Uma analise multicasos de inovacoes em empresas familiares brasileiras e portuguesas

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate how innovation is related to family firms, verifying if innovation is a significant element for the development of family businesses, as well as what types of innovations are most relevant to the evolution of these companies, considering the internal contexts and external to them. In the literature on the subject, there is evidence that innovation in family firms should be treated differently from innovation in other types of companies. The prevailing view is that family firms have greater risk aversion, which is not empirically confirmed, and that they have shown greater financial performance when compared to non-family firms. In methodological terms, a multicountry study was carried out, together with eight family companies, four of them Brazilian and four Portuguese. The semi-structured interview and the cognitive map were used for the collection and analysis of the cases. The reports obtained revealed a surprising weight of constructs related to innovation, identifying the fundamental character of the phenomenon for the firms analyzed. The main contribution of this work is the fact of clarifying the relevance of organizational innovation - both in management structure and in corporate governance - as a condition for the success of innovations in product or process, even serving as a basis for organizations in general, not necessarily familiar.