Relationship between stages of logistics management maturity, organizational life cycle and use of artifacts of management control / Relação entre estágios de maturidade da gestão logística, ciclo de vida organizacional e utilização de artefatos de controle gerencial

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

30/09/2011

RESUMO

The logistics processes impact directly and indirectly the lives of people and is vital to the success of companies. Maturity models offer a way to trace a path to improve processes while helps to add competencies and abilities to it. The concept of logistics management maturity proposes that the processes have a lifecycle and that becomes more mature as these processes are explicitly defined, managed, measured and controlled. Parallel to the development of logistics management, organizations grow and expand its portfolio of products or services to meet the most demanding markets and, in this process, inevitably faced greater heterogeneity of customers and most hostile environments. In this sense, it is expected that the changes that occur in the organizational environment follow a predictable pattern that can be characterized by stages of development, i.e. stages of organizational life cycle. This dissertation investigated the relationship between the stages of logistics management maturity model and organizational life cycle model, as well as the relationship between the classification of enterprises in these stages, and the average amount of artifacts of managerial control, having as hypotheses: (H1) the existence of relationship between stages of these two theoretical models, and (H2) in the more developed stage the average amount of artifacts used is greater. The data collection method was the questionnaire and the target population was professionals who work in the logistics management or related areas. The final sample involved 213 firms and the statistical method to analyze associations between stages was the correspondence analysis. The key findings include: confirmation that there are non-random associations between stages of logistics management maturity model and organizational life cycle model, indicating that the logistics managers must also consider the constructs discussed in two models in development projects of the maturity of logistics management. Also it was found that the more developed the stages of logistics management maturity is, higher is the average amount artifact of managerial control used by companies. It was also found that the artifact Total logistic cost analysis was more common in the companies investigated (79.8%) and Interorganizacional cost management was uncommon (28.2%). Among the recommendations for further research, it is suggested to investigate whether the current stage of logistics management maturity is related to the level of complexity of the supply chain, applying techniques to investigate the dynamics of relations between stages of the two models (which has largest influence) and seek to understand the main reasons for the low utilization of Interorganizacional cost management. Since this is a too which may make the supply chain more efficient and increase its total profitability.

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logistic management maturity logística artifacts of management control cadeia de suprimentos ciclo de vida organizational life cycle

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