Ações Empreendedoras e Políticas Públicas: Uma Articulação para Promover o Esporte

Abstract

Objective: to understand the essence of the actions developed in the sport of Lavras/MG to say whether they can be considered entrepreneurial. The purpose seeks to understand how public policies and entrepreneurial activities can be articulated to promote the sport in this municipality. Methodology: the research followed an interpretivist epistemological orientation based on the methodology of research-action using the analysis of thematic content as analysis technique. The qualitative approach and the following research methods: face-to-face interviews with open script, documentary analysis, field diary and brainstorming were chosen. Main results: the results point to the existence of an entrepreneurial action in the public context, involving the public power in a particular way without, however, having originated in it. Theoretical/methodological contributions: the approach of the entrepreneurial action for the public context; and the use of action research as methodology for the studies about entrepreneurship. Relevance/originality: the study draws attention to another way of interpreting entrepreneurship in the public context by shifting the focus from the entrepreneur to the entrepreneurial action itself. Its application to the studied phenomenon attest to the originality of the research. Implications for management or social: the findings of this study allow public managers to review their decisions in order to articulate entrepreneurial actions and public policies in promoting innovative actions in sport.