Estratégia de criação de conhecimento em micro e pequenas empresas por meio de programas de estágio: uma realidade ou um desafio?

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between the implementation of internship programs and the construction of the organizational knowledge in Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE's), by identifying if in practice this kind of programs has been developed with organizational learning goals or just as a cost reduction way. A qualitative research was applied with entrepreneurs and interns of MSE's in a city in south of Minas Gerais, having as main issue the management of internship programs with a knowledge creation perspective. Despite the identification of the possibility of knowledge construction, a huge complicator was evidenced, the unfamiliarity of the entrepreneurs about the benefits of the internship programs besides the cost reduction, fact that contributes to the fragility of many of this programs. In addition, there is an expectation this study contributes to the practical discussion about how the internship programs could be turned in strategic channels to MSE's, awakening to the possibility of creation of new knowledge's though the exchange process with students and enterprises.