Stricto sensu em administração no Brasil : processos ambientais e condicionantes do declínio de organizações

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Rodrigo Teles Dantas de
• Orientador(a): Freitas, Florence Cavalcanti Heber Pedreira de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Administração
• Palavras-chave em Português: Administração; Pós-graduação; Ensino superior; Ecologia organizacional; Avaliação; Pós-Graduação em Administração; CAPES; Fracasso organizacional
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Postgraduation in administration; Organizational ecology; CAPES evaluation; Organizational failure
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/11328

The form of stricto sensu education in Administration, which emerged in Brazil in the late 1960s, underwent several mutations in the way its postgraduate programs arise, remain and sometimes disappear. Despite the important expansion of the area, observed in the last two decades, the most recent CAPES (2017) four-year evaluation report showed an inflection in this field, expressed by the increase in the number of academic programs poorly evaluated by the entity. Considering organizational environment as an important variable of analysis, Organizational Ecology aims to explain how the phenomena of foundation and failure of organizations occur (HANNAN; FREEMAN, 1977), amongst other forms, through the study of ecological, demographic and environmental processes. Exploring that scenario, this research aimed to understand how environmental processes of an institutional nature, such as regulation, political turmoil and institutional connections, influence the decline of postgraduate programs in Administration. For that purpose, was carried out a study of an explanatory nature and a qualitative approach, based on the triangulation of the data through semi-structured interviews with the management team of the postgraduate programs approached, documentary research to the reports, evaluation reports and others concerning the decrease of postgraduate programs and non-participant observation as data collection tools. For the analysis of these data, narrative and documental analysis were made, relating them to the impressions emerged in the observation, attempting to highlight the relations that the variables regulation, political turmoil and institutional connections nourish the decline of the programs. The results confirm the premises of Organizational Ecology, which presuppose that environmental processes conditionates organizational failure. The most significant failure elements related to postgraduate programs were: changes in evaluation criteria, the weight of qualified intellectual production and determinations of Higher Education Institutions (regulation); reorientation of postgraduate public policies, retraction of resources, and governments policies (political turmoil); asymmetry in the distribution of resources and power and fragility in internationalization and in relations with development agencies, companies, research networks and CAPES (institutional connections). In addition, a new category of analysis, with an intraorganizational character was presented as an important element to be considered by organizational ecological studies, in view of the emergence of internal aspects that contributed to the decline of programs, such as the structuring of the teaching staff, intellectual production planning, elaboration of the evaluation report and behavioral aspects of the postgraduate programs members.