Inovação organizacional: um estudo de caso em uma indústria de alimentos do sudoeste do Paraná

Abstract

This dissertation aims to explain factors that are relevant to organizational innovation, trying to understand the antecedents that determine the dimensions of innovation. At the same time, the research tries to trace the relevance of the innovation theme related to regional development, understanding that technological changes contribute to the opening of social participation in a given locality. Organizational innovation encompassing factors, processes and management model of an organization, and plays a key role in increasing productivity, industrial development and competitiveness of companies. The research presented the dimensions and determinants of the organizational innovation of a food industry in southwestern Paraná, through a case study based on the studies of Crossan and Apaydin (2010), proposed a broad multi-dimensional structure of innovation Organizational structure based on a framework with bases of theories that were also approached in the course of the literature review of this dissertation. The research results pointed out the antecedents of innovation through the determinants: leadership, management levers and business processes, as well as described the dimensions that these antecedents determine, these in the form of innovation as process and innovation as a result. From the determinants of innovation, the processes and results of innovation present in the organization were evidenced, analyzing the correlations and impacts in the development of the organization and society as a whole.