Mário Sacomano Neto

• Phd
• Associate Professor at Federal University of São Carlos

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Industry 5.0 (I5.0) represent important changes in industrial paradigms. I4.0 is centered on efficiency and competitiveness, and I5.0 adds sustainability, human-centricity, and resilience to the framework. Despite their growing relevance, much of the existing research remains techno-centric, neglecting the sociocultural and...

Financialization affects the procurement area of organizations, influencing their strategies. In this context, this study aims to identify the consequences and practices of financialization within the procurement area. Through a systematic literature review and content analysis, we uncovered a set of thirteen consequences of financialization in pro...

Introduction The growing influence of institutional investors in financial markets has redefined the dynamics of capitalism, now referred to by some as financial or asset-based capitalism. Brazil's integration into global finance, along with the State's active involvement, has amplified the power of these investors within the country. This article...

A pesquisa foi desenvolvida sob uma abordagem sociológica relacional com base na teoria de Campo de Ação Estratégica (CAE) e investiga as concepções de controle de uma organização da área de saúde: a Santa Casa de Mogi Mirim-SP. O método adotado na pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo e histórico, apresenta um estudo de caso envolvendo pesquisa documen...

The history of Credit Rating Agencies [CRAs], commonly called Rating Agencies, has a long and distinguished trajectory marked by influence, reputation and power. Due to the ability of this field to instigate significant changes in market regulations and actions of economic actors, this subject is extensively debated within the literature. In econom...

Purpose This paper aims to propose and assess a framework to analyse the institutionalization of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) through a framing analysis. Design/methodology/approach The framework was developed by combining the institutional approach with orders of worth, drawing insights from a comprehensive literature review. To assess it, the authors con...

Research objective: Leadership and culture are critical dimensions to understanding organizational dynamics. This article analyses the effect of leadership on organizational culture at the National Institute of Social Security in Brazil. The study also identifies the predominant types of leadership through the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire a...

As startups de tecnologia impactam positivamente o desenvolvimento socioeconômico de uma região, porém, carecem de recursos, buscando organizações de apoio, como incubadoras e aceleradoras. Este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar as diferenças e semelhanças entre programas de incubação e aceleração, baseando-se nos recursos oferecidos, utiliza...

Purpose This study aims to analyze the configuration of the board of directors of the five largest banks operating in Brazil, which are members of a financial elite that directly influences the socioeconomic life in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach This assessment is inspired by Bourdieu's sociological approach and in the discussion on h...

RESUMO Vários estudos têm apontado para um tipo de capitalismo hierárquico na América Latina, caracterizado pela presença de corporações multinacionais, estatais, grupos multiempresariais diversificados, baixa qualificação da mão de obra e mercados de trabalho segmentados. A partir da perspectiva das redes proprietárias - que revelam atores e grupo...

O trabalho aborda como a alteração no modelo de investimentos em infraestrutura de transportes rodoviários no Brasil, iniciado a partir da década de 1990, impactou mercados e organizações do setor. O texto discute como a presença de novos agentes e a influência da lógica financeira contribuíram para a construção de uma “nova forma” de pensar a área...

Several studies have indicated a type of hierarchical capitalism in Latin America, characterized by the presence of multinational and state corporations, diversified multi-enterprise groups, low-skilled labor, and segmented labor markets. From the perspective of ownership networks, we explore who the owners of large Brazilian corporations are. Thes...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the influence of technology-based business incubators (TBIs) on the resources of technology startups in Brazil. The authors identify which resources are offered and explore the importance of resources for TBIs and startups. The theoretical background is based on the resource-based view, the resource dependency the...

Purpose: The growing adoption of Industry 4.0 offers opportunities and promotes changes in markets, business models, supply chains and operations. However, adopting new technologies and practices is beyond the simple rational decision and the search for efficiency. There are contextual social and cultural systems that influence the behavior of peop...

The article addresses how societal inequalities shape market arrangements. While business scholars developed important work about the interplay of organizations and societal economic inequalities, less has been said about the embeddedness of markets in unequal social structures. We argue that this issue may be addressed by cross-fertilizing the soc...

Resumo O artigo1 tem por objetivo analisar a evolução da interação entre Santas Casas e o Sistema de Saúde Público brasileiro por meio do levantamento histórico da Santa Casa de Mogi Mirim. Os procedimentos metodológicos foram de abordagem qualitativa e basearam-se em uma coleta de dados por pesquisa documental do levantamento histórico da Santa Ca...

