Universidade pública e adaptação organizacional: conformidade e resistência às demandas institucionais

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the problem of the organizational adaptation by the institutional perspective, incorporating aspects of the relationships of power that settle down in the binomial State-public university. The research intends to analyze the answers of conformity and resistance of a public university to the identified institutional demands for the managers of the organization. Through a theoretical-methodological approach stepped on in the constructionist, it is looked for to identify the meanings produced by the managers of the university for us to explain the reality of the organization and their answers to the environmental demands. To accomplish the analysis it was necessary to rescue the process of constitution of the public university in Brazil and to strong presence of the State in the life of those organizations. The results of the research evidence that as much the conformity as the resistance they are current answers of the manager´s interpretations due to the institutional conditions. They also evidence that the studied public university simulates a conformity, when actually it continues operating for the form socially construction in the organization.