Management practices and innovation: a study in digital port of Recife (PE)

Abstract

This study aims to verify how relations between management practices and innovation practices adopted by companies linked to Digital Port. We obtained 30 valid questionnaires in the research, aiming to identify the relationship between the characteristics of the company and innovation (hypothesis 1), concluding that as companies that report to partners tend not to invest in innovation, suggesting that there may be a short-term concern term with the result of the company. The study also analyzed two other hypotheses, indicating that some traditional managerial practices are associated with the existence of R & D (rejecting hypothesis 2, eg: budget and performance evaluation), and not showing significance between contemporary practices and R & D hypothesis 3). In order to find other proxies for innovation and to verify the difference between traditional and contemporary managerial practices, a factor analysis was used. There was a positive association between the use of more advanced techniques and more permissive people management, rejecting an idea of control restrictions interfering with people management. Additionally, it has been found that flexibilisation of non-ethical employees' hours is a practice that is innovative and is not usually practiced even by those companies that say they are more innovative.

Keywords

• Inovação
• Práticas Gerenciais
• Contabilidade
• Controle