A large number of studies suggest that the content of strategy becomes more multifaceted and elaborate and characterised by progressive development over time. Recently, a growing number of researchers argue that strategy can become simple, stable and inert over time. This study investigates how changes of sociocognitive processes at individual, group and organisational levels influence organisational processes and strategic decisions. It adopts configurational approach to strategy development and its concepts (configurations, transformations, archetypes) as a framework. Thus, the purpose is to provide a characterisation of strategy development by analysing the integration of four key research dimensions (social, cognitive, organisational performance and contextual) into one coherent theoretical structure - the model of organisational archetypes. This four-dimensional model is developed from the analysis of fifty one Ukrainian organisations using quantitative and qualitative research methods (questionnaire, interview and group interview) according to the logical structure of configurational research (modelling the sociocognitive basis, modelling the "fit between research dimensions and modelling configurations and archetypes). Following on from this, the model of organisational archetypes is validated in four other organisations through the development of a test of organisational internal creative environment in order to identify their configurations (current conditions) and archetypes (strategic perspectives). The procedure of this test includes the following sequence of actions: identifying sociocognitive characteristics of organisational members and the organisational internal creative environment, identifying periods of transformation and configuration in the process of organisational development, researching characteristics of the business-environment, and identifying appropriate organisational archetypes. The model of organisational archetypes developed in this thesis allows the identification of current and prospective organisational conditions and making relevant strategic decisions that reflect and anticipate changes in organisational internal and external environments. Thus, changes in the organisational internal creative environment (sociocognitive characteristics of organisational members) reflect changes in the business-environment and organisational performance and transform the characteristics of strategic decisions from multifaceted and elaborate to simple and inert and vice versa.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:30:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodolpho Weishaupt.pdf: 1306770 bytes, checksum: dd28e28a25bbec69ecfd6dcfb23e90d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-12 / This thesis will have a discussion about Communications as an instrument of business intelligence in a university environment. She will intend to demonstrate that Communications will add competitive advantage to the organizations that take part in the educational market. The present research will justify in theoretical references of the Science of Communications and of the Strategic Planning and the methodological procedures which includes, farther on the extensive bibliographic revision and documents analysis, the technique of participant observation, as the well the group activities of the study of Communications and Integration between the years of 2003 until 2005, that integrated the Strategic Planning of UMESP- Methodist University of São Paulo. At the end of the thesis, searched to construct a map the necessary conditions of communications to constitute effectively in the process of business intelligence, incorporating the Strategic Management of the organizations. We have to acknowledge that Business Communication still has to succeed in some challenges and some of them, necessarily, are not easy to overcome. It is essential to consider always that Business Communication doesn t flow in the empty space; it doesn t accomplish at the organization margin, but still is internally associated with a particular system of management, to one specific organizational culture, and it is a expression, therefore, of a tangible reali ty. In orderto the Business Communication to assume as strategic this condition will favored to the management, organizational culture as well as the adequate allocation of resources such as (people, technology, finance), without it doesn t become reality. Then, if these presupposed are not satisfied, it will be premature to conclude the character in the Strategic of Business Communication. Still, the communication will not be as strategic as in the only function of the work of more or less competent of the professionals of communications. There are some requirements, unfortunately, that we don t have control of them. In brief, this thesis will analyze three central questions. The first one, concerns the strategic concept. The second can be named ethos organizational which inserts the communicational practice. Finally, we study the basic conditions to the strategic communications that really prevails. / Esta tese trata da comunicação como instrumento de inteligência empresarial numa instituição de ensino superior. Ela pretende demonstrar que a comunicação agrega vantagem competitiva às organizações que atuam no mercado educacional. O presente trabalho se fundamenta em referenciais teóricos das ciências da Comunicação e de Planejamento Estratégico, e seus procedimentos metodológicos incluem, além de revisão bibliográfica extensiva e análise de documentos, a técnica da observação participante, com o acompanhamento das atividades do grupo de trabalho intitulado Comunicação e Integração entre os anos 2003 e 2005, que integrava o Planejamento Estratégico da UMESP Universidade Metodista de São Paulo. Ao final do trabalho, buscou-se mapear as condições necessárias para que a comunicação se constitua efetivamente num processo de inteligência empresarial, incorporando-se à gestão estratégica das organizações. Admitimos que a Comunicação Empresarial ainda tem de vencer alguns desafios e que eles, necessariamente, não são fáceis de serem superados. É necessário considerar sempre que a Comunicação Empresarial não flui no vazio, não se realiza à margem das organizações, mas está umbilicalmente associada a um particular sistema de gestão, a uma específica cultura organizacional e que é expressão, portanto, de uma realidade concreta. Para que a Comunicação Empresarial seja assumida como estratégica, essa condição deverá ser favorecida pela gestão, pela cultura e mesmo pela alocação adequada de recursos (humanos, tecnológicos e financeiros), pois sem os quais ela não se realiza. Logo, se estes pressupostos não estiverem devidamente satisfeitos, será prematuro concluir pelo caráter estratégico da Comunicação Empresarial. Mais ainda: a comunicação não será estratégica em função unicamente do trabalho mais ou menos competente dos profissionais de comunicação. Há exigências outras que, infelizmente, fogem ao seu controle. Em resumo, nesse trabalho são analisadas três questões centrais. A primeira delas diz respeito ao conceito de estratégia. A segunda refere-se ao chamado ethos organizacional em que se insere a prática comunicacional. Finalmente, são examinadas as condições básicas para que a comunicação estratégica realmente prevaleça.