MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS OF A SOLIDARITY ENTERPRISE DIMENSIONS: THE CASE OF THE ESPERANÇA/COOESPERANÇA PROJECT

Abstract

This research was developed with the intention to evaluate the existence of specific characteristics in the framework of management applied in an enterprise of supportive economy. All organization implies the existence of a formal or informal set of practical, principles, norms and tools of management that support operations and processes management, that they are understood as administration model. This paper is identified through the case study methodology, by a qualitative research, an exploratory study. The interviewed ones to this paper had been all integrant of the commission collegial that manages the organization and, to become deeper the model studied, the number of interviewed were extended for other collaborators, partners and associates of the Project, totalizing 17 declarations. The database files varied through half-structuralized interviews, direct comment and documentary examination. The database had been analyzed as a content analysis. In regard to the results evaluation, it must be recognized that still it is lacked of evaluation pointers and that is much more difficult if measuring and controlling performance and results in the institutions without lucrative ends than in the companies. In any case, this work obtained and permitted to identify to the principles and the practical ones adopted in the enterprise administration, as the theoretical substantiation utilized for the case study and identify the seven particularities of the present model of worthy management of highlight: theoretical and practical base of the constitution of the Project, with adjusted adaptations to the local peculiarities; practical formations that guide the way to associates access the organization; has detached the direct commercialization of the production for the own producers, without intermediate; administration organized from practical of management constructed by producers; project’s administration by Commissions; participatory administration of the commerce points for the producers and, contribution and importance of the partnerships for the good development of the enterprise.