A aderência entre o constructo da sustentabilidade e a prática das ONGs

Resumo

The core of Sustainability as a concept is the inclusion of a different logic, different of the traditional one, inside the social system. the careness with the economics, human and environmental aspects as guider of any and all decisions of any and all productive activity (products, services, welfare). The responsiveness to the sustainability construct requires from organizations a complex system of management about their exchanges with the environment in general. Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are also on track, looking for a kind of functioning that permits them durable state in producing outcomes to benefit more and more people; in order to get that, they are assuming models of management that vary between the traditionalism and innovation, trying to balance the classics issues with the emergent ones, as social responsibility, learning capacity or environmental responsibility. This research proposes a compound of Criteria made from the guide principles of sustainability adjusted to NGOs: there is some substitution of elements that only fit in profit organizations, like ‘profit’ or ‘clean technology’ by equivalents like ‘outcomes’ and ‘methodological innovation’. These settlements were made starting from the analyzed literature and they are sustained during the entire dissertation. Many studies and scientific models about effectiveness, efficiency and organizational sustainability were elementary sources to this Research. From these contributions was possible to elaborate an operational tool to measure how much an NGO reflects the construct of sustainability in its management. This is a non experimental research with exploratory approach that makes use from quantitative analysis and ends using some qualitative approach by discussing the data with a focus group. The proposition, description and theory validation produced the global theorist model of Sustainability to NGOs, which gathered 26 indicators in groups of six Criteria. The Criteria are: Governance, Innovation, Production of Results, Management and Economic and Financial Impacts, Social Management and Environmental Management, Education and Impact. A Questionnaire with 90 questions was applied to a Universe of 161 NGOs in three areas of work: Non Formal Education, Community Development and Environmental Work registered in ‘Chart of Third Sector’, (FGV-EAESP / Studies Center of Third Sector). The responsiveness was 54%. The data was analyzed with quantitative techniques (descriptive statistics and factorial analysis) and qualitative (focus group), from where emerged hypothesis and conclusions to a descriptive inference of the Research universe. There is Emergent Hypothesis about the dissociation between the organizational management of internal issues and environment issues, the demand of NGOs to participate on the market economy and the occurrence of mimetic and normative isomorphism in NGOs. The dissertation ends concluding about future possibilities of investigations from this point to ahead.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2008

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/2259

Temas

DadosGovernançaMeio Ambiente

Palavras-chave

SustainabilityNGOThird sectorInstitutionalizationSustainable developmentSustentabilidadeONGTerceiro setorInstituicionalizaçãoDesenvolvimento sustentávelAdministração de empresasDesenvolvimento sustentável - Aspectos ambientaisOrganizações não-governamentais - AdministraçãoAssociações sem fins lucrativos - AdministraçãoDesenvolvimento institucional