Technological knowledge and businesses inter-communication as elements of change in associative management of forest-industry SMEs

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the behavior and actions of agents related to changes brought about by the emergence of technological knowledge and inter-communication and its effect on organizational change of the SMEs from the Forest-industry sector and related activities, in order to facilitate the association management. To do this, it conducted a qualitative research, conducted in the area of Alto Parana in the province of Misiones, in which data were collected through interviews to twelve entrepreneurs in the Forest-industry and related activities sector. Such information was analyzed using the Atlas ti program version 4.1. Once selected categories of causality effects were studied using a combined method of principal component analysis and qualitative comparative analysis. The results show which are the categories associated with inter-communication and technological knowledge which should operate for short-term organizational change impacts when it is intended to facilitate entry into a process associativity within the sector. The analysis shows that inter-communication has an impact on organizational change. However, technological knowledge is still scarce, and does not show enough evidence to affect organizational change.