A composição técnica do capital como fator determinante para a competitividade no setor de artefatos de concreto

Abstract

This work analyzes how the composition of technical capital can determine the competitiveness of the concrete industry and how it can influence the attainment of extraordinary profit. It is intended to support the community information based on actual data for the time of decision making for the moment of decision making about the best level of investment, seeking competitive advantage and the highest returns generated by each level of investment, considering the process of technological innovation. The Marxian contributions served as a main theoretical and methodological framework taking the thesis of the organic composition of capital, which allowed to understand the process of competition between firms with different compositions of capital, demonstrating that those higher capital are conditions obtain the extraordinary profit on industries with lower capital composition. Was analyzed the composition of the capital of three companies in the construction sector in the states of Paraíba and Pernambuco. Identified its capital structure, was measured in a simplified way, the value of the product, the average rate of profit and the determination of the price of individual social product. The results indicated that the condition to have a composition of higher capital creates a competitive differentiator between firms providing an increase in production capacity, with lower production costs and extraordinary appropriation of profit, which confirms the validity of the Marxian theory that organic composition of capital allows the company greater the profit further against its closest competitors, retaining profit would fall to the bottom composition businesses.