Indústria de pedras preciosas: um estudo dos fatores competitivos em empresas de Soledade - RS

Abstract

To remain competitive, companies are supposed to know the internal and external factors that are present in their sector and global reality, obtaining information that allow them to formulate strategies in order to stay in the market. Having this necessity in mind, the present dissertation presents the study on entrepreneurial, structural and systematic competitive factors in micro, small and medium-sized companies in the field of precious stones in Soledade RS. Through surveys, questionnaires have been applied to businesspeople from thirty-one precious stones industries, with the purpose of identifying the factors that exert major influence on the competitiveness of precious stones companies from Soledade - RS, according to the businesspeople s perception, with product delimitation of rough stones, stone works and artefacts and lapidated stones, by using the model of Coutinho and Ferraz (1995) and Ferraz, Kupfer and Haguenauer (1995). It has been verified that the groups of systematic and structural factors are the ones that mostly influence the competitiveness in this sample of companies. However, it has to be emphasized that, when comparing the average rates of influence of the three groups of variants (entrepreneurial, structural and systematic factors), the percentages obtained have been very much alike, from what may be concluded that the competitiveness of precious stones companies from Soledade is related to strategies that integrate these three groups of factors with similar degrees of influence.