Bruno de Souza Lessa

• PhD in Management.
• Lecturer at Universidade de Fortaleza

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to propose a multidimensional view of social innovation. Design/methodology/approach – It offers a detailed analysis of the activities performed by ADEL (Agência de Desenvolvimento Econômico Local) – a regional non-governmental organization located in one of the poorest regions of Brazil – which is...

The aim of this theoretical paper is to ascertain, through Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual apparatus, the barriers preventing effective sustainability in Management Schools. In this sense, this paper argues that barriers emerge because of a dissonance between students’ habitus and sustainability principles and their related contents. Such processes wou...

The interaction between university and its surrounding communities is vital for society. The incorporation of social initiatives as formal university extension programs can tackle different social demands, strengthening the “extension” pillar of the tripod that underpins Brazilian universities. The Program of Education in Cooperative Cells (PRECE,...

Social innovation's fundamental objective is to promote life quality. Any new initiative with this purpose might be considered a social innovation. From this concept, it is perceived as social innovation the efforts of the Programa de Educação em Células Cooperativas (PRECE), an initiative originated in Pentecoste, a municipality in the state of Ce...

O presente ensaio visa a apresentar reflexões acerca do Projeto de Lei no 193/2016, Escola sem partido, o qual quer tipificar e repreender, punir o “assédio” ideológico nas escolas. Iniciamos a reflexão a partir dos aportes de Maurício Tragtenberg analisando as conexões entre ideologia e burocracia nas organizações, escopo no qual também incluímos...

Purpose The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial orientation, and performance within Brazilian federal state-owned companies. Design/methodology/approach Primary data were obtained using survey research. Secondary data were obtained using the Federal State-owned Companies Bulletin an...

The article aims to analyze the socioeconomic vulnerability of Brazilian coastal municipalities as a result of coastal polluting agents.This quantitative research has an exploratory nature, as it was dedicated to the development of socioeconomic indicators to assess vulnerability to the adverse effects of issues related to coastal and marine pollut...

Applying the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and given the scarcity of scientific literature, this study consists of integrating and evaluating the role of fear of failure as an antecedent of entrepreneurial intention (EI). Based on a sample of 979 higher education students from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, it was found that fear of failure...

Although studies aimed at understanding entrepreneurship have analyzed passion, creativity, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, few studies include these antecedents in the same model. In this sense, this study aims to assess the relationship between passion, self-efficacy, and creativity with entrepreneurial intention. The data was collected throug...

This article examines the influence of pro-social behavior on social entrepreneurial intentions (SEI). Drawing on theory of planned behavior, entrepreneurship, and behavioral psychology literatures, we examine the influence of volunteers’ traits and behavior on SEI. Our research adds two unexplored antecedents to previous studies, volunteers’ altru...

Purpose: This paper aimed to understand the learning processes and the constitution of knowledge about Sustainability of undergraduate students in Business Administration. From the perspective of learning based on practices and the concept of knowing-in-practice, students' social, contextual and material relations were explored during a year. Desig...

Este ensaio tem como objetivo discorrer sobre o papel da educação para a construção da moral a partir de Emile Durkheim e os avanços conservadores orientados ao controle sobre o sistema formal de ensino. Compreende-se que os movimentos por educação conservadora, como denominaremos, lastreados por uma ideia hiperindividualizada e opaca de sujeito, d...

It is crucial to understand which conditions or elements are relevant to the development of more holistic and integrative models for implementing sustainability into Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is observed in the literature that there is a mismatch between the highlighted importance of education for sustainability and the actual implem...

This paper investigates the influence of entrepreneurial education on the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and its antecedents of low-income students. It verifies the effects of entrepreneurial education as a moderating variable in the connection between intention and its antecedents. Our findings provide a theoretical contribution b...

This article aimed to discuss how Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of reflexivity was conceived, and how it influenced and was developed by Bernard Lahire’s in his sociology. To operationalize the way the concept is articulated, but emphasizing its development by Lahire, this paper presents as an empirical case how reflexivity was engendered in José Franc...

This article aimed to discuss how Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of reflexivity was conceived, and how it influenced and was developed by Bernard Lahire’s in his sociology. To operationalize the way the concept is articulated, but emphasizing its development by Lahire, this paper presents as an empirical case how reflexivity was engendered in José Franc...

This paper aims to discuss the relevance of the researcher's previous study and preparation to conduct academic interviews. The reflection proposed here originated from the transcription work performed in Management and related areas during the period of a year. This paper's contribution lies in the weight given to the effort needed to prepare, cho...

Social entrepreneurial intentions have become a key area of interest in the entrepreneurship discourse. Studies conducted in developed countries have shown that crucial determinants involve previous experience, mediated by empathy, moral obligation, self-efficacy and perceived social support. This paper brings new contributions on such determinants...

This paper analyzes the relationship between police brutality and its repercussion in the narratives exposed by Brazilian rappers in their lyrics. The central argument is that such violence is not a consequence or a cause for the phenomenon, but a structural element in the dynamics of urban violence. Such violence is essential for establishing the...

This research aims to examine how the exchangeists' perceptions about their abilities, knowledge and attitudes influence their awareness. In view of this, the theoretical methodological basis of Fantini (2007) is used, guided by his model of Intercultural Competence Assessment (ACI). To this end, the German and Spanish students who took part in an...

Este ensaio tem como objetivo discorrer sobre o papel da educação para a construção da moral a partir de Emile Durkheim e os avanços conservadores orientados ao controle sobre o sistema formal de ensino. Compreende-se que os movimentos por educação conservadora, como denominaremos, lastreados por uma ideia hiperindividualizada e opaca de sujeito, d...

