Introduction: Since the 1980s and onwards, entrepreneurship and start-ups have exploded. In comparison to more established companies, firms that are defined as start- ups wanting to scale-up are coined by different sorts of vulnerabilities. These can be found in their lack of resources regarding both financial and human capital. Previous research has shown that a greater focus on the work with internal structure and routines, as well as organizational behavior (OB) can make it easier for a company to take on greater challenges and organizational complexity and at the same time be able to grow. Aim: This study aims to get a better understanding of how start-ups strive to scale up and achieve growth by working with institutionalized practices. Method: The study represents a qualitative study where empirical data is gathered from interviews that have been conducted with five managers from three different start-up companies. Results: Though all the companies fall into the same category as start-up business, there are still some clear factors that set them apart from each other. Companies 1 and 3 can be viewed as larger start-ups, while company 2 is comparatively smaller. The companies have similar goals, maximizing profit and steadily trying to grow. Both companies 1 and 3 have adopted a more hierarchical structure to better manage the growing organization, while company 2 has remained a flat organization in order not to stifle the creative flow they feel is supported by this type of organization model. Representatives from company 2 do however express concerns with accountability and the emergence of informal structures related to a lack of oversight and control. Conclusion: The results indicate that a start-up aiming to scale up will go through several phases of creating order. Therefore, with the absence of the institutionalized practices a company will be set up for failure. Working with communication on every organizational level thus becomes important where the manager has a responsibility of putting the employee in focus.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research presents a study regarding the institucionalised practices that covers the topics of sexuality in a children and youth´s shelter located in Aracaju. In order to develop the research, are used reports of the experiences that took place on the mentioned institute. This reports give life to the (Des)Amélias girls. Listing this experiences as problematization possibilities of practices that envolved the researched shelter and beyond it, this research investigate the following aspects: the relation between youth sexuality and youth protection policies; the institutional shelter through sexual repression actualization; sexuality as a tool for the analysis of the institutional shelter; the existence of other relations, besides the ones mentioned, with sexuality and the practices experienced by the ones led into children and youth´s shelter. In pursuance of the mentioned research problems, it was necessay to take a look in readings regarding public policies based on children and teenagers, from authors that traces the social history of youth in Brazil. It was also taken into consideration the histoty of sexuality, the course of psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and sexuality, as well as the concepts of gender, sexual repression, ethics, moral, judicialization and institutionalization of sexuality. / A presente pesquisa traz o estudo a respeito de práticas institucionalizadas que abrangem o tema da sexualidade em uma entidade de acolhimento para crianças e adolescentes, situada na cidade de Aracaju. Para elaboração da proposta, são utilizados relatos de experiência ocorridos no campo institucional mencionado. Estes dão vida às garotas (Des)Amélias. Ao elencá-las enquanto possibilidade de problematização de práticas que envolviam a entidade de acolhimento pesquisada e para além dela, o trabalho indaga-se sobre os seguintes aspectos. Sejam eles: a relação entre sexualidade infantil e políticas de proteção à infância; o acolhimento institucional a partir de atualizações da repressão sexual; a sexualidade enquanto ferramenta de análise do acolhimento institucional, bem como a existência de outros modos de relação para além dos estabelecidos com a sexualidade e as práticas que a percorrem por aqueles que são dirigidos às instituições de acolhimento para crianças e adolescentes. Para pensar os referidos problemas de pesquisa, lançam-se olhares sobre leituras a respeito de políticas públicas voltadas para crianças e adolescentes, a partir de autores que delineiam a história social da infância no Brasil. Também são lançados olhares sobre a história da sexualidade, percursos da psicologia, psicanálise, psiquiatria e sexualidade, bem como sobre os conceitos de gênero, repressão sexual, ética, moral, judicialização e institucionalização da sexualidade.