The political constitution of the management instruments: strategic planning as an innovative space for public action

Daroit, Doriana; Lima Lúcio, Magda; Macedo Bessa, Luis Fernando; Maduro-Abreu, Alexandre

Abstract:

Public organizations are distinguished from private organizations because they offer individual and collective rights in the form of services. They carry out public policies that guide the action on development. Considering the role of public organizations can be said that public policies are materialized in management. Management, in turn, becomes concrete in its instruments. Lascoumes and Les Galès (2004) define an instrument as a technical device with generic vocation that carries a concrete conception of the relationship politics / society and underpins a conception of regulation. The constitution of the instrument is the space of innovation where collective disputes occur resulting from action. So, the instrument only exists during the dispute, after that it becomes routine (Latour, 2005). In this study, we direct our look to an important instrument of public management: strategic planning. We discuss the formation of the strategic planning instrument, its stages, its actors and its results. Data were collected in a Brazilian public company of the healthcare sector through individual and group interviews and workshops for strategic development in 2012 and 2013. Results indicate that the establishment of the relationship between politics / society happens in the elaboration of the instrument, because inside the discussion occur the realization of meanings and interpretations given to public policy and the discussion of the role of the organization in this context.

Área(s) temática(s):

• 1. Administración Pública

Año:

2014

Tipo de publicación:

Paper/Extenso Congresos GIGAPP

Número:

1103

Serie:

V Congreso Internacional en Gobierno, Administración y Políticas Públicas

Dirección:

Madrid, España

Organización:

GIGAPP- IUIOG

Mes:

29-Sept 01-Oct. 2014