Transferência e absorção de conhecimentos em franquias

• Autor(a) principal: Feitosa, Iratan Lira
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23170
• topic: conhecimento; absorção; transferência; franquia; competitividade; knowledge; absorption; transfer; franchise; competitiveness; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS

Knowledge has been the subject of many researches in Business Administration area. Inside this area, the transfer process and absorbing knowledge has aroused interest and became an important key to increase competitiveness, especially in activities that depends of intensive knowledge, as occurs in franchise networks. The relationship between franchisor and franchisees is guided by ambiguity, alternating the necessity of cooperation and interests conflicts. However, the issues when well managed, can become harmonic and provide satisfactory results for the network members in order to reach better competitiveness. In this research is discussed the value of knowledge in franchises in order to expand this knowledge area. To make truth, it was done a multi-paradigmatic research on franchise networks in Brazil and France, involving 103 franchise units. They main assumption of this thesis is that when knowledge is properly transferred by franchisors and properly absorbed by franchisees, it constitutes a driving factor for competitiveness evidence in the network. The general target of this research was to investigate how the transfer process, absorption process and the use of knowledge for developing products, services process happens in the franchise network, analyzing if this knowledge, when it is transferred and absorbed by the franchise units, it is an evidence of business competitiveness. The data collected in the field were analyzed by content analyze technique and multivariate statistical analyze methods (factor analysis and cluster). The results support the assumptions adopted and validates the central hypothesis of this research. It was evaluated the attributes that make part of knowledge transfer, absorption, competitiveness evidence and it was noted that there are relationship between each other, allowing a model draft related with transfer process, knowledge absorption evidence competitiveness in franchise units.