application of descriptive and explanatory theories of strategic options and the degree of potential organizational mobilization in response to internal and external elements potentially influential of strategic decision making. The main objective of this research was to analyze the individual and joint explanatory power of organizational strategic adaptation theories, based on changes in the strategic content of a large Brazilian organization over 40 years of history. Methodologically, it is a qualitative, descriptive and analytical study. Secondary data were collected in books about the corporate history and information available in official media about the organization. The results demonstrated complementarities between the theories used to explain the organizational strategic adaptation phenomenon. Among the key findings, it appears that the understanding of the organizational strategic adaptation process in longitudinal perspective is a phenomenon that requires multiple theoretical lenses. Moreover, it results from the interaction between internal and external elements of the organization
Process philosophy’s potential contributions to innovation process research within organization studies
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss process philosophy’s potential contributions to understanding and investigation of innovation processes associated with organizational contexts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a theoretical piece that examines the concept of process philosophy by relating it to the relevant literature and use of examples. Findings – In particular, the authors develop some ideas and encourage future discussion around two aspects: process philosophy-oriented conceptualizations of innovation processes and process philosophyoriented methods of investigation about innovation processes. The authors conclude that more process philosophy-oriented research of innovation processes must be conceptually multidimensional and methodologically performative. Originality/value – There is a recent claim about a “process turn” within organization studies, which is partly represented by attempts to develop and apply a deeper meaning of process. The presentation of the concept is novel, and does add to the literature. These aspects provide clarification regarding implications of thinking and enquiring procedurally into innovation processes
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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