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PROPOSTA DE UMA ABORDAGEM PARA ANÁLISE DOS RELACIONAMENTOS EM REDES DE ENSINO: uma aplicação na Faculdade de Tecnologia de Garça/SP

2012; Linguagem: Inglês

2639-6459

Regina Ferreira da Rocha,

Education and Public Policy

The contemporary organizational context reflects the nuances of globalization and technological advance, responsible for the increase in competitiveness. In this way, companies which operated separately began to face challenges in groups for the launching continuously of products and services that meet market requirements. In this scenario, it comes out a new cooperation model, known as corporate networks, that is, inter-organizational or intra-organizational arrangements that are formed by actors whose relationship aims at improving the achievement of competitive advantage before the competition. Higher education institutions (HEI), public or private, establish themselves as enterprises whose task is to prepare manpower for the development of the country. For this reason, the concept of corporate networks applied to HEI is relevant in social and economic spheres. The present study proposes the application of an approach that allows the assessment of the sustainability of the operations of an HEI, through the analysis of performance criteria concerning the dimensions upon which the operational reality of the institution rests. To achieve the desired results a case study was carried out at the Faculdade de Tecnologia de Garca, Sao Paulo State, for being a public institution that offers technological education. To set the bounds of the study, the main activities developed by the interviewed actors were raised, as well as the mapping of the clipping of the intra-organizational network, the assessment of the intensity of the actors’ relationships, and the analysis of the main activities undertaken by them according to the performance criteria established by the institution. The study presented evidences that the operations carried out by actors are linked to the performance criteria established by the Unit in order to reach their goals. It also presents certain imbalance between the pillars teaching, research and extension that support the operations of the institution.