A gestão da estratégia como processo de aprendizado

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2008

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The main objective of the project is to understand how strategic learning actually occurs within organizations and what elements are important to foster it. What basically motivated the project was, on the one hand, the perception of a context that increasingly challenges the survival of organizations, whose life cycles turn out to be shorter and shorter. On the other hand, a mechanistic view still prevails, when dealing with themes related to strategy and management, which underestimates the learning throughout the process. From this perspective, the general object was to explore, by means of a case study, the process of strategic learning and the challenges related to it in the light of a paradigm that is more descriptive than prescriptive. Furthermore, an attempt was made to contextualize the theme through the bibliography focusing on the intersection between strategy and organizational learning. For the purposes of this study, a company was selected which boasted a large capacity for adaptation and transformation. It was possible to clearly identify some strategic learning cycles that the company went through and which significantly contributed to its survival and growth. In order to identify these cycles and understand how they came about, the history of the organization was salvaged throughout its nearly twenty years of existence by using the storytelling technique. Defining and exploring the great learning cycles undergone by the organization enables their comprehension. A process was clearly perceived which was much more based upon emerging strategies and sense making than on deliberate or planned strategies. This process bore the mark of a powerful entrepreneurial and visionary spirit and was built upon experimenting. This led the organization to broad reorientations, where products, services, competences and even mental models were abandoned or destroyed, thus allowing for the creation of a new set of references. These cycles somehow seem to have been systematic, taking place every three or four years and making it possible for the organization to adapt, transform and move ahead. The analysis of such cycles has enabled the researcher to identify some noteworthy characteristics of the organization which, one way or another, have permeated all these learning cycles and which prove to be invaluable to bring about strategic learning. Nevertheless, rather than drafting a theory or aspiring to be prescriptive, this project intends, as its greatest contribution, to be an instrument to foment reflection concerning the process of planning and managing strategy, hence affording a glimpse into how such a process evolves into one constructed upon other assumptions and actually nurturing constant learning and innovation

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emerging strategies estratégias emergentes organizacao strategy management gestão da estratégia administracao strategic learning aprendizagem estratégica planejamento estrategico aprendizagem organizacional

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