Abstract

HERRERA-KIT, Patricia; BALANZO GUZMAN, Alejandro; PARRA MORENO, Juliana  and  RIVERA CHAVEZ, Marcela. INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION MECHANISMS: SOME COMMON PRACTICES. Innovar [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.79, pp.145-159.  Epub Feb 18, 2021. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v31n79.91888.

Inter-institutional cooperation at the State level is the result of a series of reforms coined as new public management. Despite being a widely studied issue, inter-institutional cooperation still has a research agenda under development, in which organizational studies play an interesting role. This article pursues a threefold objective: i) place inter-institutional cooperation within organizational studies research interests; ii) explain the context of the genesis of inter-institutional cooperation as part of the debates around the organization of States; iii) contribute to the existing literature by identifying and describing inter-institutional cooperation typical practices through a literature review based on a theoretical development approach. Therefore, our work provides an analytical framework based on collaborative practices and, as such, a contribution to the field of organizational studies with a foundation that offers patterns and would allow the development of quantitative studies. The results show that: i) the aggregation of sectoral actions, ii) mutual consultation, iii) the establishment of units, and iv) the conformation of committees and subcommittees are common practices for inter-institutional cooperation. The discussion of the results develops a reflective reading of the typology as an analytical framework for inquiry and action. To conclude, this paper discusses the enabling factors that grant inter-institutional cooperation mechanisms greater operationality, according to the literature.

Keywords : Sectoral actions aggregation; inter-institutional cooperation; committees; consultation; units.

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