Reforma administrativa em Resende: uma análise crítica do processo de reorganização administrativa da prefeitura municipal (1988 - 1996)

Este trabalho tem o propósito de analisar criticamente um processo de Reforma Administrativa ocorrido na Prefeitura do Município de Resende - RJ , entre os anos de 1988 e 1996.Para realizar esta análise, procuramos, através das informações coletadas, verificar até que ponto a Reforma empreendida em Resende avançou, onde retrocedeu e onde permaneceu estática. Partindo deste objetivo central, analisamos a estrutura administrativa adotada para a prefeitura de Resende procurando identificar seus pontos fortes e pontos fracos, tendo sempre em vista o processo e o contexto histórico em que se deu esta Reforma. Por fim, tentamos construir, com base nos estudos feitos para abordar a experiência de Resende, a idéia de Reforma Administrativa como um evento permanente capaz de fortalecer a participação dos cidadãos na gestão pública. A presente dissertação está dividida em três partes: inicialmente tratamos de aspectos organizacionais da esfera brasileira de governo municipal (capítulo I) e posteriormente descrevemos e focalizamos criticamente o processo de Reorganização Administrativa ocorrido na Prefeitura Municipal de Resende (capítulos II e III).

Mensuração de Capacidade Tecnológica no Contexto de Industrialização Recente: Uma Breve Reflexão Crítica Sobre Taxonomias e Evidências de Pesquisas Recentes

This dissertation aims at examining empirical evidences obtained in the light of taxonomies and strategies for measuring firms technological capabilities and innovation in the context of developing countries, motivated by the fact that debates and studies directed to innovation has been intensified, for the last thirty years, by the recognition of its vital and growing importance to the technological, economic, competitive and industrial development of firms and countries. Two main tendencies can be identified on this debate. At one side, it¿s the literature related to the developed countries logic, whose companies are, in majority, positioned at the technological frontier, characterized by the domain of innovative advanced capabilities, directed to its sustaining, deepening and renewal. At the other side, there are the perspectives directed to the developing countries reality, where there is a prevalence of companies with deficiency of resources, still in process of accumulating basic and intermediate technological capabilities, with characteristics and technological development trajectories distinct or even reverse from those of developing countries. From this last tradition of studies, the measuring approaches based in C&T indicators and in types and levels of technological capabilities stand out. The first offers a macro level, aggregated perspective, through the analysis of a representative sample of firms, seeking to the generation of internationally comparable data, without addressing the intraorganizational specificities and nuances of the paths of technological accumulation developed by the firms, using, mostly, R&D statistics, patents, individual qualifications, indicators that carry their own limitations. On the other hand, studies that examine types and levels of technological capabilities are scarce, usually directed to a small sample of firms and/or industrial sectors. Therefore, in the light of the focus and potentialities of each of the perspectives, this scenario exposes a lack of studies that examine, in a parallel and complementary way, both types of strategies, seeking to offer more realistic, consistent and concrete information about the technological reality of developing countries. In order to close this gap, this dissertation examines (i) strategies of innovation measurement in the contexts of developing countries based on traditional approaches and C&T indicators, represented by four innovation surveys - ECIB, PINTEC, PAEP and EAI, and, (ii) from the perspective of technological capabilities as an intrinsic resource of the firm, the development of which occurs in a cumulative way and based on learning, presents and extracts generalizations of empirical applications of a metric that identifies types and levels of technological capabilities, through a dynamic and intra-firm perspective. The exam of the empirical evidences of the two approaches showed what each one of the metrics are capable to offer and the way they can contribute to the generation of information that reflect the technological development of specific industrial sectors in developing countries. In spite of the fact that the focus, objective, perspective, inclusion, scope and lens used are substantially distinct, generating, on a side, an aggregated view, and of other, an intra-sector, intra-organizational and specific view, the results suggest that the use of one doesn't implicate discarding or abdicating the other. On the contrary, using both in a complementary way means the generation of more complete, rich and relevant evidences and analysis that offer a realistic notion of the industrial development and contribute in a more direct way to the design of corporate strategies and government policies, including those directed to the macro level aspects just as those more specific and focused, designed to increment and foment firms in-house innovative efforts.

Análise crítica dos modos de alocação dos custos indiretos de fabricação

Apresenta os principais problemas do uso gerencial dos sistemas atuais de Contabilidade de Custos, com ênfase especial no modo de apropriação dos custos indiretos de fabricação. Aborda a origem e o desenvolvimento da Contabilidade de Custos. Tece considerações sobre os métodos de custeio existentes. Apresenta uma proposta alternativa, baseada em transações ou atividades, para determinação do custo dos produtos visando o atendimento de necessidades gerenciais. A proposta é i lustrada com um exemplo numérico de uma empresa brasileira