ABSTRACT
Introduction/Objective:
The aim of this article is to identify how knowledge management practices contribute to organizational learning and innovation in institutions of the Brazilian Justice System.
Method:
The Integrative Literature Review was used as a research instrument.
Results:
The main results of the research are: (i) there are few studies related to organizational learning within the Brazilian Justice System; (ii) in the articles found it was possible to verify important elements for the study topic; (iii) it was observed the effort of public institutions to provide management routines and knowledge management practices to promote innovation.
Conclusion:
Finally, it’s concluded that the research has academic relevance because it presents gaps for future academic research, and it reports important aspects about the study of Organizational Learning within the public institutions of the Brazilian justice system.
KEYWORDS:
Knowledge management; Knowledge in organizations; Innovation
RESUMO
Introdução/objetivo:
O objetivo deste artigo é identificar como as práticas da Gestão do Conhecimento contribuem para a aprendizagem organizacional e inovação nas instituições do Sistema de Justiça brasileiro.
Método:
Como instrumento de pesquisa utilizou-se a Revisão Integrativa da Literatura.
Resultados:
Os principais resultados da pesquisa, apontam: (i) existem poucos estudos relacionados a aprendizagem organizacional no âmbito do Sistema de Justiça brasileiro; (ii) nos artigos encontrados foi possível verificar elementos importantes para o tópico de estudo; (iii) observou-se o esforço das instituições públicas em prover as rotinas de gestão e práticas de gestão de conhecimento para promover a inovação.
Conclusão:
Por fim, conclui-se que a pesquisa tem relevância acadêmica, pois apresenta lacunas para pesquisas acadêmicas futuras e relata importantes aspectos sobre o estudo da Aprendizagem Organizacional no âmbito das instituições públicas do sistema de justiça brasileiro.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE:
Gestão do conhecimento; Conhecimento nas organizações; Inovação.
1 INTRODUCTION
As studies on knowledge management are carried out, the multidisciplinarity of this science and its proximity to the management areas become evident.
Knowledge Management uses concepts, models, methods, and techniques developed by several disciplines, composing a growing body of knowledge that step by step form the theoretical framework of the area. There are several aspects from each area that converge among themselves to analyze and study the organizational knowledge. Among these disciplines, we can mention: a) Cognitive Science; b) Information Science; c) Management Science; d) Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
In Cognitive Science, the studies and research work with the essence of knowledge and learning, allowing a better understanding of human behavior. In Information Science, the studies deal with how to deal with the collection, analysis, storage and dissemination of information, the raw material of knowledge. In Management Science, the studies are about organizational learning, with a focus on change management, best practices, process reengineering, leadership, people management, and risk management. In Information and Communication Technologies, the implementation of Knowledge Management systems is investigated, based on the media and techniques of knowledge engineering.
For this reason, it is important to understand how the knowledge cycle happens and its impact on the organizational management process.
Like every organization, the Public Administration, to stay competitive and integrate people, processes, and technologies, has realized the need to manage institutional knowledge, especially to innovate and develop organizational learning. The non-management of organizational knowledge has caused these institutions not to achieve their purpose efficiently.
Linked to Public Administration is the administration of Justice. In Brazil, there is the Judiciary, which is the central system of justice, with the power to judge, and the justice system, which comprises, besides the Judiciary, other organizations that seek to enforce society's rights, including the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Public Defender's Office, the Legal Department, the Police and the Penitentiary System. These institutions work with knowledge-intensive processes centered on data, information and knowledge, with several routines implemented and knowledge management practices.
With this, the question that directs the study of this article arises: How can Knowledge Management practices contribute to organizational learning and innovation in Brazilian Justice System institutions?
The objective of this article is to identify how knowledge management practices contribute to organizational learning and innovation in the institutions of the Brazilian Justice System. This research is justified because there is an understanding among researchers that such elements underlie the study of Justice Administration, providing the opportunity to know the aspects of knowledge management and organizational learning in this environment.
In the following chapter, the theoretical framework that outlines this study and supports the analysis of the results will be presented.
