Configuração E Cultura Organizacional, Cooperação E Inovação: Análise De Um Modelo De Equações Estruturais Em Empresas Fabricantes De Equipamentos Médicos

Understand the organizational factors which stimulate the innovations' development is a very interesting theme to researchers and companies. This knowledge allows the companies to keep competitive in the market. This work presents a model, built from factorial analyzes and structural equations, relating the variables structural and cultural organization aspects, cooperation and innovation. The result obtained from the proposed model using a sample of medical products' manufacturer shows that organizational configuration and their culture are responsible for an environment which promotes interaction and cooperation between workers leading to innovations' development. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]