Práticas de governança adotadas por redes de empresas do estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The objective is to identify which governance practices adopted by the business networks in Rio Grande do Sul, market and supermarkets segment. Given the organizational changes of the constant evolution of capitalist societies, companies began to look more to how it was managed by creating a new relationship between companies and society, making room for the practices of governance as a process to improve the ability to maintain efficiency and effectiveness of organizations' activities. The research methodology, ranks as applied, according to its goals it is defined as descriptive. To get data about the governance practices adopted by the business networks, the technique of data collection was used through structured interviews, applied in 17 business networks in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, market and supermarket segment, that composed the sample. The data collection instrument, addressed the goals that led the formation, interaction attributes, characteristics of management, management tools, governance management, governance practices adopted by the administrative council, executive board and audit committee of the business networks. The data collected were submitted to descriptive analysis, in which it was calculated the Average and Overall Ranking of the scale, based on the Likert scale responses. As the research results it was identified that the business networks market and supermarket segment in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, adopt governance practices in its management, using them to improve the relationship between company and associate.