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Resumo

Studies in creative industries represent a rich contribution to the strategy-as-practice approach. As a symbolic-intensive industry, organizations within adopt diffuse strategies that try to conciliate economic and non-economic logics, as these last ones assure their legitimacy and survival in the field. The symbolic field, however, is volatile and its control by organizations is virtually impossible. This is why organization try, in one hand, to interpret their ambient and, on the other hand, to influence it through their strategies. Thus, in this type of industry, a sociological approach in strategy seems more adequate to understand actions by agents within this field as a whole, not only, on its instrumental aspects. This dissertation investigates discourses and practices embedded in the social context of the Brazilian book publishing industry, through a longitudinal study of secondary data which adopts an altered version for strategy of the discursive model of institutionalization as a structure of analysis. The main objective of this research is to understand how discourses and practices articulate in a field where legitimacy rules follow an anti-economic logic and where economic results are not always the organizations’ only objective. This work assumes a concept f strategic orientation that is described as a predisposition of a certain organization to adopt one or other strategy, revealed through its organization discourses and practice that are indicative of a reflexive interpretation of its environmental context. Content analysis was the methodology of choice to interpret Brazilian book publishers’ environmental context, in its institutional and technical aspects, and its strategic orientations, revealed through texts and actions presented in clipping news collected at publishnews.com.br for three years. In face of the analyses conducted, the following results were achieved. Firstly, discourses and practices effectively allowed description of both environmental context and strategic orientations in this industry. From a theoretical perspective, it was confirmed that discourses are an integral part of publishers’ strategic orientations, always articulating with practices. Even though dissonance between them was seemingly apparent, it revealed itself dissimulated when in context. The more symbolic are the desired results, the more relevant and more present are discourses as part of strategy. In this industry, strategic orientations dialogue more with the institutional that with the technical environmental since it is within institutional contexts that organizations can acquire market differentiation through by-products such as legitimation, mystification and consecration. Publishers also strategically orient themselves more intensively towards gatekeepers than toward and consumers. Gatekeepers, as main producers of by-products, allow chosen publishers to attract the rarest resources (authors and human resources), which are fundamental for surviving in a symbolic-intensive industry. From a practical sense, the use of this framework showed that strategic dichotomy between small and large publishers is a simplistic way of seeing strategic groups, ignoring fundamental choices that escape economic logic. Analyses also brought up that elements of an archaic vision of capitalism are very much still present in Brazilian market, embedded in the strategic orientations of a large number of publishers, in examples such as an excessive demand for federal government responsibility in developing the market, and texts overmystifying and overemphasizing the importance of the book universe. Publishers whose orientations presented themselves as opposite to that view achieved success in developing new markets. Finally, this dissertation would place under serious doubts available economic data on this industry, frequently uses to justify public investment and demands, but that do not hold itself up under the realities here exposed.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2006

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/2268

Temas

EconomiaDesenvolvimento Econômico

Palavras-chave

Strategy-as-practiceDiscursive model of institutionalizationDiscoursePracticePublishing industryEstratégia-como-práticaModelo discursivo de institucionalizaçãoDiscursoPráticaIndústria editorialAdministração de empresasPlanejamento estratégicoEditores e ediçãoEditoras particularesCriação (literária, artística, etc.) - Aspectos econômicosDesenvolvimento institucional