O processo de empresarização da pós-graduação: uma análise dos tipos de governança presentes na Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Abstract

The present dissertation presents as central objective, to analyze the forms of organization of the postgraduate course at the Federal University of Pelotas. For this, a predominantly qualitative research, documentary data was triangulated, regarding the structure of the postgraduate in Brazil and UFPel, with the perception of the representatives of the graduate programs of this university, selected for analysis, through interviews always considering the categories of analysis defined a priori (procedural, business and network governance). From the analysis it is evident that the postgraduate, both in the broadest sense and in the focus of this work (UFPel), has the three forms of organization presented. In this way, it can be seen that corporate governance has become central to the organization of this field, in which the actors included in this scope begin to work from the definition of goals to be reached, seeking a financial return and greater efficiency. In this category, the main goal perceived in postgraduate programs refers to the scientific production, which is being increasingly charged by the control organs and internalized by the agents inserted in this medium. However, for this form of organization to be enforced, it is necessary that the goals be formalized, and then procedural governance. In this sense, although this type of organization is in decline, being no longer used as a central form, it is still important to strengthen and disseminate the entrepreneurial form within the Postgraduate Programs. In addition, although in an initial way, network governance emerges as a form of organization. From this, the business logic is disseminated beyond the PPGs, from partnerships with other programs, universities and teachers, seeking to overcome difficulties, raising a greater financial contribution and reaching a wider target audience. In this scenario, the current Brazilian graduate model starts to prioritize areas that perform "useful" research and generate "payable" products, and end up limiting the performance of programs in areas that do not have this logic, such as the humanities area.