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A complex adaptive systems approach has been permeating organizational studies and the field of supply network management helping to describe and explain supply network dynamics and emergent inter-firm structures. This has improved our theoretical knowledge of the nature of supply networks transforming raw materials into products, within a constantly changing environment. From the early days of simple structures, describing bi-lateral, local arrangements between firms for the creation of relatively simple products, we are now in an environment of various supply network archetypes, describing different global sourcing regimes of highly integrated, sophisticated products within multi-tier networks. This thesis is a study of the coevolution of the firm and supply network in the commercial aerospace manufacturing sector producing jetliners of 100 or more seats. One of the contributions of this research is to demonstrate how the holistic approach of complexity science can be applied to describe, understand and gain new insight into the coevolution of the firm and the supply network. Based on the findings of multiple interviews and questionnaires in eight global aerospace firms across multiple supply chain tiers, this research finds high-performing clusters of inter-firm characteristics, plus the aspects of structure and integration which deliver the supply network performance. Practitioners can use these specific results to examine their own firms and the new coevolutionary conceptual framework developed in the thesis may aid future research studies of complex adaptive systems in practice. The simple survey design and analysis method used in the final research stage of this research, has the potential for use in other industries, markets and other complex adaptive systems generally to examine performance outcomes and the effects of having or adopting new inter-firm characteristics. Finally, implications for policy include the potential to legitimize supply networks in order to stimulate competition and innovation in the economy.

Submitted by Geyciane Santos (geyciane_thamires@hotmail.com) on 2015-05-18T14:51:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO ALEX SANDER.pdf: 1558751 bytes, checksum: 87bb0f2e05a92c301f304aa753235b32 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-18T14:51:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO ALEX SANDER.pdf: 1558751 bytes, checksum: 87bb0f2e05a92c301f304aa753235b32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-27 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is themed narrative horizon of reflection and analysis on the global economic crisis triggered initially in the US in 2008, as well as its theoretical and empirical articulation with the central idea of ​​the research, namely, that the crisis in question is closely related the implications of globalization in the context of a theoretical and epistemological break whose main expression is the generalized crisis of collective representations. He tried to at first expose and question the notion of globalization in order to encourage an understanding of globalization to serve as a theoretical assumption and pay for labor purposes. The second time I present the various narratives about the crisis, said on the one hand, in theoretical works (Harvey, Boaventura, Touraine, Bauman), and another in analysis of records extracted from a digital file built from the systematization data (articles, interviews, files etc.) of three email addresses (CartaMaior, IhuOnline and OutrasPalavras). Finally, we seek to articulate the moments mentioned above, in order to operate the sense connections between the global economic crisis, globalization, crisis of collective representations and thus point out the sociological implications arising therefrom, in other words, at the last moment I say that the crisis shows, on the one hand, contradictions and more acute turbulence of a period of historical and epistemological rupture on the other, the redefinition of the classic collective representations by intensifying struggles, conflicts and resistance (indignados, Occupy, Trek June etc.) against a totalitarian globalization that privileges the financial market and in favor of other globalizations and ways of producing and living who value life and its people. Conflicts and resistance in the long and medium term determined the become of the nation state and its sovereignty; Democracy and its legitimacy, given the hegemonic globalization and alter-globalizations against hegemonic. We are inside an historic delivery! / A presente dissertação tem como horizonte temático a reflexão e análise de narrativas sobre a crise econômica mundial deflagrada inicialmente nos EUA em 2008, bem como sua articulação teórico-empírica com a ideia central da pesquisa, qual seja, a de que a crise em questão está intimamente relacionada as implicações da Globalização, no quadro de uma ruptura teórico-epistemológica, cuja principal expressão é a crise generalizada de representações coletivas. Procurou-se no primeiro momento expor e problematizar a noção de Globalização a fim de privilegiar uma compreensão sobre globalização que sirva de pressuposto e soldo teórico para os fins do trabalho. No segundo momento apresento as diversas narrativas sobre a crise, referidas, de um lado, em obras de teóricos ( Harvey, Boaventura, Touraine, Bauman), e de outro, em registros de análises extraídos de um arquivo digital construído a partir da sistematização de dados (artigos, entrevistas, dossiês etc) de três endereços eletrônicos (CartaMaior, IhuOnline e OutrasPalavras). Por fim, busca-se articular os momentos já referidos, tendo em vista operar as conexões de sentido entre a crise econômica mundial, Globalização, Crise de representações coletivas e, portanto, apontar as implicações sociológicas daí oriundas, em outras palavras, no último momento afirmo que a crise evidencia, de um lado, as contradições e turbulências mais agudas de um período de ruptura histórico-epistemológica, de outro, a redefinição das representações coletivas clássicas através da intensificação de lutas , conflitos e resistências (Indignados, Occupy, Jornada de Junho etc) contra uma globalização totalitária que privilegia o mercado financeiro e, a favor de outras globalizações e formas de produzir e viver que valorizam a vida e suas populações. Conflitos e resistências que a longo e médio prazo determinaram o vir a ser do Estado-Nação e sua soberania; da Democracia e sua legitimidade, da globalização hegemônica face às globalizações contra e alter-hegemônicas. Estamos no interior de um parto histórico!