Dinâmica de institucionalização de práticas sociais: estudo da responsabilidade social no campo das organizações bancárias

The scope of this theses is to understand the dynamics of the institutionalization of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the Field of Banking Organizations in Brazil. Using the social analysis model put forward by Boltanski and Chiapello (1999) and reverting to the conceptual basis of the institutional approach and using Bourdieu¿s notion of interest (1996), we arrive at an analytical model that enabled us to assess CSR as part of a movement of displacement of capitalism. The theory we propose here is that with the institutionalization of CSR, actions are justified in terms of the common good, being legitimized by structural confirmations and arrangements and, at the same time, heeding the inherent interests of the Field. The means used for comprehension of the dynamics of the institutionalization of CSR were: (1) the analysis of the construction of the phenomenon of CSR, which enabled us to identify critical factors and events, leaders in Brazil and associated ratification of the institutionalization of this social practice; (2) the description of the Field of Banking Organizations and the identification of the elements of its CSR in History, which are essential steps for understanding the justifications for insertion of the Field in the movement towards CSR; (3) the identification of key players in the institutionalization of the social practice within the Field, as well as the categorization of practical actions considered socially responsible to be found in the organizations researched, analyzing them in terms of justifications and interests; (4) the analysis of the dissemination and sedimentation of structural arrangements linked to CSR in the organizations of the Field, such as specific areas created to deal with CSR, social reports and organizational websites. The field research assessed some 30 organizations and included documentary analysis and interviews. We noted that, from being a marginal and isolated action, over the course of the past decade CSR has become a structured action in banking organizations, while at the same time becoming transformed into a social value, capable of contributing to the legitimacy of the Field. In this respect, research showed that retail banks are those that are inserted in the movement towards CSR, which ratifies the thesis of the phenomenon as displacement of capitalism.

Negociação e implementação de acordos de poluição transfronteiriça: o caso Brasil-Uruguai em relação à Termelétrica de Candiota (RS)

Os processos de negociação sobre poluição transfronteiriça na América Latina têm sido pouco analisados. Esta tese examina o caso das negociações, os acordos assinados entre Brasil e Uruguai pelo risco de contaminação transfronteiriça produzida pela Usina Termelétrica Presidente Médici (UTPM) e a implementação dos acordos. O processo é analisado desde o seu início em 1988, estendendo-se até 2002. Em primeiro lugar, a tese explica porque o processo de negociação tornou-se possível. A explicação está baseada em três fatores: a existência de uma relação de confiança mútua e de cooperação desenvolvida através do tempo entre ambos Estados; o interesse dos órgãos brasileiros de controle ambiental em melhorar os controles sobre a UTPM; e a falta de alternativas melhores para as partes. Fatores de contexto – como o processo de integração regional, através do Mercosul, e a mudança na política ambiental brasileira – também contribuíram para que o país se interessasse em resolver o problema. O resultado foi positivo para ambas as partes, que decidiram assinar um acordo para a implementação de um monitoramento conjunto. Este monitoramento não comprovou a existência de chuva ácida no Uruguai. Em segundo lugar, a tese revela que a “fraqueza” institucional dos acordos não foi impedimento para que fossem implementados. Ao contrário, permitiu que as autoridades brasileiras cooperassem com Uruguai na realização de um monitoramento sobre a região. Em terceiro lugar, é mostrado que o processo de implementação dos acordos (1991-2002) favoreceu o aumento da capacidade institucional do órgão de controle ambiental do Uruguai e da FEPAM (Brasil), aperfeiçoou o sistema de controle do comportamento ambiental da empresa, e forçou a UTPM a tomar medidas de melhorias ambientais. Por último, a tese deixa claro que o processo de implementação não foi concluído porque o interesse político pelo tema diminuiu em ambos os países, vindo a se tornar um debate meramente técnico

Estudo de caso da evolução organizacional da Escola Técnica do Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro(ETAM) em relação à viabilidade do atingimento simultâneo de requisitos fomentados pelo Ministério da Educação e pelo Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro

The present study treats of an historical analysis of the organizational evolution of School Technique of Arsenal of Navy of Rio de Janeiro (ETAM) and your contribution to the establishment of the current managerial model. This school is the one of national institution of teaching, turned to the area of the industry naval, what else contributed in the country, in the century 20, to the formation qualified of hand of work, having activities since 1923. The Arsenal of Navy of Rio de Janeiro, counting with 239 years of experience, since your foundation, stimulates the professional qualification of Brazilians workers , on the area of the industry naval, since 1823.

