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The institutional theoretical perspective that promises to overcome the comprehensive narrowness of instrumental rationalism, guided the approach to the phenomenon of change in organizations of small producers of the primary link of the dairy chain in Colombia, on the occasion of a public policy instrument that sought to alleviate the impacts of the commercial opening of the sector. This article deals with the change in the structures of significance, understood as social construct, in small producers in the department of Boyacá. A qualitative interpretive study was carried out whose finding is specified in that the institutional arrangements on which the state support mechanism was based, did not achieve the construction of meaning among the beneficiary subjects, and consequently, the expected changes did not occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research on " Motivations and meanings on cultural character which show in management styles of micro, small and medium enterprises in Boyacá", wish to make an approach to mental model underlying the management style of micro and small enterprises in the department of Boyacá, particularly in the dimension of motivations and meanings regarding the following categories: family-business relationship, relationship State - enterprise, customer, employee, partnership, globalization and long term. Through a qualitative research which implicated 30 micro and small enterprises, it was found that the meanings expressed on these seven variables significantly influence the model, and consequently, the reading that the manager does about the phenomena of the enterprise, saves intimate relationship with their meanings about cited variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]