O papel da linguagem nas dinâmicas organizacionais da firma: um ensaio teórico acerca do papel da linguagem no processo de inovação tecnológica

Abstract

This work is a product of epistemological questioning and the result of a theoric and multidisciplinary aproximation exercise. The effort here exercised has an exploratory nature and seeks to establish interfaces between a relevant debate about the role of language in human perception and cognition with the discussions in the field of evolutionary economics. This way, the work has realized a theoretical interdisciplinary model to better analyze economic phenomena through the lenses of language. Having realized the theoretical model, the work proposes to apply it in the analysis of papers, whose selection criteria respects the epistemical norms developed throughout the study. This exercise seeks to demonstrate the validity of the findings shown in the theoretical model, in addition to bring to light the importance of whidening the theoretical horizon of the economical fields of study. The paper analysis shows the analytical capability that derives from the exercise made here. It is possible to see language as a important factor institutional inertia, aswell as the technological lock-in. Another relevant topic is the local rationality, structured by language, as a relevant point for the understanding of the development of technological trajectories. Since this work has is a theoretical exercise with na exploratory nature, it’s analytical capacity is minimal and the findigs may not be extrapolated to any practical application at first. The application in the analysis of papers, however, demonstrates a path to a more critical view of the bibliography in economics, with a special attention to the theory of the firm and the evolutionary field of economics.