Capitalismo no Brasil: o ambiente institucional para o empreendedorismo no in?cio do S?culo XXI

• Autor(a) principal: Salles, Ana Beatriz Tomas
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/720
• topic: empreendedorismo; institui??es; sociedade; entrepreneurship; institutions; society.; Economia

This thesis analyzed the importance given to entrepreneurship in Brazil. Based on the biographies of well-known Brazilian entrepreneurs of the XIX and XX centuries, and on a series of interviews with different actors dedicated to the development and diffusion of an entrepreneurial culture in the beginning of the XXI century, we analyzed the institutional changes that took place along this period regarding the importance given to the entrepreneurial capacity in our culture. The confrontation between the biographies and the interviews allowed us to point out the nature and coherence of our present institutional architecture and the challenges to be faced up for the collective construction of our society. From this analysis we can conclude that the Brazilian backwardness in terms of overcoming economic inequalities and social injustice is caused mainly by lack of understanding of the double movement necessary to the successful application of the rules of the capitalistic game, and by the inefficiency of the Brazilian institutions in the reinforcement of those rules, and not, by a lack of entrepreneurial capacity innate to our people. As a whole, the thesis suggests that the shaping of an institutional environment (formal and informal) in favor of entrepreneurship is one alternative for the achievement of a society more just, rich and egalitarian and could be achieved if we raised the many veils imposed by taken-for-granted notions transmitted throughout our socializing process.