Colaboração para Inovação e Sustentabilidade nas Indústrias de Transformação do Paraná

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Milena Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do UNICENTRO
• Texto Completo: http://tede.unicentro.br:8080/jspui/handle/jspui/1400
• topic: Inovação; Colaboração; Sustentabilidade; Indústria de transformação.; Innovation; Collaboration; Sustainability; Manufacturing industries.; Innovación; Colaboración; Sostenibilidad; Industrias manufactureras; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO

Innovation has become a key factor for companies aiming at competitive and strategic growth and when combined with collaboration and sustainability it may reach the added value of products and services in the market. This study aimed to analyze how collaboration for innovation is developed and its relation with sustainability in manufacturing industries in Paraná. We sought to characterize innovation and the dimensions of sustainability in the manufacturing industries of Paraná; identify motivations and sourcess for collaboration, taking into account innovation; and to analyze, based on the characterization of the object, whether the industries that have a greater orientation towards innovation also present greater balance in the dimensions of sustainability. The study method was quantitative of an analytical and descriptive nature. For data analysis, a survey was conducted, using an electronic questionnaire with the manufacturing industries of Paraná. Data from 64 companies were obtained and through statistical tests, mainly Cluster analysis, Cronbach's alpha and t-test, the objective of this study could be answered. Thus, it was found that in innovation organizations have sought to develop new products and services and, also, to develop improvements in current products and services. In the economic dimension, companies have been looking for actions that aim to avoid complaints and returns from customers and increase revenue. In the social dimension, actions have mainly aimed at preventing work-related injuries and illnesses; and in the environmental dimension, the actions of the industries have been related to reduce the consumption of material by produced product and reducing the consumption of energy. Among the main reasons for collaborating are the reduction in the cost associated with the innovation process and access to technological resources. The main sources of collaboration are subsidiaries or other companies, within the same business group, suppliers or organizations in the supply chain and customers or consumers. Collaboration and sustainability are impact factors for innovation, especially in social sustainability, which has a greater relation to collaboration for innovation. The main results of the statistical tests indicate that the companies that collaborate more are also developing prominent actions aimed at the economic, social and environmental dimensions, demonstrating that they have a better balance for sustainability. Although collaboration on innovation is under development in organizations, since the averages of sources still do not have considerable values, there is a concern to seek new sources of knowledge, resources and/or failures in general from sources outside the organization, which ends up encouraging also, the dimensions of sustainability