Agency problems in the public sectorthe role of mediators between central administration of city hall and executive bodies

Resumo

This article aims to identify the effects of mid-level bureaucrat’s allocation in the intermediation of relations between the main authority of a city’s executive branch and the city’s secretariat, considering the principal-agent relationship in public administration. The study interviewed analysts responsible for goal and project management who mediate the agency relationship between the Chief of Staff and the executive bodies implementing projects put forward by Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall, in order to examine the effects of the analysts’ intermediation in terms of reducing agency problems. The agency problems referred to in the article are due to public administration’s hierarchical structure, resulting from the differences in motivation and goals of the actors, information asymme­tries, risk propensity and different planning horizon. Results show this intermediation is positive to reduce agency problems, impacting in terms of difference in motivation and information asymmetries.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Também disponível em

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1590/0034-7612171397

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/25167

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Gestão PúblicaAdministração PúblicaGestão Municipal

Palavras-chave

agency problemcity managementinformation asymmetrypublic administrationmid-level bureaucratsproblema de agenciagestión municipalasimetría de informaciónadministración públicaburócratas del escalón intermediogestão municipalassimetria de informaçõesadministração públicaburocrata de médio escalão