TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovation in the main Brazilian business sectors
T2 - characteristics, types and comparison of innovation
AU - Oliva, Fábio Lotti
AU - Semensato, Bárbara Ilze
AU - Prioste, Daniela Buzzulini
AU - Winandy, Eric Jacques Lucien
AU - Bution, Jefferson Luiz
AU - Couto, Marcelo Henrique Gomes
AU - Bottacin, Marco Antonio
AU - Mac Lennan, Maria Laura Ferranty
AU - Teberga, Pedro Marins Freire
AU - Santos, Ricardo Fernandes
AU - Singh, Sanjay Kumar
AU - da Silva, Sidirley Fabiani
AU - Massaini, Silvye Ane
N1 - Funding Information:
Ricardo Fernandes Santos is a master’s degree student in Business Administration in the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting of the University of São Paulo (USP). He is part of the Research Group in Enterprise Risk Management at USP and develops research on this subject. Graduated in Business Administration by the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), he has scientific articles published in national journals and congresses. He also participated in the Program of Local Agents of Innovation, promoted by the Brazilian Support Service for Small Business (SEBRAE) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), in which he worked with small business innovation advisory and research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2019/1/23
Y1 - 2019/1/23
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of Brazilian economic activity. Design/methodology/approach: The literature review focuses on analyzing the innovation process characteristics regarding the innovation types. The authors carried out interviews with executives and managers in charge of innovation at the leading large companies in the respective sectors analyzed. The data analysis of this qualitative research was structured in three steps. The first step is the analysis of data collected for encoding, the second step, the summarization of the common points presented by the companies in each sector and, finally, the interpretation of these data, aided by triangulation from secondary data that support the analysis of the collected primary data. Findings: The main contribution of this study is to characterize the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of the Brazilian economy, with a classification regarding the sectoral innovation standard. Practical implications: The authors’ intent is that the paper can contribute with a comparative analysis among companies of the same sector and, subsequently, among companies of the different surveyed sectors. Thus, the characterization aims to present the companies’ innovation process and the comparative analysis aims to verify the innovation sectoral patterns. In addition, as implications for management practice, some strategies for better knowledge management in the organization are suggested for each type of innovation. Originality/value: The main theoretical contribution focuses on the development of a conceptual model that structures the analyzed variables of the constructs “innovation process” and “innovation sectoral patterns”, allowing not only the characterization but also the comparative analysis of the representative organizations present in the sample.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of Brazilian economic activity. Design/methodology/approach: The literature review focuses on analyzing the innovation process characteristics regarding the innovation types. The authors carried out interviews with executives and managers in charge of innovation at the leading large companies in the respective sectors analyzed. The data analysis of this qualitative research was structured in three steps. The first step is the analysis of data collected for encoding, the second step, the summarization of the common points presented by the companies in each sector and, finally, the interpretation of these data, aided by triangulation from secondary data that support the analysis of the collected primary data. Findings: The main contribution of this study is to characterize the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of the Brazilian economy, with a classification regarding the sectoral innovation standard. Practical implications: The authors’ intent is that the paper can contribute with a comparative analysis among companies of the same sector and, subsequently, among companies of the different surveyed sectors. Thus, the characterization aims to present the companies’ innovation process and the comparative analysis aims to verify the innovation sectoral patterns. In addition, as implications for management practice, some strategies for better knowledge management in the organization are suggested for each type of innovation. Originality/value: The main theoretical contribution focuses on the development of a conceptual model that structures the analyzed variables of the constructs “innovation process” and “innovation sectoral patterns”, allowing not only the characterization but also the comparative analysis of the representative organizations present in the sample.
KW - Emerging economies
KW - Innovation
KW - Innovation in main Brazilian business sector
KW - Process innovation
KW - Types of innovation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058135267&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/JKM-03-2018-0159
DO - 10.1108/JKM-03-2018-0159
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058135267
VL - 23
SP - 135
EP - 175
IS - 1
ER -
