BAR - Brazilian Administration Review

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Authors: Hamilton Coimbra Carvalho, Giuliana Isabella, José Afonso Mazzon

The analysis of public policies often fails to account for effects beyond mere cost-benefit analysis. Incorporating elements from the literature on system dynamics, complexity and legitimacy, the present paper develops a framework to understand long-term effects and important constraints for public policies. We call it the thresholds framework, considering the existence of different thresholds in the life of a policy. The framework relies on the application of conceptual lenses to understand essential aspects of the social reality. Using the proposed conceptual repertoire, the paper applies the framework to a specific policy, the Brazilian Worker Food Program (WFP), which currently benefits around 20 million employees working for 250,000 companies in Brazil. The thresholds framework incorporates legitimacy and complexity issues and it is sufficiently flexible for the pursuit of different strategies of inquiry. It may be used to guide the design of business programs in dynamic contexts, such as the ones found in modern social cause environments.

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Authors: Glessia Silva, Luiz Carlos Di Serio, Éder Danilo Bezerra

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the adequacy of public policies that support innovation in small businesses in a swinging economy, particularly in Brazil.1In order to make our case for more adequatepublic policies on innovation, we develop five propositions based on the assumptionthat innovation policies focused onfostering socioeconomicdevelopment should meet.We adopted a documentary research design, as we examined the policiesproduced by governmental bodies and agencies at the three governmentallevelsin Brazil–federation, states, and cities. Also, qualitative content analysis was performed in order to organize, codify and interpret the messagesdelivered by current innovation policies in thecountry.We found that most public policies on innovation and small businesses are short-sighted and generalist, borrowing metrics and evaluation criteria from the bigenterprise context in an one-size-fits-allmanner that, ultimately, cannot be applied to most small businessesand local contexts.As a contribution to theory, our five propositions could be used as starting points for future policy and administration research. On a practical level, we propose recommendationsto policy-makers and offer insights on how an adequate policy affects a country’s competitiveness and socioeconomic development.

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Authors: Amanda Cainelli, Raquel Janissek-Muniz

In turbulent and competitive scenarios, strategic intelligence is a crucial process for organizations to reduce uncertainties during decision-making and to anticipate changes that may affect their performance and sustainability. Despite the relevance of the activity, continuous and structured processes based on intelligence in organizations are not a reality due to the difficulty of implementing and formalizing it. Executing a diagnosis to evaluate conditions that precede the adoption of a structured intelligence activity allows companies to recognize their efficiency to perform monitoring, to further improve or implement it. This paper explores organizational, informational, individual, technological and material conditions that precede the adoption of the intelligence process, reviews six diagnostic models and proposes a diagnostic tool to evaluate issues that must be considered in advance. The Delphi method was used to exploit opinions among 30 intelligence practitioners in order to define which conditions of the process should be evaluated before its adoption in companies. As a result, this work contributes to filling the gap observed in the literature about the motivation to initiate the intelligence process in organizations and presents a formalized tool to evaluate its pre-adoption stage.