Ouvidoria em órgão regulador do sistema financeiro nacional: o caso do Banco Central do Brasil

This study aims to understand how can the Ombudsman Office in the Central Bank of Brazil - the national monetary policy authority - contribute towards its interaction with society, especially regarding its customer service center. Social control over the government appears to be vital to the governments be responsive and pursue the public interest. The Ombudsman Office can be one instrument of social control. This research is a case study. The study presents the term ombudsman in the world and also its equivalent in Brazil - "ouvidor". Next, concepts related to public administration and accountability are approached. It was verified that the Ombudsman office can be effective in helping the social control of Central Bank of Brazil. Moreover, the Ombudsman Office brings a lot of valuable knowledge to this organization, mainly regarding its social role and its internal processes.

O planejamento estratégico na Marinha do Brasil: o caso das organizações militares prestadoras de serviços

Public Management has been faced with a challenge in improving quality of its services to atendent a citizen each day more concerned and self-conscient of his rights. One of major tools used abroad is strategic planning, although its has been designed for a private sector where the focus is profit its been used in the public sector for improving efficiency. Our focus was the Brazilian Navy, especially the Service-Deliver Military Organization (OMPS),who has been using strategic planning searching for continous improving of internal practices. Strategic planning, originated in Military field, has improved its use in the private sector, especially in United States, after the Second World War when it reached 85% of all american private industry. Some of the concepts and models of strategic planning are reviewed, including some criticism and questioning of its aplicability in the public sector, who, by the way, have serious limitations, like: 1) legal matters (separation of powers); 2) citizen dependency - actions are taken in a vote-profits bases; and 3) burocratic culture, including resistency for changes. Our primary target was to investigated the validity of the strategic planning tool in the Brazilian Navy, searching for define the profile and the comittment of all actors involved in the process, comparing teory and practice. The survey used in the search was individual and anonimous using Likert scale of four options, where each respondent shown his percepetion of the strategic planning used in each of the two investigated organizations All data are shown in the appendices and the results pointed for a non-coerency of the speech and pratice of strategic planning and its models in the analised organizations.

O modelo em rede aplicado à indústria de telecomunicações brasileira: o caso da TELEMAR

Virtual, cellular, modular, organic, holographic, networked enterprise. This is a new kind of organizational structure of growing importance inside of the enterprises that are looking for new models, attending to the requirements of flexibility, celerity and competitiveness. Requirements to the business of the future, for the new times of moving cycles, each time faster and faster. In that context, technological, cultural, strategic and human aspects are remodelled inside of the context of the called 'Information Era'. The objective of this work is to research how business, specially the Brazilians, are getting ready to be the 'organizations or enterprises' of the future. On the perspective of a virtual organization, throughout the flexibility, celerity and based on knowledge. Especially the Brazilian telecommunication industry, living the post privatization phase, which is in a process of organizational reestructuration, seeking to increase its competition in the globalized market. That is why, the analysis focus on Telemar, one of the largest in terms of geographic covering and investment power in the market and with essentially national shareholders.

Uma análise crítica da gestão ambiental na indústria química do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

O presente trabalho faz uma avaliação da gestão ambiental das indústrias químicas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Dessa forma, procuramos relatar as principais ações instrumentos gerenciais disponíveis às organizações delineamos um quadro das idéias relativas ao desenvolvimento sustentável que deveriam permear todas as ações do gerente ambiental na indústria. partir das informações colhidas, avaliamos os aspectos primordiais dessas atividades como demandas por assessoria técnica; os aspectos ambientais relevantes; as ações implementadas; projetos inovações; as dificuldades para melhoria; registros sistemáticos; as ações externas as ações futuras; investimentos; os recursos humanos; aspectos do mercado e a legislação. Concluímos com uma análise sobre os diversos aspectos observados, sugerindo conceitos ações que ratificam, acrescentam ou alteram as ações gerenciais observadas.

Avaliação do estágio de desenvolvimento da responsabilidade social no Banco Central do Brasil

This study examines the corporate social responsibility (CSR) theme in Central Bank of Brazil (Bacen). The CSR movement is growing worldwide and it is related to values such as sustainability, ethics and transparency to the stakeholders. The study was performed in two parts. The first part consists of a bibliography research on the origins, the concept and the practice relating to CSR in the contemporary organizational environment. In the second part - field research - the Central Bank's Board of Directors and representatives of Ibase and Ethos Institute were interviewed and the content analysis method - a qualitative research method - was used in the interpretation of information obtained. The analysis of the interviews shows that the Board is receptive to the CSR development and that they consider the accomplishment of Central Bank's institutional mission fundamental in this process. The participation of the Bank's personnel and the incorporation of the CSR principles into the day-to-day practice are also considered necessary. Finally, one hundred indicators - based on the Ethos CSR Indicators - are proposed to evaluate the stage of development of social responsibility in Bacen on the following subjects: Values, Transparency and Governance; Internal Public; Natural Environment, Suppliers and Society. In summary, this study aims to contribute to the improvement of the knowledge of corporate social responsibility and the best practices in the public sector, particularly in Central Bank of Brazil.

