As orientações associadas à exploração (exploration) e à explotação (explotation) do conhecimento e a avaliação do desempenho: um estudo em micro e pequenas empresas e startups brasileiras participantes de um programa de subvenção econômica

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Regiane Quesada Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23404
• topic: exploração; explotação; MPMEs; startups; desempenho; exploration; exploitation; performance; MPMEs; startups; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS

This thesis involved three constructs of the organizational strategic area: exploration, exploitation and performance. The objective was to identify the link between exploitation and exploration and the level of performance of micro-enterprise and startups companies approved in an economical subvention program. From this point on, seven specific objectives and a general hypothesis were stated. In order to reach the general and specific objectives of this work, a quantitative research was conducted. Such research analyzed companies pertaining to various sectors, located in the State of Sao Paulo and approved to receive financial subsidies from the first public program developed for providing support to prospective companies the PRIME (Programa Primeira Empresa Inovadora), held in 2009. The informants were managers who worked for the companies subject to this research. The structured and closed questionnaire was applied in 18 companies amongst 80 and involved the utilization of two scales. One was used for measuring the orientation for exploration and exploitation developed by Popadiuk (2012), and the other was the adaptation of the proposed scale developed by Gupta and Govindarajan (1984). Both exploration and exploitation concepts were based in the proposal of Popadiuk (2012) which is translated to six dimensions: organizational knowledge practices, innovation practices, strategic focus, competition, partnerships and efficiencies that originated six specific objectives. The performance concept, however, was translated to a specific objective. Each questionnaire was individually analyzed through descriptive statistics complemented by secondary data, conducted through the companie website. The Data Triangulation technique was used in the analisys aiming to obtain a higher level of reliableness in the results. The results revealed that 10 companies were considered the most successful. Such companies present a more predominant orientation to exploitation. However, 9 out of the companies considered the most successful ones presented practical dimensions of knowledge and exploitation-oriented innovative practices. From an academic perspective, the contribution of this paper brings in is the major understanding on how micro-enterprise and participants start-ups of support and incentive programs to innovation act in relation to the activities of exploration and exploitation. From a business perspective it provides an understanding on how such activities influence performance.