Organizational arrangements and public value creation

• Grant number: 17/07423-5
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): August 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Public Administration
• Principal Investigator: Sérgio Giovanetti Lazzarini
• Grantee: Thomaz Teodorovicz
• Supervisor abroad: Anita Mcgahan
• Home Institution: Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Local de pesquisa : University of Toronto (U of T), Canada
• Associated to the scholarship: 16/18423-3 - Organizational Forms and Public Value Creation, BP.DR

Abstract

Propelled by an alignment of efficiency and social concerns on private and public agendas, the last decades witnessed the emergence of novel organizational arrangements capable of propelling public value creation emerged. By combining previous experience on the private sector, the field of strategy has begun to explore the characteristics permeating internal and external performance drivers in the context of public-oriented services. This project explores two such drivers. First, we propose to explore econometrically the impact of adopting a pool of management practices on academic performance in the contexts of high schools in Brazil. Second, we propose to theoretically study, though with an empirically motivated question, the emergence of a novel outcome-based arrangement addressing socio-environmental needs, the "pay-for-impact" (PFI) contract. Relying on modern econometric techniques to measure and reward agents for social impact, these contractual arrangements pose challenging questions on which are the optimal performance standards that maximize public value creation. This project's main contributions is to shed light on the characteristics of alternative organizational arrangements for the provision of public services and to expand the emerging literature on social initiatives and public contracting mechanisms, a field in constant evolution the strategy literature. (AU)