2 THEORETICAL REFERENCE
Davenport and Prusak (2003DAVENPORT, Thomas; PRUSAK, Laurence. Conhecimento empresarial: como as organizações gerenciam seu capital. São Paulo: Elsevier, 2003., p. 6) define knowledge as "a fluid mixture of experience, values, contextual information and experienced insight, which provides a structure for the evaluation and incorporation of new experiences and information. In the organizational context, knowledge can be implicit and incorporated in people; or, it can be explicit and described in the company's routines, systems, and procedures.
Dusya and Crossman (2007DUSYA, Vera; CROSSAN, Mary. Reconciling learning paradoxes through improvisation. In: Organization Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference (OLKC), 2007, London, Ontario, CA. Anais… London, Ontario, CA: University of Western Ontario, 2007. Disponível em: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.421.6599&rep=rep1&type=pdf Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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, p. 993) define that "explicit knowledge is communicated to individuals and groups through institutionalized non-human repositories such as strategy, culture, systems, and procedures. Implicit knowledge is the non-verbalized, intuitive, and unarticulated knowledge that resides in the human brain and cannot be easily codified or captured (ROUSSEAU; EGGHE; GUNS, 2018ROUSSEAU, Ronald; EGGHE, Leo; GUNS, Raf. Scientific Research and Communication. In: ROUSSEAU, Ronald; EGGHE, Leo; GUNS, Raf. Becoming metric-wise: a bibliometric guide for researchers. Cambridge: Chandos Publishing, 2018. p. 11-35). Therefore, knowledge travels through the organization passing through human and non-human elements with the mission of promoting the learning of people, groups, and the institution.
The life cycle of knowledge in the organization involves five steps: identify, create, store, share, and apply knowledge (NAIR; PRAKASH, 2009NAIR, Praba; PRAKASH, Kamlesh. Knowledge Management: Facilitator’s Guide. APO: Tokyo, 2009.). In this sense, knowledge management practices help us understand the organizational knowledge life cycle and how knowledge is institutionalized, providing opportunities for organizational learning.
Organizational learning happens when individual and group learning become institutionalized, when individual and group knowledge is inserted into non-human repositories, such as routines, systems, structures, culture, and strategy (DUSYA; CROSSAN, 2005DUSYA, Vera e CROSSAN, Mary. Organizational learning and knowledge management: toward an integrative framework. In: EASTERBY-SMITH; LYLES, Marjorie. Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. Malden: Blackwell, 2005. p. 122-141). It can be seen that organizational learning and knowledge feed back into each other in an interactive process, with a focus on achieving the organization's strategic objectives.
Organizational learning is analyzed in levels: 1) individual, which refers to the learning of people in the organizational context; 2) Group of individuals, refers to the learning of groups in the organizational context; 3) Organization, occurs when the organization achieves the organizational purposes, shares and distributes among the members of the organization, occurring change in the system, structure, procedures and organizational culture; 4) Interorganizational, refers to learning between groups and peers of organization, evidencing cooperation; 5) Network, refers to learning by a group of organizations, as a group, when organizational learning occurs at the time the group of organizations "learn", that is, all are impacted, not just one of them. (CROSSAN; LANE; WHITE; DJURFELDT, 1995CROSSAN, Mary M. et al. Organizational learning: dimensions for a theory. The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, v. 3, n. 4, p. 337-360, 1995. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028835. Acesso em: 30 jan. 2022.
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; KNIGHT, 2002KNIGHT, Louise. Network Learning: exploring learning by interorganizational networks. Human Relations, London, v. 55, n. 4, p. 427-454, 2002. Disponível em: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.476.8235&rep=rep1&type=pdf. Acesso em: 30 jan. 2022.
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).
The common thread between Knowledge Management and other management areas is precisely the recognition that information and knowledge are corporate assets that require appropriate tools to manage them, because it is not possible to manage the new aspects of the knowledge economy with the tools of the industrial economy.
According to Jadertrierveiler, Sell and Santos (2019)JADERTRIERVEILER, Heron; SELL, Denilson; SANTOS, Neri dos. The benefits and challenges of digital transformation in Industry 4.0. Global Journal of Management and Business Research: a Administration and Management, v. 19, n. 12, p. 17-40, jan. 2019. Disponível em: https://globaljournals.org/GJMBR_Volume19/E-Journal_GJMBR_(A)_Vol_19_Issue_12.pdf. Acesso em: 30 jan. 2022.
