5 results on '"Zen, Aurora Carneiro"'
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2. Sustainability-Oriented Transition in Clusters: A Multilevel Framework from Induction.
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Zen, Aurora Carneiro, Bittencourt, Bruno Anicet, Hervas-Oliver, Jose-Luis, and Rojas-Alvarado, Ronald
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The aim of this paper is based on understanding how sustainability-oriented transition occurs in clusters. This study focuses on both drivers and actors of that transition. Empirical results based on induction, using mixed-methods on the Serra Gaucha wine cluster in the South of Brazil, suggest that, at the micro-level, the mobility and adoption of knowledge about sustainability and individual awareness will support sustainability-oriented strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. Then, at the meso-level, collective actors' efforts towards sustainability in the cluster legitimize, disseminate and facilitate the adoption of new sustainable-oriented practices, creating a new cluster sub-identity (sustainability) compatible with the existing one. These actors utilize leading local firms in order to disseminate new practices and signal change in the territory. Lastly, macro-level governmental regulations, market pressures, and other environmental changes facilitate that clusters develop a collective-minded strategy towards sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. CLUSTER INNOVATION CAPABILITY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.
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Bittencourt, Bruno Anicet, Galuk, Mariana Bianchini, Daniel, Vanessa Marques, and Zen, Aurora Carneiro
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META-analysis ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,KNOWLEDGE management ,CONTENT analysis - Abstract
Most studies on innovation capability analyze the firm level. Little efforts have been made to understand the interactions that take place in inter-organizational agglomerations and the capabilities that such arrangements retain. This study aims to develop a theoretical framework of cluster innovation capability. The academic production about innovation capability of clusters in the business field from 2005 to 2014 was analyzed and the databases consulted were: EBSCO, SCOPUS, and Web of Knowledge - 311 items were cataloged, 144 were available in full text, and among those 18 papers were selected. The cluster innovation capability was structured based on a theoretical framework through qualitative content analysis. Thus, acquisition capability, diffusing capability, and knowledge management capability are the main capabilities that constitute the cluster innovation capability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. 10 years later : a study about Serra Gaucha’s Wine Cluster internationalization path
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Trindade, Juliana Valério and Zen, Aurora Carneiro
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Clusters ,Internacionalização ,Vinho ,Cluster ,Visão baseada em recursos (RBV - Resources Based View) ,Internationalization ,Wine ,Resource-based view - Abstract
O cluster da Serra Gaúcha é responsável por 90% da produção brasileira de vinho e emprega cerca de cem mil pessoas diretamente. O Brasil tem um potencial a ser explorado nos mercados estrangeiros, visto que é o 15º maior exportador de vinho do mundo. O presente estudo busca observar a jornada de internacionalização desse relevante cluster nos últimos dez anos, de 2009 a 2019. Para isso, foram utilizadas fontes secundárias, entrevistas em profundidade e questionários para basear essa pesquisa. Mais especificamente, um grupo de dezessete vinícolas foi estudado em uma abordagem longitudinal. Desse grupo, dez vinícolas continuaram exportando em 2019. Todas as dez fazem parte do Wines of Brazil, um programa entre diversas instituições governamentais, e sete das dez aumentaram suas participações em competições internacionais de vinho com o apoio da Associação Brasileira de Enologia (ABE). Com esses dados, conclui-se que as instituições do cluster são importantes para o desenvolvimento da estratégia de internacionalização do cluster durante a última década. The Serra Gaucha cluster is responsible for 90% of the Brazilian wine production and employs around a hundred thousand people directly. Brazil has a significant potential to explore foreign markets as it ranks as the 15th largest wine exporter in the world. The present study seeks to analyze the internationalization path of this relevant cluster in the last ten years, from 2009 to 2019. To do so, secondary sources, in‐depth interviews and survey‐based data was used. More specifically, a group of seventeen wineries were studied in exploratory longitudinal approach. From these group, ten wineries remained exporting in 2019. All of the ten are part of Wines of Brazil, an Integrated Sector program, and seven increased efforts to participate in international wine competitions with support from the Brazilian association of enology (ABE). Through these data, it is concluded that cluster institutions are important for the development of the internationalization strategy of the cluster during the last decade.
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- 2019
5. A influência da localização em cluster na inovação
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Bettoni, Bruno Pontalti and Zen, Aurora Carneiro
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Clusters ,Arranjos produtivos ,Industrial districts ,Inovação ,Innovation ,Innovative performance ,Desenvolvimento local - Abstract
Esta pesquisa busca avaliar a influência da localização em cluster no desempenho inovativo das firmas, na estrutura para inovação e nas fontes de inovação acessadas pelas firmas. O trabalho se fundamenta na premissa teórica de que as firmas localizadas em concentrações geográficas de empresas e instituições de um determinado campo conectadas entre si – os clusters – possuem acesso diferenciado a fatores de oportunidade, apropriabilidade e cumulatividade de conhecimento inerentes ao processo de inovação, que podem influenciar positivamente seu desempenho inovativo. A pesquisa possui natureza dedutiva quantitativa e foi estruturada com um modelo de análise discriminante empregando duas populações, sendo a primeira população composta por firmas isoladas geograficamente e outra composta de firmas localizadas em clusters. O processo de análise foi organizado em três etapas: na primeira etapa, avaliou-se uma população de 342 firmas contendo grupos desiguais de firmas em cluster e firmas isoladas, pertencentes a 23 setores de atividade. Na segunda etapa foi empregada uma amostra de 90 firmas pertencentes a cinco setores de atividade, divididas em dois grupos com populações idênticas: um grupo de 45 firmas localizadas em cluster e um grupo de 45 firmas isoladas. Em uma terceira etapa, foram avaliados os seis clusters aos quais pertenciam as firmas analizadas na segunda etapa. Os resultados indicam que a organização em cluster não exerce influência significativa nas três dimensões da inovação analisadas. This research was dedicated to analyze if firms located in clusters show superior innovative performance, access different sources of innovation and possess unique organizational structures to innovate. The project was based on the theoretical assumption that firms located in certain geographical areas which show a concentration of interconnected companies and institutions of the same field – called clusters – can benefit from access to factors of opportunity, appropriability and cumulativeness of knowledge inherent to the innovation process, thus having their innovative performance positively influenced. The analysis has a deductive, quantitative approach and uses multivariate discriminant analysis with a sample of two groups of companies from the same industrial sectors. The process was structured in three stages: the first stage focused on a population of 342 firms from 23 industrial sectors divided in two unequal groups of firms located in clusters and isolated firms. The second stage employed a population of 90 firms from five activity sectors, organized in two groups with balanced populations – one with 45 firms in clusters and with 45 isolated firms. The third and final stage analyzed six regional clusters from which the clustered population used in stage 2 was located. The results showed no significant influence of regional clusters in any of the three dimensions of innovation analyzed.
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- 2016
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