Strategic Responses to CAPES Assessment System in Management Post-Graduate Programs: Institutional Propositions Based on Co-Authorship Networks of Researchers in Paraná State, Brazil.

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper was to present theoretical propositions for the relation between strategic responses (related to Brazilian Evaluation System for High Education) in Business Administration Post-graduate Courses and co-authorship network embeddedness of professors and lecturers in Paraná State Universities. Based on new institutional theory and network analysis, we elaborate thirteen propositions to the study of strategic responses of researchers (professors and lecturers) and the Post-Graduate Units in four Paraná State´s Universities, in Brazil. The network analysis was developed using UCINET 6.0 and Pajek softwares. Data was collected from researchers curricula (CNPq – Base Lattes), during May, 2007. We hope that those thirteen propositions will permit to conduct empirical research about those relations implied in this paper and, after all, to better understand recursive relationship between organizations and institutional environment.