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digital transformation, the development of smart technologies and knowledge workers, are making Knowledge Management an imperative member of any business activity. Knowledge Management occurs supported by people, technology, processes, and leadership (FELICIDADE; ARAUJO; POLEZA; VARVAKIS, 2021FELECIDADE, Christian Pereira et al. Tópicos em Gestão do Conhecimento para iniciantes. Florianópolis, SC: UFSC, 2021. E-book. Disponível em: https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/230450. Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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). It is complemented that it is the institutionalized practices and routines that allow the effectiveness of Knowledge Management.
Practices and routines have different but complementary aspects. Routines refer to the norms and rules institutionalized in the organization, and knowledge management practices refer to the actions that foster knowledge within the organization.
It is noteworthy that the ability of an organization to recognize and use knowledge is observed by the organization's absorptive capacity. For Zahra and George (2002)ZAHRA, Shaker A.; GEORGE, Gerard. Absorptive capacity: a review, reconceptualization, and extension. Academy of Management Review, v. 27, n. 2, p. 185-203, abr. 2002. Disponível em: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4134351?origin=JSTOR-pdf. Acesso em: 30 jan. 2022.
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absorptive capacity is the "set of organizational routines and processes by which companies acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit knowledge to produce a dynamic organization".
From the perspective of investigating knowledge management practices in the Brazilian justice system, it is worth noting that aspects of organizational learning and knowledge management are also present in public administration. For Freitas (2017FREITAS, Eliezer da Silva. Gestão do Conhecimento na Administração Pública: tendências de aprimoramento dos Tribunais de Contas. Revista Controle: doutrina e artigos, Fortaleza, v. 15, n. 1, p. 424-457, jan. jun/2017. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.32586/rcda.v15i1.351. Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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, p. 431) "the biggest challenge for public administration is the ability to develop systematic practices to meet new social demands for public goods and services." This same author states that knowledge management practices promote organizational learning, highlighting the importance of leadership coordination to improve organizational performance.
The public administration has been aligning its management with the purpose of increasing operational efficiency and delivering better results and services to society, but still with many challenges to face. According to Castro and Guimarães (2019)CASTRO, Marilú Pereira; GUIMARÃES, Tomas Aquino. Dimensões da inovação em organizações da justiça: proposição de um modelo teórico-metodológico. Cadernos Ebape.Br, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 1, p. 173-184, mar. 2019. Disponível em: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-395167960 . Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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public organizations perform social functions and become resistant to change due to routines and institutional patterns of political subsystems.
The following chapter will describe the methodological procedures of this article.
3 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES
To reach the objective of this research, an Integrative Literature Review was performed in the search for scientific articles in the literature. This research is characterized as exploratory and descriptive; exploratory because it seeks to understand the problem investigated and make it explicit; descriptive because it analyzes and describes the results obtained in data collection. Severino (2007)SEVERINO, Antonio Joaquim. Metodologia do trabalho científico. 23. ed. São Paulo: Cortez, 2007. cites that exploratory research raises information about the object, delimiting a field of work and mapping the conditions of its manifestation. For Gil (2010)GIL, Antonio Carlos. Como elaborar projetos de pesquisa. 5. ed. São Paulo: Atlas, 2010., the descriptive research has as its primary objective the description of the characteristics of a certain population or phenomenon. As for the technique used, it is a bibliographic research of a qualitative nature. Data were collected by means of an Integrative Literature Review, using Google Scholar and three scientific databases: Scopus Base, Science Direct Base and Web of Science.
For Whittemore (2005)WHITTEMORE, Robin. Combining evidence in nursing research: methods and implications. Nursing Research, Baltimore, v. 54, n. 1, p. 56-62, 2005. Disponível em: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15695940/ . Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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"integrative reviews are the broadest type of research review methods that allow the simultaneous inclusion of experimental and non-experimental research, in order to more fully understand the research problem". An integrative review, when conducted within well-defined technical criteria, allows for theoretical analysis on a given study allowing for consequent scientific advancement and development. Therefore, the "TQO" search strategy defined by Araújo (2020)ARAÚJO, Wánderson Cássio Oliveira. Recuperação da informação em saúde: construção, modelos e estratégias. Convergências em Ciência da Informação, Aracaju, v. 3, n. 2, p. 100-134, maio/ago. 2020. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.33467/conci.v3i2.13447. Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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was used and detailed in chart 1 below.
