Impacto do sistema de controle gerencial de empresas internacionalizadas: estudo de caso Marcopolo S.A.

Abstract

The present study looked for to analyze the impact of the management control system in internationalized companies and to compare it with the characteristics that a control system of an internationalized company must have, according to literature highlighted in this study. Therefore, it was investigated the existence of modifications on mechanisms of management control system practiced by this company and compared with those suggested by the authors studied in this research. Looking forward to reach the proposed objective of this research, initially it was realized a revision of literature on management control, process of internationalization, theories of internationalization and, after that, defined a plane of reference to guide the study. Because of the characteristics and intentions of this research the study of case method was adopted, for being the framework that makes possible to reach a bigger level of depth on the subject and allows greater accuracy when it was analyzed one or more organizations through the comparison of these procedures with the founded ideal types in literature. According to the result of this research, it was observed that the management control system in use in the verified company fits, in diverse aspects, to the theoretical beddings that guide this study. On this form the company presents points related with those who were seen as excellent in studied literature, evidencing knowledge concerning the importance of mechanisms of control integration to the reach the organization objectives in the external environment.