A tecnologia está, aparentemente, em todos os lugares, sendo ela o principal mediador do trabalho nas organizações, de modo tal, que é difícil conceber qualquer organização contemporânea que não dependa de algum tipo de tecnologia. Mais que dependência, em uma corrente emergente de estudos acerca das tecnologias, estas são concebidas como mutuament...

Neste trabalho analisamos a precarização do trabalho no Brasil na implantação do capitalismo neoliberal. Apontamos que a crise estrutural do capital obrigou os capitalistas a abandonar o modo de regulação fordista e assimilar as práticas do modo de regulação flexível. No Brasil, este processo se deu a partir de uma brusca abertura comercial, do fim...

O Programa de Apoio ao Intercambista (PAI) é pertencente a Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Atuária e Contabilidade (FEAAC) da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) e tem o objetivo de ajudar e guiar estudantes de mobilidade acadêmica internacional na UFC nos seus primeiros momentos em Fortaleza, fornecendo apoio e incentivando trocas de expe...

O Programa de Apoio ao Intercambista (PAI) é pertencente à Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Atuária e Contabilidade (FEAAC) da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) e tem o objetivo de ajudar e guiar estudantes de mobilidade acadêmica internacional na UFC nos seus primeiros momentos em Fortaleza, fornecendo apoio e incentivando trocas de experiê...

This study aimed to unveil what the role of the managerial perception of problems is for effectiveness in SEs based in the Brazilian semiarid. To do so, it used as operational definitions of SEs and effectiveness the ones provided by Lasprogatta and Cotten (2003) as well as Diochon and Anderson (2009), respectively. Methodologically, a qualitative...

This theoretical essay aims to provide a sociological explanation for the increasing importance of sustainability principles and practices in Management Schools. It does so by approximating two theoretical perspectives. First, from a macrosociological standpoint, it employs some of Pierre Bourdieu’s core concepts and his theory of the State to inte...

This paper aims to discuss the relevance of the researcher’s previous study and preparation to conduct academic interviews. The reflection proposed here originated from the transcription work performed during twelve months in Management as well as related areas. This paper’s contribution lies in the weight given to the effort needed to prepare, cho...

This essay had the objective of problematizing the role of violence in Brazilian social life and of discussing the relevance it poses in three classics of Brazilian Social Thought. By analyzing how the issue was treated in Casa-Grande & Senzala, Raízes do Brasil, and Formação do Brasil Contemporâneo, we aimed at defending the argument that, althoug...

The Instituto da Primeira Infância (IPREDE) is an extension program of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Students from the school of Medicine collaborate with the Institute by exercising their knowledge practically. The community, the University and the organization harvest advantages out of this cooperation. In this regard, the research quest...

This study aimed to answer what is the role of innovation for effectiveness in two social enterprises (SEs) based in the Brazilian semiarid. The operational definitions used in this research considered as main constructs SEs and effectiveness. Social enterprises were defined as for-profit initiatives started by non-profit organizations, as proposed...

This study aimed to answer what is the role of innovation for effectiveness in two social enterprises (SEs) based in the Brazilian semiarid. The operational definitions used in this research considered as main constructs SEs and effectiveness. Social enterprises were defined as for-profit initiatives started by non-profit organizations, as propo...

This study identified the intercultural competences developed by foreign students who attended the interchange program of the Federal University of Ceará in the period between 2008 and 2015. The Intercultural Competence Assessment model from Fantini (2007) was employed to identify and measure each of these intercultural competences. The results hig...

This study has the objective to highlight the factors for effectiveness of two social enterprises (SEs) located in the Brazilian semiarid region. Employing a qualitative approach, data collection was based on 23 (twenty-three) semistructed interviews analysed with the Nvivo(r) 10 software. Findings evidenced the importance of intersectoral collabor...

In a scenario of resource scarcity wherein many rural communities are framed, the conventional model of basic sanitation shows itself to be inaccessible and unsustainable. In this context, the ecological sanitation technologies emerge as a viable option due to the possibility of both reutilizing resources, decreasing implementation costs and the ma...

This study aimed to understand how the process of diffusion of an ecological sanitation technology occurred in the May 25 Settlement, located in the Brazilian drylands, drawing on the components of technology transference proposed by Davies- Colley and Smith (2012), considering the elements of diffusion suggested by Rogers (1983). Using a qualitati...

The economy is always a social construction, which cannot be separated from society itself (Polanyi 2011, Laville, 2014). The Solidarity Economy prioritizes local development and human through practices of cooperation and self-management. The present debate about Solidarity Economy has emphasized the urge for strategies to strengthen enterprises vi...

The Support Program for Exchange Students (PAI, in Portuguese) is an initiative of the School of Economics, Administration, Actuarial Sciences and Accounting (FEAAC, in Portuguese), run in partnership with the Coordination of International Affairs from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC, in Portuguese). The objective of this paper is to present t...

RESUMO O presente artigo tem como objetivo principal identificar aspectos e princípios de Inovação Social e Economia Solidária em uma Bodega localizada no bairro Conjunto Esperança em Fortaleza/CE: a BudegAMA. Enquanto parte da Rede Bodegas, é formada por mulheres que se reúnem para confeccionar e comercializar peças de artesanato; disseminando ent...

O artigo analisa a participação feminina na produção científica sobre Estratégia usando a base de dados o Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL) e dentro os anos de 2003 a 2013, a pesquisa apresenta caráter documental e enfoque bibliométrico. A discussão é pertinente uma vez que não há trabalhos que façam o mapeamento das pesquisas sobre...