The search was defined in six steps (GANONG, 1987): 1) Identification of the topic and research question; 2) Establishment of inclusion and exclusion criteria; 3) Identification of studies; 4) Categorization of selected studies; 5) Analysis and interpretation of results; 6) Synthesis of knowledge.
Figure 1 below illustrates the defined steps and the respective processes involved.
The first stage "Identification of the theme and selection of the research question" is the one that defines the identification and selection of the theme and the research question that must represent the researcher's problem and be clear enough to highlight his or her objective and concern (GANONG, 1987). In this research, the question is: How can Knowledge
Management practices contribute to organizational learning and innovation in the institutions of the Brazilian Justice System?
To design the search strategy, we used the TQO methodology (ARAUJO, 2020), which is structured from three categories: 1) the theme, represented by the main subject of the research; 2) the qualifier, represented by the characteristics or situations related to the theme or research object; and 3) the object, represented by an individual, population, institution, device, procedure, etc.).
The chart below represents the research strategy built for the Integrative Review performed:
The databases defined for the research were: Scopus Base, Science Direct Base, and Web of Science. As a way of expanding the results and broadening the base of studies, research was also carried out in Google Scholar, with the same search criteria defined by the research (chart 1). Considering the amount of documents that are retrieved in Google Scholar, the first 100 results were analyzed, in this order: 1st) title and abstract reading; 2nd) full article reading. It should be noted that articles retrieved from Google Scholar were incorporated into the portfolio if they were published in peer-reviewed journals. The checking of the peer review was done by consulting the page of each of the journals.
The second step "Establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria" defines the criteria that will select the studies to be considered relevant for the research. "The ideal conduct is to include all the studies found or their randomized selection; however, if both possibilities are unfeasible due to the quantity of papers, one should clearly expose and discuss the criteria for inclusion and exclusion of articles" (GANONG, 1987). As the research has a well-delimited study universe, few inclusion and exclusion criteria were defined for the research, these being four criteria: 1) being articles published in scientific journals; 2) being articles published in scientific events; 3) having a complete version in English and Portuguese; and 4) publications in peer-reviewed journals. After the initial search conducted in the sources cited (Scopus, Science Direct, Web of Science, and Google Scholar), with the inclusion and exclusion criteria presented, the third stage begins with the universe of 344 articles for reading.
In the third step "Identification of pre-selected and selected studies", the studies are analyzed by carefully reading the title, abstract, and full article. The selection or discarding of studies takes into account their suitability to the theme from the subjective perspective of the researchers. At this point, repeated articles, which are eventually retrieved from more than one database, are also excluded. Figure 2 shows the evolution of the selection of articles for the final portfolio:
Of the total number of articles retrieved from the Scopus, Science Direct, and Web of Science databases (244), 37 repeated articles were excluded, leaving 207 to read the titles. After reading the titles of the 207 articles, 47 were selected; after reading the abstracts, 9 were selected; and finally, after reading the articles in their entirety, the final number of articles was 5. The low number of articles selected at the end of the process was due mainly to the specificity of the research theme, which seeks to identify knowledge management practices in the institutions that make up the Brazilian Justice System.
With the purpose of expanding the results and broadening the study base, a Google Scholar search was conducted using the same search criteria defined previously, selecting the first 100 (one hundred) publications retrieved. Figure 3 illustrates the selection in Google Scholar:
From the first 100 (one hundred) publications, the title and abstract were read, 82 articles were excluded, leaving 18 for reading in full. From these, eight more articles were eliminated, integrating 10 articles for the final portfolio. All articles selected from Google Scholar were published in journals that passed the peer review criteria. The final portfolio of the Integrative Review was composed of 15 papers.
