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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7304450.v1
title: The use of government purchasing power in industrial policies: a comparison between Brazil and Japan

description: Abstract This article examines the policy implemented in 2010 by the Brazilian government that offers margins of preference in public bids to firms manufacturing their products or engaged in R&D activities in the country. It discusses how the Japanese government used public procurement as a tool to promote the growth of domestic firms before the country became a member of the WTO in 1995. This study argues that, while the Japanese approach adopted before 1995 was efficient for creating more significant partnerships between the government and key domestic firms to achieve industrial policy objectives in strategic sectors, the recently implemented Brazilian policy has the advantage of being more accountable and transparent.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7452980
title: A direct comparison of the performance of public-private partnerships with that of traditional contracting

description: Abstract This paper assesses the city of Belo Horizonte’s experience building school infrastructure through public-private partnerships (PPPs). Between 2009 and 2015, Belo Horizonte built very similar schools using both PPPs and traditional public contracting (TPC). As the choice of mode of contracting was unrelated to our outcomes of interest, the experience constitutes a quasi-experiment that allows for a simple and direct comparison of PPPs to TPC. We examine construction- and operation-phase outcomes measured using administrative data and a survey of school administrators. We find that schools constructed under the PPP contracting model outperformed those built using TPCs in most outcomes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7452980.v1
title: A direct comparison of the performance of public-private partnerships with that of traditional contracting

description: Abstract This paper assesses the city of Belo Horizonte’s experience building school infrastructure through public-private partnerships (PPPs). Between 2009 and 2015, Belo Horizonte built very similar schools using both PPPs and traditional public contracting (TPC). As the choice of mode of contracting was unrelated to our outcomes of interest, the experience constitutes a quasi-experiment that allows for a simple and direct comparison of PPPs to TPC. We examine construction- and operation-phase outcomes measured using administrative data and a survey of school administrators. We find that schools constructed under the PPP contracting model outperformed those built using TPCs in most outcomes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7866086
title: Drivers of innovation in state-owned enterprises: evidence to public enterprises from Ecuador

description: Abstract The current studies on innovation do not consider or tend to ignore innovation in Public Enterprises (PE) and their effects on other organizations. Recent evidence shows that PE are not necessarily inferior to their private counterparts (Kowalski, Büge, Sztajerowska, & Egeland, 2013). This article investigates the determinants of innovation in PE of Ecuador, for the first time, through an empirical study. It identifies internal and external determinants of innovation and the effect on the probability of innovation in PE. In addition, the variable environmental care is included as an internal determinant; this variable has not been analyzed in previous work on innovation in PE. The data used come from the Survey of Activities of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Ecuador (ACTI) published in 2014. The proposed model is estimated by logit linear regression. The results show that there are determinants that have a positive effect on the probability of innovation and they are of two types: internal (workers training, technology acquisition and environmental care) and external (government, through the support program for quality management).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7866086.v1
title: Drivers of innovation in state-owned enterprises: evidence to public enterprises from Ecuador

description: Abstract The current studies on innovation do not consider or tend to ignore innovation in Public Enterprises (PE) and their effects on other organizations. Recent evidence shows that PE are not necessarily inferior to their private counterparts (Kowalski, Büge, Sztajerowska, & Egeland, 2013). This article investigates the determinants of innovation in PE of Ecuador, for the first time, through an empirical study. It identifies internal and external determinants of innovation and the effect on the probability of innovation in PE. In addition, the variable environmental care is included as an internal determinant; this variable has not been analyzed in previous work on innovation in PE. The data used come from the Survey of Activities of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Ecuador (ACTI) published in 2014. The proposed model is estimated by logit linear regression. The results show that there are determinants that have a positive effect on the probability of innovation and they are of two types: internal (workers training, technology acquisition and environmental care) and external (government, through the support program for quality management).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7866137
title: ATTRIBUTES AND CHANCES OF ELECTORAL SUCCESS OF MAYORS IN BRAZIL

