Decision making and risk: an innovation management for small chemicals firms / Tomada de decisão e risco: a administração da inovação em pequenas indústrias químicas

AUTOR(ES)

Antonio Luiz Rocha Dacorso

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000

RESUMO

A corporation s capacity to innovate is its greatest competitive differential in this decade. Due to this fact, the inability of small, traditional firms to innovate is a serious problem for the Brazilian economy. Despite the fact that small firms have a significant participation in the Brazilian economy, apparently they have a low capacity to innovate and compete in the global market. This research project tackles this issue, focusing on the decision-making process of small firms regarding innovation. Studying “why” and “how” small Brazilian industrial firms make decisions leading to innovation, it was possible to deepen the knowledge of the innovation process, generating some hypotheses that may be helpful in managing such organizations. The analysis of decision-making processes on innovation inevitably reveals a situation characterized by risk and uncertainty, which are concepts adopted by several areas of study, such as Economics, Business Administration, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, and others, either on a descriptive or on a prescriptive manner. Understanding how such concepts affect the decision-making process regarding innovation in small industrial firms has been the greatest challenge for this study. This research, having an exploratory feature, was developed by means of a bibliographical survey and a study of multiple cases, involving five small chemical firms. One of the these was adopted as a pilot case and the others were used for replicating the research. The comparative analysis of the cases reveals the main factors affecting the decision-making process in the small chemical firm, and allows speculations on possible decision-making models.

ASSUNTO(S)

risco risk pequena empresas decisiom making inovação innovation tomada de decisão

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