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      Construção e desconstrução de fronteiras e identidades organizacionais: história e desafios do McDonald's

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          Reflete-se sobre os desafios da construção e desconstrução de fronteiras e identidades organizacionais na passagem da sociedade da ordem - com sua noção de fronteiras e identidades - para a modernidade líquida, baseada em formas fluidas. Para ilustrar tal passagem, utiliza-se um estudo de caso da corporação McDonald's, apresentando as fronteiras e identidades organizacionais que esta estabeleceu desde seu surgimento, nos EUA, até se tornar uma das mais poderosas marcas globais. Toma-se o McDonald's como paradigmático do formato de negócios da moderna sociedade da ordem que perdurou no século XX, fator determinante para a expansão da corporação. Entretanto, a partir da década de 1990, a corporação passou a ser criticada por analistas de negócios, tendo ela própria assumido uma "crise de imagem". Aponta-se que essa crítica à rigidez do "sistema McDonald's" é sinalizadora de uma transformação mais ampla no formato social que alimentou e sustentou esse modelo de negócio, de bases fordistas e suportado por uma estratégia de padronização.

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          This article discusses the challenges regarding the construction and deconstruction of boundaries and organizational identities in the passage of the order society - and its notion of boundaries and identities - to the liquid modernity, based on fluid forms. To illustrate such passage, a case study of McDonald´s Corporation is used, presenting the boundaries and organizational identities that it has established since it started as a small drive-in in the USA, until it became one of the most powerful global brands. It is assumed that McDonald's represents the modern society business format, par excellence, of the order, that lasted along the twentieth century, what was determinant for the corporation expansion in the market. However, starting in the 1990's, the Corporation has been criticized by business analysts and has assumed an "image crisis". This paper suggests that such critic to the "McDonalds System" rigidity can be a sign of a broader transformation of the very social format that nourished and supported that fordist-based and standardized market model.

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                Journal
                rae
                Revista de Administração de Empresas
                Rev. adm. empres.
                Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de S.Paulo (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0034-7590
                2178-938X
                March 2007
                : 47
                : 1
                : 60-70
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameFGV orgdiv1EAESP
                Article
                S0034-75902007000100006 S0034-7590(07)04700106
                10.1590/S0034-75902007000100006
                7fb606a1-b716-4b58-a08c-89b38e26d5ad

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 28 June 2006
                : 19 December 2005
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                McDonald's,Organizational boundaries,organizational identities,brand,order society,Fronteiras organizacionais,identidades organizacionais,marca,sociedade da ordem

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