Variações nas rotinas de um Instituto de Tecnologia e Inovação: adaptações ao contexto e (re)alinhamento de interesses
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Resumo: Neste trabalho pesquisaram-se as razões para variações nas rotinas organizacionais de compras de insumos químicos em um Instituto de Tecnologia e Inovação do Rio de Janeiro. Os dados coletados basearam-se em entrevistas com 18 pessoas, na análise de mais de 30 documentos, e em observações empíricas, no período entre agosto de 2015 e janeiro de 2016. Os resultados encontrados sugerem falta de integração, assim como o desalinhamento de interesses e de interpretações entre as áreas envolvidas: são mantidas formas de desempenhar rotinas organizacionais com estruturas, artefatos e fundamentos que podem estar inadequados ao contexto de compras de insumos químicos, que são utilizados em rotinas de análises e ensaios. Logo, apesar de ter havido a criação de novos padrões de ação mais adaptados ao contexto, que podem propiciar mais agilidade para as rotinas de compra, corroborando com a ideia do potencial generativo e da flexibilidade nas rotinas organizacionais preconizada pela teoria (Pentland & Feldman, 2005; Feldman, 2016), é possível observar que o andamento para a estabilização da nova rotina pode carecer de manifestações de trégua que possibilitem a revisão do uso dos artefatos nas rotinas. No presente trabalho também foram reveladas quatro categorias sobre os fatores motivadores das variações nas rotinas de compras, colaborando, assim, para o campo de estudo da Dinâmica das Rotinas (Routine Dynamics) e da ecologia das rotinas (Feldman, 2016; Howard-Grenville & Rerup, 2017), e, também, para o entendimento sobre o papel dos artefatos nas interações entre rotinas interdependentes e sobre a Trégua (Truce).
Palavras-chave: Rotinas organizacionais. Padrões de ação. Processos institucionais.
Changes on organizational routines on a Technology and Innovation Institute: suit to context and interests (re)alignment
Abstract: This research sought to understand the motives driving the variations in organizational routines, within the context of chemical procurement for a Technology and Innovation Institute in Rio de Janeiro. This case study was based on 18 interviews and the analysis of more than 30 documents and empirical observations, in the period between August 24, 2015 and January 29, 2016. The results suggest a lack of integration and a misalignment of the interests and interpretations between the areas, thus incentivizing maintaining routines with structures, artifacts and bases inadequate for the context of chemical procurement, which are used in analysis and testing routines. Therefore, despite the creation of new standards of action that are better adapted to the context and can provide streamlining of procurement routines, consistent with the idea of flexibility of organizational routines advocated by the theory (Pentland & Feldman, 2005; Feldman, 2016), it is possible to observe that the progress towards the stabilization of the new routine may lack manifestations of truce that allow the revision of the use of the artifacts in the routines. The present work also revealed four categories on the motivating factors of the variations in the procurement routine, thus collaborating for the field of study of the Routine Dynamics and routines ecology (Feldman, 2016; Howard-Grenville & Rerup, 2017), with the understanding of the role of artifacts in the interactions between interdependent routines and about the Truce.
Keywords: Organizational routines. Patterns of action. Institutional processes.
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