MANAGERIAL SKILLS REQUIRED BY INNOVATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRMS

LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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ISSN: 2178-4833
Editor Chefe: Edson Aparecida de Araujo Querido de Oliveira
Início Publicação: 31/05/2010
Periodicidade: Semestral
Área de Estudo: Administração

MANAGERIAL SKILLS REQUIRED BY INNOVATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRMS

Ano: 2015 | Volume: 6 | Número: 3
Autores: Celso Maia, Isabel Cristina dos Santos, Marcos Antonio Gaspar
Autor Correspondente: Isabel Cristina dos Santos | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: Technology-based Firms; Business Administrators; Higher Education; Professional Profile; Managing Innovation

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Resumo Inglês:

This paper aims to investigate the Business Administration professional profile specifically required to manage innovative and high technology-based companies. It is a qualitative study outlined by an exploratory-descriptive research, supported by questionnaires and interviews addressed to a sample of executives of technology-based companies, located in São Paulo metropolitan region, Brazil. Accordingly, modular innovation arises from the existence of an architectural knowledge improved in association with the conceptually destroyed knowledge's component, meaning that architectural innovation arises from an improvement in the knowledge of the parties allied to the architectural knowledge's destruction. Results show that managers see innovation as one essential pillar for competitiveness and commonly associate innovation with team expertise related with the structure for this purpose. However, to instill innovation as an organizational discipline, it is necessary to redesign organizational processes, namely those considered critical to innovate. The company must revise its management model aiming to emphasize innovative behavior, which means readiness to respond to external environment change's requirements. Moreover, once it is necessary to change the manager's mindset about innovation, higher education institutions also have to adapt their Business Administration courses according to both changes, essentially concerning a more dynamic and more diffuse business environment in comparison to their curricular contents. The institutional pragmatism generates professionals who reach the job market with a historical and non-managerial overview on innovation. Nevertheless, results highlight that attitude is more appreciated than knowledge, or business management skills, what makes managerial behavior a key element in the innovation process in technology-based firms.