Empreendedorismo no setor público, a influência das características organizacionais

Abstract

For many years, the entrepreneurship was associated exclusively with private sector. However, recently, after the managerialism adoption, the public administration is trying to introduce some methods of market practices to improve his efficiency and effectiveness. The public entrepreneurship is an example of this tendency. Defined as risk-taking, innovation and proactivity, the literature cites the public entrepreneurship as an important mechanism to new ideas adoption and to improve the resource allocation, resulting at more quality and efficiency services to citizens. However, to entrepreneurship will be implanted at public institutions is necessary that organizational environment contribute to these actions. At this way, this research studied the relationships between organizational characteristics (structural, managerial, cultural and environmental) and public entrepreneurship and the influence of these topics to adoption of public service entrepreneurial actions. This study was done at Prefeitura Municipal de Lavras, Minas Gerais. The study can be classified as na exploratory and descriptive study of a mixed nature (quantitative and qualitative) in which we used the methodological triangulation through survey questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The results shown that organizational characteristics have strong influences to implementation of public entrepreneurship and have a positive relation between this and to presence of hierarchy, formality, flexibility, autonomy, rewards, specialization, accountability, goal multiplicity, orientations to results , legal liability and competition. To the other side, there are a negative relationship between participation and politic influence and implementation of public entrepreneurship.