THE TECHNOLOGICAL QUALIFICATION OF TABLEWARE INDUSTRIES OF CAMPO LARGO (PR)

• Autor(a) principal: Soares Ferreira Júnior, Setembrino
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: da Cunha, João Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng; spa
• Título da fonte: RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: https://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/RAM/article/view/164

The tableware ceramic industry is one of most traditional in the country, an intensive manpower activity-branch, therefore interesting to countries like China, happening the closing of some plants and the disappearance of some producing polar regions in Brazil. Using a multiple-case study, this work main purpose was to understand how technology transfer elements had influenced the technological qualification of tableware industries in the cluster of Campo Largo, Paraná. The technology transfer elements considered had been absorption and managerial capacities, learning culture, transfer ways practiced and technologies transferred nature. For the primary collection of data, half-structuralized interviews had been used in eight cluster tableware manufacturing companies. Secondary data were gathered from printed periodicals and magazines and from electronic media. All companies reached technological operational capacity and some of them reached dynamic technological learning capacity.KEYWORDS: Knowledge and technology transfer; Technological capacity; Ceramic industry; Technology transfer elements; Tableware.