Self-management and competitiveness : lessons from the Brazilian and Basque industrial cooperatives experiences / Autogestão e competitividade : estudos de caso em cooperativas industriais brasileiras e bascas/espanhola
AUTOR(ES)
Alessandra Bandeira Antunes de Azevedo
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
The main goal of this thesis is to discuss the limits and possibilites of the social, organizational, technological and competitive integration capabilities of the cooperative companies in the Brazilian industrial dynamics. Thus, we made a comparative study between Brazilian cooperative companies (that was originally traditional bankrupt companies) and Spanish ones (Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa) aiming to understand their management approach and their innovation strategies. We studied three production cooperatives in Brazil (two in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and one in the region of ABC in the state of São Paulo). We also studied, in the Basque Nation, three production cooperatives and two research and development cooperatives. All the cooperatives studied, both Brazilian and Spanish belong to the metal-mechanics sector. Based on the analyses of the history of Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa made it possible to understanding with variables built the success of this experience along fifty years. We identified that the inter-cooperative management structure was relevant, for the survival of the competitiveness in a context of strong competition, and on another hand, for to maintain the principals and basic values that guide the self-management experience: democracy, job stability and job creation, inter-cooperation and solidarity. The study showed that although young, the Brazilian cooperatives had a great capacity in an hostile environment to overcome the marketing, technological, productive and organizational challenges. The reasons for that are mainly due, to the democrat ways that it?s management are make and also to the great capacity of interaction with different institutions; bough public and privet. In this way, the self-management and the other forms of manage the work are innovations that make it possible the existence of these enterprises. The combination of these elements made it possible that in just five years traditional bankrupt companies reconquered their market-share. We identified that the basic elements of the Mondragón experience are available in the Brazilian reality. Beside these conclusions, a questions still remains. Does this movement will be able to built and develop stronger structures to help the self-manage approach.
ASSUNTO(S)
cooperativismo economia solidaria governança inovações tecnologicas technological innovations cooperativism governance solidary economy
