Decisão de localização de empresas de base tecnológica: o caso da comunidade San Pedro Valley

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https://doi.org/10.22279/navus.v18.2080

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Technology-based companies showed a tendency towards clustering and the formation of startup ecosystems. In order to study this phenomenon, we investigated the rationale and circumstances of decision-making by entrepreneurs of technology-based companies, not only for the implementation, but also for the continuity of the enterprise. An exploratory-descriptive case study of the San Pedro Valley Community, in the region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, was developed. Data analysis obtained through surveys were used; sociometric analysis; content analysis of primary data from interviews, as well as analysis of secondary data obtained from electronic sites and records. It can be concluded that social capital is generated and maintained in the network differently by central and peripheral members, but everyone benefits collectively, either by paying less taxes or being recognized by the community. Regarding the decision-making process for the location of startups by their founders, it was possible to infer that it is rational, according to the terms of bounded rationality based on values. The main values considered were relationship networks, family and friends, in addition to being born or established in the city.

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Simoni de Cássia Pinto Coelho, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Mestra em Administração pelo Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Rita de Cássia Leal Campos, Universidade Federal de Lavras

Doutora em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Lavras

Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Fabrício Molica de Mendonça, Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei

Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Uajará Pessoa Araújo, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Doutor em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Lavras

Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade de São Paulo

Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

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2026-05-01

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