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The change of leader’s career after the privatization process: a case study in São Paulo electricity sector

This research investigates how a company changes after the privatization process and how this change impacts its total structure. Therefore, this research focused on an exploratory study at AES Eletropaulo. This study has a central role in the Brazilian electricity sector because due t the radical changes it’s been subjected since 1190’s financialization. However, no research on careers construction of leaders in the Brazilian context had been made so far. As a research procedure this studycombined quantitative and qualitative methods in order to analyze the careers of leaders of AES Eletropaulo, we collected the curriculum of the Board and Directors, since its emergence as a state enterprise in 1979 to the year 2012. These curriculums were analyzed with a multiple correspondence analysis. In addition, this research was complemented with an interview with the former president of the company were the study was performed. As a result, we were able to observe of the several changes that AES Eletropaulo went through, especially that, the leaders of this company had to find ways to rebuild their careers according to the new logic of the moment, which would have been facing financial.

Privatization; Organizational structure; SPSS; Finance


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