Instituições de ensino superior privadas do estado de Sergipe e seus processos de institucionalização frente às determinações do MEC

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcante, Analu Neves de Mendonça
• Orientador(a): Montenegro, Ludmilla Meyer
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Administração
• Palavras-chave em Português: Administração; Legislação do ensino superior; Desenvolvimento institucional; Institutos de pesquisa; Processo de institucionalização; Práticas estratégicas; Capacidades dinâmicas; Instituições de ensino superior; IES
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Institutionalization process; Strategic practices; Dynamic capabilities; High education institutions
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/11060

The opening of markets and the possibility of exploiting education by private entities has led to a growth in the number of private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) throughout Brazil. More than 85% of all Brazilian universities and colleges are private (INEP, 2017). In this context, pre-established regulations and criteria were created by the Ministry of Education (MEC) to ensure that a minimum standard of quality is met in the provision of educational services. However, although the regulations are the same throughout the national territory, interpretations and actions are differentiated from HEI to HEI by virtue of the translation capacity developed and practiced by the organization's manager. This individuality and subjectivity that involves the translation of administrative norms into practical actions favored the relation of theories such as the Institutional Theory and the Dynamic Capacities theory in the search of an understanding of how this process occurs. In view of the above, the objective of this research is to understand the institutionalization of strategic practices in private HEIs of Sergipe through the translation and adaptation of the regulatory standards of the MEC. The study has a qualitative nature, the research strategy was a comparative case study, with an exploratory and descriptive nature. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews with managers of private Sergipe HEIs, and analysis of results was done through content analysis. The aim of this work was to contribute to the growing research involving the Institutional Theory and Dynamic Capacities theory, as well as to understand the actions carried out by HEI in the search for compliance with standards and the provision of quality services. The data obtained from the interviews in three private educational institutions, with key professionals, being participants of the Structural Teaching Nucleus (NDE), Course Coordinators and Members of the Evaluation Committee (CPA), were complemented by the perception and vision of the researcher both in the environment to which the meetings were held, as well as in the means of communication and dissemination used by HEIs. Comparatives were carried out in order to verify the existence of institutional isomorphism regarding the way in which decisions are made based on MEC regulations. It was concluded that, despite obeying similar laws, HEIs behave differently, observing a common participatory movement in HEIs of smaller sizes. Relating the respondents' responses to the dynamic capacities, it was noticed that in HEIs of smaller size and market experience, teachers have more participatory voice and it is possible to identify dynamic capacities in the decision making process. Different from the reality of the HEI of larger size and experience, in which employees are not part of participatory meetings and their contributions are only in the execution of what has been imposed, ie, visualization of ordinary capacities. The research was limited to the private IES sergipe selected for accessibility, however, an expansion in the research of behavior of private IES in relation to this process, involving more institutions, would generate a better deepening in the subject, besides showing results with greater geographical representativeness.