{"title":"Frugal innovation in the expansion of a multinational subsidiary in an emerging market","authors":"Maísa Arend, Cláudia Felippe Ramos, Y. Souza","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e9322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e9322","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Frugal innovation consists of creating solutions based on the parsimonious use of resources with essential quality, design, and functionality, offered to customers with lower purchasing power. This study aims to analyze how a frugal innovation evolves in a multinational company during its expansion into a new market at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The adopted research strategy is a case study of a multinational subsidiary whose unit of analysis is the development of a frugal product from its inception to its presence in the market. A theoretical model that identifies the antecedents, processes, and results of frugal innovation supports data analysis. This study thus contributes establishing propositions that give specificity to the model with regard to the expansion of multinationals in an emerging market. The results reveal that strategy and brand consolidation precede the development of a frugal product, which is followed by systematic analysis of market characteristics, consumer behavior, and local competition. Additionally noteworthy are the horizontal integration and dynamic interaction of marketing and production; the adoption of a design that integrates basic functionalities, qualities, aesthetic attributes; and the minimal use of resources, the elimination of nonessential functionalities, the adoption of modularity as a production strategy, and the mastery of skills in production and learning strategies. Finally, the findings indicate the relevant combination and dynamization of organizational capabilities and their influence in reversing the technology transfer orientation between headquarters, as well as the consequences of frugal innovation.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126245541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luisa Maria Tumbajoy Cardona, Mariela Muñoz-Añasco
{"title":"A novel technological performance measurement indicator: a smart manufacturing approach","authors":"Luisa Maria Tumbajoy Cardona, Mariela Muñoz-Añasco","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2023v30e9622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2023v30e9622","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The implementation of digital manufacturing technologies (DMTs) represents the beginning of transforming a manufacturing system towards a smart manufacturing system (SMS). Assessing the performance of the DMTs implemented is essential to meet the objectives in a SMS and allows identifying their usefulness. However, estimating this performance is a challenging task due to the heterogeneous characteristics of the DMTs, such as the origin of information, capacity, connectivity, etc. Although some SMS performance measurement metrics are known, none are intended to identify the performance of DMTs. This article follows a methodology for the construction of technological performance indicators and proposes a novel indicator based on the individual characteristics of the DMTs and the smart factory concept of interoperability. The proposed indicator allows approaching the behavior of one or multiple DMTs implemented simultaneously and introduces a quantifiable measurement that can be applied to any industrial process. It is noteworthy, that such an indicator is not present in the literature and may be of great interest to enterprises currently implementing DMTs related to SMS. The applicability of the indicator considering multiple DMTs is validated through an illustrative test case.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129863816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies: an analysis of small and medium-sized companies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil","authors":"Antonio Arnaldo Baio Junior, Marcelo José Carrer","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e122","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyzed the level of adoption and compared characteristics of adopters and non-adopters of Industry 4.0 technologies. Primary data for the year 2021 were collected by means of a structured questionnaire applied to 30 small and medium-sized companies of the metallurgical sector, who operate with machining processes, in the state of São Paulo. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical measures and correlation estimates. The technologies adopted by the companies in the sample were: Cloud Computing (10 companies), Horizontal and Vertical Integration Systems (5 companies), Big Data (4 companies) and Industrial Internet of Things (4 companies). The comparative analysis between the characteristics of adopters and non-adopters showed that: (I) adopters have, much more frequently, employees with ICT capabilities and also more frequently hire ICT consulting services; (II) the use of ERP and MRP systems is much higher among companies that adopt Industry 4.0 technologies; (III) adopters participate more frequently in cooperation programs with Universities, Science and Technology Institutes or Research and Technological Development Promotion Agencies; (IV) companies that adopt 4.0 technologies have a greater perception of relative advantage and compatibility of these technologies.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130006715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
jocieli francisco da silva, Flavia Cristina da Silva, Débora Oliveira da Silva, Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha, Ágata Ritter
{"title":"Decision making in the process of choosing and deploying industry 4.0 technologies","authors":"jocieli francisco da silva, Flavia Cristina da Silva, Débora Oliveira da Silva, Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha, Ágata Ritter","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e163","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Advances in the development and use of Industry 4.0 technology has resulted in it being applied in various industries. Industry 4.0 enables companies to develop their operations and improve their organizational efficiency. The process of implementing Industry 4.0 is very important, as it requires significant investment, skilled labor and state-of-the-art technology. The aim of this article is to identify the main criteria behind decision-making in choosing and implementing technology, that is part of the Industry 4.0 concept. The research method chosen for the study was a systematic literature review. The results show that the use of broad requirements tends to be predominant, using large groups of criteria that are intended to aggregate several different requirements. This review is relevant because few recent studies have been found, and therefore this article helps to identify what has been published so far on the subject of decision-making around choosing and implementing Industry 4.0 technology in organizations and what criteria and tools they base their decisions on. To date, the research has not encountered any similar work that aims to group all the information on decision-making around choosing and implementing Industry 4.0 technology.