Research Group Meeting - Monday, October 20th, 2014

In this meeting, the PhD student Augusto Machado presented the evolution of his thesis research that deals with understanding the Inter-organizational Relations, Organizational Competences and Results of Innovation in Industrial Organizations located in Parana State. He showed the preliminary survey data and some previous scenarios that have used descriptive statistics, but suggests the use of more robust statistical techniques to better understand the object of study.

Augusto also shared with us the reason for his interest in the topic that has his professional and academic experience as background. Augusto immersed during two years in the Bússola da Inovação Industrial do Estado do Paraná (State of Paraná Industrial Innovation Compass) project design promoted by the Federação das Indústrias do Paraná. The result of this project was the development of the Índice Paranaense de Inovação -IPrI (State of Panará Innovation index) consisting of three pillars: innovation efforts, management and innovation outcomes, which will drive Augusto’s PhD thesis.

The meeting was very productive and had intense participation of the presents in order to understand the presented thesis problem and discuss gaps on theory, methodology and data treatment and presentation. Regarding the data presentation and the statistical models that will guide the research, we highlighted the speech of Prof. Bruno, the Group Leader: "good statistical models are parsimonious, meaning they are made of a few variables. Models under those parameters tend to be robust in order to talk a lot with few words."

In a few months we will have updated news on findings and developments of Augusto’s thesis.                                       

Were present in the Meeting

Bruno Henrique Fernandes

Augusto Machado

Fabricio Pupo

Gislaine Baniski

Luis Gabriel Abravanel

Rúbia Carla Maier

Silvia Cristina Antonio Staron

Juliana Keiser

Jorge Postiga

Vanusa Barankievicz

Next meeting agenda – November 17th, 2014

=> Jorge Postiga will present the progress/findings of his research (Work performance evaluation practices and organizational results: a case study in a public company).

=> Alvaro Argemiro will present the progress/findings of his research (Strategy planning, execution and effectiveness in small businesses).