Gestão de conhecimentos e desempenho: evidências de uma amostra de Organizações do Terceiro Setor no Rio de Janeiro

This dissertation examines the implications of the organizational capability for the performance of organizations of the Third Sector. That relationship is examined in a sample of five organizations with headquarters in the city of the Rio de Janeiro, and acting in peculiar segments, like health, childhood and adolescence, sustainable development, environment and social inclusion. The organizational capability was studied from existing analytical frameworks available in the international literature, and adapted for this dissertation. The kinds of empirical evidences are quantitative and qualitative on first hand, and were obtained by multiple techniques: interviews, direct-site observation, exam of documents and casual meetings. These evidences indicators were examined in used in two levels: individual, specific of each one of the organizations, and general, common to all the organizations researched. Concerning organizational capability, the exam of the empirical evidences revealed that the organizations that had had the most significant development in terms of the dimensions identified by Tremblay (1998) as of high performance - that¿s the case of CIEDS and CDI -, were the ones with the best organizational performance. Another relevant point shown by the evidences is the importance of the dimension management attitude to human resources development, similar to previous studies presented by Tremblay (1998), Leonard-Barton (1998) and Figueiredo (2003). The study also shows that the organizations which developed projects aiming at the review and the improvement of managerial practices, approaching them to the models adopted by private companies, had the best performances among the researched group.

Método de custeio e critérios de discriminação de preços de procedimentos médicos: uma análise em dois hospitais do município do Rio de Janeiro

This case study investigates, empirically, cost methods and criteria of price discrimination made from hospital organizations when they set up their prices of hospital services to private patients and push down their prices to patients affiliated to health insurance and/or health maintenance organizations (HMO). The theory sought to show the Brazilian health systems either public or private, the aspects about corporate culture, the relationship among three players of the private health system ¿ health insurance companies (or HMO), hospitals and the patients, the importance of the cost systems, and the criteria of price discrimination. With these theories, it was developed a qualitative exploratory research, through open interviews, with hospital¿s managers and co-workers from invoicing department from two hospitals located at the Rio de Janeiro City. Based on results we didn¿t identify appropriate cost systems to help the managers to make a correct decision about price discrimination, but was identified corporate culture factors that could influence the price discrimination. Among the results, we can see unprepared hospital managers. Finally, we discussed some contributions and weakness of this case study, and there are presented suggestions for future researches.

Acumulação tecnológica e aprimoramento de performance competitiva: evidências de diferenças e similaridades e médias empresas do setor metal-mecânico no estado do rio de janeiro

The main objective of this dissertation is to examine the implications of technological capacities in the improvement of technical performance indexes, specifically at the company level. These relationships were examined in a small sample of metal-working enterprises in the state of Rio de Janeiro (1960 to 2006). Although diverse studies on technological competences have been carried out in the last twenty years, a gap in empirical studies still exist that correlate the performance of companies in the context of developing countries, especially in Brazil. Aiming to contribute to a reduction of these gaps, this dissertation examines the questions by the light of available models in literature, which opting themselves to using operational indexes of companies. For drawing the accumulation of technological competences in this study, the metric proposal by Figueiredo (2000) shall be used indicating the levels of technological qualification in process, product, and equipment functions. The empirical evidence examined in this dissertation is both qualitative and quantitative in nature and were collected, first hand, through extensive field research involving informal interviews, meetings, direct-site observation and document analysis. In relation to the results, the evidence suggests that: - In terms of technological accumulation, a company reached Level 5 of technological capacity in process and organization of production as well as product and equipment. Three companies obtained Level 4 in the function process function while two others had reached the same technological level in the functions of product and equipment. Two companies had reached Level 3 in the product and equipment functions and one remained this level in the function of process; - In terms of the rate of accumulation of technological capacities, the observed companies had reached Level 4 needs 29 years in process function, 32 years in product function and 29 years in equipment function; - In terms of improvement performance pointers, a company which reached Level 5 of technological capacity improved in 70% of its indicators of performance, while the company that had achieved Level 4 had raised its pointers 60% and the other companies had gotten improved in the order of 40%. It was evidenced that the majority of the pointers of the companies with higher levels of technological capacities had obtained better performance. This dissertation contributes to advancing the strategic management of companies in metal-working segment to understanding internal accumulation of technological capacity and indicators of performance especially in the field of empirical context studied. This information offers management examples of how to improve competitive performance through the accumulation of technological capacities in the process, product and equipment functions.

A zona sul como padrão locacional do grupo detentor de capital simbólico e a sua influência sobre a localização das Lojas de Alto Prestígio na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar até que ponto se pode considerar a localização das lojas de alto prestígio, sob o enfoque de manifestação do habitus do grupo detentor do capital simbólico, como sendo uma pré-condição para alcançar seus objetivos de posicionamento mercadológico. Acredita-se que este fator torna-se ainda mais crítico na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, em função do legado histórico-cultural deste espaço urbano. Foram levantados e aprofundados, para fins de sustentação teórica, temas como: a gramática simbólica; capital simbólico; a hermenêutica do espaço; semiótica da marca e o conceito de produtos de alto prestígio. A suposição apresentada será de que as lojas de alto prestígio que não seguirem os códigos e referências espaciais estabelecidos consciente ou inconscientemente pelos grupos detentores do capital simbólico, estarão incorrendo no risco de terem o posicionamento mercadológico das suas marcas afetado, principalmente na área que compõe a região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, onde este elemento torna-se ainda mais crítico. Trata-se de um método de estudo exploratório, com uma perspectiva seccional, onde os dados primários foram coletados por meio do método de entrevistas em profundidade, o que permitiu identificar os sentimentos e percepções de consumidores e lojistas claramente envolvidos no mercado de consumo de alto prestígio. Os dados obtidos foram organizados e analisados frente à fundamentação teórica desenvolvida, indicando que existe de fato a influência do padrão locacinal do grupo detentor do capital simbólico sobre o posicionamento das lojas de alto prestígio na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Considerou-se este trabalho fundamental para uma melhor compreensão dos limites geográficos de atuação dos varejistas dedicados ao mercado de alto prestígio e como uma forma de estimular novos trabalhos na área de administração com abordagens que considerem amplamente os estudos de sociologia, antropologia e psicologia. Sugeriram-se, para fins do aprofundamento deste trabalho, a investigação das possíveis futuras mudanças desses padrões locacionais, a possibilidade de existir algum segmento de varejo ao qual o princípio mercadológico defendido neste trabalho não se aplique, e ainda, a questão desta lógica locacional se aplicar ou não a outros grandes centros urbanos brasileiros.