Chart 2 shows the composition of the final portfolio, with the indication of the journal's1 1 JCR: https://jcr-clarivate.ez222.periodicos.capes.gov.br/JCRLandingPageAction.action, search conducted on July 27, 2021. Qualis and impact factor, as well as the number of citations of each article2 2 Google Scholar data: https://scholar.google.com.br, search performed on 27 July 2021. identified in Google Scholar. For the purposes of Qualis3 3 Qualis: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/veiculoPublicacaoQualis/listaConsultaGeralPeriod icos.jsf, research done on July 27, 2021. , the highest score was determined, regardless of area classification, 2013-2016 quadrennium.
The fourth step "Categorization of the selected studies" demonstrates the elements analyzed in the articles. The articles in the portfolio were categorized according to pre- established categories for this integrative review, which are: a) objective, b) methodology, c) legal institution, d) Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKM) practices used, e) results found. The categories were analyzed, catalogued and summarized in a specific table, available in Appendix A.
The fifth step presents the results of the integrative research from the discussion of the articles, interpretation and analysis of the results. This analysis will be presented in Chapter 3, Results, below.
Finally, in the sixth step of the Integrative Review the "Synthesis of knowledge" is presented. It is believed that the integrative review is an important tool in the scientific communication process, because it enables the synthesis of the knowledge already produced by academia. Ganong (1987) states that "primary research reports should include enough information to allow the reader to critically examine the evidence".
The integrative review enables researchers to collect data and synthesize knowledge from different authors and scientific studies. The objective of this review was to identify how Knowledge Management practices contribute to Organizational Learning and Innovation in the Brazilian Justice System, based on studies and research available in repositories and scientific article bases.
The following chapter will present the discussion of the articles in the portfolio, interpretation and analysis of the results of the integrative research.
4 ANALYSIS OF RESULTS
This section describes the results of the integrative research from the discussion of the articles, interpretation and analysis of the results. The discussion was conducted by quantitative analysis (year, collaboration, journals and keywords) and qualitative analysis of the relevant points that characterize the articles. The objective is to identify possible gaps in knowledge and suggest guidelines for future research (MENDES; SILVEIRA; GALVÃO, 2008MENDES, Karina Dal Sasso; SILVEIRA, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira; GALVÃO, Cristina Maria. Revisão integrativa: método de pesquisa para a incorporação de evidências na saúde e na enfermagem. Texto Contexto Enfermagem, Florianópolis, v. 17, n. 4, p. 758-764, 2008. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-07072008000400018 . Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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).
Regarding the distribution of articles by year of publication, we see a variation of ups and downs in the frequency of publications on the proposed theme, as shown in Graph 1.
The research did not count on an exclusion criterion of year of publication, the proposal was to comprise the largest number of works. It can be seen that the first publication identified was in 2006 and the most recent, belonging to this portfolio, was in 2019. It can be observed that the portfolio did not include more recent papers, from 2020 and 2021.
Next, the journals where the articles were published were analyzed. Table 3 shows that the journal of Public Administration (Qualis A1 and impact factor JCR 0.24) obtained four of the articles surveyed, totaling 181 citations; as for the other journals, which together total 11 articles, obtained 197 citations. A confirmation pointed out is that although the impact factor of the Journal of Public Administration is not the highest in the portfolio, the journal is the one that stands out in the subject, having a high number of citations and possibly being of greater interest to researchers. The journal of Public Administration is maintained by the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV EBAPE) and has been publishing regularly since 1967.
Following the analysis, seeking to identify the collaborations between authors, Figure 6 presents the main co-authorship networks identified. The network presented a total of 14 clusters (group of authors) from the total of 33 researchers identified in the portfolio.
The most relevant author in the portfolio is Tomas de Aquino Guimarães, from the University of Brasilia, Brazil, with 92 citations of his authorship. In the collaboration analysis, one can observe the author associated in three clusters of researchers with publications made between the years 2012 and 2018, as shown in Figure 7.
Another relevant point to demonstrate is that the authors of the articles belonging to the portfolio are predominantly Brazilian researchers, justified by the object of study, which is the Brazilian Justice System, of greater interest to researchers from the country itself.
An illustration of the keywords of the researched articles is presented below. Figure 8 shows that, from the total of words (44) extracted from the articles' keywords, after analyzed by the VOSviewer system, the words Public Administration, Judiciary Power and Court Management stand out.
