Sustainable organizations: conceptions and attributes

Abstract

The article has as its object of study micro, small and medium-sized industrial and service companies. The objective was to analyze the dimensions, components of technological capacity and management technologies, as innovative attributes of organizational sustainability. It investigated in micro, small and medium-sized companies “which technical and managerial attributes are suitable for innovation and organizational sustainability?”. Specifically, what is the relationship between technological capabilities and management technologies allied to entrepreneurship, with organizational sustainability and sustainable development?" In the method, research in the literature and field in the universe of 1,758 micro, small and medium industrial, and 15,112 micro and small industrial and service companies, with a stratified random sample and accessibility. In theoretical and methodological contributions, the study points to an advance for the academic community in the areas of innovation, technologies and empirical research for organizations. In social and managerial contributions, the application of technological capacity and management technologies in micro, small and medium-sized companies generate perspectives for sustainable managerial and social development. Among the main results, the literature and empirical, the analysis presented here suggests that predictable dimensions, competencies and technological capabilities, combined with appropriate management technologies, are prominent attributes in evaluating innovative and sustainable organizational structures that lead to economic and social development.