description: Abstract This article shows the chances of electoral success for local Executive Branch based on the profile of candidates and elected candidates. The results of the municipal elections of 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 were analyzed concentrating on the characteristics sex, age, schooling, and occupation in order to observe the influence of these characteristics in the profile of the elected mayors in the last five elections. The methodology involved documentary and bibliographic research. Data available from the Supreme Electoral Court were analyzed using the chi-square test and logistic regression. The analysis considered Bourdieu’s theory of field and political capital (2011). The results show evidence that the candidate’s sex and occupation are decisive influencing factors, with a decrease in chances of electoral success for male candidates or candidates of a political career in the elections of 2012 and 2016.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7866137.v1
title: ATTRIBUTES AND CHANCES OF ELECTORAL SUCCESS OF MAYORS IN BRAZIL

description: Abstract This article shows the chances of electoral success for local Executive Branch based on the profile of candidates and elected candidates. The results of the municipal elections of 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 were analyzed concentrating on the characteristics sex, age, schooling, and occupation in order to observe the influence of these characteristics in the profile of the elected mayors in the last five elections. The methodology involved documentary and bibliographic research. Data available from the Supreme Electoral Court were analyzed using the chi-square test and logistic regression. The analysis considered Bourdieu’s theory of field and political capital (2011). The results show evidence that the candidate’s sex and occupation are decisive influencing factors, with a decrease in chances of electoral success for male candidates or candidates of a political career in the elections of 2012 and 2016.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8986859
title: Granger causality of the socioeconomic development indicator on fiscal management of Brazilian municipalities

description: Abstract The relationship between fiscal management and development has been the subject of many applied studies, but there are still incipient studies investigating the causal relationship between them. Based on the hypothesis that efficiency in fiscal management would result in better municipal socioeconomic indicators, the objective of this work was to investigate the relationship between fiscal management and development in 4,317 Brazilian municipalities in the period from 2006 to 2013 The regression model was used with panel data and Granger’s causality application. The results indicated that there is no causal relationship between fiscal management and development, It was also verified the causal relationship of development to fiscal management, demonstrating that efficient fiscal management does not always signal the efficient use of public resources to promote development.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8986859.v1
title: Granger causality of the socioeconomic development indicator on fiscal management of Brazilian municipalities

description: Abstract The relationship between fiscal management and development has been the subject of many applied studies, but there are still incipient studies investigating the causal relationship between them. Based on the hypothesis that efficiency in fiscal management would result in better municipal socioeconomic indicators, the objective of this work was to investigate the relationship between fiscal management and development in 4,317 Brazilian municipalities in the period from 2006 to 2013 The regression model was used with panel data and Granger’s causality application. The results indicated that there is no causal relationship between fiscal management and development, It was also verified the causal relationship of development to fiscal management, demonstrating that efficient fiscal management does not always signal the efficient use of public resources to promote development.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9871523
title: Public-private relation in the Brazilian policy of tertiary care for cardiovascular conditions

description: Abstract Specialized health care in Brazil has been provided by the private sector under public regulation and financing since the 1950s. It continued after the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution, which also created the Unified Health System (SUS). In the last decades, the share of the private sector has increased in tertiary care, including cardiovascular services, generating changes in SUS. This study analyzes the public-private relationship in the National Tertiary Care Policy for Cardiovascular Conditions from 2008 to 2014. The results indicate that, compared to the public sector, the private sector has a greater share in both tertiary care for cardiovascular conditions and receivables for providing health services. This points to a contradiction in the management of the health system in Brazil, which, albeit public, all-population-oriented, and free in its conception, has privileged the private sector.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9871523.v1
title: Public-private relation in the Brazilian policy of tertiary care for cardiovascular conditions

description: Abstract Specialized health care in Brazil has been provided by the private sector under public regulation and financing since the 1950s. It continued after the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution, which also created the Unified Health System (SUS). In the last decades, the share of the private sector has increased in tertiary care, including cardiovascular services, generating changes in SUS. This study analyzes the public-private relationship in the National Tertiary Care Policy for Cardiovascular Conditions from 2008 to 2014. The results indicate that, compared to the public sector, the private sector has a greater share in both tertiary care for cardiovascular conditions and receivables for providing health services. This points to a contradiction in the management of the health system in Brazil, which, albeit public, all-population-oriented, and free in its conception, has privileged the private sector.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870266
title: Comparison of costs with car drivers in a federal university: public servants vs outsourced professionals