Resumo Objetivo: O presente trabalho busca avaliar e analisar a relação entre a centralidade in-degree e o desempenho organizacional no setor automotivo. Em outras palavras, observamos se a posição na rede está relacionada ao desempenho dos atores por meio de indicadores de produção, receita e lucro. Referencial teórico: O uso da análise de rede...

Purpose: This paper seeks to assess and analyze the relationship between indegree centrality and organizational performance in the automotive industry. In other words, we look at whether the network position is related to the performance of the actors using production, revenue, and profit indicators. Theoretical framework: This research uses socia...

Despite great developmental efforts in recent decades, Latin America still presents high levels of poverty and inequality when compared to developed nations. As explored widely in the literature, one potential instrument to diminish these issues is financial inclusion, including the access and usage of financial services by all people. Specifically...

The financialization process of economy and production has been reaching most of the big companies worldwide. Several authors have discussed this issue and identified some tendencies related to concentration of income, smaller salaries to workers, huge compensations to executives and billions of dollars in dividends payouts to shareholders and shar...

Our study investigates how collaboration from a triadic perspective affects the development of operational capabilities through a practice-adoption process. This research conducted a multiple case study in three triads in Brazil. The results imply that inter-organizational collaboration plays a positive role by moderating the relationship between i...

Vários estudos indicaram um tipo de capitalismo rentista e hierárquico na América Latina. Nós partimos desta questão para explorar, a partir da perspectiva de redes proprietárias, quem são os proprietários das grandes corporações brasileiras. Estas redes podem revelar atores e grupos com posições proeminentes dentro de mercados e da economia. Assim...

This article critically investigates the controversies involved in the entrepreneurial process of an IT venture using the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). While ANT and other processual approaches have been used to assess entrepreneurship, little emphasis has been placed on addressing the controversies involved in the entrepreneurial process. To overcom...

Where presidents or members of affluent families were previously seen, it is increasingly the case that car manufacturers are owned by banks and investment funds which have taken control of the entire economic life of these firms. This has significant impact on the terms of employment and layoffs, wages and precarious work, growing inequalities in...

This paper aims to analyse financialization indicators in the case of Apple Inc. The indicators are sources of profitability; shareholding composition; origin of the company directors; payment of dividends to shareholders; payment of compensation to executives; employees´ salaries and employment. We use qualitative and exploratory research through...

We assess the conditions under which forest-dependent groups in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest may overcome inequalities in the legal access to forest resources. Through the development of contrasting case studies, we address attempts made by two community-based associations that represent those groups to legalize their timber production. We explo...

As Zonas de Processamento de Exportação (ZPEs) são aglomerações industriais, estruturadas visando atrair investimentos estrangeiros e desenvolver regiões, por meio da geração de divisas, especialização da indústria e aumento das exportações. China e México optaram pela criação de ZPEs e têm motivado diversos países a formularem propostas para imple...

The financialization process in the automotive sector is growing and has affected the automakers in different ways. In this paper, we propose to study the different dynamics that involve financialization in the automotive sector by comparing Ford and Hyundai cases worldwide. To do this, we used indicators that aim to concretize the economic concept...

Abstract: Paper aims: This paper aims to understand how the social skill of managers influence the diffusion of operational capabilities in food and auto parts manufacturing networks. Originality: There are taken-for-granted beliefs that its diffusion is based on replicating or transferring resources and practices from one site to another. This st...

Who controls the corporate ownership network in the automotive industry: owners, shareholders or financial institutions? Recent studies have suggested that corporate control of automotive firms is increasingly associated with banks, investment funds and other players in the financial system. In particular, investment funds have reinforced significa...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the adoption of lean practices by manufacturing companies in regions of low economic and technological development and to compare findings with previous studies from more developed regions highlighting important contextual differences. The paper uses the contingency theory to explore how contextual va...

Abstract: This study analyzed the changes in the structure of the political network of the footwear Local Productive Cluster (LPC) of Jaú, São Paulo in the period from 1996 to 2016. Network theory was used as theoretical basis because it has gained space in organizational studies in the last decades, besides providing explanations for various pheno...

The automotive sector has undergone enormous changes in recent years. One of them concerns the geographical location of its production. In 2000, a large part of the world's automobile production was under the responsibility of automakers installed in the United States, Japan, Germany and France, which accounted for 42% of production that year, acco...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a influência de novas tecnologias na estrutura relacional do campo da indústria automotiva. Estamos usando uma construção dos componentes fortemente conectados (Strong Connected Component- SCC) como proxy de um campo de ação. Trata-se de uma simulação fundamentada nos dados extraídos de 7.211 registros de patentes...

