que o ambiente institucional da UFMG incorporou regulamentações muito importantes,
as quais proporcionaram profundas adaptações organizacionais, o que possibilitou que
a implementação da Lei de Cotas transcorresse de forma estruturada. No processo
decisório para a implementação, a UFMG adotou normativas em um panorama cultural-
cognitivo prevalecente favorável à incorporação do mecanismo. O processo de
adaptação organizacional às mudanças institucionais ainda transcorre. Ou seja, a
institucionalização permanece dinâmica no tocante à compreensão do contexto social
dos cotistas e à inclusão das pessoas com deficiência, não obstante as intercorrências
ocasionadas pela pandemia. Em relação às contribuições desta pesquisa, a principal
engloba o benefício social, pois irá compor a academia e proporcionar novas percepções
no que diz respeito ao processo decisório universitário na implementação de elementos
regulativos. Também, possibilitou a incorporação da perspectiva institucional na análise
organizacional como uma proposta pertinente para explorar aspectos macro e micro em
conjunto.
Palavras-chave: Lei de Cotas. Institucionalismo sociológico. Ambiente Institucional.
Processos Decisórios. Políticas Públicas.
ABSTRACT
The main objective of this research is to understand the factors that influenced the
decision-making process of a university in Minas Gerais in implementing the Quota Law.
This mechanism, instituted in 2012, ensures the reservation of places at Federal
Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) for students who have attended high school in
public schools, self-identified blacks, indigenous people and people with disabilities. The
Quota Law changed the meritocratic institutional format of admission to teaching and
began to “promote democratization” in access to federal universities (SOUSA;
NASCIMENTO, 2019, p. 774). The theoretical basis of this dissertation is grounded on
the Sociological Institutional Theory, with emphasis on the elements of the institutional
environment, cultural-cognitive aspects, legitimacy and the decision-making process in
the institutional perspective. The topic “Quotas Law” it was supported by public policies,
highlighting the implementing agents. The main components of the theory were grouped
into a conceptual framework, which configured the conduction of the empirical phase of
this research, which is qualitative and descriptive in nature. The case study method was
adopted, whose locus of analysis was the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG),
cut between 2012 and 2020. Data collection involved two stages: document analysis and
the realization of ten interviews with university managers who held positions at the
university, within the scope of the proposed cut. For data analysis, they were submitted
to content analysis, categorized in line with the conceptual reference scheme, to then
present the results. It was found that the institutional environment of UFMG incorporated
very important regulations, which provided profound organizational adaptations, which
enabled the implementation of the Quota Law to take place in a structured manner. In the
decision-making process for implementation, UFMG incorporated regulations into a
prevailing cultural-cognitive panorama that favored the incorporation of the mechanism.
The process of organizational adaptation to institutional changes is still taking place. In
other words, institutionalization remains dynamic with regard to understanding the social
context of quota holders and the inclusion of people with disabilities, despite the
complications caused by the pandemic. Regarding the contributions of this research, the
main one encompasses the social benefit, as it will compose the academy and provide
new insights regarding the university decision-making process in the implementation of