Ação Econômica e Religião: Igrejas como Empreendimentos no Brasil

Abstract

Resumo O Brasil tem presenciado, nas últimas décadas, transformações radicais na sua composição religiosa, com grande proliferação de igrejas evangélicas, que competem entre si, adotando uma postura ativa e mobilizadora, típica de empreendimentos produtivos. O presente trabalho procura analisar algumas dimensões dessa realidade, à luz de proposições presentes na abordagem da Escolha Racional da Religião, ainda pouco explorada no Brasil. Com isto, deixa claro, para estudiosos da administração, até então ausentes na área, a importância e escala do fenômeno observado, assim como a pertinência do novo aparato teórico.

Social capital and individual entrepreneurial orientation: innovativeness, proactivity, and risk-taking in an emerging economy

“…Finally, the third gap is empirical, relating to the study of Brazil's religious entrepreneurship (Corrêa et al , 2017). Corrêa and Vale (2017, p. 12) stressed how “there are large gaps in Brazil, especially in the study of churches as enterprises and pastors as entrepreneurs.” New research that seeks to understand structural factors “able to influence religious agents' entrepreneurial orientation” is necessary (Corrêa et al , 2017, p. 338).…”

Planned Behavior and Religious Beliefs as Antecedents to Entrepreneurial Intention: A Study With University Students

“…The discussion about the role of religion in shaping economic activities is attributed to Max Weber, who highlighted the contribution of protestant religious ethics to the emergence of capitalism as a contemporary mode of production (Stark, 2006), which culminated in the development of research that focus on investigating the interaction between entrepreneurship and the religious context and religious beliefs, as in the studies conducted by Audretsch, Boente, and Tamvada (2013), Balog et al (2014), Rietveld and Van Burg (2014), Zelekha, Avnimelech, and Sharabi (2014), Borges, Enoque, Borges, and Almeida (2015), Parboteeah, Walter, and Block (2015), Serafim and Feuerschütte (2015), and Corrêa and Vale (2017).…”

“…The literature in the field of religious studies focuses mainly on investigating the influence of religion on the organizational environment and economic development in the religious scope (Corrêa & Vale, 2017), and does not receive due attention in scientific investigations involving the relationship between entrepreneurship and religion (Audretsch et al, 2013;Borges et al, 2015;Corrêa & Vale, 2017;Griebel, Park, & Neubert, 2014;Rietveld & Van Burg, 2014) when treated in the Brazilian context (Serafim, Martes, & Rodriguez, 2012).…”

Relational influence on entrepreneurial orientation: an exploratory study of small religious enterprises in Brazil

“…In that context, a competitive market between evangelical churches has also recently surfaced (Corrêa and Vale, 2017; Mariano, 2007, 2013). In response, pastors in Brazil have had to act entrepreneurially to sustain their congregations’ attention and commitment.…”

“…Despite the growth of the neo-Pentecostal community in the country and the entrepreneurialism of pastors embedded in it, researchers have rarely sought to understand Brazil’s management of religious entrepreneurship (Corrêa and Vale, 2017; Pierucci, 2011). Among them, Corrêa et al (2017, p. 12) have emphasized that “there are still great gaps in the country […] in the study of churches as enterprises and of pastors as entrepreneurs.” From none other than organizational researchers in Brazil, that observation justifies the adequacy of our empirical context for investigating EO in relation to coupling and decoupling.…”