Relações de gênero em posições de poder: o lugar das herdeiras no processo de sucessão de uma empresa familiar de Curitiba-PR

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Spanger, Maria Aparecida Fleury Costa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná; Curitiba; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Empresas familiares - Brasil; Empresas familiares - Administração; Administração de empresas; Herança e sucessão; Family corporations - Brazil; Family corporations - Administration; Industrial management; Inheritance and succession
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/611

This study relates the gender relations in positions of Power - the position of the inheritresses in the succession process of family firms. The motivation for this study is originated by three factors: the high percentage of family enterprises in the world - more than 80%, the reduced number of inheritresses in command of these firms and the small survival degree of these firms from the second generation on. The selected firm for this research was the Leão Jr. S/A, a large family company, which had experienced several succession processes. The challenge of this study was to understand how this family managed the firm and how its members administrated the imbrication of the family and entrepreneurial relations. It is hoped to broach with this work an aspect, not clearly visible in the world of labor, that refers to the net of social relations within a entrepreneur family, their representations, the symbols that permeate the life of the family and their family enterprise. The present research adopted an interdisciplinary approach, which, starting from the economic universe, tried to rescue the symbolic universe, under anthropological aspects, in order to detect the human relations in an entrepreneurial environment, with the objective to clarify more the succession process in family enterprises. The main objective of this study was to identify the position of the inheritnesses in the succession of family firms. In order to achieve this objective, the analysis focused on the understanding of the rules that guide the succession process in the studied family firm, and the factors that withdraw the female gender from the succession process. It was also tried to identify, with the inheritnesses, the meaning of belonging to a family whose identity is constructed by the firm. The empirical research was executed using the qualitative interpretative approach, looking inwards to the university of the representations, symbols, meanings, subjective and intentional character Based on the analysis of the informations, given by the inheritnesses, was constructed the history of the firm under two different perspectives - one under the view of the enterprise and another under the view of the inheritnesses. The results are analyzed focusing on the concepts of: gender, family, family firm and organizational culture - the theoretical framework of this study. The results unveil a close relation between the family and the entrepreneurial world, as well the existence of two distinct patrimonies, equal in value, which interlace and succeed from generation to generation. Besides the considerable material patrimony, the existence of an intangible patrimony was detected, whose formation and continuation shows a logic of its own, guiding the life stile of the family and the firm and delimiting the place of the inheritnesses in the succession process.