This article investigates the profound ambiguity of the state in the organization of contemporary business–society relations. On the one hand, there has been a decisive shift from government to governance, encouraging ...

This article investigates the profound ambiguity of the state in the organization of contemporary business–society relations. On the one hand, there has been a decisive shift from government to governance, encouraging ...

In the State of Pará, the object of the present research, a significant institutional reform took place in 2007, based on regional decentralization and the search for integrated regional development. Until then, the ...

The goal is to identify the origin of the political power of finance in the final two governments of the military dictatorship, especially the Geisel government (1974-1978), understood as definitive in the political and ...

This article explores the process of independent regulation of a government-owned utility (GOU) in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector drawing on the theory of regulation inside government. Our fieldwork focused ...

We examine the impact of government equity ownership on the degree of internationalization of emerging market firms. Our analysis of 173 Brazilian publicly traded firms from 2002 to 2011 shows that the higher the equity ...

The growth of the nonprofit sector in Brazil has been conceptually similar to that of the Anglo-Saxon Third Way, where the government promotes the creation of partnerships with civil society. This process has been criticized ...