description: Abstract This research aimed to verify if outsourcing driving services is economically advantageous over the maintenance of car drivers in the condition of federal public servants. The analysis comprised a period of 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, with the two types of employment contracts (public servant and outsourced car driver), at the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). The case study was based on bibliographical and documentary research to compile the necessary data for the comparison. The results showed that outsourcing involves a reduction of annual costs and that the high costs related to car drivers that are public servants results from the benefits included in the servants’ remuneration package, according to Law 8112 (1990). The decision for outsource certain services, however, must also take into consideration the replacement of labor, quality of service, and pensions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870266.v1
title: Comparison of costs with car drivers in a federal university: public servants vs outsourced professionals

description: Abstract This research aimed to verify if outsourcing driving services is economically advantageous over the maintenance of car drivers in the condition of federal public servants. The analysis comprised a period of 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, with the two types of employment contracts (public servant and outsourced car driver), at the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). The case study was based on bibliographical and documentary research to compile the necessary data for the comparison. The results showed that outsourcing involves a reduction of annual costs and that the high costs related to car drivers that are public servants results from the benefits included in the servants’ remuneration package, according to Law 8112 (1990). The decision for outsource certain services, however, must also take into consideration the replacement of labor, quality of service, and pensions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870710
title: Fiscal management, public management efficiency and socioeconomic development of Ceará municipalities

description: Abstract The role of public administration in society is to manage public assets to provide better social welfare, promoting greater socioeconomic development. The efficient use of public resources is a basic principle for public management to fulfill this role. In addition, the transparency and control offered by fiscal management are factors that optimize results in the public sector, since they lead public managers to apply best managerial practices. In this context, this work analyzes the effects of fiscal management and public management efficiency on municipal socioeconomic development. Data from the 184 municipalities in the Brazilian state of Ceará, from 2007 to 2013, are analyzed using DEA and linear regression. The results indicate that fiscal management and public management efficiency positively influence municipal socioeconomic development, which indicates that public managers should seek better management efficiency and follow rules of fiscal control.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870710.v1
title: Fiscal management, public management efficiency and socioeconomic development of Ceará municipalities

description: Abstract The role of public administration in society is to manage public assets to provide better social welfare, promoting greater socioeconomic development. The efficient use of public resources is a basic principle for public management to fulfill this role. In addition, the transparency and control offered by fiscal management are factors that optimize results in the public sector, since they lead public managers to apply best managerial practices. In this context, this work analyzes the effects of fiscal management and public management efficiency on municipal socioeconomic development. Data from the 184 municipalities in the Brazilian state of Ceará, from 2007 to 2013, are analyzed using DEA and linear regression. The results indicate that fiscal management and public management efficiency positively influence municipal socioeconomic development, which indicates that public managers should seek better management efficiency and follow rules of fiscal control.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11609136
title: The (unexerted) competencies of municipal legislative financial committees in Brazil

description: Abstract This article analyses the legislative committee carrying out financial and budgetary oversight at municipalities in Brazil. These committees, similar to the internationally named Public Account Committees, support parliamentarians to analyze, evaluate, and scrutinize budgetary bills, amendments and governor’s accounts covering the entire budgetary cycle. Based on a small-N analysis inductive approach, the study compares budgetary legislative committees from three local parliaments for the term 2013-2016. Such budgetary committees just operate ceremonially and passively, offering superficial recommendations. The evidence indicates that the legal mandate to operate and material and human resources are not sufficient to guarantee the commissions’ efficiency. The collateral undesirable effects from coalitional government create incentives to maintain ceremonial commissions. The fragile legislative committee’s performance on budgetary issues is a bottleneck to any aspiration to achieve fiscal sustainability in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11609136.v1
title: The (unexerted) competencies of municipal legislative financial committees in Brazil

