Editorial

ID: 7573

Authors: Deborah Moraes Zoauin.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 645-646, May-June, 2012. 2 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Evaluation of training programs: a case study in public administration

ID: 7574

Authors: Jorge Eduardo Tasca, Leonardo Ensslin, Sandra Rolim Ensslin.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 647-675, May-June, 2012. 29 page(s).

Keyword: Dare , evaluation , MCDA-C , Military Police , training program

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This article presents and discusses the use of methodology Multicriteria Decision Aid —  Constructivist (MCDA-C) in the evaluation of training programs developed in public administration, through its application in a case study in the Military Police of Santa Catarina, specifically in assessing the process of training of military police Drug Abuse Resistance Education (Dare) instructors. Regarding the methodological framework, the nature of the objective of this study is exploratory, and the nature of the article, practical. The study incorporates an inductive logic, and draws upon primary data sources, obtained through semi-structured interviews with program managers. The study combines qualitative and quantitative methods, and can therefore be described as mixed method. This research is applied and the main technical procedure used was a case study. As result, the model built with 62 evaluation criteria, revealed that the process of the Dare reached 69 points in the overall evaluation, and also highlights the main concerns of decision makers in relation to the training program and how much each factor contributes to the success of training, individual and aggregated, showing also how to manage improvement opportunities created.

Catching-up innovation strategies: learning connections between an R&D institute and small companies

ID: 7575

Authors: Ana Sílvia Rocha Ipiranga, Waleska Vasconcelos Queiroz, Gleildes dos Santos Lima Frota, Samuel Façanha Cãmara, Priscilla Correa da Hora Almeida.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 677-700, May-June, 2012. 24 page(s).

Keyword: learning and innovation systems , R&D , small companies , strategies

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Considering that different strategies are used by the organizations to increase their  performance through innovation, this study had the objective of identifying the learning connections between an R&D institute and in goat small companies of the local innovation system, tends as base the following question: can R&D institutes work as technological gatekeepers providing new knowledge to the companies under study? For that, the theoretical mark of the study was elaborated based on the discussions about strategies and innovation systems, also articulating the themes on research and development — R&D and the processes of corresponding learning. The methodology is based on the strategy of multicase study. The empiric data were examined according to the qualitative approach, being collected through semi-structured interviews, during participation in meetings and documentary analysis. In the researched companies, it was observed that, those firms still maintain incipient connections with the R&D institute. In the other hands, evidence showed that they are focusing on expanding the knowledge base of small businesses. It is also shown that these links are being expanded and potentiated learning by external and open sources between companies and other institutions of the system, which had catching-up innovation strategies as a base.

The competitive advantage of nations and the competitive advantage of companies: what really matters in location?

ID: 7576

Authors: Martim Francisco de Oliveira e Silva, Jorge Ferreira da Silva, Luiz Felipe Jacques da Motta.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 701-720, May-June, 2012. 20 page(s).

Keyword: competitive advantage of firms , competitive advantage of nations , country competitiveness , country effect , firm performance

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There are two dominant paradigms to explain firm performance: the Industrial Organization and the Resource Based View, both extensively studied. The association between firm performance and the competitiveness of nations is still insufficiently explored. This study aimed to verify whether business performance is related to the environment of the countries where they operate and what factors within them are the most relevant. Evidences of the relationship between the nation’s competitiveness indi-cators and the sustainable performance of their firms were found. The study pioneered the approach relating the concept of competitive advantage of nations to the competitive advantage of companies; empirically tested the model of Michael Porter’s Competitive Diamond; highlighted three variables, usually neglected in the line of research of the sources of firm performance (Buyers Sophistication, GDP and Government Purchases); and created a new indicator of performance that also reflects its sustainability, which relates to the line of research on the persistence of abnormal returns.

New models of governance in the Public University in Portugal and competitiveness

ID: 7577

Authors: Margarida Mano, Maria da Conceição da Costa Marques.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 721-736, May-June, 2012. 16 page(s).

