Influência das estruturas de governança sobre a política pública de apoio a arranjos e sistemas produtivos locais na Bahia

Abstract

Despite the growing interest in the study about the governances, institutions and public policies, papers relating the topics customarily are related to the influence of the members and institutions that make up the governance of the trajectory / features of the policy. In addition to these analyzes, this thesis aimed to understand how the governance structure (market, hierarchy, hybrid) chosen by entrepreneurs involved in the Information Technology cluster in Bahia is able to influence / explain certain characteristics of public policy PROGREDIR in Bahia. In order to reach the proposed objective we have developed the following steps: i) characterization of governances of companies in the IT Bahia ASPL considering its structure and coordination mechanisms / institutions employees; ii) Development of trajectory and features support for the PROGRESS program to the IT ASPL; iii) Analysis of the possible consequences of the structure that makes up the governance of companies in the IT ASPL on the characteristics of the support provided by the PROGREDIR program. The research was supported by the theoretical framework of the New Institutional Economics (NIE), specifically in the Economy of Transaction Costs (ETC) - in studies of Oliver Williamson (1985, 1990, 1996) - and in the economic-historical approach to NIE. Through field research (questionnaire addressed to entrepreneurs), literature and documents (documents relating to with the responsible Secretariat collected policy and support bodies) was possible to reach the expected results. The results show that primarily the governances of surveyed TIC entrepreneurs are hierarchical, despite the indication by the hybrid structures. Moreover, it was characterized some specifics of the policy, by reconstructing its history, which showed possible influences of the governance structure chosen on the characteristics of the policy. Through the presented results it was possible to defend the thesis that governance, not only by individuals, groups and institutions, but also by the choice of the established structure, is able to determine the part of the support characteristics granted to Information Technology cluster.