O significado do trabalho para diferentes gerações - o caso do Banco Central do Brasil na Regional do Rio de Janeiro

Durante o século passado, a motivação para o trabalho foi intensamente estudada e as teorias produzidas a seu respeito evoluíram significativamente. Mais recentemente, o significado do trabalho vem ganhando importância na literatura como uma fonte de motivação para as pessoas. É um constructo interpretado como profundamente pessoal e dinâmico, que recebe influências geradas pelo meio ambiente no qual as pessoas vivem e trabalham. Assim, o significado do trabalho pode ser distinto para diferentes gerações. A atual pesquisa objetivou identificar o significado do trabalho para os funcionários do Banco Central do Brasil em sua Regional no Rio de Janeiro, de acordo com a geração a que pertencem: a Geração Baby Boomer e a Geração X. As bases científicas para a pesquisa foram estabelecidas na literatura sobre motivação para o trabalho, significado do trabalho e Geração Baby Boomers e Geração X. As informações sobre o significado do trabalho foram obtidas por melO de um questionário baseado no modelo proposto pelo Meaning of Working - MOW (1987). Os resultados obtidos indicam que o significado do trabalho é diferentemente percebido pelas duas gerações na maioria de seus aspectos: centralidade do trabalho, normas sociais associadas ao trabalho, resultados valorizados do trabalho e identificação dos papéis do trabalho.

A Racionalidade Sustantiva na Avaliação de Projetos em ONGSs : Três Casos

Este trabalho analisa a prática de avaliação de projetos por parte de três organizações não-govemamentais brasileiras, a partir dos conceitos da racionalidade substantiva esboçados por Guerreiro Ramos e implementados por Maurício Serva. São abordadas as condições históricas de surgimento das ONGs no Brasil, em que a formação de seus integrantes, os objetivos que perseguem e o foco de sua ação conformam o pano de fundo a partir do qual se materializa sua gestão. A avaliação é entendida aqui como um aspecto que sintetiza, de forma dinâmica, o conjunto de valores, identidades, posturas e propostas destas organizações ao processo social mais amplo com que se relacionam. Desta forma, a avaliação de projetos ilustra uma maneira de administrar peculiar a organizações de natureza não-govemamental. O trabalho analisa, ainda, os limites da racionalidade substantiva nos processos de avaliação estudados e aponta o conhecimento sobre o universo das organizações não-govemamentais como gerador de possíveis aprendizagens para uma administração pública que pretenda aprimorar a prática democrática.

Globalização de competências tecnológicas inovadoras no contexto de industrialização recente: evidências de uma amostra de institutos de pesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D) em Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) no Brasil

This dissertation adds new evidences and explanations to two distinct streams of debate. The first one refers to the globalisation (or dissemination) of technological innovative capabilities in the context of newly industrialised economies. The second one refers to common generalisations about the deterioration of the innovative capabilities in Latin American countries after 1990. This study was motivated by a lack of empirical studies focused on the relationship between the globalisation of innovative capabilities and sources to build them up in emerging organisations, especially R&D institutes. This dissertation is focused on the globalisation of innovative capabilities at the information and communication technology industry in Brazil. The globalisation of innovative capabilities is measured by the technological capabilities types and levels of 18 national R&D institutes related to this industry. Besides, this dissertation examines sources to build up innovative capabilities in the sampled institutes, namely: their intra-organisational learning processes and the linkages established with firms and the technological infra-structure. The study is based on first-hand empirical evidences, collected by different data-gathering sources in an extensive fieldwork. The data were examined with analytical frameworks, organised in the light of the theoretical basis of the study. The study has found the dissemination of innovative capabilities has been occurring in the Brazilian ICT industry with the involvement of the technological infra-structure with innovative activities. Besides that, the variety of the intra-organisational learning processes and the types of linkages established with technological infra-structure and firms have been influencing the development of innovative capabilities. The evidences that emerge from this study contradict common generalizations and arguments about the inexistence of innovative activities and about the technological infra-structure weakness in emerging or newly industrialized economies.

