Petrobras Research Paper
3.1 Reasons to study engineering services providers to Petrobras and their characteristics
To discuss our research question it is necessary to have sound cases. That means cases where business ecosystem are complex and dynamic (in Mintzberg terms, 1979), asking for frequent changes in technology and in offers. Engineering services for Petrobras fits this panorama for three reasons: i) it is a complex activity, involving a myriad of variables; ii) the recent discoveries of oil in ultra-deep sea (the so-called pre-salt, more than 2,000 meters of water plus more than 1,000 meters of sediments and more than 2,000 meters of salt, more than 300km far from the shore) challenges engineering activities, since there is no similar experience in the world;
To discuss our research question it is necessary to have sound cases. That means cases where business ecosystem are complex and dynamic (in Mintzberg terms, 1979), asking for frequent changes in technology and in offers. Engineering services for Petrobras fits this panorama for three reasons: i) it is a complex activity, involving a myriad of variables; ii) the recent discoveries of oil in ultra-deep sea (the so-called pre-salt, more than 2,000 meters of water plus more than 1,000 meters of sediments and more than 2,000 meters of salt, more than 300km far from the shore) challenges engineering activities, since there is no similar experience in the world;