Empreendedorismo e sustentabilidade em organizações do terceiro setor: case USP Recicla

Abstract

In an organizational context, even non-profit organizations, third sector organizations must develop mechanisms and practices to carry out their activities with the community, assuming the task of harmonizing their actions represented by the socioeconomic-ecological dimension in the search for sustainability. Therefore, this study aims to understand how sustainability is inserted in the management and actions of USP Recicla for the continuity of its results in society. The research is exploratory and descriptive with a qualitative approach. The methodology used was the literature review. In this sense, as a result of theoretical research on NGOs, some theoretical categories were identified that can contribute to the definition of sustainability in third sector organizations. The first category includes organizations having profit as their main economic objective - for-profit purposes - with control, structure and process systems entirely focused on activities that generate income and with control based on economic-financial numbers. The second category includes organizations without economic or profit objectives, with the objective of providing social or public services - not for profit. The third category, directly related to this document, characterizes organizations with an economic objective, but not for profit. Examining the identified categories, it was noticed that, despite the lack of correspondence between some categories of the organization's research object, there is a harmonious nature between them, taking as the base organization for this study the sustainable entrepreneurship of USP Recicla.