Relação entre orientação estratégica, diferenciação competitiva e desempenho organizacional: estudo no setor vitivinícola brasileiro

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation was to analyze the relationship between strategic orientation, competitive differentiation and performance in wine companies in Brazil. The type of research used was quantitative, and the strategy developed was a survey. The universe comprised all the wineries in Brazil linked to representative entities, obtaining a sample by pertinence of 123 companies, being from different Brazilian states, representing Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Paraná, Pernambuco and Bahia. For the analysis of the data, in the first moment, the confirmatory factorial analysis was used, seeking to verify how well the variables measured the construct, considering that the behavior formed a dichotomous database, the software Mplus, version 6, for data processing. Then, the structural equation modeling was performed to test formulated hypotheses. It was identified that the strategic orientation influences in the decision making directed to the competitive differentiation and, having these impacts in the performance of the Brazilian wine industry. It was possible to identify that the strategic orientation analyst is antagonistic to the process of competitive differentiation in the companies. On the other hand, the defensive strategic orientation has an indefinite relation with the competitive differentiation. It has also been verified that the relationship confirmed between the differentiation in the impact of business performance, as demonstrated by the practices of the wineries in the search for products and processes that generate results higher than the current ones. As a suggestion for future work, it is suggested the analysis of the relation between the construct strategic orientation and the tourist capacity, comparison with other regions and countries, in particular Lombardy in Italy, for the territorial development presented.