The essay will try to debate about the institutional theory, confronting the emergence of institutionalism with the limits of neoclassical theory. The initial old institutionalism and the new institutionalism ideas will be discussed trying to underline what distinguishes the ideas of Coase and...

The Theory of the Costs of Transaction disciplines that in a certain market there must exist a flow of information, in way to propitiate a favorable atmosphere to the decrease of the uncertainty and asymmetry of information that would avoid the fraud attitudes and consequently the reduction of...

The Theory of the Costs of Transaction disciplines that in a certain market there must exist a flow of information, in way to propitiate a favorable atmosphere to the decrease of the uncertainty and asymmetry of information that would avoid the fraud attitudes and consequently the reduction of...

This article evaluates the trajectory of foster family care services in Brazil, since its entry into the federal government's select public policy agenda, from the elaboration of the National Plan for Living in Family and Community (2006) which brought, among its objectives, the promotion and...

After the micro politics, the complexity of the “public management”, polity and policies, is the same of the “private management” or the management of the others sectors of the social production reality. The science of management it is not defined by products, functions, sectors and so...

This paper aims to contribute to a theoretic and analytical basis to analyze Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a particular institutional arrangement from the point of view of its transaction costs, an approach that still has been neglected. That negligence has frequently jeopardized the...

The purpose of this work is the exploration of statistical methods and evaluation criteria of relational technology diversification of technical-scientific services provided by the infrastructure of Brazilian scientific and technological research. The technical and scientific services of a...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo descreve as características gerais da metodologia atual para o despacho econômico e para a formação do Preço de Liquidação de Diferenças (PLD), usado no Setor Elétrico Brasileiro e o compara com características gerais do que poderia ser um sistema de...