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| Author(s): |
Fábia Pereira Lima
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-11-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch;
Luiz Alberto Beserra de Farias;
Maria Aparecida Ferrari;
Daniel dos Santos Galindo;
Ivone de Lourdes Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch |
| Abstract | |
This research has as its objective to understand how the organizational actors practicize the strategy, through the processes of strategic management and of communication that aim at coordinating their labor action within a frame of shared meanings in order to reach the institutional goals. It is grounded by a theoretical reference on communication interaction studies - mainly those of Mead, Blumer, Goffman, Quéré and França - that we articulated with Bourdieu\'s practice theory and Giddens\' theory of structuration, that help us comprehend the links between individuals, organizations and society. In order to present the efforts of organizational communication management, understood as Public Relations practice, it has been discussed the challenges related to the searching of organizational legitimacy by contemporary organizations and how the strategic thinking has evolved to be up to those challenges. As counterpoint to the classic studies of strategy, that take it through the management perspective, we assume as a theoretical center the New Theory of Strategy, as proposed by Pérez and Massoni, that fundaments the strategy in communication, articulated with the current of Strategy as Practice, mainly as in the works of Whittington, Golsorkhi, Jarzabkowski and Orlikowski. Seeking the analysis contextualization, we situate the object in our discussions of contemporary public management and communication, describing the process of implementing the management by results and the management shock in Minas Gerais. In doing so, and in order to treat the specificities of the implementation of the Balanced Scorecard in the Secretaria de Fazenda de Minas Gerais (SEF/MG), we have elected a qualitative methodological approach, with a single case study, based on the depth hermeneutics proposed by Thompson and on the Critical Discourse Analysis, by Fairclough. After the institutional research that brought to light the main strategic definitions and formal communication efforts of the institution, we have analyzed the material it has produced about its strategy anchored by the principles of the Balanced Scorecard and of the mobilizing communication, searching to put in evidence the ways that Fazenda interpellates its employees in order to create a shared frame of meanings that guides their actions towards the fulfillment of its corporative objectives. The practice of strategy has been analyzed through the observation of thirteen meetings of Strategic Performance Evaluation (SPE) that have taken place in the 3rd trimester of 2013. It have been considered as analyses axis the characterization of the strategy practitioners (the strategists of SEF/MG), of the practices that involves the strategic management (local, technological, human and symbolic resources) and of the practices situated in the SPE meetings as a communicative practice (since social and discursive) of the Fazenda. It is proposed, with that, a conceptual matrix to defend the impossibility of dissociating communication and strategy, making it possible to situate the strategic actions (whether essentialist or practical) and the communicative actions (whether transmitted or relational) of the organizations, in a way to foment the critical thinking of them. The study has shown that, in SEF/MG, the methodology of strategic management - the BSC - is aligned with the concept of strategy as an essence. However, while the BSC structures itself around the possibility of the transmission of the strategic content, elaborated by the higher organizational players, to the board of employees, the notion of mobilizing communication is relational. The theses defends that analyses of this nature must be seen as a relevant contribution to the study and practice of communication and of strategy in and of the organizations, putting in evidence not the result of the alignment of organizational actors in relation to the strategy (the efficacy of the processes), but, instead, the meaning frames activated by the actors and how they participate of the action, as they, recursively, reinforce or deny the meanings proposed by the organization. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/07770-8 - The communication dimension of strategy: organizational strategy as communicative practice at Secretaria de Estado de Fazenda de Minas Gerais |
| Grantee: | Fábia Pereira Lima |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |