Modos de conversão do conhecimento e desempenho organizacional, tendo como variáveis mediadoras as capacidades dinâmicas e a inovação

Abstract

The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to build and validate a model that can relate the conversion of knowledge and the organizational performance having as its measuring variables dynamic capacities (adaptative, absortive, and innovative) and innovation at technological companies of the Local Productive Arrangement, Trino Polo of the city of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Such model is sustained theoretically by the Conversion of Knowledge, Dynamic Capacities, Innovation and Conversion of Knowledge. At first, a bibliometric research was carried out at Scopus and Web of Science. The research is quantitative and descriptive, in a cross-sectional study and applied through a survey. The population is comprised by all the employees at the companies belonging to the Trino Polo. Probalistic sampling is carried out and stratified as per company size. Data collecting takes place through a questionnaire that was applied in person during the pilot sampling and applied electronically with the help of Google Drive® for a definite sample. For treatment of the data, univariate and multivariate statistics, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Structural Equation Modeling were used. All the hypothesis of this doctoral thesis were supported statistically, expanding discussion on academic contribution what allows the inference that the constructs investigated – Modes of Conversion of Knowledge, Dynamic Capacities, Organizational Performance and Innovation present positive relations.