Keyword: governance models , higher education , management , university

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In September 2007, the new legal regime of the Institutions of Higher Education (RJIES), Law no 62/2007 of 10 September, introduced a new framework of options for models and governance structures in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Portugal. The external environment of change, common in Europe, where the IES adapt their actions to the strategic challenges of the ‘Lisbon Declaration’, is on the agenda. The framework of options for models of governance and management, which are increasingly discussed in terms of competitiveness, reduce benefits and disadvantages compared with comparative private institutions. If in the European context, the conception and design of governance models are generally converging, blurring the differences between the management model of private and public institutions, to what extent does the implementation of the model result in immediate visible changes at institutional level? In Portugal, most public HEIs have opted for the traditional model, having already their statutes approved and published in the Diário da República. Only three institutions have opted for the foundation model. This institutional research aims to analyse, based on Clark’s methodology, changes in public HEIs at operational and management level, aiming for an entrepreneurial university. For this purpose, the study is based on the analysis of institutional options that HEIs face, i.e. the possibility to choose between the traditional legal framework (public law) and a new legal and organizational framework (public foundations operating under private law) based on the analysis of the Statutes now adopted. It is also looking to integrate the perspective of the external elements that complying with the law recently were included in the top governance bodies of public universities: the General Council. In this article we make a critical analysis of governance models provided for in each of the statutes of the public HEIs, while also referring to the foundation model.

Public administration’s energy sector: sustainability indicators residential environment in the state of Pará (2001-10)

ID: 7578

Authors: Fabricio Quadros Borges.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 737-751, May-June, 2012. 15 page(s).

Keyword: electricity , indicators , quality of life , sustainability

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This article aims to present a proposal for indicators of sustainability of electricity for public management with the residential sector in Pará that could serve as a model for the governance of the electricity sector in other states. The methodology of this study was based on the theoretical model support PER, which involves the relationship pressure-state response. The results showed that the economic aspect is the one that best reflects the input power in the home in Para. The increase in average income, reflecting the availability of electricity and the increased consumption of this resource, played an important role in the economy Para. But the social and environmental aspect presented with a decreasing average indicators.

Considerations on the evolution of corporate governance in the Brazilian context: an analysis on the Weberian perspective

ID: 7579

Authors: Márcio Jacometti.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 753-773, May-June, 2012. 21 page(s).

Keyword: corporate governance , instrumental and substantive rationality , social action

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This article presents the evolution of the adoption of corporate governance principles on company business in Brazil as being a difficult process of assimilation, since there are cultural barriers based on social actions that generate irrationalities on the national scene. Thus, the analysis is performed under Weberian perspective from secondary data on recent cases of non-rational use of good governance practices that resulted in losses and bankruptcies any corporations over time. The article also reports the state of the art research on corporate governance literature in order to confront with situation of Brazilian reality. The central question of the governance problems in Brazil is detected from evolution of the thinking of the business community, given its strong link with tradition set in a base of patrimonial domination, whose essence is social action affectual and traditional. Therefore, research indicates that the corporate governance has been inserting as an important mechanism to ensure the survival of organizations in the long-term run in parallel with a process of  bureaucratization of the companies, which imposes a rational instrumental and substantive rational.

Business cluster or agglomeration of enterprises? Distinction through attributes of information transfer

ID: 7580

Authors: José Osvaldo De Sordi, Manuel Meireles.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 775-794, May-June, 2012. 20 page(s).

Keyword: business cluster , information transfer , key performance indicator

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To analyze and to classify local productive settlements with concentration of activities there are some indicators, even so most of them works with the analysis of the operational dimension with base in attributes associated to the productive activities. This research proposes and discusses a new dimension for analysis, distinction and classification of these local productive settlements: the learning. The learning has as analysis attribute-key the events for transfer of information and knowledge. The tests made use of data of six clusters. Starting from the suitable attribute associated to the dimension learning, it is gotten to develop other indicators for analyses of clusters. This way the measurement and characterization of the clusters are more integrate and complete.

Strategies management: a proposal of a model for the local governments

ID: 7581

Authors: Francine Lia Wosniak, Denis Alcides Rezende.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 795-816, May-June, 2012. 22 page(s).

Keyword: municipal management , municipal processes , strategic administration

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The governments are pressured to adapt their institutions and type of action to the context of an increasingly questioning, globalized, complex and interdependent world. These challenges and transformations require innovative public management models, as well as effective tools, procedures and types of action. The objective of this study is to propose a strategy management model, having as its analytical basis the municipal management of Curitiba, in the period from 1993 to 2008. To obtain the answer to this demand, we performed a case study, structured through a research protocol, with the definition of categories and subcategories of analysis. The descriptive analysis was subsidized by the theoretical basis of this study, which was based on the themes municipal management and strategic administration. The main results obtained are related to the phases of the process of strategic administration implemented in the management periods and their respective descriptors. The conclusion allowed the proposition of a strategic management model, resulting from the combination of analysis categories that formed this study, and which represents, in its conception, an alternative of implementation of the management process.

