RESUMOO crescente interesse em analisar os processos que conduzem à aprendizagem organizacional ou em descrever as características das organizações que aprendem, tornou o tema da aprendizagem em organizações alvo de intensa pesquisa na comunidade científica internacional e objeto de ampla literatura de divulgação científica para gestores e consultores. No presente estudo buscou-se mapear a produção acadêmica sobre aprendizagem organizacional no Brasil, divulgada no período de 1997 a 2001. Para tanto, foram analisados 43 artigos completos, publicados nos principais periódicos da área de Administração e anais de dois importantes congressos científicos. Além de fornecer uma caracterização geral desta produção, os resultados revelam temas, conceitos, bases teóricas, referências e tipos de pesquisa que predominam neste domínio de investigação. Esses resultados podem ser úteis para delinear uma agenda de pesquisa que equacione os principais dilemas e preencha as lacunas claramente perceptíveis na área.Palavras-chaves: aprendizagem organizacional, organizações que aprendem, produção acadêmica. ABSTRACTThe recent interest of academia in analyzing processes that result in organizational learning or in describing features of learning organizations has contributed to build a central subject within the international scientific community and the literature addressed to managers and consultants. The present study has attempted to map out the academic production on organizational learning in Brazil. We have analized 43 articles published on main periodicals in the field of Management and annals of two important scientific congresses. Besides mapping this production, the results of this study reveal that some themes, concepts, theoretical frames, references and typologies of research are paramount and prevailing in this field of research. These results may be useful in order to set up a research agenda which tries to solve the main problems related to organizational learning and the scientific gaps in this research area.Embora o termo aprendizagem organizacional tenha sido pioneiramente usado na década de 50, só no final dos anos 70 começou a surgir, em fluxo mais regular, um conjunto de artigos e livros sobre o tema (apresentam estatísticas, coletadas em fontes diversas, que comprovam crescente interesse de estudiosos, consultores e empresas no tema aprendizagem organizacional. Outro indicador dessa crescente importância e, simultaneamente, da maior densidade de publicações, é a proliferação de esforços de revisão de literatura na área, que buscam avaliar o estado da arte em termos teóricos e empíricos. Exemplos desses esforços são os trabalhos de Huysman (1996( ), Prange (1996 e Edmonsdson e Moingeon (1998).De fato, a temática da aprendizagem no âmbito dos estudos organizacionais vem continuadamente ganhando maiores proporções. Fator chave para as organizações em ambientes de mudança constante e novas exigências contextuais, a aprendizagem tende a gerar lições que formam as teorias de ação dos indivíduos (Argyris, 1992) nas or...

New product development (NPD) projects are typically managed through a series of screens, or gates, where ideas compete for resources. Ideas are carved into projects, and these projects are reviewed, and approved or terminated through the screening process so that only the best performing projects continue to subsequent stages of design, development and testing, and are released into the market place (Krishnan and Ulrich 2001;Terwiesch and Ulrich 2009). Most large innovative organizations deal with more than one NPD project at a time and typically engage in product pipeline management (PPM), where a set of active projects are evaluated together while they traverse through a sequence of such screens. Key decisions in a R&D pipeline are: screen thresholds, complexity of projects, resource allocation and capacity adjustment biases. We explore the impact of structural and behavioral aspects of these decisions through a simulation based analysis of a pharmaceutical dataset. Results establish concave relationships between value created at the end of pipeline and the resource allocation and complexity allocation biases, indicating optimizability and a limit for front loading practices.Keywords: product development, ideas, projects, product pipeline management, development funnel, stage/gate, screening. risk, and the resolution of uncertainty. Wheelwright and Clark (1992) describe typical decision levers in this setting: resource allocation (allocating workers), selection of task complexity (defining number, size and relations between tasks), capacity utilization (work intensity), and the level of threshold (minimum quality or expected value) for passing through a screen and the frequency of screening. Resource allocation dictates the types and amounts of resources available for executing tasks before a project, or a cohort of projects, goes through a screen. Complexity selection defines the nature of these tasks, and the amount of resources it takes to complete these tasks. Even though the level of complexity at each stage is predetermined to a certain degree by the existence of a minimum number of tasks to be performed, and their sequence, it is fair to assume that there is considerable freedom to managers while deciding project activities. For example, Thomke and Fujimoto (2000) and Khurana and Rosenthal (1998) recommend the front loading of activities in a project, i.e. the increase in complexity and activities early in the development process, as a way of reducing uncertainty and the amount of rework or new work to be done later.Capacity utilization affects the tradeoff between output quality (and thus the value created), and throughput. The total amount of resources available for allocation across stages is determined by a budgeting exercise (Chao et al., 2009) and is divided among the stages, so that each stage receives a fraction of the total. The selection of average complexity in any one stage, on the other hand, is not subject to such a global constraint. Product portfolio management deals with the p...

RESUMOxistem inúmeros trabalhos dedicados ao estudo da dinâmica dos complexos agroindustriais, enfocando sua dimensão técnico-econômica, simbolicamente representada pela matriz insumo-produto. Poucos, porém, dedicam-se à análise de sua dimensão político-institucional, privilegiando o estudo dos conflitos de interesse e da construção de arranjos de negociação entre os agentes da cadeia produtiva. Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar uma proposta de referencial teórico, bem como um modelo de análise, fundado na percepção dos complexos agroindustriais enquanto resultado históri-co de um movimento de orquestração de interesses heterogêneos travado entre os seus diversos segmentos, ou atores estratégicos. Para a construção deste modelo, foram articulados conceitos que têm origem nos seguintes campos de conhecimento: economia, particularmente economia rural; administração estratégica e sociologia das organizações. ABSTRACThere are several works dedicated to study the agroindustrial chains from a technoeconomic point of view. Hoewever, only a few are dedicated to investigate its politicalinstitutional dimension. This paper proposes an alternative theoretical approach, and a model of analyses, founded on the political dimension of the agribusiness systems and its perception as a continuous movement or orchestration of insterests among a series of heterogeneous stakeholders. In order to build this theoretical framework, the authors articulate contributions originated from: rural economy, contemporary sociology of organizations and the view of strategies as political constructed trajectories.