Pulhez, Magaly Marques (2014) The management arrangement: State, engineering companies and architects in the daily management of the housing policy in São Paulo. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
The research deals with the arrangements established between state departments, private companies and professional groups in determining, in the regulation and execution of everyday housing policy in São Paulo. Empirically, the thesis focuses on the business and management consultancy companies that act as subcontractors for at least twenty-five years with the Companhia de Desenvolvimento Habitacional e Urbano - CDHU, linked to the Department of Housing public corporation of the state of São Paulo, administrating and controlling stages of conception, feasibility, implementation and operation of programs and projects activities. Allocated in the broad sector of Consulting Engineering, the activities of these companies in the Brazil still earns significant scale in the 1960s, during the military dictatorship, following the trend of transformation of the modus operandi of state and the expansion of transfer the executive functions of the state to the private sector, supported in the managerialist doctrine of efficiency, competence and quality. Throughout the thesis, we discuss issues about the very idea of management as a rationality device, its reception and incorporation into the form of the brazilian housing policy and the participation of consulting companies in this dynamic, from a focus on the ways of its development in the country, the agents involved, the political, institutional, corporate and professional relationships established, the emergence of the "specialized service management" as an offshoot of Consulting Engineering and rifling through his allegedly failed state public structures, explained in a speech by inexorability of outsourcing. Moreover, we also problematize the weight of these companies in the management structure currently formalized and the consequences that, since then, imply a reconfiguration of the field of professional architects involved with the housing issue in São Paulo in the last two decades, their constraints and potential in face of the new arrangements determined around the implementation of public policy.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Rizek, Cibele Saliba |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | consulting engineering; housing policy; management; architect; professional practice |
| Index terms: | private sector, transformation, efficiency, outsourcing, implementation, professional relationships, architect, executive, housing policy, Brazil, face, rationality, public policy, agent, subcontractor, emergence, housing, professional practice, consultancy, program, competence, regulation, reconfiguration |
| Subjects: | profession, business, industry analysis, political science, systems engineering, sociology, professional development, personnel development, software systems, performance management, contractual arrangements, psychology, public policy, practitioner, construction type, organization, Geography, decision-making and reasoning |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Digital Applications, Human Resources, Roles and Professions, Construction Technology, Governance, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Information Management, Quality Management, Procurement, Geographical Context, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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