Automakers are facing a growing process of financialization that can be characterized by the preference to value capital through financial activities as more profitable than by productive activities. The aim of this article is to study the financialization of the automotive industry by analyzing the five largest automakers in the world: Toyota, Vol...

O capítulo traça um panorama dos estudos organizacionais, uma das áreas mais abrangentes e diversas da Administração e da Engenharia de Produção. Para lidar com o desafio de elaborar uma apresentação que abarque tanto o conhecimento histórico quanto os modelos e ferramentas para a gestão das organizações, optou-se por uma análise das transformações...

ResumoPor meio do ensaio teórico-empírico, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as redes, no que diz respeito a sua estrutura, nós, ligações e fluxos, e identificar quais são os recursos compartilhados nas relações de empresas pertencentes ao Centro Incubador de Empresas de Software (Softnet). O trabalho é baseado na seleção e interpretaç...

The automotive industry is undergoing an increasing process of financialization. Increasingly, automakers are becoming the subject of equity acquisitions and increasing the participation of banks, mutual funds and other financial institutions in their property rights. In addition, there is enormous pressure from top executives and shareholders for...

The relatively good recycling performance in Brazil is associated to material recovery chains involving a huge number of informal waste collectors. Over the past decades, social activists have supported grassroots recycling cooperatives and these organizations have spread around the country becoming consecrated in the National solid waste policy as...

Resumo: Este artigo analisa como diferentes perspectivas teóricas da análise organizacional se apropriam da noção de “campo”. Tomam-se como referência as bases filosóficas e as propostas que motivaram a utilização desse conceito pelas ciências sociais, associando-o a uma abordagem relacional específica, que é ilustrada pela sociologia de Pierre Bou...

This paper analyzes how different approaches of organizational analysis use the notion of 'field'. The philosophical grounds and proposals that motivated the usage of this concept in the social sciences, associated to a specific relational approach illustrated by the sociological approach of Bourdieu, are taken as a reference. Identifying the genes...

This study aimed to identify post-graduation student’s work values - in a Brazilian federal university and the differences of these values and the relationship with variables such as gender and type of organization. For this, data were collected through a survey using an adaptation of the Revised Work Values Scale (WVS-R). A descriptive, explorator...

This article analyses the resources, capabilities and advantages of relational processes of acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and partnerships in the automotive sector based on an analysis of five dyad case studies. These strategies imply significant structural and relational changes constrained by a systemic disintegration of production and...

This article analyses the resources, capabilities and advantages of relational processes of acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and partnerships in the automotive sector based on an analysis of five dyad case studies. These strategies imply significant structural and relational changes constrained by a systemic disintegration of production and...

Important research efforts have been developed to account for power in the analysis of supply chains. This paper argues that further gains may arise by considering organizations as social constructions mediated not only by power relations, but also by cultural representations intrinsically intertwined to it. Its purpose is to discuss the dynamics o...

The objective of this study was to analyse the modularity in the networks among Japanese automakers from 1998 to 2016 and its association to the dynamics of strategic action fields. This objective reflects the relational governance structure of automotive industry, and their association to the dynamics of automakers field. We identified that, where...

The objective of this study was to analyse the modularity in the networks among Japanese automakers from 1998 to 2016 and its association to the dynamics of strategic action fields. This objective reflects the relational governance structure of automotive industry, and their association to the dynamics of automakers field. We identified that, where...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to analyze the network structure of automotive companies linked by cross-shareholding, joint ventures, manufacturing contracts and alliances, from 2004 to 2012. The study also explored how the network structure affects the competition in the field. Design/methodology/approach – The sample involved 3695 dyads....

Agradecimentos à FAPESP pelo suporte financeiro ao projeto de doutorado. Resumo - O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar as estruturas de redes de afiliação e grupos dominantes do campo acadêmico dos programas de pós-graduação em administração, engenharia de produção e engenharia mecânica do estado de São Paulo. A pesquisa tem propósitos descritivo...

The study of networks and fields has grown significantly in organizational studies, economic sociology and institutional theory. The objective of this study was to analyze the modularity in Japanese automaker networks from 2007 to 2013 and their association to the dynamics of fields. The modularity metric (Q) (Clauset, Newman, & Moore, 2004; Newman...

This study analyzed the relationship between actor centrality of Network Projects and scientific productivity performance using a method known as Social Network Analysis. Social Network Analysis and its respective properties are able to analyze actors’ positions in the structure and existing social interactions in networks. Thus, this method genera...