The analysis shows that these highlighted words created four clusters linking 16 related terms. By observing the keywords of the articles, it is evident that the terms are mostly related to the area of administration and the public sector.
Once the metric analysis is completed, the qualitative evidence of the analysis of the articles is related to the categories observed: a) objective, b) methodology, c) legal institution, d) EKM practices used, and e) results found. We emphasize that these categories are detailed in Appendix A.
As to the objectives, the articles analyzed presented clear, methodologically adequate objectives, mainly seeking to identify and analyze elements of management in the Brazilian justice system.
As for the methodologies, the studies were predominantly quali-quantitative, with data collection by means of a questionnaire and documentary research. One study (article 10), however, carried out a solely quantitative analysis, seeking through the verification data of a questionnaire the "knowledge management in the sharing of best practices" in the Federal Regional Court of the First Region (TRF-1 DF).
Regarding the legal institutions, they all belong to the Brazilian Justice System, as this review proposed. The studies were analyzed at the institutional, regional or national level. It was verified the predominance of studies in State Courts of Justice (8) and Federal Regional Courts (1), and the rest at the national level. No studies were identified from institutions outside the Judiciary, such as the Public Ministry, Public Defender's Office, or other organs of the justice system. The states that had studies carried out were: Distrito Federal (2); Minais Gerais (2); São Paulo (1); Bahia (1); Rio Grande do Sul (1); Santa Catarina (1); studies at the national or federal level (7).
Regarding the EKM practices used, the articles presented both practices and routines established in the institutions. The adoption of Information Technology was observed, as evidenced in article 6 "Improved software development aimed at enhancing corporate governance and Information Technology (IT) practices" and article 7 "Electronic judicial processes and creation of online systems" and "use of artificial intelligence in judicial decisions. Aspects of Communication, on inter-organizational information exchange showed to be present as in article 4 "Public institutions connected in order to share their intangible assets" and article 6 "Integration to share ICT solutions and services with public entities, aiming at cooperation and exchange of solutions."
In the People Management aspects, studies point to Leadership as a relevant aspect for Knowledge Management and Innovation as "Magistrates act as leaders with expected skills: innovation and creativity; systemic vision and ability to mobilize the work group and to define objectives and goals" (article 5) and "knowledge management practices are enabled by leadership, people, processes and information technology in order to achieve the organization's objectives for the benefit of society" (article 11). Studies 9, 10, and 14, point out aspects regarding the suitability of the space for improving Knowledge Management practices, an important consideration for the practices to happen. Within the category of Process Management and Control the practice that stood out the most was the establishment of goals and performance indicators (articles 3, 8, 12 and 13), for example, in article 8 and 12: "Establishment of annual goals for the Brazilian courts; definition of efficiency, productivity and quality indicators. (by the CNJ)". The practices of "Monitoring results" in this same category had the frequency of three articles (4, 8, 12), as an example, article 4: "measuring the accumulated intangible results of inter-organizational networks".
Table 5 presents the categorization and frequency of the practices and routines identified in the portfolio articles.
It is possible to verify, as highlights, the elements that involve:
People Management, with a frequency of 13 occurrences, categorized into five practices and routines: Training of teams; Leadership; Motivation and management of teams; Work groups; Adequacy environment for sharing.
Process Management and Control, with a frequency of 12 occurrences, categorized into four practices: Analysis of productive efficiency; Establishment of performance objectives and indicators; Organization and standardization of the flow of activities; Monitoring of results.
Information Technology, with a frequency of 14 occurrences, categorized into six practices and routines: Use of IT tools; Electronic judicial process; Repository of best practices and knowledge; Software improvement; Automatic data extraction; Artificial intelligence.
Communication, with 7 occurrences, categorized into five practices and routines: Sharing in inter-organizational networks; Electronic government; Corporate governance; Use of social networks; Use of transparency portals.
In analyzing the results of the researched articles, positive and negative aspects of management in legal institutions were verified. Article 4, which measured the variation of intellectual capital in public organizations involved in "government-to-government" ventures, presented important elements of the impact of e-government initiatives in Brazilian Courts of Justice, showing that the "collaborative performance of entities has a positive effect and homogeneous impact on all components of the intellectual capital of a public organization, that is, its human, organizational, external and innovation capital."
