Institutional entrepreneurship and professionalization of the rural development of the sisal region in Brazil

This work analyses the professionalization of rural development in the Brazilian Northeastern region and how this created opportunities for entrepreneurship when the professional practices of funding bodies were transformed in accordance with local reality. This professionalization has its own characteristics, including fluid formats and the rolling out of networks, and it contributes to the theorization and dissemination of certain practices instead of being concentrated in professional associations and formal links with educational institutions. The main implications are commonly related to institutional processes related to professionalization, such as the emergence of certain organizational formats and the dissemination of professional practices that are considered legitimate. An additional consequence was observed in the area of rural development: the ideas and practices disseminated through professionalization were reinterpreted when the local entrepreneurs adapted them to their own thinking and needs.

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Main Authors: Mendonça,Patrícia Maria Emerenciano, Alves,Mário Aquino
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Departamento de Administração da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo 2012
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-21072012000300012
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