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In this paper, we seek to clarify how intermunicipal consortia distribute benefits and costs among their members, a relevant point to structure the willingness to cooperation between partners. Under the case study in three government areas, we identify two patterns of the systems for sharing costs and benefits. In the first, the division agreement is restricted to routine expenses of the consortium, while additional agreements with each member ensure contributions, ex post, according to the proportion of benefits enjoyed. In the second, the division agreement itself includes criteria that allow equalizing, ex ante, such contributions and benefits. In the end, we consider restrictions on functions performed by consortia in public policies, due to the reasoning by which each member pays for what it consumes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The management processes of the Unified Health System (SUS) are supported by a set of information systems with national scope, having features for the epidemiological, ambulatory, hospital, and administrative areas. This article proposes a model for evaluating health information systems that may be applied to the systems of SUS. It describes the research, analysis, and classification process of evaluation indicators for the model. The indicators were obtained by search in bibliographic databases and they were classified according to the quality attributes of the standard ISO/IEC 25010, adopted as quality model in the study. As a result, 66 indicators were identified and mapped, covering all quality features of the model. This paper will be able to contribute as a further reference for studies involving quality assessment processes for softwares in health and to assist in the standardization of plans for assessing and monitoring the quality of systems and data on public health in Brazil and in projects for improving softwares. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay describes the process for consolidating the Republic in Brazil, showing that the case illustrates the transformative change of political institutions through the action of interest groups. We intend to contribute to bridge two important theoretical gaps. On the one hand, the lack of theorizing about the Brazilian public administration with a historical and non-instrumental approach. On the other hand, the current debate in New Institutionalism about the institutional change processes. Thus, the paper has as its main results the identification and classification of strategies of the republican elites that provided the Brazilian public administration with routines, at the same time that they consolidated the new political regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the processes of management, monitoring and controlling of results adopted by Embrapa to effectively perform the 10 projects and 141 goals in Embrapa's Strengthening and Growth Program (PAC Embrapa). The qualitative approach, based in a descriptive case study strategy, discusses the literature on managing for results (MFR) coupled with the analysis of the model that emerged from this implementation. While presenting and describing the model used, considered vital for achieving objectives and for a high budget execution, the study identifies seven requirements for an effective management for results in public institutions, such as meritocracy in the formation of the management team, support from top management, autonomy and strategic communication. By presenting empirical evidence of the requirements for effective MFR, the study provides contributions to improve the management of government programs and the consequent generation of public value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem that this paper seeks to understand has the following paradox: federalism municipal, derived from the 1988 Constitution, which, in principle, bring the perverse effect of the crisis of the metropolitan administration, because the problems faced, particularly tax and municipalities in financial, ended up to be a zero sum game for the whole federation, and was a factor encouraging the resumption of intercommunal aggregation of the country. This observation demonstrates the resumption of metropolitan management in Brazil, from the late 1990s and first decade of this century. The analysis procedure adopted to demonstrate this problem will be historical-institutional, and basic explanation of the processes of incremental changes observed in the Brazilian metropolitan management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is placed in the context of comparative analyzes of efficiency between private and state companies and discusses differences regarding the strategic alignment and value creation management procedures on those enterprises, allowing to obtain evidence about "types" of alignment and value origination management "modes". From hypothetical-deductive approach, we used information from the survey previously applied to 95 Brazilian organizations, now stratified according to the origin of capital, private or state. We tested hypotheses about the existence of mean differences in strategic alignment vectors, on the existence of different proportions of types of state and private companies with respect to patterns of value origination and the behavior of the components of the total value created. The tests presented on a recurring basis, mean differences in favor of private enterprise, with results displayed from the confidence interval above 85%, satisfactory when taking into consideration that this is an exploratory study. Also regarding the origination value, was found superior performance of private equity firms in all dimensions/perspectives. Faced with the findings and the relevance of state enterprises, it is expected that the evidence to enable a new performance approach of organizations managed by the state, triggering mechanisms for monitoring performance more in line with the management challenges of contemporary organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the exercise of social control in