Field Of Business Administration Research Articles

Do auge à retração: análise de um dos estágios de construção do ensino de Administração pública no Brasil (1966-1982)

A história do ensino na graduação em Administração Pública (AP) no país ainda carece de sistematização, dada a diminuta quantidade de estudos descritivos e de investigações analíticas do tema, como as teses de Fischer (1984), Coelho (2006), Nicolini (2007) e, tangencialmente, artigos ou relatórios de pesquisa. Defronte dessa lacuna, o objetivo deste trabalho é tanto propor uma periodização para tal ensino no Brasil, como contribuir com a descrição e análise de um dos seus ciclos ou estágios de construção. Metodologicamente, o artigo faz a revisão bibliográfica daquelas obras que abordam direta e indiretamente o tema, analisa as leis e pareceres sobre o ensino na graduação em AP e considera os projetos pedagógicos, prospectos e textos de discussão de instituições de ensino que ofereciam esse curso entre 1966 e 1982. No que se refere aos resultados, são identificáveis três ciclos da formação acadêmica em AP: o primeiro ciclo mostra a irradiação do ensino em sua graduação entre 1952 e 1965, o segundo ciclo enfoca o auge e o declínio desse ensino no período compreendido entre 1966 e 1982, no qual o trabalho se concentra, e o terceiro ciclo mostra um (re)alento para a área, quando novas proposições de formação emergem nos anos de 1983 a 1994. As conclusões mostram, no segundo ciclo, a influência norte-americana no ensino de Administração no Brasil, a indefinição entre os campos de AP e Administração de Empresas (AE), o impulso dado ao ensino de AE pelo Decreto-lei nº 200 e o desestímulo ao ensino de AP pelo enforcement do Currículo Mínimo e pela retração do mercado de trabalho para os administradores públicos.

범주형 자료에서 순서화된 대립가설 검정을 위한 정확검정의 개발

범주형 자료에서 순서화된 대립가설을 검정하는 경우는 의학 사회학 경영학 등 다양한 응용분야에서 발생한다. 이러한 검정 방법은 대부분 대표본이론에 근거하여 개발되었다. 하지만 표본크기가 작거나 표본크기가 매우 불균등한 경우 대표본이론에 근거한 검정방법의 제 1종 오류 확률은 목표로 하는 5%와 멀어지는 경우가 많이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 범주형 자료에서 순서화된 대립가설을 검정하는 경우 표본크기가 작거나 표본크기가 매우 불균등한 경우에 사용될 수 있는 정확검정방법을 소개하고 이에 대한 검정력 및 정확 p-value를 제시할 것이다. Testing of order-restricted alternative hypothesis in <TEX>$2{\times}k$</TEX> contingency tables can be applied to various fields of medicine, sociology, and business administration. Most testing methods have been developed based on a large sample theory. In the case of a small sample size or unbalanced sample size, the Type I error rate of the testing method (based on a large sample theory) is very different from the target point of 5%. In this paper, the exact testing method is introduced in regards to the testing of an order-restricted alternative hypothesis in categorical data (particularly if a small sample size or extreme unbalanced data). Power and exact p-value are calculated, respectively.

Escolas de samba: trajetória, contradições e contribuições para os estudos organizacionais

O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma discussão a respeito da suposta perda de autenticidade e tradição das escolas de samba e fornecer uma contribuição para a análise organizacional, tendo em vista as características peculiares desse tipo de organização, o que nos permitiu destacar a ideia de organizações sem fronteiras. Apesar de serem significativamente pesquisadas na antropologia e na sociologia, tais organizações não ganharam ainda a devida atenção da administração. Essas agremiações são tratadas por alguns autores como entidades que sofreram grandes transformações e, por isso, teriam perdido sua autenticidade e tradição, a partir daquilo que ficou conhecido como mercantilização/modernização do carnaval, além da chamada invasão da classe média. Argumentamos que a "mercantilzação/modernização" do carnaval e "invasão" da classe média não produziram a suposta perda de autenticidade e tradição, uma vez que a comercialização do carnaval já se fazia presente no cenário brasileiro desde o início do século XX e a relação entre cultura popular e elite não é algo novo. Assumimos a posição de que "tradição" e "modernidade" não são dicotômicas e excludentes. Como desdobramento da discussão proposta, procuramos apontar que os estudos das práticas organizativas seriam um caminho interessante para superar as dicotomias comumente empregadas nos estudos de escolas de samba, as quais, na verdade, se configuram como organizações sem fronteiras.

