Correspondência entre expressões de comprometimento e distintas configurações de redes: um estudo multicasos

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The work investigated the support of the proposition that different natures of networks are related to different manifestations of the commitment. By different natures of networks are understood those networks that present differences in their objectives, their characteristics or their formation; And by commitment something that requires personal effort to achieve a collective goal, either by strictly negotiating relationships or by relationships with social aspects. Based on this proposition, the objective was to investigate the manifestations of impairment in some cases of networks in the Cuiabá region. The compromise construct encompasses many definitions and, consequently, many indicators of its presence. The literature review indicated that there are few studies about the category of impairment, especially when it comes to the type of impairment. Thus, based on models found in classical literature and adapting to the objectives of this project, we reached a model that defines commitment in the following variations: (1) social; (2) rational; (3) economic; (4) utilitarian; (5) affective and (6) institutional. As a field of research, examples of networks from the Cuiabá region were selected. The networks investigated are heterogeneous networks with actors from government, society, companies, the third sector, trade unions and associations linked to the task. In methodological terms this study is characterized as predominantly qualitative and a quantitative part of the analysis of results of scales. On the results, in the solidarity economy network, it was concluded that the most present types of commitments were affective, institutional and social; In the business network, the most present commitments were economic, institutional and social; And in the network of public policies the most present types of commitment were the rational, the institutional and the social. In the set of networks, the research response supported the affirmation of the presence of different types of commitment in networks of different natures. The main theoretical benefit of the present study was the definition of the types of impairment, based on the relationship between the parties, and the methodological benefit is in the organization of the indicators of the types of commitment and in the construction of the data collection instruments. For future studies, it is suggested the investigation of these types of impairment in horizontal networks with low asymmetry and homogeneous, since the three networks investigated in this work have high asymmetry, are heterogeneous and present great differences between the actors.