public consortia
bibliometry
New Public Management
Área
Administração Pública
Tema
Gestão Organizacional: Governança, Planejamento, Recursos Humanos e Capacidades
Autores
Nome
1 - Yan Nonato Cattani Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) - São Paulo
2 - Mario Henrique ogasavara Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) - São Paulo
Reumo
In the democratic scenario after 1988, cooperation between municipalities emerged as an additional option for managing budgetary constraints in cases with the same scope activities or could gain scale in costly demands. This idea was revisited within establishing an interfederative arrangement, called in Brazil as "inter-municipal public consortia" or just "public consortia" in a national law enacted in 2005
The study seeks to evaluate the literature of inter-municipal public consortia’s performance. For pursuing this, two main assumptions are invoked: i) the idiosyncratic reality of federalism induces the creation of qualitative studies, with different concepts of performance; ii) there are few quantitative studies with uniformized confirmatory proofs of efficiency for public consortia.
Albeit substantially informative, the earlier studies suffer from the same shortcoming: they contemplate only a tiny fraction of the disposable universe of public consortia. Roughly speaking, they cannot offer a broader overview of the public consortia phenomenon besides their surgical contributions because of their methodological approach, focused on case studies.
This diagnostic corroborates the first assumption of this study, as these studies can be understood as essays for the comprehension of local reality's efficiency and corresponds to the majority of studies found in this sample (ten from eighteen in total). In other words, the prevalence of qualitative studies for public consortia’s performance occurs due to the federalist framework (and its wide range of cooperation between governments).
The bibliometric approach imposed a further skimming process to entail the research focused on public consortia. For this reasoning, the analysis pointed towards the straightforward concept of "public consortia" itself, explaining the unique use of this arrangement in federalism and comprehending that the authors who intend to drive attention to their studies must specifically use this keyword. Also, with more evident concepts in future research, it will be possible to explore some bias in literature better and disaggregate public consortia’s studies from other federalist structures.