Global Journal of Management and Business Research, G: Interdisciplinary, Volume 23 Issue 1

Agnaldo Keiti Higuchi α & Henrique Rosário Carvalho Esteves σ This theoretical essay analyzes the phenomenon of student dropout in vocational high school, based on the premises of Service Dominant Logic. This theoretical body was used to approach the relationships between the individual, institutional and social causes that lead to drop out. Focusing on the concepts of integration (or disintegration) of resources and co-creation (or co-destruction) of value, a review of the different causes that lead to dropout is made. Then, an analytical-reflexive analysis is carried out, articulating the causes of drop out, the typology of factors that hinder the integration of resources, and the proposals for confrontation raised in the literature. The results show that the causes can be classified into personal, social and pedagogical/school issues, and simultaneous actions are needed to face them, coordinated by an institutional logic that allows the social inclusion of students, as well as the adoption of active teaching methodologies. Keywords: student dropout. vocational high school. service dominant logic. value co-creation. I. I ntroduction ccording to data from the Superintendence of Secondary and Vocational Education of Minas Gerais, among the main causes of student dropout are those related to the student's socioeconomic context, which force the student to choose between work or study. This result is corroborated by research such as carried out by Fiorotti and da Rosa (2022), who also detected the difficulty of reconciling study and work and financial problems as causes of dropout. However, a large part of the dropouts were classified as Dropout-Without justification (Minas Gerais, 2009), which shows the need for a better categorization of the causes, and a greater detail of these. Thus, this study seeks to fill a theoretical gap, including the analysis of individual, institutional and social variables, both in their particularities and in the interrelationships that occur and generate dropout (Dore & Lüscher, 2011). As a theoretical basis for the analysis of interrelationships, this essay makes use of the premises of Service Dominant Logic - SD-L, proposed for analysis of exchanges between actors present in a value ecosystem, it is argued in this study that the concepts of value co-creation, resource integration and value proposition can fit into the existing exchange between educational institution and student. For the premises and axioms of the SD-L to be applicable to the context of this study, some assumptions are necessary: (i) the educational institution offers a value proposition, in the form of a vocational course; (ii) the value perceived by the student results from the integration between their resources, the resources of the educational institution and the resources of other actors participating in the value ecosystem; (iii) the value is phenomeno logically determined by the student; (iv) the current institutional environment (norms and behaviors repeated over time), which coordinates the integration of resources, influences the co-created value; (v) the higher the co- created value, the lower the propensity to drop out. This study then seeks to analyze, from the point of view of the premises of the SD-L, the problem of school dropout, including the interrelationships that occur during the process of integrating individual and social resources, mediated by the current institutional environment. This essay uses a literature review to survey the main causes of dropout, and, through reflection, tries to propose a way to maximize the co- creation of value by the student, so that the dropout propensity is reduced. The essay begins by placing the concepts related to student dropout, then the premises and axioms of Service-dominated Logic are exposed, and finally, a discussion and reflection is made on how the phenomenon studied can be minimized using solutions based on the theoretical body presented. II. S tudent D ropout: C oncept and C auses I dentified in the L iterature School dropout is associated with the dismissal of students from the educational institution, regardless of the reason, except in cases of completion or graduation of the course. This phenomenon reflects on multiple losses for the institution, whether due to the investment of resources with the students, or for the development of the country's society and culture (Fritsch et al., 2015). A Abstract- 29 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXIII Issue I Version I Year 2023 ( )G © 2023 Global Journals Student Dropout in Vocational High School from the Point of View of Service-Dominant Logic: A Theoretical Essay Author α σ : Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Brazil. e-mails: agnaldo.higuchi@ufvjm.edu.br , henriqueestevesccb@hotmail.com by Vargo and Lusch (2006). Despite being a proposal