description: Abstract This article analyses the legislative committee carrying out financial and budgetary oversight at municipalities in Brazil. These committees, similar to the internationally named Public Account Committees, support parliamentarians to analyze, evaluate, and scrutinize budgetary bills, amendments and governor’s accounts covering the entire budgetary cycle. Based on a small-N analysis inductive approach, the study compares budgetary legislative committees from three local parliaments for the term 2013-2016. Such budgetary committees just operate ceremonially and passively, offering superficial recommendations. The evidence indicates that the legal mandate to operate and material and human resources are not sufficient to guarantee the commissions’ efficiency. The collateral undesirable effects from coalitional government create incentives to maintain ceremonial commissions. The fragile legislative committee’s performance on budgetary issues is a bottleneck to any aspiration to achieve fiscal sustainability in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11609931.v1
title: The impact of the project management office on scientific research

description: Abstract This article aims to demonstrate that the project management office, an organizational unit recognized by PMBOK®, can support scientists in research project management, so they can engage in other activities. In order to test the hypothesis, the theoretical framework and data collection of projects funded by the Research Support Foundation in the State of São Paulo (Fapesp) and executed at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto (FMRP) from 2009 to 2015 were investigated. The study showed that scientists would have met the requirements of the funding agency without this support. However, the office impacted the financial management of the project, an initiative aligned with the practices of foreign universities, in which support to scientists has already become a routine part of institutional support.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11609931
title: The impact of the project management office on scientific research

description: Abstract This article aims to demonstrate that the project management office, an organizational unit recognized by PMBOK®, can support scientists in research project management, so they can engage in other activities. In order to test the hypothesis, the theoretical framework and data collection of projects funded by the Research Support Foundation in the State of São Paulo (Fapesp) and executed at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto (FMRP) from 2009 to 2015 were investigated. The study showed that scientists would have met the requirements of the funding agency without this support. However, the office impacted the financial management of the project, an initiative aligned with the practices of foreign universities, in which support to scientists has already become a routine part of institutional support.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11965995
title: A new look at board interlocking: evidence from corporate social networks

description: Absract The study aims to evaluate the interconnection structures by members of the Board of Directors with political and financial expertise of companies listed in the Brazilian stock market B3. The sample consisted of 2,474 observations in the period from 2010 to 2015. It is suggested by the Agency Theory that board interlocking (BI) for financial expertise can help in corporate monitoring and mitigates the agency’s conflicts. On the other hand, BI by political expertise can maximize opportunistic behavior. In the view of Resource Dependency Theory, BI for financial expertise can assist companies in attracting financial resources, while BI for policy expertise can maximize results through more lucrative contracts and advantages offered by policymakers. It is concluded that the systematization of BI by different expertise can be used in future research to explain corporate strategies, decisions, and phenomena, as well as to evaluate the causes and effects of such structures in the management of organizations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11965995.v1
title: A new look at board interlocking: evidence from corporate social networks

description: Absract The study aims to evaluate the interconnection structures by members of the Board of Directors with political and financial expertise of companies listed in the Brazilian stock market B3. The sample consisted of 2,474 observations in the period from 2010 to 2015. It is suggested by the Agency Theory that board interlocking (BI) for financial expertise can help in corporate monitoring and mitigates the agency’s conflicts. On the other hand, BI by political expertise can maximize opportunistic behavior. In the view of Resource Dependency Theory, BI for financial expertise can assist companies in attracting financial resources, while BI for policy expertise can maximize results through more lucrative contracts and advantages offered by policymakers. It is concluded that the systematization of BI by different expertise can be used in future research to explain corporate strategies, decisions, and phenomena, as well as to evaluate the causes and effects of such structures in the management of organizations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929736
title: Do good things come in small packages? The effects of size on municipal performance

description: Abstract This research shows the direct and indirect effects of size on the performance of the Brazilian municipalities in the state of Santa Catarina, considering the academic debate around the issue. The research examined all municipalities of the state from 2005 to 2016, a period that comprised three municipal elections. The study sample consisted of 3,504 observations, with 293 municipalities, during these 12 years. The panel data analysis was estimated by Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS). The results suggest that size affects municipal performance positively and directly. Also, size influences indirectly when considering the mayor’s schooling, i.e., the larger the municipality and the higher the mayor’s schooling, the better the municipal performance. The analysis of performance based on municipal tax (IPTU) collected per capita showed that, the larger the population, the higher the IPTU per capita, which means that larger municipalities tend to show better performance. Finally, the analysis of performance based on the percentage of IPTU levied from total tax revenue showed that size and size associated with the mayor’s capability did not affect performance.