Modelos de Gestão do Conhecimento e Micro e Pequenas Empresas: estudo em empresas de base tecnológica

Abstract

Research conducted in the Graduate Program in Information Science of UFPB, around knowledge management (KM) adoption frameworks and micro and small enterprises (MSE). Portrays the characteristics of the MSE in the Brazilian economy context, emphasizing its place of prominence as responsible, according to SEBRAE (2011), for 67% of the occupations, 28% of gross revenues from the formal sector and 20% of Gross Domestic Product. The corpus consists of 60 employees from 10 MSE installed in the Technological Park of Sergipe (SergipeTec), incorporating managers, key professionals and members of the operating body. Through the techniques of questionnaires and observation, were identified the attributes of technology MSE, as well as characteristics of the adopted processes and the ones considered ideal for employees. Describes the adoption frameworks from Silva Júnior (2001), Thiel (2002), Rumizen (2002) and Von Kroch, Ichijo and Nonaka (2000), listing stages, steps and recommended actions for KM adoption in a company. It is analyzed, then, the adequacy of these frameworks to reality and concerns of employees of the MSE, assessing whether it is possible for a MSE to perform the steps listed without restriction, or if the actions would be unviable for some limitation of the model. It concludes, finally, that none of analyzed frameworks are fully adequate to the reality of the MSE, and even the model of Von Kroch, Ichijo and Nonaka (2000) approaching closely to the profile of these companies, still requires modifications to its implementation. This consists of evidence of neglect in relation to the MSE in the general creation process of frameworks. It is recommended, therefore, the creation of a model through further analysis of the activities from other adoption models to establish a new framework suitable to the limitations of MSE.