Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of Brazilian economic activity.
Design/methodology/approach
The literature review focuses on analyzing the innovation process characteristics regarding the innovation types. The authors carried out interviews with executives and managers in charge of innovation at the leading large companies in the respective sectors analyzed. The data analysis of this qualitative research was structured in three steps. The first step is the analysis of data collected for encoding, the second step, the summarization of the common points presented by the companies in each sector and, finally, the interpretation of these data, aided by triangulation from secondary data that support the analysis of the collected primary data.
Findings
The main contribution of this study is to characterize the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of the Brazilian economy, with a classification regarding the sectoral innovation standard.
Practical implications
The authors’ intent is that the paper can contribute with a comparative analysis among companies of the same sector and, subsequently, among companies of the different surveyed sectors. Thus, the characterization aims to present the companies’ innovation process and the comparative analysis aims to verify the innovation sectoral patterns. In addition, as implications for management practice, some strategies for better knowledge management in the organization are suggested for each type of innovation.
Originality/value
The main theoretical contribution focuses on the development of a conceptual model that structures the analyzed variables of the constructs “innovation process” and “innovation sectoral patterns”, allowing not only the characterization but also the comparative analysis of the representative organizations present in the sample.
As relações de cooperação entre as organizações vêm sendo abordadas na literatura como um fenômeno relevante para o desenvolvimento de regiões e para a competitividade das empresas. As vertentes teóricas a esse respeito, no entanto, têm suas bases fundamentadas em diversos conceitos, que, por muitas vezes, são utilizados indistintamente. Procurando ampliar a discussão teórica acerca das relações de cooperação entre empresas, este artigo versa sobre três conceitos principais: clusters, cadeias globais de valor e redes de empresas, que, por apresentarem abordagens teóricas interconectadas, carecem de estudos inter-relacionais. Sendo assim, a pesquisa possui como principal objetivo a análise da literatura acerca das cadeias globais de valor, clusters e redes de empresas, visando identificar suas principais linhas teóricas e suas interconexões sob a perspectiva organizacional. Busca-se, portanto, verificar similaridades e complementaridades dentre os conceitos estudados, de forma a pontuar a sobreposição dessas literaturas e apontar suas possíveis diferenças, por meio de um ensaio teórico.
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