Redes estratégicas: a influência do capital social na formação do capital intelectual de empresas focais

• Main Author: Dias, Rogério de Matos
• Publication Date: 2009
• Format: Doctoral thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/4245
• topic: Administração de empresas; Alianças estratégicas (Negócios); Capital social; Capital intelectual

The study described in this research report focuses in seeking to understand the mechanisms through which the intellectual capital from the participant companies in strategic business networks is affected by social capital developed within these networks. The author wishes to demonstrate that, based on case studies with multiple analysis units at multinational mining company Yamana Gold Inc., how networks represent communities guided by pre-arranged conduct rules, mutual commitment among their participants and sharing physical and knowledge resources, companies often develop synergic processes and inter-enterprise collaboration processes, bringing to the interaction environment elements that build new competencies in the participants. Those collaborative processes favor cognitive processes, with direct impact in the formation of individual intellectual capital at these companies, especially at focal companies, those that lead the patterns or withhold economical dominance over the network’s processes. The study yielded the elaboration of a theoretical model capable of demonstrating the elements from social capital of networks that positively affect the company’s intellectual capital and, through interviews and field observations, the model can be tested and operationalized to prove the thesis stated by the author. The study brings important clarifications on how such elements allow the emergence of intellectual capital with both practical and theoretical implications.