Sustainable Leadership – Ressourcenkompetenz zur Strukturierung von Entscheidungsprämissen

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

Herausforderungen und Kompetenzen für unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien: Interview mit Johannes Merck zum Beitrag „Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen in Unternehmen und Organisationen“

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

The entanglement of intercultural conflicts and “bad” leadership in SMEs

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

Customer order decoupling point issues in a project environment

Nowadays, one of the most dynamically developing knowledge areas is the one of Project Management (PM) – both in the fields of Business and Public Administration. This is truth, partially because of constantly increasing customization of products and services, and the way to successfully cope with fulfilling customer orders, no matter if they are individual, industrial, or government ones. The key is the usage of Project Management tools and methods. On the other hand, the concept of Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP) is a popular approach to increasing the diversity of end items, while taking advantage of standardization due to increased repetitiveness of operations devoted to producing components and/or subassemblies. It is widely used in Operations Management, but it could also be applied on a “secondary” level during the process of project implementation, and thus an increased customer customization could be achieved. In the present paper, the usage of methods and techniques such as Design Structure Matrix (DSM), Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and others is discussed in a model developing, which helps in defining places throughout the project implementation process the interaction with the customer is to be realized, while avoiding undesirable violations in the project workflow.

Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Responsabilidade Social Corporativa e Educação Ambiental em contexto de inovação organizacional: conceitos revisitados

The disciplinary field of Business Administration follows the organizations innovations and discusses that with sustainable development as a strategic focus and Corporate Social Responsibility, among other issues. However, a gap has been found when considering communication and attempt to mobilize the members that are part of the socio-environmental management process in the company. This gap is identified because there is no extensive dialogue between the organizational context and Environmental Education worked in a consolidated form in the disciplinary field of Education. Thus, this paper seeks to revisit theoretical concepts and theoretical approaches to innovation, Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development as organizational strategy and Environmental Education. The discussion indicates that the integration of Environmental Education, Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility in innovative organizations is important, especially because of the little interaction between these areas of knowledge.

A APLICAÇÃO DA FENOMENOLOGIA NOS ESTUDOS ORGANIZACIONAIS NO BRASIL

&lt;p&gt;Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar um entendimento a respeito de como o método fenomenológico vem sendo utilizado em pesquisas no campo dos estudos organizacionais. Para isso, foram analisadas pesquisas que utilizaram a fenomenologia, buscando compreender e descrever a sua utilização, as características semelhantes entre os temas estudados, as queixas e dificuldades relatadas pelos pesquisadores, os objetos de estudo e as técnicas de pesquisa, entre outros fatores. Os artigos selecionados são provenientes de trabalhos científicos utilizados na pesquisa feita por Silveira, Fischer e Olivier (2010), que realizaram um mapeamento de artigos em Administração sobre a Fenomenologia e sobre sua aplicação como método de pesquisa. Para fins de atualização desta pesquisa, foram mapeados outros artigos publicados posteriormente nos mesmos eventos e periódicos. Pôde-se evidenciar que a abordagem fenomenológica ou o método fenomenológico tem alcance epistemológico consistente e significativo para aplicação ao estudo dos mais variados problemas no campo dos estudos organizacionais. Além disso, esse tipo de estudo buscou contribuir para a melhor assimilação do significado da fenomenologia, a compreensão de como se deu sua passagem do método filosófico para o método de pesquisa e, assim, entrever seu potencial de adoção em estudos organizacionais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Enhancing Clients’ Livelihoods: Design, Implementation and Impact Evaluation of Decent Work Innovations in Microfinance

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice.

Microfinance Commercialization and Mission Drift

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice.

User Innovators: When Patients Set Out to Help Themselves and End Up Helping Many

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

Colonização e neocolonização da gestão de recursos humanos no Brasil (1950-2010)

A Gestão de Recursos Humanos (GRH), como campo prático da Administração de Empresas e como área de ensino e pesquisa, desenvolveu-se vigorosamente no Brasil. Este ensaio crítico tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise histórica dessa evolução nos últimos 60 anos. Para isso, caracterizamos e analisamos dois períodos: 19501980, o qual denominamos colonização; e 1980-2010, o qual denominamos neocolonização. Para cada período, apresentamos o contexto político e econômico, as mudanças ocorridas na GRH e o discurso correspondente. Nossa análise adota a perspectiva do pós-colonialismo, uma corrente de pesquisa ascendente em Estudos Organizacionais, e introduz e utiliza a perspectiva do tropicalismo, uma abordagem genuinamente local, derivada dos movimentos culturais dos anos 1960. Nós argumentamos que a GRH desenvolveu-se no Brasil a partir de um movimento de colonização oriundo do estrangeiro. Tal movimento, envolvendo colonizadores e colonizados, compreendeu assimetrias em termos de poder, porém incluiu também interdependências e recriações.

What in Fact Is the Role of Stylized Facts in Fundamental Research of Business and Information Systems Engineering?

