Mortalidade e sobrevivência da micro e pequena empresa no Estado da Paraíba (2001-2005): uma abordagem institucional

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Cunha Junior, Ailton Menezes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Economia do Trabalho e Economia de Empresas; Programa de Pós Graduação em Economia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Economia; Economia de empresa; Microempresa mudanças institucionais; Isomorfismo; Legitimidade; Economy; Enterprise Economic; Micro Enterprise - Institutional Changes; Isomorphism; Conformity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5035

Worldwide, productive small and micro business is responsible for most employment and each year advances offers of employment and occupation in new market segments gained by outsourcing and technological innovations. However, small business mortality rates remain high, being recorded that 29% of new businesses go out of business within the first year of activity and 56% close within five years. This study aimed to analyze the situation of micro and small enterprises in the state of Paraiba during the period from 2001 to 2005 by identifying the key factors that influence the vitality these units, their institutional arrangements and the impact of institutional changes on them. The results discussed here allow the inference that the reasons for success or failure reported by small business, the reasons for longevity or premature closure of resides with the manager. The formulation of strategies, due to their own limitations, does not occur in a fully rational manner, and their cognitive abilities, subordinate to personal values, beliefs and interests form the "gap" between their organization´s performance and isomorphic structures. The decisions of the manager outline the "organizational field" of the company and the interpretation of the environment can lead from a condition of conformity, which as response to the environment required by the organizational structure of the business achieves legitimacy, to an unfaithful attitude which may be a reactive mechanism seeking to solve conditions arising from the environment or to find shelter form them, or even the development of a sham in which the response to institutional requirements and pressures of the environment is ritualized and apparent but has at it´s heart the exploitation of inconsistent situations or conflict.