Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-08-04T19:22:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014 - Alicelia Rosa de Oliveira Pecanha.pdf: 1858543 bytes, checksum: dd73e1957347f0f20c489dbaa0a28e83 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-04T19:22:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014 - Alicelia Rosa de Oliveira Pecanha.pdf: 1858543 bytes, checksum: dd73e1957347f0f20c489dbaa0a28e83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-06 / PECANHA, Alicelia Rosa de Oliveira. Professionalization of Family Management to Franchise: The Study of a Brazilian Bookstore. Serop?dica: UFRRJ, 2014 Proposal for Qualification (Professional Master in Management and Strategy).. Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Administrative and Financial Sciences. This work aims the implementation of the franchising model in the Book Cia. The company was founded in the city of Valencia, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 2000, in order to meet a market of approximately 70 thousand inhabitants and after twelve years of market thrived and currently also serves the cities Brooms, Three Rivers, Volta Redonda and Barra do Pirai, all located in the South Fluminense. A team of employees totaled thirty-four employees serving approximately demand of two hundred fifty thousand consumers. The small company was born and raised in family management templates and is in a moment realizes the need to professionalize, adopt seen that as a growth strategy, franchising. For Cia Book convert into a franchise network is important to understand that the process of professionalization terminating in its wake a series of measures to separate the sphere of corporate governance of family management, since the rationality peculiar to each them would be incompatible. The relevance of this study is to understand that the process of professionalization of a small business is able to overcome the challenges and habits of family management, and respond with a higher degree of efficiency to the challenges of the business environment. The action research method was chosen because it clearer when there are practical goals of immediate nature, and propose solutions where possible and follow the corresponding, or at least shares, do advance the awareness of the participants with regard to the existence of obstacles and solutions. / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo a implanta??o do modelo de franchising na Cia do Livro. A empresa foi fundada na cidade de Valen?a, situada no interior do estado do Rio de Janeiro, no ano de 2000, com o intuito de atender um mercado de aproximadamente 70 mil habitantes e ap?s doze anos de mercado, prosperou e atualmente atende tamb?m ?s cidades de Vassouras, Tr?s Rios, Volta Redonda e Barra do Pira?, todas localizada na regi?o Sul Fluminense. A equipe de colaboradores somam trinta e quatro funcion?rios que atendem a demanda aproximada de duzentos e cinquenta mil consumidores. A pequena empresa nasceu e cresceu nos moldes da gest?o familiar e encontra-se em um momento onde percebe a necessidade de profissionalizar-se, visto que adotar? como estrat?gia de crescimento, o franchising.. Para que a Cia do Livro converta-se em uma rede de franquia ? relevante compreender que o processo de profissionaliza??o encerra em seu bojo uma s?rie de medidas que visam separar a esfera da gest?o empresarial da gest?o familiar, posto que a racionalidade peculiar a cada uma delas seria incompat?vel. A relev?ncia deste estudo se faz ao compreender que o processo de profissionaliza??o de uma pequena empresa ? capaz de superar os desafios e h?bitos da gest?o familiar e responder com maior grau de efic?cia aos desafios do ambiente de neg?cios. O m?todo da pesquisa-a??o foi escolhido por ser esclarecedor quando existem objetivos pr?ticos de natureza imediata, como propor solu??es quando poss?vel e acompanhar as a??es correspondentes, ou pelo menos, fizer progredir a consci?ncia dos participantes no que diz respeito ? exist?ncia de solu??es e obst?culos.