Innovation patterns in small and medium enterprises and its implications to innovative and organizational performance / Padrões de inovação em pequenas e medias empresas e suas implicações para o desempenho inovativo e organizacional

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The leading questions that motivated this dissertation were the study of innovation and organizational performance. To connect these two subjects it has emerged the idea to study the small and medium Brazilian industrial enterprises using the research named Technological Innovation Research (PINTEC), conducted by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). The objective of this dissertation has two components. The first one is the establishment of innovation patterns by the creation of taxonomy, using effort indexes and innovative outcomes from the companies in PINTEC. The second one is to analyze the existent relation between the taxonomy developed and the companies’ economic and financial results. The relevance of this research on innovation patterns in small and medium enterprises can be summarized in two points: the theoretical one that suffers from the lack of more comprehensive and formal studies; and the economic one that highlights the existent relation between economic growth and innovative activity and the key role that small and medium companies have in the Brazilian industrial structure. To explain the using of PINTEC as the main data source is because this is the unique research, in a national context that spread a wide range of questions related to companies’ innovative activities. The methodological proceedings consisted of the creation of a set of indexes to evaluate the dimensions of the innovative efforts and outcomes and the organizational performance. Multivariate analysis techniques such as factor and cluster analysis were used as a strategy to develop a taxonomy in small and medium innovative enterprises. Chi-square test of significance and analysis of variance was applied to access the differences between the means of the created indexes in the enterprises categories of the taxonomy. The outcomes appointed towards the existence of five distinctive innovation patterns related to the innovation nature, source and direction. These innovation patterns demonstrated different relations with the economic indexes studied. However, the verified tendency was that the most innovative companies tend to present superior organizational performance, especially those indexes related to productive and operational dimensions.

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desenvolvimento organizacional inovações tecnologicas technological innovations taxonomy pequenas empresas small business organization development taxonomia

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