Análise de cooperativas habitacionais a partir dos fatores estruturantes da sociedade em rede

ABSTRACTThe business networks, including cooperation networks, are a topic of current interest, since they indicate some development solutions for organizations founded in collective action that traditional models of isolated competition cannot encompass. However, these models of competition are dominant among researchers and entrepreneurs, so there is little knowledge and interest about the formation, development and management of business networks in Brazil. The network studies follow three basic paradigms: one about economic factors, another about social factors and the third about a new organization. The purpose of this paper is to present and analyze examples for the third paradigm, whose main argument is that all organizations are in nets, using or not their connections. The oriented proposition is that it is possible to find and to design the networks from the structuring factors of a net and initiating the investigation with any company of the selected business. Through the use of secondary and primary collection data techniques, four housing cooperative nets of the State of São Paulo were analyzed. The results show that it is possible to find and design the relation networks of cooperatives from the interdependence, asymmetry, structure, governance, forms and flux and result dominants factors on one side, and, on the other, as a secondary contribution, to point some management directives for these nets. Modestly, the work indicates a promising research field, using a group of factors that can be enhanced and used in a research instrument