NETWORK ORGANIZATIONS AND STRUCTURING THEORY: THE CASE OF A COLLABORATIVE NETWORK IN TRAINING

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Schirlei Stock
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Bobsin, Debora
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sociais e Humanas
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/sociaisehumanas/article/view/32678
• topic: Structuring theory; Social Innovation; Collaborative Networks; Local Development; Creative Economy; Teoria da Estruturação; Inovação Social; Redes colaborativas; Desenvolvimento local; Economia criativa

This case study investigated the motivations for the formation of a Collaborative Network, its structuring bases, and the influences of this Network in the local contexto highlighting the role, in society, of collaborative networks as sociocultural strategies capable of promoting Social Innovation (IS). This research highlights how the adoption of collaboration networks influences IS? The relevance of this study is to open a space for multidisciplinary reflection, articulating theoretical bases of Structuring Theory (TE) and IS. It was tried to bring to the centrality of the debate the role of the agents and the socio-creative processes in the local development. As a result of the discussions, agency power emerges. This power identified in the social integration of the Network, presented as legitimate presuppositions constructs related to the memory, identity and representation of intangible cultural elements linked to both the local cultural history and the network’s final objectives. It is also necessary to clarify that for TE, the theoretical lens chosen for the analysis, agency power is not the actor’s individual experience, nor any form of social totality but “social practices ordered in time and space” (GIDDENS, 2009). It is suggested as future studies the investigation of the level of consciousness of these agents about the agency power they hold, and of how this theoretical-empirical appropriation could influence the behavior of the agents to maximize the Network’s performance in promoting IS.