Brazil, from the general debate that prompted him, as well as the internal context that led to the creation of institutionalized spaces for your application. The objective is to evaluate the exercise of social control through the Public Policy Management Councils. Through studies conducted by other researchers in Public Policy Management Councils, in the three levels of government, and empirical study, we found that the way it has happened to the exercise of social control in these forums, much moves away from what is expected by law. From this table, we bring contributions to the understanding of this fact and to the advancement of social control itself, understood as a necessary and a high level of democratization of public management in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent debate on institutional change in the Brazilian public health system pays little attention to organizational innovation in Hospital Units (HUs). Calling upon the analytical framework proposed by Economic Analysis to investigate asymmetric information and innovation, this paper analyzes the connections among effectiveness of rules, routines and protocols, staff training, and service quality in HUs with the help of statistical analysis of Hospital Accreditation reports. The convenience sample consisted of ten reports containing perceived assessment data. As a theoretical contribution, the proposed model analyzes the dynamic relationship between organizational innovation, service quality and growth in HU and development of the market for healthcare services. Empirical findings show that the effect of organizational innovation in Referral Hospital Units is stronger than the effect of staff training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss to which extent the actions implemented in the Gender Pro-Equity Program-- actions developed in Caixa Econômica Federal (Caixa) after having been granted the Gender Pro-Equity Seal--have improved the relationships amongst men and women in this financial institution. A qualitative research was carried out from documental research and individual, semi-structured interviews with five interviewees: four managers from different Caixa branches in the Federal District, Brazil; two men and two women, and the woman who is Caixa's Pro-Equity Program Coordinator. The results point out that there have been some advances in the implementation of the Program concerning the regulation of the parity commission of men and women in the examining boards of selective processes. However, women are still located in the base of Caixa's organizational pyramid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops an outputs assessement of the Sistema Unico de Assistencia Social's implementation after four years of its conception. Therefore, some relevant issues are subject of this article analysis: i) has the new implementation framework had an impact on local government improvement? ii) has Suas implementation had positive outputs in reducing inequality among municipalities? iii) What are the determinants of municipalities' improvement in welfare policymaking after this institutional change? In order to do so, data exploratory analysis and multiple regression are employed based on 2005 and 2009 Munic/IBGE surveys. As a result, the inquiry demonstrates that overall Suas has been successful improving the welfare policy, reducing the disparity among municipalities and, especially, political system's aspects impacted the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to compare the relative efficiency of the States Justice Courts of Brazil. This is an exploratory study with a focus on quantitative and qualitative research with documentary and bibliography researches. They used data in the report Justiça em números, editions 2007 and 2008, published by the National Council of Justice. The data were analyzed using the model oriented for outputs using the technique of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of the Courts. There was an increase in the number of courts that have reached the maximum level of relative efficiency between 2007 and 2008. Some Justice Courts have been presented as benchmarks for all other Courts. In addition, it has presented the situation of the Justice Court of the State of Ceará together with an analysis of the factors that need to be adjusted to achieve its maximum level of efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyze the dynamics of participation of social actors in the social management of territorial development policy and how it influences the process of allocation of public resources through the process of monitoring projects in the Territory of Serra do Brigadeiro, Minas Gerais. The study identifies that the experience of constructing and legitimizing policy has enabled a new institutional space (Territorial Forum), which enabled the discussion and selection of collective projects. The Forum, through its deliberative action, managed to establish a relatively autonomous development agenda, which enabled broader discussions on rural development, despite the limitations of the operation of the public policy program and the quality of participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to evaluate, through a single case study, the functioning of the Câmara de Animação Econômica da Subprefeitura do Itaim Paulista (CAE-IT), a mechanism by which it sought to promote work and income generation. The region has about 380,000 inhabitants, a high rate of violence and a large number of young people without access to basic education and no job offer. Thus, in 2005, the Subprefeitura do Itaim Paulista articulated with a series of partners developed the idea of CAE-IT. Initially, they sought to understand the local reality, through the analysis of secondary data. Then, there was a consultation with community health workers to understand what were the economic vocations of the region and in which public policy should focus on targeted efforts. The final decision was to focus on promotion of local productive arrangements involved in waste recycling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]