Shedding light on the operations management in Brazilian electro-electronics sector

ID: 7582

Authors: Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 817-840, May-June, 2012. 24 page(s).

Keyword: Brazil , electronics sector , operations management

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This article aims to present and discuss the operations management in the Brazilian electronics sector. The electronics sector is one of the most important in Brazil, accounting for 4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Much of the available literature focuses on the discussion of policies to strengthen the sector, without, however, to discuss its operations management, yet little known. To fill this gap in the literature, a quantitative research has been conducted, through a survey with companies of the Brazilian Association of Electrical and Electronics Industry (Abinee). The collected data were supplemented with secondary data, drawing a big picture about the sector in Brazil. The results indicate the need for companies to invest more in using information technology to expand the integration of processes, planning and developing products integrating with customers and suppliers, increases adoption of management practices in the supply chain. The originality of this paper is to shed light on the operations management of an economically relevant sector generating insights for scholars, practitioners and policymakers focused on Brazilian electronics sector.

Learning stages from tax auditors in the context of professional practice

ID: 7583

Authors: Antonio Soares Neto, Anielson Barbosa da Silva.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 841-863, May-June, 2012. 23 page(s).

Keyword: auditor , learning , professional practice , social context

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The article identifies the learning stages of tax auditors from Revenue State Secretary of Paraíba in the professional practice context. The increasing demand for social services and public servants more qualified, it is important to understand how effective the professional learning of those officials. The theoretical ballast of this research is in the field of organizational learning, with emphasis on contextualized learning in professional action, and the role of experience and reflection. The research is characterized as qualitative, guided by the interpretive paradigm, conceiving of reality as socially constructed. The Oral History is the investigative method. The stories of the experiences and reflections revealed that the auditors initially taught in the preparatory course, continuing in the context of practice, the interaction of senior auditors, the collective experience of professional practice, in the belonging in membership in the community of practice, reflect on practices, individual and collective, in facing new situations, revealing a process of learning complex and dynamic. Also revealed that the auditor performs “roles” in his process of learning.

Sustainable Tourism and Eradication of Poverty (Step): impact assessment of a tourism development program in Brazil

ID: 7584

Authors: Marcelo Cortes Neri, Wagner Lopes Soares.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 865-878, May-June, 2012. 14 page(s).

Keyword: difference in difference , poverty , programme evaluation , public policies , sustainable tourism

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Este artigo tem como objetivo avaliar os impactos sociais do Programa de Desenvolvimento do Turismo (Prodetur) no Nordeste no município de Porto Seguro, Brasil. O método baseia-se na técnica de diferença em diferenças e utilizamos os microdados dos Censos Demográficos de 1991 e 2000. Os resultados sugerem avanços sociais com o alívio à pobreza, sendo os benefícios distribuídos em geral de forma igualitária entre população nativa e migrante. Há uma piora relativa na questão sanitária, que se configura em um sério problema ambiental de médio e longo prazo, cujos custos são em sua maioria absorvidos pela população nativa. Conclui-se que a manutenção do capital natural é o principal problema que afasta o turismo ofertado em Porto Seguro do conceito de sustentabilidade. O artigo também reforça o uso dos estimadores de diferença em diferença como um bom método de avaliação de impactos de políticas públicas no setor.

A new vision of retirement acts under the Estate of Rio de Janeiro Audit Court: a tentative case on costs for socioeconomic return

ID: 7585

Authors: Valderez Ferreira Fraga, Virgílio de Oliveira Souza.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 46, n. 3, p. 879-908, May-June, 2012. 30 page(s).

Keyword: public administration theory , public serving , retirement acts

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A discussion around the complexity of Public Administration Theory favored the  contextualization of the included tentative case study which is supplied with an instrument in search for better practices. The expectations of a public serving spirit, from the inclusion of costs on the retirement acts analysis — delimited by the Brazilian reality of the RJ state Audit Court, preoccupied with the activity of public servers in charge of the related legal determinations compliance, inferring that the “task” besides of a technically trustful  instruments, can also be a source de self esteem, due to its social merit. Its benefit toward the quality of public management, in terms of austerity and ethical zeal for the people, has oriented the theoretical debate and the instrumental construction toward a sense of sheltering theory and practice interaction. Away from managerialism, does not relegate legally instituted duties on costs. Final considerations recognize the labyrinth of Administration theories, transforming its entanglement into an instigating investigation on that challenging science-art of listening to people, respecting the res publica which belongs to him, as a permanent struggle for comprehension.