Dinâmicas coevolucionárias em clusters industriais : um estudo no CNPUV/EMBRAPA de Bento Gonçalves.

Abstract

Research in Administration, when worked under different perspectives, highlighting the potential for inter-and multidisciplinary research that can explore. In this respect, this study presents a theoretical approach differentiated by introducing aspects and theories of ecological context, especially those that deal about evolution and coevolution of species. Exploring the multidisciplinary character, the work also includes, in addition to biology and Administration itself, aspects and areas of knowledge belonging Economics and Agronomy, as well as aspects of Agribusiness and Genetic Research. The research proposal revolves around a central point: dynamics and identify mechanisms coevolucionários the wine cluster of Serra Gaucha. These dynamics, in turn, can be defined as change processes, in which the actors interacting with each other, causing mutual evolutionary transformations and joint. It is considered that the essential character of evolutionary changes occur enter at least two actors to consider that the existence of processes coevolutivos. One has to consider also that both evolutionary processes, as coevolucionários, have an intrinsic link with the environment to which they belong. Thus, the environment acts as agent "booster" of the evolutionary process, and instability (or hostility) this environment acts to select those actors and agents who were better able to survive in that particular environment and its aspects. Given the exploratory nature of this study, the case study method was considered as the best methodology to be applied. As tools (instruments) were used to search the literature of technical documentation, in-depth interviews with selected experts, as well as a winery members of the projects analyzed The object of this research is the National Research Center of Grape and Wine (CNPUV), maintained by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), headquartered in the city of Bento Gonçalves, municipality of Serra Gaucha. Projects conducted by CNPUV, three were selected as the main object of research, serving to identify the existence (or not) of phenomena and coevolutionary dynamics within the cluster. Changes in technological trajectories identified in the cluster, and motivated by the projects analyzed to corroborate the assertion of the existence of mechanisms, phenomena and coevolutionary dynamics, as well as their event triggers.