Article 3, meanwhile, presents that "Knowledge management is a prerequisite for the use of project management as a tool for implementing innovation, and innovation, in turn, is contributing to the development of a systemic vision, reducing the fragmentation effects of the division of labor activities within the Court." Article 11 highlights the need to implement Knowledge Management practices and ensure that "Learning and innovation practices provide opportunities to improve organizational performance with regard to the exercise of external control and, consequently, to ensure the effectiveness of public policies and positive results for society." Aspects of leadership were reported in the results of articles 1, 5, 12, and 13, presenting aspects of the magistrates' lack of preparation for directive activities, the importance of leadership to manage changes and management difficulties, and the commitment of the public servants. Article 7, which reflected on the perspectives of innovation, emphasized in its final considerations that: "Innovation, performance, governance, and legitimacy are central themes in the administration of justice and presents several gaps and research opportunities."
Having concluded the analysis, interpretation and presentation of the results the final considerations of the article will be presented.
5 FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
The results of the research showed that there are few studies related to organizational learning within the Brazilian Justice System. However, those found bring important elements to the study area, since it was observed the effort of public institutions in providing management routines and knowledge management practices within their activities, as a way to promote improvements and innovation. No study was observed to demonstrate effective organizational learning in these institutions.
The knowledge management practices and routines most highlighted in the studies were related to People Management and Process Management and Control, followed by Information and Communication Technology. In relation to People Management, there is the issue of training, motivation, and leadership preparation for team and process management. These aspects are of relevance to organizational learning when talking mainly about team learning which, for Wiese and Burke (2019)WIESE, Christopher W.; BURKE, Shawn C. Understanding team learning dynamics over time. Frontiers in Psycology, v. 10, n. 147, p. 1-14, 2019. Disponível em: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01417/full . Acesso em: 23 ago. 2021.
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, is defined as the change in the collective knowledge state of a team. And when it comes to Process Control, the categorized elements evidenced the mechanisms of control, monitoring, and indicators. Regarding this, the relationship to "learning triggers" (WIESE; BURKE, 2019) which are events that cause the team to inspect their current collective knowledge state and sometimes drive them toward new learning is considered.
Information Technology highlighted the use of technological mechanisms for innovation, especially those linked to the electronic judicial process, which are proving essential for the efficiency of the legal system. The aspects of Communication, despite being fewer in number in terms of frequency of practices and routines, denoted the defronting and cooperation among public institutions, raising the possible analysis of organizational learning at the inter- organizational level.
Leadership plays a fundamental role for the synergy of people, processes, and technologies, and communication is the one that attracts the energy for the practices to happen. It is emphasized that these and other aspects can be observed from the analysis of the information and knowledge flows present in these organizations.
The contribution of this research is based on the possibility, for other researchers, of building knowledge about the theme, based on the portfolio of articles surveyed, and subsidizing opportunities for new studies and expansion of science in this area. Furthermore, it was perceived in the results of the analyzed articles that organizational learning in public legal institutions is a recent theme and has been little addressed in the academic literature. It is also believed that this research is configured as a work of academic relevance, since it presents important aspects about the study of Organizational Learning in the scope of public institutions of the legal system, elucidating the paths already outlined in the literature and gaps for future research.
The integrative review was carried out in the multidisciplinary scope and proved to be a relevant method for analyzing and categorizing the studies. The TQO search strategy (ARAUJO, 2020) enabled the retrieval of articles relevant to the theme, characteristics, and object of the subject studied, with excellent precision. It is pointed out as limitations of this research: a) the analysis only of scientific articles, it is suggested the research in other bibliographic materials, such as repositories of theses and dissertations; b) the research was conducted within the legal system, it is suggested to expand to other Brazilian public institutions as a way to obtain a larger number of results. Finally, it is considered that the integrative literature review allowed for the approaching of the problem addressed, enabling the evolution of knowledge and a diagnosis on the scientific production regarding knowledge management practices and organizational learning in Brazilian public legal institutions.
APPENDIX A
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Google Scholar data: https://scholar.google.com.br, search performed on 27 July 2021.
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