Neste ensaio, exploramos as distinções teóricas e complementaridades metodológicas existentes entre abordagens que conceitualizam as estruturas sociais com base nas noções de campos e redes. Essas perspectivas se opõem tanto à visão atomizada quanto à supersocializada da ação e buscam superar a dicotomia entre estrutura e agência, mas possuem difer...

RESUMO Este estudo teve por objetivo construir um mapa da produção científica brasileira sobre comportamento do consumidor, utilizando-se metodologicamente da análise das redes sociais (ARS), focando as redes relacionais de coautoria e de instituições. Para tanto, foram analisados 184 artigos, produzidos por 333 coautores, vinculados a 65 instituiç...

This research aims to understand how power relations are addressed in organizations literature, with a systematic literature review of the Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Science Database. Although the literature on interorganizational relationships recognizes the critical role of power, a succession of theories with different empirical, theoretical a...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a difusão de conhecimentos e aprendizado por interação no arranjo produtivo local (APL) de Bonés de Apucarana-PR. A partir das técnicas de análise de redes sociais, foram utilizadas as métricas de centralidade de grau, intermediação, proximidade e densidade da rede de conhecimento das empresas do APL. Foram pesqui...

This article aims to analyze the diffusion of knowledge by interacting in local productive arrangement (APL) Hat Apucarana-PR. From the techniques of social network analysis metrics for degree centrality, brokerage, proximity and density of the network of knowledge were used. 146 organizations were surveyed between companies and trade associations....

p>Compreender a transferência do conhecimento técnico e gerencial entre montadoras e fornecedores de autopeças, sob a ótica das redes de empresas, constitui-se objetivo do presente estudo. A transferência de conhecimento ocorre mediante processos de socialização, educação e aprendizado e sua ênfase reside no potencial de alavancagem competitiva das...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the isomorphism in health insurance providers. Private companies that provide medical services, the activities of the operators are controlled by government agencies, which apply to them economic and financial sanctions if descumpram with the law. With secondary health sector sources, was conducted a case stu...

Empresas do tipo spin-off podem ser definidas como negócios fundados com o intuito de explorar propriedade intelectual ou competências específicas desenvolvidas em universidades e institutos de pesquisa. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho foi a proposição de uma teoria integrativa que identifica custos de transação como fator determinante pa...

Este ensaio discute como a abordagem dos Campos de Ação Estratégica (CAE), proposta por Fligstein e McAdam (2012) contribui para o estudo das práticas da gestão das cadeias de suprimentos (Supply Chain Management - SCM). Os CAE são arenas socialmente construídas com atores detendo aportes variados de recursos. Nesse sentido, no CAE ressalta-se a im...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze cross-functional integration in six organizations located in Brazil, using network analysis. These industrial companies were selected because of their efforts focused on cross-functional integration between functions and activities related to balancing demand and supply. Co-occurrences between different dyadi...

A dimensão ambiental na Gestão da Cadeia de Suprimentos pode e deve ser vista como um estímulo à inovação e alocação mais efetiva dos recursos empresariais, e não apenas como uma exigência para um mero cumprimento regulamentar. É dessa forma que se originou a chamada Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM), que visa auxiliar as empresas e seus parceir...

This article aims to examine the academic production about Operations Management in articles published in international journals indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge. The research evaluates publications from 2002 to 2012 and uses bibliometric techniques to investigate questions like: what are the authors who have most publications on the subject, what a...

Este artigo analisa a gestão dos relacionamentos com fornecedores, por meio do método de Olsen & Ellram, em cinco empresas tecnológicas de pequeno e médio porte situadas no arranjo produtivo local (APL) do Vale da Eletrônica em Santa Rita do Sapucaí, MG. O estudo tem caráter exploratório, descritivo e a coleta de dados foi realizada in loco através...

There are three operational costs that are more expressive for PSL: vehicle maintenance, tires and fuel. In studies of maintenance has been little researched the concept of tire management, technical maintenance and performance together. In this context, this study aims at identifying the practices and performance indicators in the area of maintena...

Conforme as pesquisas e a adoção da gestão da cadeia de suprimentos avançam, novos desafios são impostos para pesquisadores e gestores da área. Nesse sentido, a gestão de risco em cadeia de suprimentos (Supply Chain Risk Management - SCRM) tem se mostrado um campo proeminente por sugerir estratégias e planos de ação para mitigar os riscos da operaç...