O processo da aprendizagem interorganizacional: proposição de esquema conceitual analítico para sua compreensão em contexto de APL

Abstract

The interorganizational cooperative relationships make progress on the global economy and build new and different organizational configurations, in a way that the Local Productive Arrangement (LPAs) detach. In those interorganizational configurations, the intercourse established among the different agents results in interaction and learning, demanding a better comprehension of the Interorganizational Learning (IOL) process, which becomes a relevant theme for investigation, specially, if given the fact that it is a complex and emergent phenomenon (ESTIVALETE; PEDROZO; CRUZ, 2008) and still being constituted (INKPEN; TSANG, 2007), above all, in LPAs (REIS, 2008). The studies about the IOL are still marked as limited, urging the necessity of the scope of analysis? extension. Therefore, this dissertation bring up the process of IOL in a LPA context, comprehending it as part of a continuum of the interorganizational learning. Accordingly to what is stated, wrangles: Based on the horizontal relationships established among the different agents in an LPA, how is the IOL build? Facing the question of the research, this dissertation aims, particularly, to analyse the process of the IOL throughout the comprehension of the horizontal relationships established among the different agents in an LPA, throughout a theoretical framework. Aiming to achieve the outlined objective, it has been done a case in an LPA of gemstones and precious stones in Soledade ? RS ? Brazil, envolving three stages in its execution , in which the database was collected using several techniques: semistructured interviews, non structured interviews, participat observation and focal group, besides secondary information. The whole database was analysed through a content analysis and all the process had the support of the software for qualitative research analysis, the Nvivo 9. With the results of this research it is perceived as a contribution to the advance of the existing knowledge of the Organizational Learning (OL) in the organizational studies area, since it includes the level of analysis less explored, the interorganizational, as well as to the advance in the comprehension of the interorganizational relationships in LPAs. Still, it is believed that the research takes even more relevance as it contributes to a profound study of the aspects related to the IOL, with the presentation of a framework for a better comprehension of the IOL process in context of LPAs. Such conceptual analytical scheme, considers the daily activities in different lands of social learning (structured and non structured), that promotes the establishment of relationships among the different agents, providing the occurence of learning episodes, which are analysed throught the IOL construct, consisting of its constitutive elements: confidence, cooperation, social closeness, social interactions, interdependence and susceptibility to the process of learning. Through the empirical analysis it was observed evidences that the process of IOL occurs in Soledade LPA, even though it is admitted that it may occur even more episodes of learning in different social lands. It is achieved the conclusion of the occurence and the intense interrelationship among the different constitutive elements of IOL in Soledade LPA, even though different implications may be found among them, but all culminating in the IOL process.