O papel dos artefatos na coordenação das alianças estratégicas contratuais

• Autor(a) principal: Sachetto, Ronaldo dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23466
• topic: alianças estratégicas contratuais, processos, rotinas organizacionais, artefatos; contract strategic aliances; processes; organizational routines; artifacts; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS

Contract strategic alliances are established between partner companies, aiming to obtain complimentary resources and capabilities. Managing this relationship capability with partners has been the focus of study of many researchers, because to align the proposed goals among partners is one of the challenges to have success in alliances, and many fail in this management process. In this way, the aim of this research was to determine the role of artifacts in the coordination of strategic alliances, enhancing the knowledge about how artifacts present in routines and processes can help to develop the capacity of alliances coordination. The methodology involved multiple case studies in four pharmaceutical companies, because there are many contract strategic alliances in this area as well as Brazilian government incentives. The data about alliances were collected through interviews with managers responsible for their areas in their companies, hierarchy levels 2 or 3. The data were analyzed by beans of category thematic analysis, through cross checking predefined categories. The main categories and the cases were cross checked, resulting in non-defined propositions. It could be concluded that the artifacts contribute in many ways with coordination activities, allowing to organize and synthetize part of the activities present in the processes and routines of coordination, acting as a guide for the execution of the activities. The theoretical contribution of this work is in the way artifacts help in the relationship between the mechanisms, people, processes and structures, helping in the relationship among these three mechanisms, to understand how routines cope with artifacts, and how the predefined actions should be planned, organized, made and controlled. In other words, how they can me managed by managers. The executive point of view is that managers should seek for the most adequate artifacts for developing and controlling the alliances, analyzing the processes and routines for a better understanding of which artifacts could be used.