Management no Brasil em perspectiva histórica: o projeto do Idort nas décadas de 1930 e 1940

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Fabio Vizeu
• Orientador(a): Bertero, Carlos Osmar
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: IDORT; Estudos organizacionais; Industrialização de São Paulo; História da administração
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Management history; Industrialization in São Paulo
• Link de acesso: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/2507

This study traces the history of management in Brazil in the early twentieth century. Because of the upheavals of industrialization and the great multiunitary industries at the turn of the twentieth century in the São Paulo area, we have centered our analysis on this region and period. We focus particularly on the first twenty years after the founding of the Institute for the Rational Organization of Work (IDORT) in 1931 in the city of São Paulo. We view this event as the first organized effort to spread the doctrines and principles of management in Brazil. Therefore, our study aims to examine how it happened the attempt to introduces Management by IDORT in São Paulo in the 1930s and 1940s. Our theoretical framework is constituted within the institutionalist historical analysis and the works of authors concerning the historical theory of big companies, but also the perspective of Brazilian social history, which observes the conditioning of Brazilian institutions to references which differ from those of the emergence of the social and economic order which is characteristic of modern times. For this reason, we begin with the premise that the attempt to introduce management into the country following the founding of IDORT was conditioned by an institutional context that had traits of traditionalist patrimonial elements. Methodologically, we sought to let our research be guided by documents found in historical archives when we analyzed IDORT’s historical documents from its first two decades. We found elements revealing that the operations of this organization were redirected owing to the difficulties it faced in the early years and opportunities that arose when the president of the Institution was nominated for the position of governor of São Paulo State. We concluded that the relative lack of commitment on the part of industrialists at that time to IDORT’s management project was a key point in the shift of focus by the institute from the private to the public sector. However, this was also the case with the shift of focus from first and second degree administration levels to the operational level. We found evidence that suggests that this attitude of the average entrepreneur in São Paulo’s industry in the early twentieth century was due to the incomplete transition of large industries at that time to professional management, which only became more widespread in later decades as a result of an initiative on the part of the State to create important schools of management in the country and intensify its policy of substituting imports through the strict application of the ‘lei de similares’.