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131113576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do learning culture and dynamic capability interfere with team performance?","authors":"R. D. Gonzalez","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e134","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This study investigates the effects of the relationship between the learning culture and the dynamic capability and performance of manufacturing teams in the industrial sector. Several studies propose that dynamic capability is capable of improving the organizational and financial performance of companies, however, little research is focused on simultaneously analyzing the relationship between dynamic capability and learning culture and manufacturing teamwork performance. This study is based on a survey of 201 companies in the Brazilian industrial sector with manufacturing teams, using the partial least squares (PLS) approach to develop structural equation modeling for data analysis. The results indicate that the dynamic capability has a strong positive influence on the team's performance and that, although the learning culture is not directly related to the performance, they offer contributions mediated by the dynamic capability.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131621733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting electricity generation from renewable sources during a pandemic","authors":"Bianca Reichert, A. Souza, Meiri Mezzomo","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Renewable sources are responsible for more than half of Brazilian electric generation, which basically correspond to hydropower, biomass and wind sources. This research aimed to verify if the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models present good performance in predicting electricity generation from biomass, hydropower and wind power for the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The best forecasting models adjusted for biomass, hydropower and wind generation was the SARIMA, since this model was able to identify seasonal effects of climatic instability, such as periods of drought. Based on the seasonality of the largest generating sources, renewable generation needs to be offset by other sources, as non-renewable, and more efforts are needed to make Brazilian electric matrix more sustainable.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"248 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131651505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iracimara de Anchieta Messias, Adelaide Nascimento, Raoni Rocha
{"title":"Job rotation as a legal requirement: analysis of the participatory approach in acceptance and workers’ perception at a meatpacking plant","authors":"Iracimara de Anchieta Messias, Adelaide Nascimento, Raoni Rocha","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e10522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e10522","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article presents an experience of a participative approach prior to the implementation of NR-36, which regulates work in meat and meat byproduct companies. Although the regulations provide for worker participation in the processes of implementing job rotation, they do not explain how to do it. This study was developed in 2017 in the livestock slaughtering sector of a company with 79 workers, using two complementary methods: systematic and analytical observation of the real work (totaling 32 hours of observation) in order to select the jobs that were primarily eligible for rotation, together with a survey of the workers' perception of the level of acceptance of rotation in the selected jobs. At first, 72% of the workers refused to accept the rotation. After inclusion and participation in the implementation process, 86% of the workers in the dirty area and 64% in the clean area agreed to the rotation. The advantages of rotation that most stood out included: the variability in work (30%), learning and gaining experience (40%), changes in movements (35%), and physical rest (32%). By contrast, the disadvantages included: the fear of accidents (30%) and the fear of change and of the unknown (25%). It can therefore be concluded that the participatory approach prior to changes in organizational design contributes to the understanding and perception of workers about the advantages and disadvantages of the rotation process, indicating improvements that comply with legal requirements.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125914750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Muniz Júnior, F. Martins, J. É. D. O. Santos, Daniel Wintersberger
{"title":"The perspective of trade union leaders from the Brazilian metallurgical sector on Industry 4.0","authors":"Jorge Muniz Júnior, F. Martins, J. É. D. O. Santos, Daniel Wintersberger","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e5422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e5422","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate trade unionists leaders' perspective on Industry 4.0. Questionnaires and interviews were carried out. Two conclusions were pointed out: a fragmented understanding of the concept and the low participation of workers in the implementation process. Looking forward to a just transition, the improvement of either the conceptual grasp and the workers' participation are necessary.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126696018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Abensur, Bruna Pereira Santos, Anselmo Alves Bandeira
{"title":"Optimization models as applied to equipment replacement problems: review and trends","authors":"E. Abensur, Bruna Pereira Santos, Anselmo Alves Bandeira","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2023v30e4022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2023v30e4022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Equipment replacement is a definitive and relevant engineering decision. The aim of this work was to identify and organize the mathematical optimization proposals and solution search techniques that have contributed toward solving this problem. As a result, we classified the bibliographic materials we identified into seven distinct types of approaches. The work also provides an integrative overview of the level of complementarity of the categories we identified. The network visualization approach represented about 57% of the selected works and is still in use today. Nonetheless, since 2000 other approaches, such as fuzzy logic, real options, and machine learning have increased by 40% and become relevant current trends.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130563212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ndubuisi Chigozirim Onwusiribe, J. Mbanasor, O. U. Oteh
{"title":"Dynamics of coffee output in Nigeria","authors":"Ndubuisi Chigozirim Onwusiribe, J. Mbanasor, O. U. Oteh","doi":"10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e7621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9649-2022v29e7621","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Coffee is a strategic cash crop for poverty reduction and economic growth in Nigeria, and it is consumed worldwide, making it a significant source of income at both the micro and macro levels. This study analysed the trends in ' 'Nigeria's coffee output and the short and long-run determinants of coffee output in Nigeria. A period of 38 years was considered and the data were sourced from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank and the International Coffee Organization. The linear trend and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model were instrumental in the data analysis. The trend analysis reveals that coffee output is decreasing, necessitating immediate action. Fertiliser use and land availability for farmers require extra attention in the short run because they are significant and had a positive impact on coffee output. In the long-run climate change, producer price and fertiliser use negatively impact the coffee farmers' output. The need to make land easily accessible to coffee farmers by amending land use regulations to ensure the conservation and expansion of farmlands is one of the most notable recommendations of this study.","PeriodicalId":146264,"journal":{"name":"Gestão & Produção","volume":"426 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132510652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}