Estratégia em produtos culturais: estudo de caso de empresa ex-estatal do setor de telecomunicações

In the 1990, and after the process of privatizations of governmental companies in Brazil, cultural products had gained strategical importance for different types of organizations, specially for nationalized companies of the telecommunications sector. Based on the concept of market orientation, and specifically on the concept of cultural marketing, it is possible to understand the approximation between companies and cultural products restrictedly in the level of products and services. However, there has been little questioning about the concept of market orientation and the marginalization of plural and critical approaches which leaves gaps in the understanding of this approximation. Based in other areas of knowledge which understand this approximation between companies and cultural products and based in studies that present critics about the market forces it is possible to recognize the strategical corporative level of cultural products. Based in specific approaches in strategy, and defending pluralism and interdisciplinary research, it is possible to fill this gaps in the marketing literature. Specifically, in this study, are presented approaches that recognize the dimensions of power, politics and symbolism that influence strategies and are responsible for the approximation between these strategies and cultural products. Especially in Brazil, these debates are central, since in a context composed by nationalized companies many ambiguities are common. With this objective, a case study about a telecommunications sector company that has importance in the investment in cultural products is presented. From this case study, based on primary and secondary data, it is possible to comprehend the strategy in cultural products.

Instrumentos de apoio financeiro específicos a empresas localizadas em arranjos produtivos locais: um estudo de caso do APL de Nova Friburgo

In the last decade, the debate concerning more adequate means of promoting social and economic development, through policies of firm supporting, has been gaining strength. Among several means of support, there is one that addresses issues related to credit and funding. At the same time, interest on the phenomenon of firm agglomeration, known by clustering, is increasing, as well as one of its advantages - facilitating the development and strengthening of its firms. Additionally, there can be spotted advantages on clustering that allow tailoring financial instruments, specifically to firms in it, based on collective solutions, with better conditions. This dissertation focuses on how the capture of these opportunities is being done, in the presence of specific financial products to Brazilian clusters. The present analysis is conducted from the cluster located in Nova Friburgo and Region, specialized in women underwear. This study sought to capture advantages from three main collective solutions: information systems, guarantees systems, alternative funding. These solutions address to the following issues: information asymmetries, absence of guarantees from the credit taker, limited sources of funding. Semi-structured interviews were made with members of the cluster, when it was possible to identify that the capture of advantages is in its early stages, being limited by other issues, such as: adequate degree of human capital, governance framework and process inefficiencies.

Auditoria operacional aplicada a sistemas municipais de saúde: um estudo a partir da experiência do Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

This research aimed at evaluating the efficiency of a specific model of operational auditing, created to audit municipal health systems, which are part of the Sistema Único de Saúde in the State of Rio de Janeiro, the AOSMS. Thus, it attempted to find out whether they represent a valid method of auditing the performance of SUS in the State of Rio de Janeiro based on the isolated or combined utilization of efficiency and efficacy criteria, and to finalize, how the AOSMS may contribute to the improvement of the municipal management of SUS. The study is based on two references axes, as follows: criteria and paradigms of operational auditing according to what International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) understands about this methodology and the evaluation method of health services proposed by Avedis Donabedian, based on the triad structure, process and result. The work consisted initially in verifying compatibility and evaluating potential of the parameters that constitute the AOSMS with the adopted references, in the light of the basic principles that inform the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde and afterwards in the submission of these parameters to the analytic categories created in this study with the intent of checking its adequacy and pertinacity to analyze public health systems. In order to reach its objective the research used the case study strategy of the TCE-RJ experience of holding operational audit in 39 municipal health systems in the State of Rio de Janeiro developed between 2000 and 2007. The result confirmed the hypothesis of the study and revealed how the AOSMS, considered as a valid methodology for its finality, may contribute for the improvement of the municipal management of SUS, reaffirming the potential of operational auditing to proceed with the evaluation of the performance of the Sistema Único de Saúde in the angle of external control, considering however that its application in Brazil, because of the external control model constitutionally adopted, must pass through due sociological reduction2.

Novos processos logísticos decorrentes de profundas transformações físicas e funcionais: o caso da Natura Cosméticos - Brasil

Dentro do contexto de transformações físicas e funcionais pelas quais a Natura Cosméticos S.A . passou, este estudo objetivou analisar as possíveis vantagens decorrentes das mudanças estratégicas logísticas efetuadas. As entrevistas e as observações que foram realizadas nas unidades da empresa, forneceram informações substanciais e significativas para a compreensão do funcionamento da Natura e das transformações em curso. Como resultado, foi possível apresentar vantagens dos novos processos logísticos implementados.