Nets and webs in the shared management of bus companies in Porto Alegre - Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Bichara, Luiz Augusto
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Fadul, Élvia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/5033

The theme of this article focuses on the study of the operational consortium formed by bus companies in the Porto Alegre district area. The main objective was investigating whether benefits yielded by the network organization model are to be extended to the State of Rio Grande do Sul (“gaucho”) consortia. A secondary aim was characterizing its organizational structure,learning about its formation process and identifying which changes it might have caused in public transportation in Porto Alegre. Research was developed on the basis of secondary sources and on interviews carried out with key informants from local transport system consortium partners, public managers and the sector’s work representatives. Gaucho consortia experience can be seen as very productive, especially in terms of its managerial and institutional aspects, although its model can be described simply as an immature and incomplete representation of the network organizational model, and, as though, not yet ready to absorb all of its advantages, especially as regards maintainability.