In the discussion initiated by Winter on “What in fact is fundamental research in business and information systems engineering?” in issue 2/2009, Zelewski submitted the interesting proposal to use the concept of stylized facts as developed in economics in business and information systems engineering (BISE) in order to promote theory building within our discipline (Winter et al. 2009). Stylized facts constitute elements of knowledge in the form of generalized statements that describe the important characteristics and relationships in the context of a studied phenomenon and are widely supported empirically. For example, the empirically proven relationship between the longterm abstention from changing the employer in Japanese companies and a much larger salary increase compared to U.S. companies is a typical stylized fact in economics. When using stylized facts in the context of BISE, a number of interesting questions arise: What are the typical stylized facts within BISE? How can stylized facts be obtained systematically? What is the importance of stylized facts in design-oriented disciplines? Which role do stylized facts play in practice? What is the difference between technological rules and stylized facts? To what extent can we consider stylized facts to be “technological” knowledge about cause-effect-relationships that can be utilized for the construction of artifacts of information and communication technology? Which role do stylized facts play in empirical research? Which contribution can stylized facts make for building theories in BISE if a multiperspective research approach is assumed? Currently, only scattered experience exists in the application of stylized facts in BISE (Fettke et al. 2010; Houy et al. 2009, 2011). In order to achieve a broad perspective on the issue in the course of this discussion, well-known representatives from the field of business administration, the German-speaking BISE as well as from Information Systems Research were invited to comment on the topic. The following authors accepted our invitation to this discussion (in alphabetical order): Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank, Chair of Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl, Chair of General Management and Information Systems, Mannheim University, Germany; Prof. Dr. Juhani Iivari, Department of Information Processing Science, Oulu University, Finland; Prof. Dr. Barbara E. Weisenberger, Chair of Controlling and Business Accounting, Justus-Liebig University of Giesen, Germany; Prof. Dr. Stephan Zelewski, Institute of Production and Industrial Information Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Within their contributions the authors highlight different facets of the generation and application of stylized facts that appear relevant and important for BISE. Barbara E. Weisenberger outlines the concept and the derivation of stylized facts based on a case study in the field of IT-based controlling systems. Thus, several empirical studies have shown that the “increasing flexibility of IT systems in accounting and control has a positive impact on management accounting and control”. The author argues that the concept contributes to aggregate and structure fragmented knowledge in a research area, with particular emphasis on revealing research gaps. At the same time she points out that the derivation of stylized facts is the result of comprehensive research endeavors. The contribution by Stephan Zelewski considers the concept of stylized facts in the tension between the more designoriented German-speaking BISE on the one hand and the more behavioristic Anglo-Saxon Information Systems Research on the other. He argues that stylized facts are not directly but indirectly fruitful for the design-oriented BISE: Accordingly, stylized facts form a “seed of crystallization” for the development and testing of theories with causal explanatory power, making it possible to “explain and verify prognoses regarding alleged effects of the recommended design measures”. Despite the attractiveness of the concept, the author also points to difficulties in the implementation in current science. Armin Heinzl identifies application areas for stylized facts in BISE, especially

Innovative Study of Business Administration Training Modes: TRIZ Behavior Perspective

Innovation lies in a breakthrough has its own unique view, concrete expression to generate a novel and unique, there is social value or value of the individual thoughts, ideas, methods and products. Business Administration field embodies the innovation and spark creative thinking. In recent years, it is not satisfactory under a variety of educational models in parallel quality of training. TRIZ innovation theory behavior perspective analysis can effectively identify the level of innovation capability in different groups of university students, a series of targeted training activities can practice in this basis in order to achieve creativity in our students the accumulation of knowledge, effective identified and enhanced innovation and practical ability and quality of innovation.

Intangibles Kapital und Rentabilität in der Pharmaindustrie

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

Stochastische Unternehmensbewertung mittels Monte-Carlo-Simulation am Beispiel der Verlagsbranche

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice.

Risk management from an organizational psychology perspective: A decision process for managing uncertainties

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

Supply management in American public administration: Towards an academic discipline?

This article examines the development of supply management in the U.S. to assess its progress towards academic disciplinary status. A comparison of the fields of business administration and public administration indicates that supply management is more developed in the former than in the latter, which inhibits its disciplinary status. Various reasons for this uneven development in the two fields are explored. The paper argues that a paradigm shift must occur for public supply management, which will re-orient it around the concept of the public interest. This will require public supply professionals to participate strategically in public policy-making in order to ascertain and promote the public interest. A policy framework is used to illustrate this re-orientation and to suggest directions for further research.

Knowledge Management: For New Times With New Technologies

Knowledge Management (KM) comprises of a range of practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise of knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practices. An established discipline since 1995, KM includes courses taught in the fields of business administration, information systems, management, and library and information sciences. More recently, other fields, to include those focused on information and media, computer science, public health, and public policy, have also started contributing to KM research. Many large companies and non-profit organisations have resources dedicated to internal KM efforts, often as a part of their 'Business Strategy', 'Information Technology', or 'Human Resource Management' departments. Several consulting companies also exist that provide strategy and advice regarding KM to these organisations.KM efforts typically focus on organisational objectives such as improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, the sharing of lessons learned, and continuous improvement of the organisation. KM efforts overlap with Organisational Learning, and may be distinguished from it by a greater focus on the management of knowledge as a strategic asset and a focus on encouraging the exchange of knowledge. KM efforts can help individuals and groups to share valuable organizational insights, to reduce redundant work, to avoid reinventing the wheel per se, to reduce training time for new employees, to retain intellectual capital as employees' turnover in an organisation, and to adapt to changing environments and markets.