A influência dos fatores sócio-culturais nas decisões de investimento de capital e na rentabilidade da pequena indústria

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1981

RESUMO

This studyaims at identifyng the relationships among socio-cultural aspects, capital investment decisions and lucrativeness ins Paraná s small industrial enterprises. It is our substantive hypothesis that these socio-cultural factors do affect both capital investment decicions and profita bility. Our basic argument is based upon the observed fact that the small entrepreneur, whem acting as a decision maker, does it without taking into account the rational aspects of the decision-making process. Since he does not have access to the operational tools which make it possible to either reduce or eliminate the intuitiveness which characterizes the process. As a consequence of this, the small entrepreneur is subjected to the influences of social-cultural aspects such as education, age, socio-economic levei, collective communication, orientation towards fatalism, orientation towards social status, family importance, and job satisfaction. Having in sight that lucrativeness in the small industries is dependent upon the investments leveis, this study assumed that the former is also affected, via investment decisions, by the above mentioned socio-cultural aspects. The study has been developed intwo phases: in the first one a bibliographical research was done in order to estabilish a theoretical framework to support the working hypothesis; the second one consisted in testing the established hypotheses through statistical procedures. The statistical analysis was performed on data collected from a sample of 201 small industries in the Paraná State, and whose directors carne from the ethnic groups consid ered: Brazilians, Germans, Italians, Japoneese, Polishes and Syrian-Lebaneeses. The analysis have shown that it is possible to accept the fact that the small entrepreneurs decisions regard ing capital investment, which in turn affect the enterprise s profitability, are differentially affected by the mentioned socio-cultural aspects. On the other hand, the results also show that there are divergencies as to the influence leveis of the factors upon the dependent variates within the ethnic goui3s, i.e., some so cio-cultural factors have a greater influence upon the depend ent variates in a certaim group and smaller one in another. By the same token, the study supposes that causes for this differences are, probably, in the value system determining each ethnic group culture.

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investimento : capital : rentabilidade : fatores socio-culturais : empresa : pequena : parana

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