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- Title
Institutional entrepreneurship and professionalization of the rural development of the sisal region in Brazil.
- Authors
Mendonça, Patrícia Maria Emerenciano; Alves, Mário Aquino
- Abstract
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 organiza-tional 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.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; SOCIAL entrepreneurship; RURAL development; PROFESSIONALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; UNICEF; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations
- Publication
Revista de Administração, 2012, Vol 47, Issue 3, p489
- ISSN
0080-2107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5700/rausp1053