Aprendizagem empreendedora na prática: fragmentos do conhecimento estético-sensível na trajetória de vida de empreendedores fundadores de startups

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Vogt, Sérgio
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Positivo; Brasil; Pós-Graduação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração; UP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Administração; Empreendedores - Biografia; Aprendizagem; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/2035

The field of entrepreneurship is not new and has been explored through different perspectives. At the end of the eighties, a new possibility allowed this theme to be analyzed as a dynamic process. This change has led researchers to question how 'becoming' entrepreneurial. Given this, assumptions of the theories about entrepreneurship and learning were associated, inaugurating a new theme, called Entrepreneurial Learning (EL). Thus, to find out how studies on this topic are being conducted on the national and international scene, it was carried out a systematic literature review in different academic databases about the production of knowledge. This study, conducted from a historical perspective, revealed the possibilities of research not yet explored, especially regarding the development of empirical approaches on entrepreneurial learning at the national level. Thus, after conducting a historical review of the emergence of Entrepreneurial Learning and describing how its development occurred by pointing out the different perspectives employed, this doctoral thesis suggests that the social practice approach be used as a theoreticalmethodological lens for the study of EL. Hence, as a reflection on how the entrepreneurial learning process occurs in practice, this thesis also aims to present an argument that reveals the indissolubility between practice and learning and to propose a methodological set in the empirical investigation of entrepreneurial learning by through this theoretical approach. For this, also through a historical review, it was pointed out the contextualization about the scenario that favored this new look on the practice and made possible the emergence of the theoretical bases dedicated to studying it. Thus, arguments are presented to emphasize the direct and close connection between the conception of practice and learning, as a mutual, equivalent and constitutive relationship is established since learning constitutes and is constituted through various social practices. After arguing that practices are the loci of learning, as it is built when involvement in practice takes place, once mind and body, knowing and known, feelings and emotions, understanding and knowledge become intertwined, it is noteworthy that although while senses are recognized as relevant to learning in organizations, entrepreneurial learning’ researchers need to explore how the aesthetic and sensorial aspects are involved in this process. Thus, based on the concepts of Knowing in Practice, Aesthetic Knowledge, and Sensible Knowledge, hitherto used especially in organizational studies, it was explored how entrepreneurial learning unfolds over the course of the life of startup founders. Methodologically, within a qualitative and interpretative approach, Life History was used as a guiding strategy and data gathering method. Additionally, aiming to delimit the investigation of entrepreneurs’ experiences, semi-structured interviews were conducted focusing on thematic stories. To data analysis, two interconnected strategies were used – narrative analysis and abductive method. Thereby, from life history and life stories of the startup founding entrepreneurs, it was possible to unveil previous entrepreneurial learning processes that occurred in their lives even before they became involved in an entrepreneurial practice. This was possible because results allowed the identification of entrepreneurs' involvement in a texture of social practices and the use of perceptive-sensorial faculties - sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste, and aesthetic judgment during the learning process. The involvement in different practices points to entrepreneurs' life trajectories as a continuous learning process, in which, fragments of unconventional forms of knowledge (aesthetic and sensible) are revealed since they mediate this process. Therefore, the main contribution of this thesis is to promote a new understanding of the situated nature of entrepreneurial learning as a process that begins even before the current entrepreneurial action. Methodologically, the research suggests a path that may contribute to the formation of a research agenda in the Brazilian context regarding research related to the learning process of entrepreneurs in different areas.